Eric Larson, associate dean and professor of medicine and health services, is resigning as medical director of UW Medical Center (UWMC). He has accepted the position of director of the Center for Health Studies at Group Health Cooperative (GHC) in Seattle, and he will leave the UWMC medical director position on Nov. 1. Larson plans to maintain his long-term clinical practice at the UWMC-Roosevelt General Internal Medicine Clinic, as well as his affiliation with the Departments of Medicine and Health Services.
Larson has served the UW Academic Medical Center for 25 years as a resident and faculty member; including 13 years as UWMC medical director and associate dean. His primary research interests are in geriatrics, Alzheimer’s disease, health promotion and quality improvement.
In his new role, Larson will lead the Center for Health Studies, founded in 1983 to conduct health research. The Center employs more than 200 research and support staff members. While a part of the GHC, the Center receives about 90 percent of its funding from outside sources, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John A. Hartford Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
July 19, 2002