Dr. D. Craig Brater, School of Medicine

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Dr. D. Craig Brater, School of Medicine

Dr. D. Craig Brater
Dean, IU School of Medicine

Brater is the ninth dean of the second largest medical school in the country with 1,433 M.S., M.D. and Ph.D. students, 933 residents and fellows, and more than 1,000 full-time faculty.

He succeeds Dr. Robert W. Holden who retired June 30 after nearly five years at the helm of Indiana’s only academic medical center.

Brater has been on the faculty at the IU School of Medicine since 1986 when he was named a professor in the departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, and director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. He has served as the John B. Hickam Professor of m edicine and as chairman of the Department of Medicine.

As dean, Brater will oversee an annual budget of $488.9 million for the School of Medicine, including more than $135 million in research funding of which $73 million is from the National Institutes of Health. He will manage the school’s statewide educatio n program located on nine campuses. This program includes working relationships with more than 2,200 physicians who serve as volunteer faculty. He will take an integral leadership position in the school’s partnerships with Wishard Health Services, Roudebu sh VA Medical Center, LaRue Carter Hospital and Clarian Health, which includes Riley, IU and Methodist hospitals.

Brater is an expert in effects of drugs on the kidney and cardiovascular system, and adverse reactions to diuretics and to drugs for treating rheumatism. He currently is president of the Association of Professors of Medicine and of the United States Pharm acopoeia. He also chairs the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology.

"At a time when academic medical centers across the nation are succumbing to debilitating fiscal pressures, our medical school has continued to serve our state and its citizens extremely well. That is due in large measure to Bob Holdens skilled and dedicated leadership, for which we are deeply grateful. As we look to a new era and to new challenges for the medical school, the university counts itself fortunate to have found in Craig Brater an able successor. As a long-standing member of the IU family, he appreciates the importance of partnerships, particularly the medical schools Clarian partnership with Methodist Hospital. Dr. Brater is well acquainted with the opportunities and challenges the medical school will face in coming years, and I have every confidence in his vision and leadership." --IU President Myles Brand

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Publication date: 15 September 2000
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