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Board of Trustees appoints executive vice president
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| Lisa M. Beardsley, PhD, MPH |
Lisa M. Beardsley, PhD, MPH, vice president for academic affairs, was named executive vice president by the LLU Board of Trustees on February 10.
Dr. Beardsley, who will continue her responsibilities as vice president for academic affairs, replaces Ian M. Fraser, PhD, who has retired.
Before moving to Loma Linda, she served as associate vice president for academic administration and dean for graduate studies and research at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She had previously served as assistant dean for medical education and evaluation and associate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria.
While at Andrews University, Dr. Beardsley was responsible for long-range coordination and quality-assurance of graduate programs and interdisciplinary, multi-school graduate education.
Dr. Beardsley received her master's degree in public health with an emphasis in health education from the School of Public Health in 1983. She earned her doctor of philosophy degree in educational psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1989.
She completed clinical pastoral education at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois and has worked as a hospital chaplain there and at Lakeland Medical Center in St. Joseph, Michigan.
Dr. Beardsley has a wide variety of teaching experience--from the grade school level in Finland in the early 1980s, to university level at the University of Hawaii in the late 1980s, and the University of Illinois in the 1990s.
She has lived throughout the United States, in England, Finland, Sweden, and the Philippines, and brings to this position an international perspective and commitment to whole-person education and care.
"Taking Loma Linda University out of Loma Linda through distance and information technology,² says Dr. Beardsley, "is an exciting area of activity. This makes LLU more relevant and responsive to our constituencies around the globe. It also provides access to quality education, consultation, and community to people who may be geographically close but logistically distant because of their work schedule or family commitments."