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K. Craig Kent, MD
K. Craig Kent, M.D., is an American surgeon, researcher, educator and academic administrator, and serves as The Leslie H. and Abigail S. Wexner Dean of the The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Vice President of Health Sciences of the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. [1]

His term began in September 2016. Before assuming this role, Dr. Kent served as chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health and the A.R. Curreri Professor of Surgery. Prior to this, he was the Greenberg-Starr Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and chief of Vascular Services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital and both of its major medical centers — New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Early life and education
Dr. Kent was born on October 16, 1955, in Fallon, Nevada. He attended University of Nevada, Reno, where he graduated first in his class, then pursued a medical degree at University of California San Francisco where he graduated AOA. He was then recruited to the General Surgery Residency at University of California, San Francisco, where he was voted the most outstanding Chief Resident of his graduating class. He continued his training as the John Homan’s Fellow in Vascular Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also completed an endovascular fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

Harvard
In 1988, Dr. Kent joined the faculty at Harvard as an Instructor in Surgery and Attending Surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital. While at Harvard, Dr. Kent developed a busy clinical practice, a robust program in clinical research involving cost-effectiveness resulting in publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation and Stroke, as well as an NIH-funded basic science research laboratory. He would further be promoted to Associate Professor before leaving.

Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. Kent was recruited in 1997 to Cornell as Greenberg-Starr Professor and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery. In 2001, following the merger of New York and Presbyterian Hospitals, Dr. Kent was asked to assume the role of Chief of the combined Columbia and Cornell Division of Vascular Surgery and Director of the Vascular Service Line for New York Presbyterian Hospital. During the subsequent years he grew one of the largest and most academically successful vascular surgery divisions in the country.

University of Wisconsin
In 2008, Dr. Kent was recruited to University of Wisconsin as the Curreri Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery. During his first two years as Chairman he was successful in increasing the Department’s NIH research funding by 40%, increasing the Department’s clinical volume by over 20% and recruiting 16 new surgeons, including five women into a predominantly male field.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Wexner Medical Center
In 2016 he was recruited to Dean of the College of Medicine and Vice President of Health Sciences of the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. This position gives him oversight of Ohio State' College of Medicine and its Wexner Medical Center faculty practice plan. The college has over 2,000 faculty, and the faculty group practice includes approximately 1,200 physicians.

Dr. Kent has used his position as Dean to advance the educational and research missions of the College of Medicine. Among the many successes during his tenure is the 20% growth of NIH funding for the College of Medicine, with strong performances in neuroscience, and in cardiovascular and infectious disease. In 2018, the incoming College of Medicine class of 207 students is the most diverse in Ohio State’s history, with 26% underrepresented minorities. Dr. Kent has also made a number of favorable changes that have positively impacted College faculty, including enhancements in HR and recruiting processes, identification of a new funds flow for research and education, as well as the creation of multiple venues for faculty recognition. He initiated a new compensation plan, which is nearing completion and implementation.

Most recently, Dr. Kent has made a major imprint on the just completed Wexner Medical Center 7-year strategic plan, which includes a new college of medicine facility, an 840-bed hospital tower, a 400,000 square-foot research facility, and three new ambulatory sites in Central Ohio. Also planned is the recruitment of 300 new clinical faculty as well as 150 new researchers.

He currently leads the philanthropic efforts for the Wexner Medical Center. Fiscal 2017 was a successful year with over $180 million in new gifts. Dr. Kent has also had significant interaction with local and state governmental officials regarding the Wexner Medical Center’s role in the community and the region.

Scientific Research
Dr. Kent has been a funded investigator for more than 25 years. His lab investigates the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vascular disease with the goal of identifying new therapeutic targets. Dr. Kent holds multiple patents for novel therapeutic approaches to treat vascular diseases. His research interests include stem cell drug delivery, tissue engineering and outcomes research. He has received both federal and industry-sponsored research funding and is the principal investigator for a T-32 Research Training Grant and a T-35 Medical Student Research Training Grant. He was previously the Chair of the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Kent has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine, more than 90 published abstracts and more than 60 book chapters and reviews. Dr. Kent has been a visiting professor in over 50 departments of surgery around the world and has delivered a plethora of invited lectures as well as keynote addresses. In addition to his many academic accomplishments, he has remained an active vascular surgeon with a referral practice of complex aortic and carotid disease. He has been listed among America’s Best Doctors by Castle Connolly for the past 13 years, and has been an invited speaker at many institutions worldwide.

Along with his administrative and clinical responsibilities, he is currently principal investigator on two R01s. Over the years he has participated on numerous NIH review panels, including chairing the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section as well as the Vascular Interventions/Innovations and Therapeutic Advances Program for the NHLBI.

Organizations
Dr. Kent has also held many leadership positions in the field, including being on the executive council of the American Board of Surgery and past president of the Society of Surgical Chairs, and has served on editorial boards of multiple medical journals. Dr. Kent is Past President of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Past President of the Society of Surgical Chairs, and will soon be Chair of the American Board of Surgery.

Awards
He was also awarded the prestigious annual E.J. Wylie Traveling Fellowship.

Personal Life
Kent is married to Lisa Viscardi, a lawyer, and they have 4 children.