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Dr. Daniel W. Rahn, nationally recognized researcher, clinician and seasoned administrator, became the seventh president of the Medical College of Georgia June 2001. As of July 2006, Dr. Rahn also serves in the newly created position of senior vice chancellor for health and medical programs for the University System of Georgia.
Prior to his appointment as MCG president, Dr. Rahn served as vice dean for clinical affairs for the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as well as senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer for MCG Health, Inc., which manages MCG's clinical facilities. He assumed his duties as vice dean for clinical affairs in the medical school in 1995.
At MCG, Dr. Rahn also has served
as director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement, a research
initiative between MCG and BlueCross and BlueShield of Georgia
exploring how to optimize health care. In July 2000, he assumed the
additional responsibilities as senior vice president and chief
medical officer for MCG Health, Inc.
Dr. Rahn came to MCG from Yale University School of Medicine in 1991
as vice chairman and director of clinical affairs for the Department
of Medicine and as program director for the internal medicine
residency program.
He began his professional career in 1979 at Yale and remained on the
university’s clinical faculty while he was in a private medical
practice in Connecticut from 1981 to 1988. He rejoined the Yale
faculty in 1988, where his appointments included clinical director
of the Lyme Disease Program, director of clinical training in
rheumatology, and director of faculty practice for the Department of
Internal Medicine.
Dr. Rahn earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1972 and a medical
degree in 1976, both from Yale University. He completed his medical
residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and his postdoctoral fellowship
in rheumatology at Yale.
Dr. Rahn is a member of the University Health System Consortium
Medical Leadership Community Steering Committee, the Georgia Cancer
Coalition Select Committee, the Association of Academic Health
Centers and the Georgia Department of Community Health
Cardiovascular Technical Advisory Committee. He serves on the boards
of directors of the Georgia Research Alliance, the Georgia Cancer
Coalition and the Central Savannah River Area Regional Educational
Service, and on the board of trustees of Georgia Health Decisions
and the board of the Walton Rehabilitation Institute.
He is a reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Rheumatology, American Journal of Family Practice, and the American Journal of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and the American College of Physicians and a member of the American College of Physician Executives, the American College of Physicians, and the Southern Medical Association.
The MCG president is a national expert on Lyme disease, for which he has received a number of research grants. He has made repeat appearances in the Castle Connolly Guide to “America's Top Doctors." He has served as a volunteer on a number of medical missions to the Ukraine, Ecuador, and Nigeria.
He and his wife Lana have three children, Jason, Rebecca, and Zachary.