Distinguished Service Award
Neal A. Vanselow, M.D.
After
earning his medical degree from the University of Michigan
Medical School, Neal A. Vanselow (M.D. 1958, Residency 1963)
completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship
in allergy at the U-M and served as a faculty member from 1963-74.
Dr. Vanselow is chancellor-emeritus and professor-emeritus of medicine at the Tulane Health Sciences Center. He also holds an appointment as professor-emeritus of health systems management in the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He served as chancellor of the Tulane Health Sciences Center from 1989-94 and a senior scholar-in-residence at the Institute of Medicine during the 1994-95 academic year.
He has served as chair of the Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education at the University of Michigan; dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine; chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and vice president for health sciences at the University of Minnesota.
A former chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and of the board of directors of the Association of Academic Health Centers, Dr. Vanselow is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, of which he chaired the Committee on the Future of Primary Care. He also served as co-chair of the Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply, and chair of the Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Medical School Curriculum.