 
March 3, 2009
HIV Treatment Innovator Named Dartmouth College President
Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, an official from Harvard Medical School in Boston who has brought effective medical treatment for HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis to the poor, has been named the next president of Dartmouth College, The New York Times reports.
Kim will be the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution; he’ll begin the post in July, succeeding James Wright, 69, who has been president of the Hanover, New Hampshire, college for 11 years. In an interview, Kim said, “being the president of an Ivy League university is an amazing opportunity.
“You realize that one person can’t do that much,” Kim continued. “So what I want to do is train an army of leaders to engage with the problems of the world, who will believe the possibilities are limitless, that there’s nothing they can’t do.”
Kim is also a 2003 MacArthur Foundation award recipient and chairman of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Kim plans to continue teaching undergraduates at Dartmouth.
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