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April 2000
Chancellor Bishop Thanks Kerr for Service
Bishop thanked Kerr for his service and leadership. "Bill has been invaluable in assisting with operational and financial issues and the UCSF Stanford Health Care dissolution process. His expertise and insight have helped guide us through a very complex and challenging period and I am extremely grateful to him." First named chief executive officer of UCSF Stanford, Kerr decided instead to assume the role of chief operating officer of the merged organization in November 1997. He joined the UCSF Medical Center in 1970 as assistant director, was named associate director in 1974 and was appointed medical center director in 1977. A native of Chicago, where he graduated from Loyola University, Kerr was 33 when then Chancellor Francis A. Sooy announced that Kerr would direct the hospital. In the two decades at the helm of the UCSF hospital system, Kerr oversaw phenomenal growth from 2,400 employees and a budget of $61 million in 1977 to 5,000 employees and a budget of $450 million in 1997. Kerr was asked by Chancellor Bishop to serve as an advisor in clinical affairs last August after he resigned from his UCSF Stanford post following the decision to reassess the future of the merged organization. "During his distinguished career, Bill has become a nationally recognized leader in health care and reform issues," Bishop noted. "I know that many, many staff and faculty share my enormous respect and fondness for Bill and are grateful for his leadership and dedication. We all wish him the very best in his future endeavors." Kerr’s career highlights outside UCSF include serving as chair of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges, being elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and being appointed to the board of governors of the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in 1996. |
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Bill
Kerr, who served as director of UCSF Medical Center for 20 years,
stepped down last Friday (April 14) as advisor to UCSF Chancellor
Mike Bishop.