Rhodes alumnus Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann has been named the new Dean of the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
He will be responsible for the undergraduate medical education of more than 640 uniformed medical students and more than 240 military and civilian graduate students each year. The F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine was established by Congress in 1972 to provide a cadre of career military physicians and leaders for the Uniformed Services.
Kellermann currently is the Paul O’Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research organization, in Washington, D.C. and one of the nation’s leading experts in emergency medicine and public health.
Before joining RAND, he was a professor of emergency medicine and public health and associate dean for health policy at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. He served as Emory’s Department of Emergency Medicine first chair from 1999 to 2007.
Kellermann earned a B.S. in biology from Rhodes in 1976.