University of Arizona names Tennessee cardiologist as dean of its Phoenix medical school

After a year without a permanent leader, the University of Arizona’s medical school in Phoenix has a new dean.

University of Tennessee Science Center cardiologist Dr. Guy Reed will be the new dean of the UA College of Medicine Phoenix, which opened in 2007 and is accredited separately from the UA College of Medicine Tucson, which opened in 1967.

Reed, who specializes in research on the mechanism of blood clots and vascular disease, will start his job in mid-July. His annual salary will be $700,000, which is the same salary received by Dr. Charles Cairns, dean of the UA College of Medicine Tucson.

The Phoenix medical school had been without a permanent dean since last spring, when well-regarded dean Dr. Stuart D. Flynn announced he was leaving in March to be the founding dean of a new medical school in Texas.

Dr. Kenneth Ramos had been serving as interim dean since Flynn’s departure and will return to the UA in Tucson, where he is associate vice president of precision health sciences and new head of the MD-Ph.D. program at the Tucson medical school.

Dr. Leigh Neumayer, interim senior vice president of UA Health Sciences, made Tuesday’s announcement about Reed’s appointment.

Reed is the Lemuel Diggs Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, as well as interim executive vice president for Methodist Le Bonheur HealthCare.

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Reed grew up in Colorado and graduated from Columbia University in New York City, where he received his bachelor’s degree in English literature and premedical studies. He earned a master’s degree in mathematical statistics and a medical degree from Stanford University.

He completed his internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale University, a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a postdoctoral research fellowship in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard Medical School.

For a decade and a half, Reed served in positions as a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

In 2015, the company Reed founded — Translational Sciences Inc. — signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Tokyo-based Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. to develop and commercialize a treatment for patients.

Reed will be the third dean of the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix.

Based in downtown Phoenix on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the UA College of Medicine will graduate 82 physicians on May 8. The medical school aims for classes of 80 students per year and has to date graduated 273 physicians.