410 ir40. mmikualibe4 towx14 0 metro New Challenges WSU Med School's new dean brings varied experiences to the job. JEWELRY RI Best !VA 20141 6881 Orchard Lake Rd. on the Boardwalk (248) 851-5030 2014030 Students Adam Milam, Ph.D., and Osamuede lyoha, with Jack D. Sobel, M.D., 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 Contributing Writer Rehabilitation designed to get patients back to living. Heartland skilled nursing and rehab centers provide a comprehensive regime of specialized rehabilitation services, each one designed to move you one step closer to your recovery goals. Recovery begins with our state-of-the-art rehab gym where our team can treat patients recovering from orthopedic injuries, stroke and neurological, cardiac, oncology and pulmonary issues. We offer: • Complex medical care • Intensive rehabilitation • Skilled nursing 13 locations in the Greater Detroit area Allen Park Ann Arbor Bloomfield Heights Canton Dearborn Heights Grosse Pointe Woods Livonia Livonia NE Oakland Plymouth Sterling Heights West Bloomfield Marvin & Betty Danto Health Care Center 800.800.CARE heartlandnursing.com Heartland® 1996170 26 August 6 • 2015 j New Challenges on page 28