What is important to note is how this distinction relates to our clinical faculty. The rigorous criteria employed by USNWR in assembling the rankings includes mortality rates, technology, procedure volume and nursing care and, most importantly, peer assessments by practicing specialists across the country. The latter are asked to list the Hospital practice sites of the top doctors in their fields for difficult cases, irrespective of cost or location - clearly an objective appraisal of the quality of the faculty who tackle these complex cases. Indeed it is largely the faculty quality measure that makes the fine distinctions of top hospitals in the end.

Because the quality of our patient care is so fundamental to all of our missions, we celebrate those who provide it in such rich, creative and virtuoso ways. The Division and University are grateful for such and a heart-felt “Thank You” goes out to our faculty who bring such objectified clinical distinction to our overall activities.

Presidential Departure
As I am sure you are also aware, President Don Randel has decided to assume the top post at the Mellon Foundation in New York and will leave us after the end of this year. Don has had an enormously positive influence on our University, for which we are all grateful, and was pivotal in my decision to come to the University of Chicago. I will always be thankful he so convinced me. With many of the other faculty I have developed a personal fondness for Don and will miss him.

Under Don's watch the BSD and UCH have completed two buildings (Center for Integrative Science and Comer Children's Hospital) and will begin construction this year on three more (Center for Biomedical Discovery, the Comer ER, and the Ricketts Biocontainment Lab). Don has been a great partner in advancing the goals of BSD and the medical enterprise, and I have every confidence that our agenda will continue its same steady march during Don's last year and, after that, into the future.

Transitions also mean opportunity. Now that we have digested the news, and taken time to honor Don for his deep and significant contributions to our community, we can turn our attention to partnering with faculty representatives of other University units as well as the Board of Trustees in identifying a new leader who resonates with the University of Chicago's unique tradition and the Biological Sciences Division's aspirations for preeminence.

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