Dr. Pope Moseley resigned Friday as executive vice chancellor and dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Medicine and will return to the faculty to pursue his research.
Dr. Chris Westfall, chair of ophthalmology and director of the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, has been named as interim dean while a national search is conducted for the new dean, according to an email from UAMS Interim Chancellor Stephanie Gardner to UAMS employees that was released by UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor.
Moseley is the latest UAMS executive to announce he is leaving since January when UAMS said it was looking for ways to slash its projected deficit. In January, UAMS’ chief financial officer for its Medical Center, Dan Riley, said he was resigning. Riley, who also is the associate vice chancellor for clinical finance, however, agreed to stay on until the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
And UAMS’s vice chancellor for campus operations, Mark Kenneday, notified UAMS on Jan. 22 that he would retire on June 30.
Before joining UAMS in 2015, Moseley worked as professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque.
Moseley’s salary for the current fiscal year is $600,000 plus $100,000 in deferred compensation.
“Working alongside UAMS Medical Center CEO Dr. Richard Turnage, Pope has been instrumental in leading the integrated clinical enterprise,” Gardner said in the email to UAMS employees. “During Pope’s time as dean, the College of Medicine has grown programs in such areas as biomedical research in an effort to more closely align research and patient care to focus on diseases and issues faced by the people we serve.”