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Bellack to leave for VP, provost post in Boston Janis P. Bellack, Ph.D., special assistant to the president and formerly associate provost for education, is leaving MUSC to become vice president for academic affairs and provost at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). She will assume her new post July 1. Bellack joined MUSC as assistant dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Nursing in 1987 and served in that role through 1992. She also served as interim assistant dean for graduate programs in the college during that time. Other appointments and positions during Bellack’s tenure at MUSC include director of university educational planning, associate provost for education, and her present position of special assistant to the president. She has also served as director of nursing programs for S.C. AHEC; was appointed senior fellow, Center for the Health Professions (a health professions education and policy think tank and home of the Pew Health Professions Commission), University of California, San Francisco, and completed a six-month sabbatical-in-residence at the center. Bellack is co-director of statewide South Carolina Colleagues in Caring Nursing Workforce Development Project, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and served as MUSC representative to the Group on Multiprofessional Education, Association of Academic Health Centers. She was an invited member of the Advisory Committee, Center for Interdisciplinary and Community-Based Learning, Association of Academic Health Centers, and team leader, South Carolina Local Interdisciplinary Team, one of 10 national demonstration sites of the Institute for Health Care Improvement’s Interprofessional Education Collaborative. While at MUSC, Bellack advocated the advancement of interprofessional education activities and efforts involving all MUSC colleges. She demonstrated leadership for university-wide, interdisciplinary involvement in educational planning, and new educational initiatives. Her participation in the Information Technology Innovation small grants program, Teaching Excellence Awards, educational facilities and classroom upgrades with emphasis on using technology in the classroom and community-based education are examples. She also has provided leadership and oversight in launching MUSC’s distance education initiatives, and during her tenure at MUSC, she secured more than $3 million in extramural grant funding to support a variety of campus educational and leadership initiatives. Founded in 1823 as a private, independent pharmacy school, MCPHS is the oldest in Boston proper, and one of only four free-standing schools of pharmacy in the country. Health science programs were added in the late 1970s. Full-time faculty members number about 150, with an additional 500 part-time, clinical and adjunct faculty.