Chasing Challenges with New School of Medicine Dean
By Charles Buchanan
Ray L. Watts, M.D., made the choice that would change his life when the phone rang one sunny Saturday in April. The college senior had earned a spot in one of the nation’s most prestigious graduate engineering programs. But he turned it down that day. He wanted to go to medical school to chase a bigger challenge.
Thirty-four years later, another decision has presented Watts with his greatest challenge yet: leading the UAB School of Medicine into a new era of American health care as dean and senior vice president for medicine.
Read more in this profile of Dean Watts from the new issue of UAB Medicine magazine.