Beth Israel Deaconess appoints chief academic officer

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Vikas_Sukhatme%2085.bmp Dr. Vikas P. Sukhatme (left) has been named chief academic officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, succeeding Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, who became dean of Harvard Medical School in September.

A physician and researcher in vascular biology, cancer, and kidney disease, Sukhatme will oversee the hospital’s research and academic programs.

Sukhatme earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in theoretical physics at MIT, attended the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and graduated from Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine and nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, completed an immunology fellowship at Stanford University, and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Chicago before becoming chief of the renal division at Beth Israel Deaconess in 1992.

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