Medical facility Loyola University Health System reported on Tuesday the appointment of Ravi Durvasula, MD as chair of the department of medicine of Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, replacing J. Paul O'Keefe, MD.

Effective 1 November 2017, Dr Durvasula is responsible for the department of medicine, dedicated to excellence in clinical care, research and education. This department includes 14 divisions: allergy, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general internal medicine, health services research programme, hematology/oncology, hepatology, hospital medicine, infectious disease, nephrology, pulmonary and critical care medicine and rheumatology.

Most recently, Dr Durvasula has worked as a professor of medicine and infectious diseases and director of the Center for Global Health at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Previously, Dr Durvasula chaired the department of medicine of the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System, served as chief medical officer of Yale University Health Services as well as held senior leadership positions at Yale University and the Veterans Administration.