1970
Department of Community and Family Medicine Hilman Castle, MD is appointed as first Chair Physician Assistant program created
1971 Family Practice Residency program created
1972 Department name changes to Family and Community Medicine
1977 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health formed
1973 Public Health program created
1984 F. Marian Bishop, PhD named Chair. Dr. Bishop was the first female Chair in the U Health system. Department name changes to Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
1995 Michael Magill, MD named Chair of the department
2008 Department separates into four divisions: Family Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Health, Physician Assistant Studies, and Public Health. First division chiefs are Jennifer Leiser, MD (Family Medicine); Kurt T. Hegmann, MD, MPH (Occupational and Environmental Health); Trenton Honda (Physician Assistant Studies); and Stephen Alder, PhD (Public Health)
2017 Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH named Chair
2019 Virginia Valentin, DrPH, PA-C named Chief of the Division of Physician Assistant Studies
2020 Steven Lacey, PhD, MPH named Chief of the Division of Public Health By rule of the Utah Legislature, the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health moves to Weber State University Jeremy Biggs, MD named Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health
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