New Associate Provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences Appointed to BUSM

Linda Hyman, PhD, has been appointed associate provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences for Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). In her role as associate provost, she will be a member of the senior leadership teams of the School of Medicine and the Medical Campus. 

Hyman will oversee curricula and execution of all graduate programs including recruitment, admissions, ongoing program activities, new program development, student outcomes and graduate alumni relations. She will also oversee and support graduate medical education with the goal of increasing the quality and impact of all graduate educational programs on the medical campus. An important responsibility of this role is supporting the collaboration of the basic science and clinical departments in education and graduate research. This integration is a core value and a strategic advantage of our program. This position will be effective July 1, 2009.

For the past five years, Hyman has served as vice provost for the Division of Health Sciences at Montana State University in Bozeman. She also held the position of assistant dean at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where she was the director of the cooperative program of the University of Washington School of Medicine and the states of Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) medical program. Hyman has held faculty positions at Tulane University Medical School, served as program director at the National Science Foundation and principle investigator on several national grants.

   

Hyman earned her bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany, she received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Brandeis University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University School of Medicine.