Dr. Raymond Woosley replaces retired Dr. James Dalen

Dr. Raymond Woosley will give up the alabaster walls and cherry blossomed lawns of Washington D.C. for dry heat and stately saguaros when he comes to Tucson in August.

Woosley was offered the positions of Vice President for the Arizona Health Sciences Center and dean of the UA College of Medicine in early June. He has decided to accept.

"I have to admit that I went to Arizona not expecting to like it, but I fell in love with it," Woosley said. "I fell in love with the city and the university because the University of Arizona is an exciting environment with a vibrant faculty that I think is eager to change medicine."