Profile: Elias George, MD, FCAP

Biography

Dr. George is a medical graduate of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), where he furthered his training by specializing in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (AP/CP). He continued at BCM with subspecialty fellowship training in Hematopathology. He is an American Board of Pathology Diplomate in AP/CP and has over a decade of surgical pathology experience. Graduate education as a Ph.D. candidate at BCM and expertise in cancer diagnosis, tumor staging, immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry is applied in many collaborative research endeavors at UTRGV. He also has years of experience as medical director for hospital and outreach laboratories and facilities offering point of care testing.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Chair of Clinical Support Services

• Shall be directly accountable to the Dean.
• Shall be responsible for the administration of his/her Department/Center/Institute.
• Shall hold regular meetings of the Department/Center/Institute faculty to present pertinent information and to discuss issues that may include, among others, Department/Center/Institute or SOM policies, educational, research and service programs, long-range objectives, and current problems. Chairpersons of larger Departments and Directors of larger Centers/Institutes that have been divided into Sections/Programs may elect to have regular meetings with the SectionsChiefs/Program Directors rather than with the entire faculty, with the expectation that the Chiefs will meet with their section/program faculty to present and discuss matters from the Section Chiefs'/Program Directors' meetings at regular intervals.
• Shall recruit and recommend to the Dean the appointment of faculty and other personnel.
• Shall be responsible for his/her Department's/Center's/Institute’s role in carrying out the programs that are the responsibility of SOM faculty.
• Shall be responsible for the implementation of all UTRGV and SOM policies and regulations applicable to the Department/Center/Institute.
• Shall prepare the Department/Center/Institute budget to be submitted to the Dean annually including recommendations for compensation of both faculty and non-faculty personnel.
• Shall be responsible for the budgetary control of his/her Department/Center/Institute and for the allocation of space within his/her Department/Center/Institute.
• Shall recommend faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure to the Dean and pertinent UTRGV SOM committee for review and processing.
• Shall organize the Department/Center/Institute in a way that best serves the needs of the Department/Center/Institute and SOM and provide for appropriate interaction with Department/Center/Institute faculty and between its faculty and leadership.
• Shall be responsible for the career development and mentoring of faculty members in his/her department.