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LAWRENCE -- Donald F. Hagen, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers.
AHC is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of the people by advancing the leadership of academic health centers in health professions, biomedical and health services research, and health care delivery. More than 100 academic health centers -- the health complexes of the nation's major universities -- are members of AHC.
As executive vice chancellor, Hagen reports to the chancellor of the university and is the administrator in charge of the Kansas City and Wichita campuses of the KU Medical Center.
Hagen joined KUMC in 1995 after serving for four years as surgeon general of the U.S. Navy. Previously, he was commander of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and commanding officer of the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He received his officer's commission in 1964 and served in the Vietnam War.
He graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and in 1963 received an M.D. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. His internship was at Los Angeles County General Hospital. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and he has served on the boards of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.
The election took place Friday, Oct. 4, during the association's annual meeting. Other members of the 10-person board include senior executives of medical centers at Emory University, the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, the University of Rochester, the New York Institute of Technology and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
The AHC is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Academic health centers can be components of private or public universities or state university systems, as well as freestanding institutions dedicated to the health professions.
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