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Sharon L. Hostler, MD
Interim Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine
McLemore Birdsong Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Sharon Hostler is Interim Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia. As Dean, she is responsible for all operations of the medical school, graduate school of biomedical research, programs leading to Master of Science in Health Evaluation Sciences, and the Medical Center Library/Informatics. As University Vice President, she is a member of the President's Cabinet.
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Sharon L. Hostler, MD
Interim Vice President & Dean
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A native of Vermont, she received her BA from Middlebury College and MD from the University of Vermont and then completed her residency training in Pediatrics and Fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Hostler's faculty career as a clinician educator at the University of Virginia has focused on: children with cancer; outreach to rural underserved children as (Medical Director of the Children and Youth Project); transition tasks of adolescents with chronic illness and developmental disabilities (Division Chief of Developmental Pediatrics); outcomes of adolescents with severe head injury and spinal cord injury (Medical Director of the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center; the status of women students, housestaff and faculty (Chair of the Committee on Women); the implementation of Family Centered Care in academic medical centers; and development of men and women faculty (Chair of the School of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee, Faculty Leadership Programs).
Dr. Hostler has been nationally recognized for her work in Developmental Pediatrics as the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals’ T. Barry Brazelton Lecturer, the Pele Chandler Lecturer and Visiting Professorships in Israel, Costa Rica and Italy. The 1990 Status of Women Report at the University of Virginia resulted in major restructuring of promotion and tenure guidelines, faculty development and academic reviews, as well as providing a model assessment process for other medical schools. She received the Women in Medicine Leadership Award from the Association of American Colleges. She has been recognized by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont as an outstanding alumna and received the Walter Reed Award from the UVA School of Medicine Alumni Association, and other University honors.
In 2000, the School of Medicine created a Sharon L Hostler Award which is presented annually to a faculty member in recognition of exemplary leadership. She continues as a mentor of women faculty throughout the University and at the national Executive Leadership in Medicine Program sponsored by Drexel University.
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