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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. <\/p>\n
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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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Jokela graduated from the University of Minnesota, worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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