Why Have So Few Radiation Oncologists Become U.S. or Canadian Medical School Deans or University Presidents?

There are 168 MD-granting schools of medicine in the United States and Canada.1 None currently has a radiation oncologist as dean.2 In the history of the United States and Canada, to my knowledge, 3 radiation oncologists have served as permanent (not interim) deans of a medical school: Samuel Hellman, MD, dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 1988 to 1993; Allen S. Lichter, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, University of Michigan, 1998 to 2006; and Edward C. Halperin MD, MA, dean of the School of Medicine, University of Louisville, 2006 to 2012.

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