DR. JAY NOREN President Wayne State University

Dr. Jay Noren became Wayne State University’s 10th president Aug. 1, 2008.

He received two undergraduate degrees and a medical degree from the University of Minnesota, and a master’s of public health from Harvard University. Noren was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 20 years and has held appointments at Texas A&M, Minnesota and the University of Washington. His numerous leadership roles at the University of Nebraska include executive vice president and provost, and he was the first dean at the school’s College of Public Health.

Dr. Noren’s research and teaching emphases are health policy and politics, health services leadership and management and the role and operation of academic health centers. He developed and directed the Wisconsin Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation and created the University of Wisconsin graduate program in administrative medicine.