President Kelley names search committee for Vice President for Health Affairs; Provost Paul LeBel named chair President Robert Kelley has appointed a search committee to help find UND's next Vice president for Health Affairs and Dean of the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Kelley tapped UND Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Paul LeBel to lead the search. The committee will help find the successor to H. David Wilson, now serving as Dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. The search committee includes: * Paul LeBel, chair, provost and vice president for academic affairs * Cindy Anderson, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, UND College of Nursing * Julie Blehm, Positon Partner for the Clinic Internal Medicine Department, MeritCare * Jim Cooper, president and CEO, Med Center One Health System * Randy Eken, CFO, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences * Eugene Delorme, INMED [Indians into Medicine] director, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences * Jonathan Geiger, chair, pharmacology, physiology and therapeutics, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences * Phyllis Johnson, UND vice president for research and economic development * Rhonda Ketterling, MeritCare Health System * Kim Krohn, associate professor/program director, family medicine, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences Center for Family Medicine-Minot * Diane Magnuson, student, senior in occupational therapy * LaVaun McCann, Altru Clinic * James Miles, UND medical student, sophomore class president * Tom Mohr, chair, physical therapy, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences * Dave Molmen, CEO, Altru Hospital * Dan Rice, dean, UND College of Education & Human Development * Grant Shaft, Shaft Reis and Shaft, member of the State Board of Higher Education * Rob Thompson, executive medical director, Altru Systems; president, North Dakota Medical Association * Pat Traynor, president, Dakota Medical Foundation * Roxanne Vaughan, professor, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences * Linda Hurst Torgerson, search committee administrative support, program manager for Human Resources and Finance, UND-Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences is the top medical school in the country for producing family medicine physicians, according to rankings released by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Ranking first this spring among the country's 126 medical schools, UND earned the Achievement Award from the AAFP, which recognizes outstanding efforts to foster student interest in family medicine and produce graduates who enter the specialty. More than 20 percent of UND's graduates have entered an accredited family medicine residency program. -- Peter Johnson, Executive Associate Vice President for University Relations, 777-4317, peterjohnson@mail.und.nodak.edu