Dr. Pope Moseley has been named dean of the College of Medicine and executive vice chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, effective July 15. Moseley succeeds Dr. G. Richard Smith, who has served as College of Medicine dean and vice chancellor of UAMS for the past two years.
Since 2001, Moseley has been professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque. He was named a UNM School of Medicine distinguished professor in 2013 and also has served at UNM as an associate dean for research and chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine.
In 1976, Moseley earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina; in 1980, his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago; and in 1983, his master’s degree in preventive medicine from the University of Iowa. He joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1985 after completing a combined residency in internal medicine and occupational medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine.