March 11, 2004
Kimball named special advisor to dean
Dr. Harry Kimball, former president and chief executive officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine, has been named senior advisor to Dr. Paul Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
Kimball served in his position at the ABIM for more than a decade, and had previously been a member and chair of the organization’s Board of Directors. He received his medical degree in 1962 from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed his residency in medicine at the UW.
As senior advisor to the dean, Kimball plans to assist Ramsey in implementing the dean’s vision for the School of Medicine. Kimball will focus on training and graduate medical education issues, medical simulation and assessment, medical professionalism, and other areas.
Kimball has also been a senior investigator and deputy clinical director in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a professor of medicine at Tufts University, and chief of general internal medicine at the New England Medical Center in Boston. He is a master of the American College of Physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, distinguished fellow of the European Federation of Internal Medicine, and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kimball succeeds Dr. Robert Petersdorf, who has been senior advisor to the dean since 1998. Petersdorf was chair of the UW Department of Medicine from 1964 to 1979. He also served as president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego; president of the Association of American Medical Colleges; and distinguished physician at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
