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and his wife, Audrey, and Sobel's administrative assistant, Angela Goodwill
Shari S. Cohen
a leading expert on bacterial vaginosis
and has served as an adviser to the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
ack Sobel, M.D., an esteemed Prevention on sexually transmitted
clinician and researcher,
diseases.
welcomes a new challenge
In 1985, he accepted a position as
as dean of the Wayne State University
professor of internal medicine and
School of Medicine. He was appointed
chief of the Division of Infectious
in June, after serving as interim dean
Diseases at Wayne State University
since November 2014.
School of Medicine, where he is highly
He brings a long career, including
regarded as a physician-researcher.
international experience, to the job.
Now, he heads the med school.
Sobel was born and raised in South
Sobel, 72, and his wife, Audrey,
Africa, where he graduated
live in West Bloomfield and
from the University of the
belong to Congregation Beth
Witwatersrand, special-
Ahm, also in West Bloomfield.
izing in internal medicine.
Audrey Sobel is a past presi-
He served as a physician
dent of Hadassah of Greater
in South Africa for several
Detroit and a former mem-
years, but did not want to
ber of the national Hadassah
remain there with his fam-
board. They have three adult
ily when it seemed that
Dr. Jack Sobel children, two of whom gradu-
"apartheid was so powerful,
ated from WSU; one is a physi-
so invincible that it was never going
cian.
to end!"
Sobel was very open and enthusias-
As a self-proclaimed "flaming lib-
tic about the medical school during a
eral Zionist:' Sobel moved to Israel in
recent interview with the IN.
1970, where he practiced medicine
After a long, successful career as
in a small town and later taught at
a clinician, researcher and educator,
Rambam Hospital and at Technion-
what motivated you to accept the
Israel Institute of Technology.
dean's position?
In 1974, Sobel came to the U.S. as a
"I had no aspirations to be dean and
research fellow in infectious diseases
enjoyed being a scientist and clinician.
at the National Institutes of Health and The new president of the university,
Dr. Roy Wilson, is very inspiring and
later completed a fellowship in infec-
tious diseases at the Medical College of the School of Medicine is very dear
Pennsylvania. Today, he is considered
to me. Also, I like the challenge. I had
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