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May 11, 1999
DR. HOWARD PART APPOINTED DEAN AT
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Howard M. Part, M.D., has been selected as the fifth dean of Wright State University School of Medicine, effective May 6, 1999. He had served as the medical school’s acting dean since April 1998, when he replaced Kim Goldenberg, M.D., who was selected as president of Wright State University. Dr. Part possesses a wealth of experience in advancing community partnerships, is the author of publications and grants in both medical education and research, and has received numerous teaching awards.Part’s affiliation with Wright State dates to 1986, when he joined the medical school’s voluntary faculty. He is the first dean of medicine at Wright State to come from the ranks of the voluntary faculty.
More than 1,250 community physicians participate in Wright State’s voluntary faculty. They supervise medical students and resident-physicians at eight affiliated teaching hospitals as well as their own community clinics and offices throughout the Miami Valley.
“I’m proud of my experience with Wright State’s voluntary faculty,” Part says. “As the School of Medicine celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, it’s important to remember the instrumental role that our community’s physicians played in starting the medical school and shaping its curriculum.”
As dean, Part plans to build on the school’s strengths in basic and clinical research and continue its commitment to diversity.
A native of New York City, Part received a B.S. degree from Ohio University. He holds an
M.D. degree from Ohio State University, where he also completed residency. As an instructor at Ohio State, he helped to launch OSU’s fledgling Division of General Internal Medicine.
Part entered private practice in Dayton in 1986 and supervised residents and Wright State
medical students as an attending physician at Kettering Medical Center.
Part describes his years of private practice as a “real-world fellowship” that gave him a fresh perspective on working with generalists and specialists. “My training gave me the tools I
needed to make the transition into private practice. Private practice provided the experience to sharpen those tools before coming back to academic medicine at Wright State.”
After joining the medical school’s fully affiliated faculty in 1988, Part held a succession of leadership positions. He was chief of the General Medicine Consult Service and director of the internal medicine residency program at the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center as well as the department’s vice-chair for medical education. He also served a term as the department’s chair.
Part was associate dean for faculty and clinical affairs at the School of Medicine from 1995-98.
Part is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP). He was recently the recipient of the Ohio Chapter’s Governors Award.
Part has received nine teaching awards since joining Wright State’s faculty. He was selected twice for the School of Medicine Teaching Excellence Award by medical
students in the classes of 1992 and 1995. He received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Medical Education in 1992.
Part’s wife, Kristine Kunesh-Part, practices ophthalmology in Dayton with her father, Charles Kunesh, and brothers Michael and John.
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