Fogarty became dean of the FSU College of Medicine in August 2008, replacing Dr. J. Ocie Harris, who retired after five years in the position. Fogarty came to the FSU College of Medicine from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where he served as senior associate dean for operations and associate dean for primary care. In 2007, Fogarty was honored by the Vermont Academy of Family Physicians as Vermont Family Physician of the Year. He also received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the Vermont Medical Society bestows, for meritorious service in the science and art of medicine, as well as for outstanding contributions to the medical profession, its organizations and the public welfare. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Fogarty earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, N.Y., and completed his family practice residency at DeWitt Army Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Va. He spent the first 20 years of his career as an Army physician and academic leader, rising to the rank of colonel and serving the last five years of his military career as chair of family medicine at the Uniformed Services University School of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. In that position he oversaw nine clinical clerkship sites in six states in an educational model similar to FSU's system of regional campuses based in six Florida cities.

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As the chief academic officer of the Florida State University College of Medicine, Littles has overall responsibility for overseeing the design, development, implementation and evaluation of the four-year comprehensive curriculum leading to the M.D. degree. In addition, she serves as designated institutional official for the College of Medicine’s graduate medical education programs at Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola. Physicians in the residency programs for obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics are trained and supervised by FSU faculty physicians at Sacred Heart with oversight from Littles. She graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. A statewide and national leader in organized medicine, she has been involved in medical education since 1989, when she began precepting medical students and residents in her solo family practice in Quincy. Littles joined the faculty of the Family Medicine Residency Program at TMH in 1996, and became director in 1999. Former president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians and 1993 Florida Family Physician of the Year, she is a longtime patient advocate. She is also a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, Florida Medical Association, Capital Medical Society, Big Bend Hospice Board of Directors and Florida Alliance Initiative.

Watson has been a professor of neurology, neuroscience and clinical neurology for more than three decades. In 2009 he received a Lifetime Educator Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Southern Group on Educational Affairs. He is considered the "grandfather'' of mission-based budgeting and has provided numerous talks and workshops on mission-based budgeting, curriculum and the continuum of medical education. He spent 18 years as senior associate dean for educational affairs at the University of Florida College of Medicine prior to arriving at FSU in 2008. At Florida State University he serves as chair of the curriculum committee, which examines current methods, practices and assessments to ensure the medical school is best positioned to meet its educational mission.
 

Alston came to FSU in 2006 from Mercer University School of Medicine, where he was assistant dean for medical education and director of the Biomedical Problems Program, an integrated problem-based learning curriculum. He is active in many professional organizations and is past president of the Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE). As associate dean for medical education, a role he assumed in 2008, Alston provides leadership for the Office of Medical Education, and one of his goals is increased integration and coordination of small-group experiences. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned his M.D. Alston completed a residency in anatomic pathology and neuropathology at Duke University Medical Center and a fellowship in cerebrovascular disease from the Duke-VA Center for Cerebrovascular Disease.

Baker is responsible for enhancing the teaching skills of faculty on the FSU campus, community physicians who precept students in the first and second year, and clinical faculty at the six regional medical school campuses who participate in teaching the required clerkships and electives. Baker earned a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Florida. He has more than 20 years of experience in the area of faculty and curriculum development, having worked in allopathic, osteopathic and veterinary medicine settings. Before he came to the FSU College of Medicine in May 2002, Baker was director of the Office of Faculty D evelopment at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Since joining the College of Medicine faculty in 2003, Beitsch has been a professor of health policy in the department of family medicine and rural health, plus director of the Center for Medicine and Public Health in the Division of Health Affairs. He’s a part-time consultant to the Centers for Disease Control. He has developed programs on disaster preparedness for Florida and is associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health. He has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters and monographs. At Florida State University, he has been the principal investigator on more than $3 million worth of grants and contracts. As associate dean, Beitsch directs the Division of Health Affairs.

Romrell joined the FSU College of Medicine in 2008 after more than 30 years at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where his career included numerous teaching awards for his role in the clinical anatomy program. He was named Basic Science Teacher of the Year on three occasions and was honored by graduating medical students as co-recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Basic Science Course every year from 1993 to 2000 and again each year from 2002 to 2004. Romrell, who was inducted into the UF College of Medicine Society of Teaching Scholars, is course director for clinical anatomy at FSU. His work in curriculum development at FSU includes organizing a database to track medical students’ performance. His expertise includes 10 years’ experience as associate dean for medical education at UF, where he also served for 25 years as executive director of the Anatomical Board of the State of Florida.

Woodall is a certified public accountant and certified governmental financial manager. Since 2008, when she began working at the College of Medicine, she has overseen accounting and administrative services, as well as contracts and sponsored projects. Previously, she had worked in the Office of the Auditor General; as assistant director of cash management and investments for Florida State University; as assistant director of accounting for the FSU Foundation; and as chief financial officer of the FSU Research Foundation. She has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance and is pursuing a master’s in higher education administration, both from Florida State. She’s also on the board of directors of the Tallahassee Association of Governmental Accountants, and in 2009 she was a Hardee Fellow.

Campbell is a board-certified family physician who came to the FSU College of Medicine in 2006 after teaching at the University of South Florida College of Medicine for six years. While at USF, he was course director for the physical diagnosis I and II course as well as a preceptor for the family medicine third-year rotation and a preceptor for many fourth-year electives. He achieved promotion and tenure in 2004. That year, he joined the faculty at Bayfront Family Medicine residency and expanded his teaching role to teaching residents. He was placed in charge of the inpatient medicine curriculum. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the Florida State University College of Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health. He taught in several courses and became the director of the Honors Medical Scholars Program. In January 2009, he was promoted to assistant dean for student affairs at the College of Medicine.

Before coming to Florida State University in 2009, Johnson was the course director and a 17-year educator in medical microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She received the 2001 Indiana Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She was the statewide competency director for problem solving and was chair of the Problem Solving Competency Committee, composed of faculty, clinicians and students focused on continuous quality improvement in the curriculum. In addition, she has had more than half a million dollars in career funding for pain and edema therapy research projects; educational research projects and workshops; and patient simulations development.

Livingston’s duties include the management and development of the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in the Division of Research, Undergraduate, and Graduate Programs. These programs include the Outreach and Advising programs, the Bridge Program, comprehensive outreach and recruitment initiatives, and application and data management for the PhD Programs. Before she took on this role in 2009, Livingston was assistant dean for student affairs in the College of Medicine from 2001 to 2005 and director of student affairs in the Program in Medical Sciences from 1996 to 2001. She earned her doctorate at the University of Alabama and directed the Extended University Program at Troy State University. She has participated in research projects relating to development psychology, high school dropouts, issues for nontraditional college students, and academic-advising strategies and interventions that help increase a medical school’s number of successful applicants among rural and underrepresented minority students.

Munson joined the College of Medicine in 2009. For five years before that, he was executive director for alumni relations and development at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach, Fla. He was responsible for informing and engaging the university’s 93,000 alumni as well as administering and managing the multi-campus alumni-affairs program. He also served as a senior development officer cultivating and developing major gifts in support of academic, co-curricular and athletic programs and in raising funds for student assistance. Earlier, he served five years as a major gift officer and director of marketing for the Association of Graduates at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). He served with the U.S. Army for more than 21 years. At the College of Medicine, his mission is to assist the dean in raising private, corporate and foundation financial resources in support of the college and its students.

Patrick, who came to the College of Medicine in 2002 and became an assistant dean in 2007, works in conjunction with the associate dean for student affairs and admissions to provide oversight of the admissions process for the College of Medicine. He has more than 30 years of experience in medical education and about 20 years of experience in admissions for graduate and professional programs. His duties include recruiting, counseling of students regarding admissions criteria and the application process, screening applicants, interviewing, evaluation and rendering decisions regarding admission. Patrick is also active in teaching pharmacology and other biomedical science courses to students in the College of Medicine.

Van Wingen oversees the college’s computer infrastructure and data management systems. He assists both the instructional design group and the researcher community with their data and computer needs. Van Wingen has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Missouri and all but dissertation in computer science from Florida State. He has worked with data systems for more than 35 years and has extensive experience with medical-related information systems, financial systems and HR (human resources) systems. He has served as the senior vice president for information management for an HMO and has consulted with physician offices, independent physician organizations and several state agencies on how best to organize their data and develop applications to meet their needs. He started working at the College of Medicine in 2008 and became assistant dean in 2009.

Carlson started at the College of Medicine in 2006 and was appointed to his current role as director of public affairs and communications and editor of FSU MED, the college’s biannual publication, in October 2008. He is responsible for the college’s effort to tell its remarkable story, utilizing a combination of print and electronic publications, the Web (med.fsu.edu), video, public and private media and other available resources. Carlson also oversees the development of a young and expanding alumni association that includes graduates of the M.D. and Ph.D. programs, along with graduates of the Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS), the precursor to a medical school at Florida State.

Hill joined the College of Medicine in 2000 as the director of community clinical relations to build the clinical partnerships necessary to train our medical students and assist in the establishment of our regional campuses. Her responsibilities currently include negotiating and managing the more than 80 affiliation agreements with hospitals, surgery centers and other health-care facilities partnering with our regional campuses. She works with the regional campuses overseeing the campus facilities and serves as a member of each community board. Hill is responsible for the clinical activities of our full-time faculty working through the Florida Medical Practice Plan. She also handles special projects as directed by the dean. She serves on the board of the Florida State University College of Medicine Self-Insurance Program and the FSU Animal Care and Use Committee.

Jurand is the primary attorney and legal counsel responsible for providing legal services to the College of Medicine administration. He has been at the college since November 2008 and has been legal counsel at Florida State University since 1993. His duties include providing services, advice and counsel on all legal matters involving the College of Medicine, including transactional matters and contracts as well as issues involving faculty, staff and students. Jurand graduated from the University of Memphis School of Law in 1985 and before coming to FSU practiced in many areas of the law, including litigation and arbitration, administrative law, employment law, and criminal defense and prosecution. He also has taught administrative law at the graduate level at FSU for a number of years. He is currently a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.