Means Named To Newly Created Position at IU School of Medicine

INDIANAPOLIS -- Lynda J. Means, M.D., has been appointed executive associate dean for academic affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The newly created position will centralize the management of many diverse activities within the School.

Dr. Means, professor of anesthesia and of surgery, is a pediatric anesthesiologist and critical care consultant at Riley Hospital for Children. Former Dean Robert Holden, M.D., who retired in 2000, named her assistant dean in 1998. Dean Craig Brater announced that her new position and responsibilities are effective Feb. 2.

As the executive associate dean for academic affairs, she will continue as chair of the School of Medicine Admissions Committee, which selects the 280 students who admitted to the IU School of Medicine each year.

Her expanded duties include supervision of faculty affairs, which includes school policies and procedure related to faculty, diversity and faculty development. She will oversee all aspects of compliance and conflict of interest issues pertaining to medical and research faculty.

Strategic planning and implementation, faculty mentoring programs and departmental reviews also will fall under the umbrella of Dr. Means' new duties.

Dr. Means is a 1973 graduate of Purdue University and a 1977 graduate of the IU School of Medicine. She completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the IU School of Medicine and a pediatric anesthesia and critical care fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has been on the faculty at the IU School of Medicine since 1983.

She is the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthesiology and a current board member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.

She has two teenage children, Matthew and Katherine Nugent.

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