Rutgers University Board of Trustees, with an assignment
to the Health Affairs Committee of the Board of
Governors. As I drove to New Brunswick for three days of
orientation and initial board and committee meetings, I
wondered how I would feel, as I had been away from
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School for eighteen years,
with relatively few visits. I was most pleasantly surprised to
discover that a not-inconsequential piece of me felt as if
I were coming home. Upon reflection, of course, the
Piscataway/New Brunswick campus is my intellectual and
professional home. After all, it was here that I was able to
establish a satisfying scientific career; it was here that I
learned pulmonary medicine, alongside our initial fellows;
and it was here that I learned to be an administrator, albeit
not without some lumps and bumps along the way. Mostly,
though, it had simply been great fun to join a new school in
its infancy and play a role in its growth and development.
a given, as the medical school had recently been adminis-
tratively reassigned to a new entity, the College of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey. Almost immediately upon
a long and productive relationship with the biomedical
engineering faculty and graduate students. As I got
involved administratively with the major joint efforts
between Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and
Rutgers, such as the EOHSI and CABM, what could have
been a difficult interface turned out to be smooth and easy.
This was based upon common goals and aspirations, along
with a large dose of mutual trust. I shall never forget the
time when the then provost, Alec Pond, and I attended a
meeting of an accrediting agency for EOHSI. The visitors
were very complimentary about the institute but expressed
concern that they could not find an agreement outlining the
roles of the two governing universities. We were bemused
and said it was simply not necessary in our climate.
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