Interim gets permanent job at MU Health System

by David Reed

March 11,2009

Hal Williamson has been named the permanent vice chancellor for the University of Missouri Health System after serving as interim vice chancellor since September 2008. Chancellor Brady Deaton said Dr. Williamson “has provided outstanding leadership during this interim period” and cited his ability to “successfully integrate the educational and clinical areas of this complex organization.”

The MU Health System comprises University of Missouri Health Care, the School of Medicine and University Physicians, the Sinclair School of Nursing, and the School of Health Professions. Previous to this appointment, Williamson spent 10 years as chair of MU’s Curtis W. and Ann H. Long Department of Family and Community Medicine, which has been consistently ranked as one of the top three family medicine programs in the United States. Williamson has been on MU’s family medicine faculty since 1982.