Duane Compton, senior associate dean of research at the Geisel School of Medicine, will assume the role of interim Geisel dean on Tuesday, College President Phil Hanlon announced Monday morning.
A Dartmouth faculty member for more than 20 years, Compton will work with Provost Carolyn Dever “to make progress on a number of important initiatives at Geisel,” according to Hanlon’s email.
In June, Hanlon announced that Wiley “Chip” Souba, Geisel’s former dean decided not to seek reappointment to a second four-year term.
Many criticized Souba’s decision to cancel Geisel’s M.D./Ph.D. program, a decision reversed following a vocal reaction from faculty, alumni and students. Following the announcement of Souba’s departure, faculty expressed disapproval of his financial decisions, including what they say amounted to cuts in various departments in the medical school.
Souba came to Geisel in 2010 after working as a surgical oncologist at Ohio State University, chief of surgical oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
