Chamber President Laurie White recently spoke with Dr. Mukesh K. Jain, the new dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University. Dean Jain is an accomplished academic and health care leader and a physician-scientist specializing in cardiovascular medicine.

Laurie and Dean Jain discussed his extensive background, why he chose Rhode Island, the 50-year anniversary of Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School, brain science, today's medical school applicants, health equity, regional and multi-institution collaboration, mental health, research and a wholistic approach to medicine, among other topics.

 

 

A physician-scientist, Dean Jain is internationally recognized for studies that established a central role for Kruppel-like factors, a family of DNA transcription factors, in cardiovascular biology, innate immunity, and metabolism.

Prior to his appointment at Brown, Dean Jain was chief academic officer at University Hospitals health system in Cleveland, vice dean for medical sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Harrington Endowed Scientific Director of the Harrington Discovery Institute.