Health sciences leader at Minnesota finalist for University of Iowa health care job

IOWA CITY - The vice president for health sciences at the University of Minnesota was named Sunday as the second and last finalist for consideration to replace the retiring Jean Robillard as the next University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of its Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

Jay Brooks Jackson, professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, dean of the medical school and vice president for health sciences at the UM in Minneapolis, will participate in a public forum from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday in the Prem Sahai Auditorium of the Medical Education Research Facility and then attend a public reception from 6 to 7 p.m. in the MERF Atrium.

Jackson is the second of two finalists invited to campus by a search committee. The first, John M. Carethers, is chairman of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. UI President Bruce Harreld will decide which to hire later this fall.

A 17-member search committee in July interviewed 11 semifinalists for the UI job and then conducted more research about each candidate before agreeing on the finalists, according to UI spokeswoman Jeneane Beck.

UI Health Care is a $1.9 billion enterprise and major contributor to the state's economy.