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MUSC College of Medicine

College Deans


In 1950 the title of the chief executive officer was changed from dean to president, with separate deans for each of the schools, later colleges. See section on Deans, College of Medicine for a complete listing of the top administrator before 1949.

Those with * served multiple terms of office.

Years

Deans

1824-1826 Thomas Grimball Prioleau, MD
1828-1829 Henry Rutledge Frost, MD*
1829-1834 Edmund Ravenel, MD
1834-1835 Samuel Henry Dickson, MD
1835-1836 James Moultrie, Jr., MD*
1836-1838 Henry Rutledge Frost, MD
1838-1840 Eli Geddings, MD*
1840-1841 James Moultrie, Jr., MD
1841-1842 Eli Geddings, MD
1842-1843 Charles Upham Shepard, MD
1843-1847 Henry Rutledge Frost, MD
1847-1850 James Moultrie, Jr., MD
1850-1866 Henry Rutledge Frost, MD
1866-1867 Julian John Chisolm, MD
1867-1873 Francis Marion Robertson, MD
1873-1874 George Edward Trescott, MD
1874-1877 Robert Alexander Kinloch, MD*
1877-1882 John Philip Chazal, MD
1882-1889 John Ford Prioleau, MD
1889-1891 Robert Alexander Kinloch, MD
1892-1906 Francis LeJau Parker, MD
1906-1908 Edward Frost Parker, MD
1908 Allard Memminger, MD
1908-1943 Robert Wilson, MD
1943-1949 Kenneth Merrill Lynch, MD
1950-1962 John Tindall Cuttino, MD, Executive Vice President, 1959-1960
1960-1962 Harold Rawling Pratt-Thomas, MD
1962-1964 Cheves McCord Smythe, MD
Feb-Dec 1965 Louis Preston Jervey, MD, Interim (Appointment made retroactively in June 1965)
1966-1968 Franklin Clayton Fetter, MD (died in office)
1969-1970 Robert Holt Green, MD
1970-1974 Joseph Ford Anthony McManus, MD
1974 John Workman Zemp, MD, Acting
1974-1986 William Marcus Newberry, MD
Jun 1983-Jan 1984 Allen Huggins Johnson, MD, Acting (when Dr. Newberry was on 6 months leave to serve as President of Winthrop College)
1986-1989 George William Bates, MD
1989-1990 Allen Huggins Johnson, MD, Acting
1990-2001 Robert Layton McCurdy, MD (and Vice-President for Medical Affairs)
2001-2010 Joseph Gerald "Jerry" Reves, MD (and Vice-President for Medical Affairs)
2010-2014 Etta Driscoll Pisano, MD (and Vice-President for Medical Affairs)
2014-2016 Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, Interim 
2016-2022 Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD
2022

Terrence E. Steyer, MD, Interim

2022- Terrence E. Steyer, MD (and Vice-President for Medical Affairs)

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