Jean Robillard is a Canadian doctor and academic administrator, currently serving as the Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Iowa. He is also the dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Following the retirement of Sally Mason, he served as the interim president from August [1] to November 2015 before Bruce Harreld took over.
A pediatric nephrologist, he earned bachelor’s and medical degrees from the Université de Montréal. [1]
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau is a Canadian politician, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to October 2021 and minister of transport from November 2015 to January 2021. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount.
The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees.
Lucienne Robillard is a Canadian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. She sat in the House of Commons of Canada as the member of Parliament for the riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec.
Frank Edward Young was an American physician who served as Commissioner of Food and Drugs from 1984 to 1989 and later as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. In 2013 he joined Braeburn Pharmaceuticals as Executive Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs. In 2018, he became the Executive Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs at TissueTech Inc.
A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada and the equivalent of a deputy vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia. Additionally, the heads of certain colleges of universities in the UK and Ireland are called provosts; the term is, used in this sense, the equivalent of a Master or Principal at other colleges.
Jean François-Poncet was a French politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1978 to 1981. From 1983 until 2011, he was a member of the Senate for Lot-et-Garonne.
Mary Louise Smith, a U.S. political organizer and women's rights activist, was the second woman to become chair of a major political party in the United States.
David Jan Skorton is an American physician and academic. He has been president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) since July 15, 2019. Prior to the AAMC, he led the Smithsonian Institution, the national research museums of the United States, as its 13th Secretary from July 2015 to June 2019. A cardiologist, he was president of Cornell University from 2006 to 2015. Before arriving at Cornell, he served as president of the University of Iowa, where he had been a longtime professor and then vice president. He began his career as a professor of medicine and engineering.
Deborah Anne Freund is an American university administrator and academic specializing in Health economics. She was the president of Claremont Graduate University from 2010 to 2015.
Sir Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar, FRCOG, FACS was an Indian educationist and physician. He was the identical younger twin brother of Sir A. R. Mudaliar. Initial education was in Kurnool and they moved to Chennai in 1903.
Karunasena Kodituwakku is a Sri Lankan politician, academic and diplomat. He was the Sri Lankan ambassador to China, and non-resident ambassador to Mongolia and North Korea. He was the former Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of Education, Human Resources Development and Cultural Affairs and the third governor of the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. He also served as the vice chancellor of University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Sri Lankan ambassador to Japan and Republic of Korea.
The 34th National Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that was elected in the 1989 Quebec general election and sat from November 28, 1989, to March 18, 1992; from March 19, 1992, to March 10, 1994; and from March 17, 1994, to June 14, 1994. The Quebec Liberal Party government was led by Robert Bourassa throughout most of the mandate except in the final months of the government prior to the 1994 elections, when Daniel Johnson Jr. succeeded Bourassa as Premier of Quebec.
James "Jim" Linder is an American author, academic and businessperson, as well as an authority on university research commercialization. He serves as chief executive officer (CEO) of Nebraska Medicine, and most recently was president of the University Technology Development Corporation and chief strategist for the University of Nebraska system. He is also a professor of pathology and microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Alik L. Alik is a diplomat and politician from the Federated States of Micronesia who was the Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia from May 11, 2007 to May 11, 2015.
Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States, has family members who are prominent in law, education, activism and politics. Biden's immediate family became the first family of the United States on his inauguration on January 20, 2021. His immediate family circle was also the second family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, when Biden was vice president. The Biden family is of Irish, English, and French descent.
Richard D. Remington was an acting President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1987 to 1988. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees, both in Mathematics, from the University of Montana and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Public Health Statistics from the University of Michigan. He married Betty Brooks Morrison on Dec. 28, 1952. From 1982 to 1988, he was the vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculties at the University of Iowa, and was acting president from 1987 to 1988. He also served as director of the Institute for Health, Behavior and Environmental Policy at the University of Iowa's College of Medicine. He held the position of UI Foundation Distinguished Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, which he retained until his death in 1992.
Dr. Mayilvahanan Natarajan is a noted Indian surgeon who has made substantial contributions to the specialties of Orthopedic oncology, Medical training, Health administration, Medical ethics and invention of Custom Mega Prostheses to avoid amputation for Bone tumor patients. For his efforts, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India in 2007.
Angela L. Walker Franklin is an American academic who is the current president of Des Moines University, Iowa, in office since 2011. She has a background in clinical psychology.
David J. Cook is the 15th and current president of North Dakota State University (NDSU) located in Fargo, North Dakota.
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