Dr. Wiley "Chip" Souba Jr. named commencement speaker

Interim Dean Jerry Wolinsky has announced Dr. Wiley W. "Chip" Souba Jr. as the commencement speaker for 2007. Commencement will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 29 at the Assembly Hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

"I am very pleased that our new graduates will be hearing the keynote speech from such an accomplished graduate of this medical school," Wolinsky said.

Souba, dean of the College of Medicine at Ohio State University and professor of surgery there, is a 1978 graduate of the Medical School. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, and an American citizen, he received his Doctor of Science degree in nutritional biochemistry from Harvard School of Public Health, and his Master of Business Administration from Boston University School of Management. He did his residencies at UT and fellowships at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and one in surgical oncology at M. D. Anderson.

He has served on the faculties of the University of Florida College of Medicine, Harvard Medicine, and Penn State College of Medicine, where he served as the Waldhausen Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery before being named dean of the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2006.

In addition to his research interest in the molecular regulation of glutamine transport, he also studies leadership in academic medical centers.

-D. Brown