Raimon Duran-Struuck, DVM, PhD, will serve as the next chair of the Department of Comparative Medicine at the UW School of Medicine starting Oct. 1, 2024. He succeeds Thea Brabb, DVM, PhD, who retired from serving as chair at the end of June 2024 and Brian Iritani, DVM, PhD, who has served as interim chair since July 2024.
Duran-Struuck is an internationally recognized and accomplished scientist, leader and scholar. He joins UW Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania where he was the director of regulatory affairs and co-director of the residency program for Laboratory Animal Medicine. He also served as an associate professor of pathobiology where he led the animal translational immunology laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Duran-Struuck is a boarded Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine and co-led the establishment of a diversity, equity and inclusion curriculum for residents.
