“What the school of public health will address are the major public health challenges in the region we know,” said Dr. Vasan Ramachandran in an interview Tuesday.
UT Health San Antonio and UTSA name a globally recognized researcher to serve as the first dean at new School of Public Health.An internationally renowned preventative cardiologist, scientist, researcher and clinical epidemiologist will head up the new University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio.
Ramachandran said age-specific patterns of morbidity and mortality exist in San Antonio. Common causes of death in younger people include accidents, mental health disorders, homicide and suicide. During middle age, causes of death include diabetes and excess weight, and in later life, heart disease and stroke. “Some of our prevention methods and public health measures would be studying, in a granular way, the burden of these diseases” on the residents of South Texas, he said.
Since 2014, Ramachandran has served as a public health researcher at Boston University and principal investigator of the With more than 1,060 publications to his name, Ramachandran is a highly respected physician-scientist and a clinical epidemiologist whose research has focused on heart failure, blood pressure and cardiac remodeling.at UT Health San Antonio, who co-chaired the search advisory committee.
“We wanted somebody who really was going to be able to pay attention to what was going on in our city, to understand and appreciate its strengths, as well as the challenges and opportunities here, and why it’s so important for us to have a public health school of our own,” said Potter. As dean, Ramachandran’s duties will include creating an infrastructure and bringing together a team of investigators, educators and service providers for the mission of research, teaching and mapping local systemicbecoming public health workers after earning advanced degrees.Potter said the UT Health System wanted the public health school to be committed to addressing the public health challenges directly impacting the people of South Texas.
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