Cincinnati physician selected as dean of UNMC College of Medicine

 

 

“Brad has an outstanding record of achievement and experience in education, patient care and funded thematic research,” Dr. Maurer said. “I would call him a triple threat. He’s outstanding in each of those areas. People today are usually more targeted in one or two but not all three.

 

“He was elected to one of the most prestigious societies in medicine, the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Additionally, he has been a strong financial manager at the University of Cincinnati. I feel confident he will continue to move the college to the forefront as we strive to rank among the very best.”

 

The ASCI is an honor society of nearly 3,000 of the nation’s top physician-scientists who translate findings in the laboratory to the advancement of clinical practice.

 

Dr. Britigan has 24 years in academic medicine – 17 years at the University of Iowa, where he served as the director of the division of infectious diseases, and the past seven years at Cincinnati. He also has 23-year association with the Department of Veterans Affairs as a staff physician and researcher in Iowa City and Cincinnati.

 

As chairman of internal medicine at Cincinnati, Dr. Britigan oversees a $90 million budget and about 500 employees, including approximately 220 faculty and 175 resident physicians and fellows.

 

His wife, Denise Britigan, Ph.D., also will be joining the UNMC faculty as assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health of the College of Public Health.

 

“We both are very excited, as we were very impressed with both UNMC and the metropolitan area during our visits to Omaha,” Dr. Britigan said. “My biggest goal will be to continue the tremendous growth and success at UNMC that has taken place under Dr. Maurer and Deans (John) Gollan and (Rod) Markin, while at the same time addressing the fiscal challenges that all medical schools are currently facing.”

 

An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Britigan, a Minnesota native who grew up in St. Louis, earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his medical degree from the University of Southern California. He did internal medicine residency training at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence and his infectious disease fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

A prodigious investigator, Dr. Britigan’s research focuses on bacterial infections of the lung. His research has been continuously funded during his academic career though numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the American Heart Association.

 

In addition to his election to the ASCI, Dr. Britigan was elected into the Association of American Physicians (AAP), a select group of nearly 2,000 members dedicated to the advancement of scientific and practical medicine. He also has served as president of two professional societies, the American Federation for Medical Research and the Central Society for Clinical Research.