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Men's Golf
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Administration
9/29/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D -- President, Dartmouth College
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., took office as the 17th president of Dartmouth College on July 1, 2009. The first physician to serve as Dartmouth's president, he also is an anthropologist who brings a passion for learning, innovation, and service to Dartmouth.
President Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO). He has dedicated himself to health and social justice work for more than two decades, helping to provide medical treatment to underserved populations worldwide. President Kim embraces the charge of preparing a new generation of Dartmouth students to tackle the world's most difficult problems. He frequently references Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey '29, who told students at Convocation in 1946, “The world's troubles are your troubles … and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix.”
President Kim has been mentoring young people since his first teaching experience more than 20 years ago at Harvard University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, social analysis, social medicine, and global health. Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, President Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He recently led an academic consortium of more than a dozen institutions in developing a World Health Organization report, “Interactions Between Global Health Initiatives and Health Systems: Evidence From Countries.” It was presented in June 2009 to the G8 Development Ministers' Meeting in Italy.
Through his work with PIH and WHO, President Kim has helped to demonstrate that individuals previously viewed as untreatable can be treated effectively, even in impoverished settings. He led the 3 by 5 initiative at WHO, which sought to treat 3 million new HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs by 2005. Launched in September 2003, the ambitious program ultimately reached its goal in 2007. While working with PIH in Lima, Peru, in the mid-1990s, President Kim helped to develop a treatment program for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which represented the first large-scale treatment of this disease in a poor country. Today, treatment programs for MDR-TB are in place in more than 40 nations. President Kim also spearheaded the successful effort to reduce the price of the drugs used to treat this form of tuberculosis.
A former executive director of PIH, President Kim continues to serve on its board. The Boston-based nonprofit partners with impoverished communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, and the United States to provide medical care and social services. He and Dr. Paul Farmer founded PIH with other colleagues in 1987 while the two were students at Harvard Medical School. The work of Dr. Farmer and PIH was chronicled in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains (Random House, 2003) by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder.
President Kim's work has earned him widespread recognition. He was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one of America's “25 Best Leaders” by US News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006).
He was elected in 2004 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences—one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine—for his professional achievements and commitment to service. Brown University's Alpert Medical School awarded President Kim an honorary degree in 2009, and the Brown Alumni Association honored him with its William Rogers Award for Service to Society in 2008.
He has published widely over the past two decades, authoring or co-authoring articles for leading academic and scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Science. With Dr. Farmer, President Kim co-authored “Global Considerations in Medicine” for Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th edition (McGraw Hill, 2008). He also has contributed to books on topics such as the global impact of drug-resistant tuberculosis and his edited volume, Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor (Common Courage Press, 2002), analyzes the effects of economic and political change on health outcomes in developing countries.
Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, President Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. His father, a dentist, taught at the University of Iowa, where his mother received her Ph.D. in philosophy. He attended Muscatine High School, where he was valedictorian and president of his class and played quarterback for the football team. President Kim graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993. He is married to Dr. Younsook Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.
Harry
Sheehy, a highly regarded administrator and former coach who has led Williams
College to 17 Division III national team championships during his 10 years as
the College's Chair and Director of Athletics, Physical Education and
Recreation, has been named Dartmouth's Director of Athletics and Recreation,
effective September 7, 2010. Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim and Acting Dean
of the College Sylvia Spears announced Sheehy's appointment today.
Sheehy will oversee 34 Division I varsity sports at Dartmouth - 16 men's, 16 women's and two coed - as well as 34 club sports and an extensive intramural program. Three-fourths of undergraduates participate in organized sports at Dartmouth. The athletics department also includes physical education courses, the Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement Program (FLIP), and recreational activities serving about 1,500 individuals a day.
"I am delighted that Harry Sheehy is joining the Dartmouth community," said President Kim. "He has enjoyed tremendous success as a coach and administrator at Williams, and has clearly demonstrated that an elite academic institution can achieve sustained athletic excellence across the board. Harry and I also share the belief that what students can learn from physical activity and sports goes hand-in-glove with what our faculty teach in the classroom. I know Harry's insights and expertise will benefit our varsity, club sport, and recreational athletes. Dean Spears and I look forward to supporting him in our shared goals of taking Dartmouth athletics to new heights, and to making physical fitness an important part of everyone's experience here at Dartmouth College."
"I want to personally thank President Kim, Dean Spears, and the search committee for making this opportunity a reality," Sheehy said. "I'm excited about working at Dartmouth, a school that combines one of the country's premier undergraduate-focused educations with a storied history of Division I athletics. I look forward to continuing Dartmouth's tradition of excellence, both on and off the field of competition, and to working with Dartmouth's student-athletes, President Kim, Dean Spears, and the College's administrators. "
Sheehy will report directly to the President, with a secondary report to the Dean of the College, restoring a historical relationship that is consistent with several of Dartmouth's peer institutions. The President will oversee issues related to administration and athletic compliance, while activities related to student issues and concerns, leadership development, and academic support will reside within the Dean of the College division. The Athletics Department staff will remain part of the Dean of the College's student affairs staff, and scholar-athletes will continue to have access to all of the services provided by Dean of the College division.
During each year of Sheehy's decade guiding the Williams athletics department, the Ephs won the NCAA Division III Directors' Cup, given to the athletics program (out of more than 400 Division III colleges) that achieves the greatest success over a variety of 18 sports. In this past season, Williams had 14 of those 18 teams rank among the top 10 in their sport, and six in the top three with women's crew winning its fifth consecutive national championship and women's tennis taking home its third straight title. Overall, the Ephs have won 17 national championships during Sheehy's tenure and had a total of 619 All-America honors bestowed on their student-athletes.
Williams was also named the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Jostens Institution of the Year four times with Sheehy at the helm (2001, '04, '09 and '10). The award recognizes the ECAC institution that best exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academic and athletic performance. The ECAC has a membership of 290 schools from 16 states stretching from Maine to North Carolina, representing the three NCAA competitive divisions.
Before his appointment as Williams' Director of Athletics, Sheehy was the head men's basketball coach for the Ephs for 17 years, compiling a record of 324-104 (.757) which is the fourth best winning percentage in the history of Division III men's basketball. During the 1990s, his teams posted a record of 221-45 (.830) for the second highest winning percentage of the decade.
Williams made 13 appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament under Sheehy's tutelage, including his last 12 seasons. In 1997 and 1998, the Ephs played in the Division III Final Four, finishing third nationally in both years. The 1997 squad won a then college record 17 straight games, and from 1995-98 his teams won a then New England record of 51 consecutive home games. Sheehy also guided his 1987 and 1999 squads to New England Championships.
Sheehy's players received 15 selections to the All-New England team and eight as All-Americans, including one National Player of the Year. Prior to his tenure at Williams, the Ephs had enjoyed just one 20-win season. Sheehy guided the program to nine 20-win seasons, including each of his final eight years.
During his coaching career, Sheehy was named the Northeast Coach of the Year (1997, '98), the Eastern Basketball Magazine Coach of the Year (1998) and the NESCAC Coach of the Year (2000). In 2002, he was elected to be in the inaugural class of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, joining others such as Bob Cousy, Patrick Ewing, Julius Erving, Jim Calhoun, and Geno Auriemma.
A 1975 graduate of Williams, Sheehy was a two-time All-American in basketball as well as team captain his senior year. He then played eight years with Athletes-in-Action and finished his career as the team's leading career scorer and fifth in career assists. Sheehy represented the United States in the 1978 Pan American Confederation Games as the U.S. won the gold medal in Argentina.
Sheehy is a noted motivational speaker who travels throughout the U.S. to speak to alumni, church, and business groups. His 2002 book, "Raising a Team Player," has received critical acclaim. He is married to Constance Durrell Sheehy.
Sheehy is Dartmouth's eighth athletics director, succeeding Josie Harper who retired in June 2009 after seven years in the position. Over the past 13 months, Bob "Cep" Ceplikas '78 has served as the interim director. Ceplikas will return to his former position as Deputy Director of Athletics. "We are extremely grateful to Cep for stepping up to fill this leadership role for more than a year," said Dean Spears. "He did a superb job of running the department and continuing the great tradition of Dartmouth athletics that has enriched the lives of so many Dartmouth students."
Previous Directors of Athletics
Bob (Cep) Ceplikas '78, 2010
Jo Ann (Josie) Harper, 2002-2009
Richard G. Jaeger '59, 1989-2002
Edward (Ted) Leland, 1983-89
Seaver Peters '54, 1967-83
Robert (Red) Rolfe '31, 1954-67
William McCarter '19, 1937-54
H. R. (Rip) Heneage '07, 1927-37
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