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Press Release
VA Appoints New Chief of Research
May 31, 2005
Joel Kupersmith, MD has been appointed VA's new Chief of Research and Development Officer (CRADO). Dr. Kupersmith will oversee the four main areas of VA research: biomedical laboratory, clinical science, health services research, and rehabilitation. He also will set VA research priorities and manage all aspects of an expansive national research program, which conduct studies on high priority topics that include mental illness, long-term care, traumatic injury, and special populations such as women veterans.
A Navy veteran, Dr. Kupersmith is a graduate of New York Medical College, where he completed his clinical training in internal medicine. Subsequently, he completed cardiology training at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. After research training in the Department of Pharmacology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, he joined the faculty of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and was Director of the Clinical Pharmacology section. He then served as Chief of Cardiology and V.V. Cooke Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville, and then Professor and Chairperson for the Department of Medicine at the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University.
Recently, Dr. Kupersmith was the Dean of the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Texas Tech University, and CEO of the Faculty Practice. In this position there were many advances in the medical center including growth in the research portfolio, important recruitments, educational initiatives, and an increase in the number of minority students. Dr. Kupersmith is a Scholar-in-Residence at both the Institute of Medicine and the Association of American Medical Colleges. In these roles he has completed projects and published papers on a number of health and research policy projects including how to fund, oversee and promote effectiveness research, how Academic Medical Centers should be accountable, quality of care in teaching hospitals, regional IRBs, medical manpower and other issues.
With 150 publications, he has authored two books on electrophysiology and the management of heart disease, respectively. His research interests include the causes and treatment of heart rhythm abnormalities, as well as the cost-effectiveness of heart disease treatments and outcomes following heart attacks. Most recently his work has been on health policy issues. Additionally, Dr. Kupersmith has been on many national and international committees involved in heart disease and is on several editorial boards. He also is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was elected to the Governing Council, Medical School Section of the American Medical Association, and is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force on Fraud and Abuse.
Continuing a distinguished career, Dr. Kupersmith brings a breadth of talent and expertise to his new position as CRADO.
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