Dr.
Mulloy named interim medicine chair
by Toni Baker
Dr. Laura L. Mulloy, chief of the Section of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation Medicine, has been named interim department chair effective July 5.
Dr. Mulloy, Glover/Mealing Eminent Scholar Chair in Immunology, replaces Dr. Steve Schwab, chair of the department since January 2003, who assumes the duties of executive dean of the of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine later this month.
“The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine is fortunate to be able to call upon the considerable talents and energies of Laura Mulloy for interim leadership of the school’s largest academic department,” said Dean D. Douglas Miller, dean. “It takes a strong personality with unshakable core values to lead this complex and progressive academic department.
“Dr. Mulloy is an effective leader with outstanding academic credentials in every aspect of the school’s tripartite mission of education, research and service. I am confident she is up to the challenges and capable of continuing the ascendant trajectory of the department in the coming academic year.”
Dr. Peter F. Buckley, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, will lead a national search for chair of the department that has100 full-time faculty members and 55 residents in specialties including cardiology, nephrology, rheumatology and gastroenterology.
Dr. Mulloy, a 1984 graduate of the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed internal medicine training at Dallas/Fort Worth Medical Center, Texas Tech University Health Science Center and Yale University’s Waterbury Hospital Health Center. She completed a nephrology fellowship at MCG in 1990, then joined the faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1995, section chief in 1998 and professor in 2001. Dr. Mulloy directs MCG’s Nephrology Fellowship and Transplant Nephrology programs. She chairs the Department of Medicine’s Promotion and Tenure Committee. Campus-wide committee memberships include the Intern Selection, Statutes, Faculty Governance and Graduate Medical Education committees.
She recently served a two-year term on the American Society of Transplantation’s Patient Care and Education Committee and co-chaired the society’s Scientific Session. In 2005, she served as an at-large member of the American Society of Hypertension, Inc.’s board of directors.
Her research interests include better methods of immunosuppression for transplant patients.