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Michele Mariscalco is the outgoing regional dean of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the Chicago-based University of Illinois College of Medicine.

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URBANA Beginning Feb. 16, Janet Jokela will become acting regional dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, pending approval from trustees.

She is replacing Michele Mariscalco, who has been the Urbana regional dean for the past three years and is beginning a new position in UI health executive leadership in Chicago.

Jokela, who joined the faculty in 2000, has served in several different roles, including director for the first-year course "Introduction to Human Disease," director of the internal-medicine residency program and director of Continuing Medical Education.

Jokela graduated from the University of Minnesota, worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.

In her time as Urbana regional dean, Mariscalco achieved much, a UI news release said, including guiding the Chicago-based College of Medicine's consolidation of campuses. The Urbana-Champaign regional campus is being phased out as the UI is in the process of establishing the independent Carle Illinois College of Medicine.

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