Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the selection of Carol Dawson-Rose, RN, PhD, FAAN, as our new dean of the UCSF School of Nursing. 

Carol brings more than 35 years of experience to the role, as well as a passion for advancing research, education, and diversity. She currently leads the UCSF School of Nursing’s Department of Community Health Systems, in which she holds the James P. and Marjorie A. Livingston Chair in Nursing Excellence. 

Carol started her career during the AIDS epidemic, providing care for patients in the San Francisco Tenderloin as an HIV home hospice nurse. That role informed her research and future career, in which she adapted HIV interventions for communities in Mozambique, leading to a national HIV prevention program there and ultimately to policy work here in the United States.

In her new role, which begins April 16, Carol will lead a significant transformation in the school’s educational programs as it expands its Doctor of Nursing Practice program, enabling UCSF to fully train and support the nurse leaders of the future. She also will serve as associate vice chancellor for Nursing Affairs and will be a member of my Cabinet alongside our other campus leaders.

I thank Dean and Vice Provost Nicquet Blake for her leadership of the national search for a new School of Nursing leader, and Catherine Waters for serving as the school’s interim dean since Catherine Gilliss stepped down in December. 

Please join me in welcoming Carol as our new dean. You can read more about her career at UCSF.edu.

Sincerely,

Sam Hawgood, MBBS
Chancellor
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor