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Creighton University has named Dr. Donald Frey to the position of vice president of health sciences.
The appointment is effective Monday.
Frey will oversee Creighton’s schools of dentistry, medicine and nursing, as well as pharmacy and allied health professions.
The holder of the Dr. Roland L. Kleeberger Endowed Chair, Frey has served as chairman of family medicine since 1995. He joined the Creighton University staff as a professor of family medicine and director of the family medicine residency program in 1993.
Frey is a graduate of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri in 1978. He completed specialty training in family medicine and geriatric medicine at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg, W.Va.
While Frey has been at Creighton, the school’s Omaha family medicine clinics have grown from two to five, and patient volume has increased from 20,000 annual clinic visits to 59,000.
He is an advocate of affordable quality health care for all Americans. His article, “Is America Ready for Universal Healthcare?” was published in the summer 2001 Creighton magazine.
“His knowledge of the national and local health care environment and his research in such pivotal areas as health care policy and the educational mission of academic health centers make him an ideal candidate” for his new position, said the Rev. John P. Schlegel, Creighton’s president.
Frey has been a member of the Nebraska Rural Health Advisory Commission since 1998 and was its chairman from 2005 to 2007.
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