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UIllinois College of Medicine names Jerry Krishnan interim vice dean
His responsibilities will span research strategy, graduate programs, compliance and resource allocation across the college.
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Malvika Choudhary - Tue, 07, Apr 2026
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Jerry Krishnan / LinkedIn/Jerry Krishnan
The University of Illinois College of Medicine has appointed Indian American professor Jerry A. Krishnan as interim vice dean for research.
Krishnan will continue to serve as a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) while taking on the new role, in which he will lead the college’s basic, clinical and translational research enterprise across all three campuses.
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According to the college, he will work with university and college leadership to strengthen the institution’s research portfolio and support the integration of research with its clinical and educational missions.
He will also oversee several research centers and initiatives across the College of Medicine, including the Center for Cardiovascular Research, Center for Global Health, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Center for Research on Women and Gender, AIHealthcare4All, Health Awareness and Research on Menopause (CHARM), and the Translational Neuroscience Initiative.
The role also includes mentoring faculty in research development; overseeing graduate education, including master’s and PhD programs; allocating research resources such as budget and laboratory space; and ensuring compliance with institutional and regulatory standards. Bellur Prabhakar, interim senior associate dean for research, will work with Krishnan on those responsibilities.
Krishnan is a physician-scientist whose work has focused on chronic lung disease, COVID-19 and Long COVID. The college said he has expertise in multicenter cohort studies, clinical trials and practice guideline development and has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications.
He has also served on several national research and advisory bodies, including as former chair of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee and former chair of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Clinical Trials Review Committee.
He currently chairs the NHLBI/NIH Observational Study Monitoring Board for the U.S. ARDS, Pneumonia, and Sepsis Phenotyping Consortium and serves on the scientific oversight committee for the NIAID/NIH RECOVER Long COVID clinical trials consortium.
At UIC, Krishnan also serves as associate vice chancellor for population health sciences and executive director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design.
He is also a board member of the COPD Foundation, Global Initiative for Asthma and Respiratory Health Association, according to his professional profile.
Krishnan received his MD with honors from Baylor College of Medicine, completed residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and earned a PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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