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...appointment of Flier, an expert on obesity and diabetes at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, comes after a nine-month search to succeed Joseph B. Martin, who served as dean for a decade...
...interview Wednesday, Flier said that his top priority as dean is to continue to oversee the implementation of the Medical School’s new curriculum, which was drafted under Martin. Flier also said that he will make many decisions on the Allston expansion and the future of biological research, and that he would like to “accelerate the integration of fundamental science and social science” with medicine...
...Medical School faces tight federal research budgets, Flier will have to seek out new methods of funding for the school's projects. He said that part of his job as dean is to raise funds for both research and the expansion of financial aid to medical students, a priority Faust said she shared. Flier added that Harvard's efforts to award scholarships “appear to be insufficient...
...response to a question about whether the dean should try to influence medical education and health care policy nationally—as has been suggested by some faculty members—Flier said that there is “no reason that the dean of the Harvard Medical School should not have a major voice in medical education nationally,” particularly in light of the curricular review. He added that he is “personally very interested in the state of health care,” but that “it is a very complicated issue?...
Flier is the second permanent dean Faust has named since being named Harvard's 28th president in February. In June, Faust tapped computer scientist Michael D. Smith to lead the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She has also appointed a number of interim leaders to fill the many administrative vacancies across the University...