Meet the Man Who Is Propelling Pitt’s Health Sciences
Anantha Shekhar has big goals for the University of Pittsburgh’s schools of health sciences, from lessening racial inequity to improving its national rankings, and he’s not letting a pandemic slow him down.
December 17, 2020
When Anantha Shekhar accepted the job of senior vice chancellor for the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, he recognized the immensity of the challenge.
The 63-year-old neuroscientist from Indiana University had supervised research at that university’s medical school, the largest in the nation, but at Pitt, he not only would serve as medical school dean but would also oversee five other top-ranked health sciences schools: public health, nursing, dentistry, rehabilitation sciences and pharmacy.