Casale, Henson and Marsh selected for leadership posts
Clockwise from top left: Anthony Casale, M.D.; Lindsey Henson, M.D., Ph.D.; and Jennifer McGehee Marsh, Ph.D., J.D.
Anthony Casale, M.D., Lindsey Henson, M.D., Ph.D., and Jennifer McGehee Marsh, Ph.D., J.D., have been named to top leadership posts on the Health Sciences Center Campus.
Anthony Casale, who served as chief of pediatric urology at UofL from 1988 to 1995, has been named chair of the University of Louisville School of Medicine's newly formed Department of Urology, effective October 2005.
Casale returns to the university with more than 20 years of outstanding leadership in academic and clinical medicine.
Prior to rejoining UofL, Casale served as a professor of urology at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he was responsible for training medical students, residents and fellows while providing surgical and outpatient services at one of the country's busiest pediatric urology practices.
Casale earned his M.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1977, followed by training in urology and pediatric urology at UK and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He completed the clinical fellowship in pediatric urology at Harvard Medical School in 1983.
Lindsey Henson, a recognized expert in curriculum reform and institutional change, has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology effective October 2005.
Henson serves on the faculty for a number of national and international professional development courses for medical educators and has been a leader in the use of simulation in medical education at the student and resident levels for more than a decade.
Prior to joining UofL, Henson served as vice dean for education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, a new program leading to the M.D. degree at Case School of Medicine. She also was a professor of anesthesiology and an active staff physician in the Department of General Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic.
Henson earned a B.A. in nutrition at UC Santa Barbara, an M.S. in nutrition at Cornell University, an M.D. from the UCLA School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in nutrition and physiology from the UCLA School of Public Health.
In 2002, Henson was recruited to the Case School of Medicine to lead creation of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine while directing Case's ongoing medical education programs.
Jennifer McGehee Marsh, a UofL alumni, was named executive administrator of the school's James Graham Brown Cancer Center in July. Marsh, who earned a juris doctorate and a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Louisville, previously served as the center's associate director of research and development.
Marsh has taught environmental biology at the University of Louisville, Murray State University's Hancock Biological Station and Morehead State University. She practiced law in Louisville and served as general counsel to the president of the state Senate, where she participated in the design and implementation of the governor's postsecondary education reform campaign, "Education Pays." As general counsel, she facilitated creation of the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program, which funds lung cancer research.
As chief science advisor and assistant vice president for academic affairs at the Council on Postsecondary Education, Marsh helped operationalize the Kentucky Innovation Act, which supports knowledge-based economic initiatives; managed the Kentucky Technology Transfer Trust Fund.
Marsh also co-administers the University of Louisville's M.D./Ph.D. program.
