Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 12, 2004|Volume 33, Number 11

Jaclyne W. Boyden

Medical School welcomes new
deputy dean: Jaclyne Boyden

Jaclyne W. Boyden, a senior administrator at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has been named deputy dean for finance and administration at the School of Medicine, effective Nov. 1.

Boyden was vice dean of administration and finance at the UCSF School of Medicine from 1992 to the present. She has worked in academic medicine for more than 30 years, starting her career at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in grants administration in 1973.

From 1977 to 1988, she held a variety of administrative posts at UCSF in the Departments of Medicine and Biophysics and Biochemistry, the Office of the President and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. In 1988, she became associate dean for administration at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and remained in that position until 1992, when she returned to UCSF as vice dean.

"I am absolutely delighted to have Jackie join us in this new role," says Dr. Robert J. Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine and the Ensign Professor of Medicine. "She possesses strong financial skills and has gained considerable experience in her similar position at UCSF. All her colleagues describe Jackie as talented, a terrific administrator and leader, and a pleasure to work with."

At Yale, Boyden will oversee a financial operation that totaled more than $750 million in income and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 2004. She comes to New Haven from a slightly larger public institution with an operating budget of $893.7 million in 2003.

"Both institutions are excellent medical schools. Both recruit terrific faculty and the best students and house staff. From that perspective, it will be an easy transition," says Boyden. "On the other hand, Yale is private, and UCSF is a state school. My learning curve will be to understand the flow of dollars here and how it differs."

A native of Eugene, Oregon, Boyden earned her bachelor's degree at California State University at Hayward and her master's degree in business administration at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She is a member and past national chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Business Affairs, and belongs to its Groups on Institutional Planning and Faculty Practice; she has served on the AAMC Task Force on Fraud and Abuse since 2001. She is also a member of the Medical Group Management Association and the Health Care Compliance Association.

She succeeds chief financial officer Jed Shivers, who moved from Yale to UCSF in August. Shivers became senior associate dean for clinical affairs and chief operating officer at UCSF School of Medicine, reporting to former Yale dean Dr. David A. Kessler, who is now dean and vice chancellor for medical affairs in San Francisco.

Boyden says she has enjoyed close and collaborative relationships with department chairs and managers in her previous positions and hopes to do the same at Yale. Her focus will be on supporting the school's three missions of research, education and clinical care and on helping to realize goals set by Alpern and President Richard C. Levin.

"My job here will be to make sure there is an administrative infrastructure in place to support the missions and make improvements possible," she says. "On the financial side, there is seldom enough money to do everything that we might want to, but it will be my priority to ensure that the dean has accurate and reliable information so we are able to match resources with his strategic vision."

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