Hermes Florez Named Chair of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina
Hermes Florez, M.D., Ph.D. has been named the new chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences in the College of Medicine at the Medical...
Hermes Florez, M.D., Ph.D. has been named the new chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Florez, who was born in Venezuela, has multiple leadership roles at MUSC. In addition to leading the public health sciences program, he directs the new Institute for Healthy Aging and serves as associate dean for population health in the College of Medicine. Florez joined MUSC after almost three decades at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
MUSC College of Medicine Dean Raymond DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., said Florez is an excellent fit for the list of inspirational scientists – and MUSC. “We are very excited to have recruited a leader of Dr. Florez’s caliber to MUSC. He is widely respected as a public health leader, and his expertise as an M.D. and researcher makes him uniquely qualified to lead our Department of Public Health Sciences in this critical time.”
Leading the program during the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge Florez is well prepared for. He’s trained in internal medicine, endocrinology, geriatrics and epidemiology as well as public health. He specializes in treating older people with diabetes, a group at higher risk than the general public of suffering from serious complications of COVID-19.
WittKieffer’s Donna Padilla, Linda Komnick, Jeff Schroetlin and Claudia Teschky led this search.
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