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New leadership named at medical center OSU chooses new CEO of health system and COO of the Wexner Medical Center MICHAEL HUSON Campus Editor huson.4@osu.edu Ohio State has chosen a new chief operations officer of the Wexner Medical Center to fill the position left by the resignation of Peter Geier in December. David McQuaid will step into the role of Wexner chief operations officer and chief executive officer of the OSU Health System. He is expected to begin serving on Feb. 1, with approval from the university Board of Trustees. McQuaid has the experience to handle business development, clinical operations and fiscal accountability, said Dr. Sheldon Retchin, Wexner CEO and executive vice president of health sciences. “We’re pleased to welcome David McQuaid to Ohio State,” Retchin said in an OSU statement. “He’s spent the last 25 years leading academic hospitals and hospital systems to greatness through financial and operational improvements. David brings a strong combination of expertise and leadership that’s needed to help the Wexner Medical Center and the Health System continue to expand and excel.” As CEO of the University Health System, McQuaid will oversee the operations of six university hospitals and the Ohio State Primary Care and Ambulatory Networks, according to the release. McQuaid left Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia last year after serving as ex-
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May Session will bloom again this spring DANIKA STAHL Assistant Campus Editor stahl.145@osu.edu
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(Left) The Wexner Medical Center is located on Ohio State’s Campus at 410 W. 10th Ave. (Right) Wexner Medical Center soon-to-be COO David McQuaid.
As CEO of the University Health System, David McQuaid will oversee the operations of six university hospitals ecutive vice president for clinical affairs and president and CEO. He also served as CEO for Durham Regional Hospital within the Duke University Health System. He earned a master’s of business administration at University of New Hampshire, as well as a bachelor’s in pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Geier resigned from his leadership positions at the Wexner and University Health System on Dec.
1 after being sought by the university “to help improve its operating efficiency and financial operations,” according to an OSU release in January. “It has been an honor to serve this university,” he said in the release. “I have accomplished everything I set out to do. Stepping down from my positions at Ohio State is something I have contemplated for some time, and the time is now right, as the medical center is on solid financial ground and our
quality and safety are among the best in the country.” Marti Taylor, executive director of University Hospital and the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, is serving as the interim COO of Wexner Medical Center and CEO of the University Health System until Feb. 1, said Marti Leitch, senior manager of media relations for Wexner Medical Center. McQuaid’s annual salary is expected to be $730,000, Leitch said. The university Board of Trustees will vote to approve McQuaid’s appointment in both positions on Jan. 29.
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Full-time students need not worry about losing their tuition-free May Session class. Ohio State will continue to offer tuition credit for up to three credit hours of coursework this May. In an email to the College of Arts and Sciences, OSU stated that the credit will apply to the first fourweek session for qualifying, nongraduating students this spring. Students who qualify for credit must be enrolled full-time during Spring Semester and not graduating, with the exception of students earning their associate degree, in dual-degree programs or enrolled in multiple degree programs. The tuition credit for this fourweek session will cover general and instructional fees, as well as the nonresident surcharge, but students are responsible for paying all other fees that might apply to them, such as the Student Activity Fee. In-state tuition for students is $10,037 per semester, so qualifying students have the potential to save about $1,673 to $2,509 per three credit hours. Last spring, former Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz told The Lantern that May Session could see change in MAY SESSION CONTINUES ON 2
Ohio State professor challenges classical view of consciousness HAILEY STANGEBYE For The Lantern stangebye.1@osu.edu
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Alexander Wendt, professor of political science and Mershon professor of international security.
Alexander Wendt keeps a tidy office at Ohio State; his books are stacked and shelved, his desk is organized. But beneath this exterior, Wendt, Mershon professor of international security and a professor of political science, is shaking the foundations of social science. Wendt’s recent publication, “Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology,” is a culmination of 10 years of work. In it, he strives to counter many core assumptions of the social sciences that have been based on classical physics, he said. “If you were inventing the social sciences today for the first time, and you were looking to physics and saying, ‘OK, which kind of physics
“That’s what scientists are supposed to do; they’re supposed to make a bold conjecture, a bold hypothesis, and people go out and test it. Sometimes you’re right, sometimes you’re wrong. That’s how science advances.” Alexander Wendt Professor of political science and international security
is the best basis for social science?’ I think nowadays you would say, ‘Oh, of course, it’s quantum physics — not classical,’” Wendt said. “I think the classical model of man that we talk about is actually wildly counterintuitive.” Wendt said his interest in quantum consciousness began a little over 10 years ago in the University of Chicago bookstore; he happened to choose a book on quantum consciousness and was quickly absorbed by the radical argument.
On the website quantumconsciousness.org, Stuart Hameroff, director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies, defined quantum consciousness as the assumption that consciousness is generated from quantum vibrations inside the brain’s neurons, rather than the classical view that consciousness is the result of computation among brain neurons. “I decided I wanted to write a more academic version of that book
so that it would get taken seriously by my colleagues,” Wendt said. Wendt said that around that time, in the early 2000s, the greater academic community dismissed quantum consciousness as nonsense. “It’s still routinely dismissed as nonsense, but there are a lot more people now that are taking it seriously than 15 years ago,” he said. A former student of Wendt, Tim Luecke, managing editor for the journal International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy, said that Wendt has already built up an incredibly successful name in international relations. “When he was already as successful as he could be, he decided to tackle a subject no one would touch,” Luecke said. “I think a lot of scholars in international rela-
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