Dr. Mark S. Schlissel is the 14th President of the University of Michigan and the first physician-scientist to lead the institution. Since beginning as president in July 2014, he has launched initiatives including Academic Innovation; Biosciences:Diversity Equity and Inclusion; Poverty Solutions; and Precision Health. U-M is perennially the nations top public university in research productivity and is consistently ranked as No.1 among the top public universities in the nation. Nationally, he has served as member and chair of the Immunobiology Study Section at the National Institutes of Health and on the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes' Scientific Review Board. President Schlissel was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigators in 1998 and the American Association of physicians in 2013.