Next UI Health Care VP is former U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Denise Jamieson

by Virginia C. Oubre Healthy Support


Dr. Denise Jamieson answers a question from the audience during a May 1 forum at the Medical Education Research Facility on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. Then a finalist for the position of vice president of medical affairs, Jamieson was hired for the position this week. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Dr. Denise Jamieson answers a question from the audience during a May 1 forum at the Medical Education Research Facility on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. Then a finalist for the position of vice president of medical affairs, Jamieson was hired for the position this week. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

IOWA CITY — The next head of the University of Iowa’s sprawling health care enterprise and medical college will be retired U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Denise J. Jamieson, who accumulated decades of leadership and health care experience with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at Emory University.

Most recently serving as professor and chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine — as well as chief of gynecology and obstetrics for Emory Healthcare — Jamieson, 58, will start Aug. 1 as UIHC vice president for medical affairs and

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