Jay Noren, MD, MPH, APTR President 1984-1986, was voted unanimously by the Wayne State University's Board of Governors as the university's 10th President, effective August 1, 2008.

Noren will succeed Irvin D. Reid, who is stepping down on July 31, after a decade  at the helm of one of Michigan's largest research universities.

Before coming to Wayne State, Noren held leadership positions in higher education spanning a 36-year career. Recently, he was the Founding Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He also held positions as the Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Nebraska; Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin as well as Acting Dean for Allied Health and Associate Vice Chancellor at Wisconsin; Chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; President of the Health Science Center and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the Texas A&M University System.

Noren's research and teaching emphases have focused on health services research, health policy and health politics, health services leadership and management, health workforce, the role and operation of academic health centers, Native American health care and executive education. He has participated in extensive funded research projects and has authored numerous papers and book chapters. He developed and directed the Wisconsin Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation and was an originator and director of the University of Wisconsin graduate program in Administrative Medicine.

Noren received two bachelors' degrees from the University of Minnesota, a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He was a research fellow at the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Congress, and a Winston Churchill Fellow in England and Scotland.

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