An APA member involved in academic leadership and research became dean of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in May.

Before coming to Henry Ford, Davis was a professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve and chief of staff at the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Davis serves on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Inc. as secretary on the board of directors and was president of that organization in 2000. He is also a member of the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Medical Specialties.

As an expert on aging, Davis served as principal investigator for the Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and completed a fellowship at Duke University’s Center for the Study of Aging and Development. Established in 1997, it is a collaboration of the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Nursing Research, which jointly funded six resource centers for minority aging research.

Davis joins a group of nine other psychiatrists who are currently deans of medical schools in the U.S.: Larry Faulkner, M.D., University of South Carolina; Eugene Feigelson, M.D., State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center; Ronald Franks, M.D., East Tennessee State University; Carl Getto, M.D., Southern Illinois University School of Medicine; Jeffrey Houpt, M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Edward Hundert, M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Darrell Kirch, M.D., Pennsylvania State University; Aaron Lazare, M.D., University of Massachusetts, Worcester; Ralph O’Connell, M.D., New York Medical College. ▪