The Division of the Biological Sciences is proud to announce the appointment of two new Professors and Chairmen of the Departments of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences.

Steve Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, effective June 15, 2004. He is currently Professor of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Chief of the Section of Developmental Biology and Biophysics, and a Member of the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Goldstein received his joint B.A./M.A. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University in 1978, followed by an M.D./Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986. Dr. Goldstein conducted his Pediatric internship, residency and a clinical fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Christopher Miller in the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis. He was first appointed in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale in 1993 as Assistant Professor, followed by promotions to Associate Professor (1996), Section Chief of Developmental Biology and Biophysics (1997), Associate Professor with tenure (1999) and full Professor (2001).

Dr. Goldstein’s appointment comes at a pivotal time in the history of the Department of Pediatrics. He will lead the Department into its
new home, the Comer Children’s Hospital, in early 2005, and he will oversee a modest, though very important, expansion of the over
all Pediatric clinical enterprise. In addition, Dr. Goldstein, whose basic research program in ion channel signalling is internationally recognized, will create a new research institute dedicated to the field of molecular pediatrics and serve as the new institute's first Director.

William Mieler, M.D., was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences on April 1, 2004. Dr. Mieler joined the University from the Baylor College of Medicine, where he served as Professor of Ophthalmology in the Cullen Eye Institute (1999-2004). Prior to that time, he was the Klieger Professor of Ophthalmology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, where had been on the full-time faculty for 13 years (1986-99).

Dr. Mieler is a native Midwesterner, having grown up in Sturgeon Bay, WI, and earning his B.S. (1975) and M.D. (1979) degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed a flexible internship at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, CA, before residency training in Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL (1980-83). He then completed two fellowships, the first in Retina-Vitreous at The Eye Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (1983-84), and the second in Ocular Oncology at the Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (1985).

The Division is pleased to welcome these exceptional recruits into its leadership ranks and is looking forward to the many contributions they will make both to the institution and to their respective fields.

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