List of Deans

Michael L. Good, MD

CEO, University of Utah Health Dean, University of Utah School of Medicine Senior Vice-President for Health Sciences, College/School Dean, College/School

Dr. Michael L. Good is the CEO of University of Utah Health, the Dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine, and the Senior Vice President of Health Sciences. As the only academic medical center in Utah, the health system is an anchor in the community and provides world-class health care, research, education and service to the state, region,... Read More

Wayne M. Samuelson, MD

Wayne Samuelson, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine (Clinical) at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received both B.A. (Sociology) and M.D. degrees from the University of Utah. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary Disease at Duke University Medical Center. At the completion of his fellowship training ... Read More

Specialties: Asthma, Critical Care, General Pulmonary, Pulmonary

Wyatt R. Hume, DDS, PhD

Dean, School of Dentistry

Wendy L. Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH, FAAP

Wendy L. Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH has focused her career as a general pediatrician on education and caring for the underserved. Dr. Hobson-Rohrer graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies and with Distinction in All Subjects. She then completed her M.D. degree at Cornell University Medical College. She moved... Read More

Specialties: General Pediatrics

Cynthia Best

Title:  Associate Dean, Finance

Cynthia Best is currently the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah.  In this position, which she has held since July 2011, Cynthia is responsible for all Dean’s Office financial operations, the malpractice insurance trust fund, and School of Medicine department oversight.  She serves as a liaison with and resource for the AAMC, the University campus, and the School department administrators.

Cynthia also concurrently functions as the Director of Mission-Based Management (MBM) at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.  She has held this position since 1999, the beginning of the MBM initiative.  In this capacity she directs and is responsible for all aspects of Mission-Based Management, including financial reporting, budgeting, and oversight, mission activity analysis, policy setting, and the development and management of an integrated information system that includes an electronic CV tool for over 1,600 faculty.

Cynthia holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and earned a master’s of business administration with an emphasis in health care.  Her professional areas of expertise, from experience in both academic health care and the private sector, include financial management, system development, and organizational change.

Email:  cynthia.best@hsc.utah.edu

Phone:  801-585-0944

Karen H. Gribbon, MD, FACP

Title:  Associate Dean, Veteran's Affairs

Dr. Gribbin joined the VA Salt Lake City’s leadership team in January 2012. She spent the first 20

years of her VA career at the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC in Muskogee, OK, where she served as a

Primary Care physician, Chief of Medicine, and Chief of Staff. She received her undergraduate

degree in Medical Microbiology from Stanford University. She attended medical school at the

University of Oklahoma and the Medical College of Ohio. She completed her Internal Medicine

Residency at the University of Oklahoma. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow

of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Gribbin is also a graduate of VHA’s Executive Career Field

Candidate Development Program.

Dr. Gribbin is responsible for the medical care provided to our Veterans in Utah, eastern Nevada,

and southeastern Idaho. The physician led services report to her, as well as Pharmacy and

Audiology & Speech Pathology. She also oversees very vibrant Research and Education programs,

consistent with VA’s mission. Dr. Gribbin holds a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of

Medicine and is the Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Wendy L. Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH, FAAP

Wendy L. Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH has focused her career as a general pediatrician on education and caring for the underserved. Dr. Hobson-Rohrer graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies and with Distinction in All Subjects. She then completed her M.D. degree at Cornell University Medical College. She moved... Read More

Specialties: General Pediatrics

Robert S. Fujinami, PhD

Robert Fujinami received his B.A. from the University of Utah through the then Honor Program in Microbiology.  He completed his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and received post-doctoral training and Assistant Professorship at The Scripps Research Institute.  Prior to coming to the University of Utah as Professor, he was an Associate Pro... Read More

Sara M. Lamb, MD

Since her faculty appointment in 2004, Dr. Sara Lamb has been invested in improving the education of residents and students at the University of Utah. She has been a residency program director for the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric Training Program and an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Training Program since 2004. I... Read More

Specialties: General Pediatrics, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, General

William Bradley (Brad) Poss, MD, FACHE

Dr. Poss completed his undergraduate and medical school studies at the University of Kansas, pediatric residency at the Naval Hospital Oakland, and a pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Utah. He retired in 2007 after 20 years in the US Navy where he served a variety of leadership positions including Director of Graduate Medical ... Read More

Specialties: Pediatric Critical Care

Adam T. Stevenson, MD

Dr. Stevenson completed a year as Pediatric Chief Resident at the University of Utah in 2004 and subsequently joined the University Of Utah Division Of Inpatient Medicine as a pediatric hospitalist.Dr. Stevenson became the Pediatric Clerkship Director in 2005. In addition to mentoring third year medical students on the pediatric clerkship, he also ... Read More

Specialties: Pediatric Inpatient Medicine

Benjamin R. Chan, MD, MBA, MEd

Benjamin R. Chan, MD, MBA, MEd, Associate Professor (Clinical), attended Stanford University, graduating in 2000 with a BA in Psychology and minor in Human Biology. He attended the University of Utah School of Medicine (Class of 2004) and trained in General Psychiatry at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.... Read More

Specialties: Autism, Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health, Mood Disorders, Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent

Ty Triston Dickerson, MD, MPH

Ty Dickerson, MD, MPH, FAAP is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Utah School of Medicine where he also serves as the Assistant Dean of Global Health Education. He practices as a pediatric hospitalist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah where he combines th... Read More

Specialties: Pediatric Inpatient Medicine

Janet E. Lindsley, PhD

Lab: Lab Website

Danielle Roussel, MD

Danielle Roussel, MD is a board certified anesthesiologist. She has specialized interest in obstetric and neurosurgical anesthesia. Additionally she provides anesthesia for patients undergoing a variety of surgical procedures. ... Read More

Specialties: Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia, Obstetrical Anesthesia

Jorie Colbert-Getz

Title:  Assistant Dean of Evaluation and Assessment

Jorie Colbert-Getz, PhD, MS, is the Assistant Dean of Education Quality Improvement for the University of Utah School of Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Colbert-Getz is currently the MESRE (Medical Education Scholarship, Research, and Evaluation) chair of the Western Group for Education Affairs, and a faculty member of the AAMC’s Medical Education Certificate Program. In 2017, Dr. Colbert-Getz became the founding director of the Learning Communities Institute Research Network. She has over 30 publications, mostly focused on medical education assessment. Her overarching mission is to ensure assessments measure developmentally appropriate learning objectives/milestones. To that end, her research focuses on validity frameworks and other elements of assessment utility, survey design, and program evaluation. Dr. Colbert-Getz received her MS degree in Psychology from Illinois State University and her PhD degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah.

Email:  jorie.colbert-getz@hsc.utah.edu

Terry D. Box, MD

Terry Box, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also a Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) investigator and a member of HCI's Gastrointestinal Cancer Program. Dr. Box is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners.Dr.... Read More

Specialties: Hepatitis C, Hepatology, Liver Cancer, Liver Disease, Liver Transplant, Living Liver Donor Transplant

Email: terry.box@hsc.utah.edu

Phone: 801-585-9269

Karly Ann Pippitt, MD, FAAFP

Dr. Pippitt attended medical school at the University of Utah and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Utah, where she was a chief medical resident. She practices at Sugarhouse clinic part time and teaches 1st and 2nd year medical students at the University. Dr. Pippitt enjoys seeing patients of all age ranges and has an ... Read More

Specialties: Family Medicine, Headache

Email: Karly.Pippitt@hsc.utah.edu

Phone: 801-581-2000

Devaprabu Abraham, MD

Dr. Dev Abraham completed his graduate and post graduate training in India and in England respectively.  He joined the University of Utah internal medicine residency program in 1993 and then pursued endocrine fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Following his fellowship training he returned to the University of Utah ... Read More

Specialties: Endocrine Surgery (Adrenal, Thyroid, Parathyroid), Endocrinology & Metabolism, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Parathyroid, Thyroid, Thyroid Disorders

Email: dev.abraham@hsc.utah.edu

Phone: 801-581-7761

John T. Langell, MD, PhD, MPH

Chief, Salt Lake VA Medical Center, Division of General Surgery

John Langell, MD, PhD, MPH completed is surgical training at Stanford University Medical Center and completed advanced training in Space and Aerospace Medicine with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has specialized expertise in the treatment of diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract, biliary tract, and endocrine system (... Read More

Specialties: Endocrine, Oncology Surgery, Surgery, General, Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery

Email: John.Langell@hsc.utah.edu

Phone: 801-587-7288