Selwyn Vickers
Selwyn Vickers (born c. 1960 in Demopolis, Marengo County) is the president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was previously dean of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and CEO of the UAB Health System and the UAB Ascension St Vincent's Alliance.
Vickers grew up in Huntsville and Tuscaloosa. He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and remained there for his surgical residency. He joined the faculty at UAB in 1994 and conducted research funded by the National Institutes of Health. He was a senior scientist at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and an associate scientist at the UAB Gene Therapy Center. He served as director of gastrointestinal surgery from 2000 to 2006, then left to become chair of the surgery department at the University of Minnesota's medical school.
In 2013 Vickers returned to UAB to succeed interim medical school dean Anupam Agarwal. In June 2022 he announced that he would leave UAB to become president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
| Preceded by: Anupam Agarwal |
Dean, UAB Heersink School of Medicine 2013–2022 |
Succeeded by: TBD |
| Preceded by: Will Ferniany |
CEO, UAB Health System Ascension St Vincent's Alliance January–June 2022 |
Succeeded by: TBD |
References
- Ranaivo, Yann (August 15, 2013) "Who is Selwyn Vickers? Meet UAB's new medical school dean." Birmingham Business Journal
- Thrailkill, Laurel (June 27, 2022) "Selwyn Vickers leaving UAB for CEO role with New York-based health entity." Birmingham Business Journal