East Carolina University (ECU) Brody School of Medicine has named Mark Stacy, MD as its new dean. Dr. Stacy also will serve as senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs for the Division of Health Sciences, and hold a tenured professorship in Brody’s Department of Internal Medicine when he joins ECU on Sept. 1, according to an ECU news release issued June 27.
Since 2011, Dr. Stacy has served as Vice Dean for Clinical Research at Duke University School of Medicine. His duties include the implementation of the programs to support the clinical research mission, and oversight of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR), Conflict of Interest (COI), Office of Regulatory Affairs and Quality (ORAQ) and other clinical research administration activities.
Dr. Stacy joined Duke in 2003, and is a professor of Neurology, and director of the Duke Movement Disorder Clinic. His clinical and research interests are concentrated on signs, symptoms and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Prior to his arrival at Duke he served as the director of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Research Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
He earned his medical degree at the University of Missouri, then completed an internship in internal medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis, a residency in neurology at Hahnemann (now Drexel) University in Philadelphia and a fellowship in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.