The Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University of Chicago has hired four women for its Infectious Diseases and Immunology Institute. All four women previously were employed at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Nina Clark is an associate professor who will lead a new transplant infectious disease program at Loyola. She has served on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2003. Previously, she taught at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, she earned her medical degree at the University of Illinois.
Jennifer Layden is an assistant professor specializing in infectious diseases involving liver transplants. She was on the University of Illinois at Chicago faculty since 2010. She received her medical training and earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Illinois.
Susan Pacheco is an assistant professor who will head up infection control at the Edward J. Hines Veterans Hospital. She earned her medical degree at Northwestern University.
Gail Reid is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and earned her medical degree at St. George’s University. She joined the faculty at UIC in 2007. She will be an assistant professor concentrating on viral infections in stem cell transplant patients.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.