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URMC pediatrics chief Nina Schor to step down
URMC pediatrics chief Nina Schor to step down
Listen to this articleThe University of Rochester Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital chief of pediatrics Nina Schor M.D. plans to step down.
After 11 years as the medical center’s pediatrics chair, Schor plans to step down in June, URMC officials said Thursday.
As the top doctor at the children’s hospital, Schor oversaw the move and expansion of Golisano Children’s Hospital from its previous quarters in the adjacent Strong Memorial Hospital to the eight-story, 245,000-square-foot facility it now occupies.
A pediatric neurosurgeon and a research scientist, Schor was in many ways the face of the new children’s hospital and its guiding spirit, said Mark Taubman M.D., URMC CEO and UR School of Medicine and Dentistry dean.
“Not only was the new hospital built under Nina’s leadership,” he said. “But she championed the project, ensuring that every detail was designed with patients and families in mind.”
In a 2015 interview, Schor called the children’s hospital, then about to open, “the best of both worlds: separate services where it makes sense to be completely separate because we do things very differently than the adult side does or because we don’t want children waiting for long periods of time in a waiting room that is not child- and family-friendly. And we will have shared services where it makes sense to do that.”
The department of pediatrics grew from 110 faculty members to over 170 during Schor’s tenure. Golisano Children’s Hospital serves 85,000 children annually.
Schor came to URMC after 20 years with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she left as chief of the Division of Child Neurology and associate dean for medical student research.
The university has begun a national search for her successor.
In other news, the UR medical school on Thursday announced the appointment of Flavia Nobay M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, as associate dean for admissions.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly indicated Schor planned to retire.
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