Health center director to step down in September
Dr. Gerald Fleischli has chosen
to become an academic-year
physician, and the University
is searching for a replacement
By Jillian Daley
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dr. Gerald Fleischli is stepping
down Sept. 15 as director of the
University Health Center, after
holding the position for 11 years.
The position Fleischli currently
holds is split between his director
ship and seeing patients. After
Sept. 15, Fleischli will become an
academic-year physician only,
which means he will only see pa
tients, and the health center Will
have to find a replacement director
before that time.
The full-year commitment of the
directorship left too little time for
private life, Fleischli said.
“I wanted to spend more time at
home and with my wife, which I
could do in an academic position,
but that meant 1 had to relinquish
the director’s position,” he said.
Fleischli was working at the Uni
versity of Nebraska before he
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moved to Eugene in 1991 to begin
the directorship. He said he want
ed to be closer to the ocean after liv
ing in Nebraska for 21 years.
Fleischli received his bachelor’s
from MIT, a master’s degree in
electrical engineering from Stan
ford and his medical degree from
Stanford.
"(He) is a very capable
director and has a wealth of
experience in student health
and administrative
medicine... He’ll bea
difficult person to replace”
James Jackson
health center physician
In the 11 years he has worked at
the health center, Fleischli served
on a statewide task force for student
health insurance, creating electron
ic medical records and clarifying
the health center’s policy on pre
enrollment immunizations, Vice
President for Student Affairs Anne
Leavitt said.
However, Fleischli thinks mod
estly about his contribution to the
health center.
“(The changes are) things that
happened while I was here,” he
said. “It’s all of the other people
that do that. I just go to meetings.”
Fleischli’s colleagues say he is a
valuable asset.
“(He) is a very capable director
and has a wealth of experience in
student health and administrative
medicine,” health center physician
James Jackson said. “He’ll be a diffi
cult person to replace.”
Nurse practitioner Anne Mattson
concurs.
“Not only is he a great human be
ing, he’s also an excellent leader,”
she said.
The University is currently
searching nationwide for a new di
rector, and a couple of candidates
for the position have visited the
University.
However, the search committee
has been working on finding a re
placement for about eight months
already, Leavitt said.
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After Sept. 15, Dr. Gerald Fleischli will end his 11 years as health center director and have
only patient duties, a move he says will give him more time with his family.
“When you’re doing a national
search — this is the top health po
sition on campus — it’ll take a
while,” Leavitt said.
If the University Health Center
search committee cannot find a re
placement by Sept. 15, an interim
director will be installed.
The successful replacement has
to have a specific set of skills for
the job.
“I think we’re looking for some
one similar (to Fleischli),” Jackson
said, “who has experience with ad
ministrative medicine, and who
has enough clinical background as
a physician to understand the areas
of medicine we deal with here at
the health center.”
The candidate also has to have a
few other qualities important to the
University.
“We’re looking for someone with
experience or interest in working
with the„ college-student popula
tion,” said Linda King, director of
human resources and chairwoman
of the search committee.
Fleischli said he is looking for
ward to tending his holly farm,
which is in the sizable backyard of
his home, near Creswell. He also
has immediate plans to spend more
time with his wife.
“We’re going to take a cruise for
our 40th anniversary at the end of
the month,” he said.
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