Charles H. Lang, distinguished university professor, has accepted the position of interim associate dean for graduate studies at Penn State College of Medicine.
A basic scientist with an NIH-funded research program, including a MERIT award, Lang has been a leader in educating and mentoring graduate and medical students, as well as residents and junior faculty members since joining the College of Medicine in 1996. He has served as co-director for the graduate program in molecular medicine for the past five years and has trained more than 20 graduate students and fellows, both medical doctors and doctorates, throughout his career at Penn State Hershey. Previously, Lang served as the program director for the T32 postdoctoral training grant titled “Training Program in Trauma and Organ Injury,” and currently lectures graduate student courses in physiology and pharmacology.
Lang is currently the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, and serves as an associate editor for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and on the editorial board for Shock. In service to the College of Medicine, Lang has served on several executive search committees, is a member of the Woodward Educational Steering Committee and Committee on Undergraduate Medical Education, and chairs the Promotion and Tenure Committee for the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.