Glendon Cox, MD, MBA, MHSA

Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Educational and Academic Affairs

gcox@kumc.edu

Glendon Cox, MD, MBA, MHSA, serves as vice dean and senior associate dean for educational and academic affairs for the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Under his leadership, the faculty recently restructured the organization and delivery of the School of Medicine curriculum, initiating the placement of tablet computers in the hands of every entering medical student. He also led the school’s effort to secure a maximum eight-year accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which was awarded in 2006.

A native of Fort Scott, Kan., Cox earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and his MD from KU. While a senior resident at KU Medical Center, he pursued visiting fellowships training in interventional radiology at the University of California at San Francisco and Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

He was recruited to return to KU and joined the faculty as assistant professor in July 1984. He was promoted to associate professor in July 1987 and was awarded tenure the following year.  In 1990, he was one of the three founding partners of a newly organized private practice of radiology in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Overland Park Radiologists, PA., gaining experience in business, legal, and management issues surrounding the practice of radiology outside the academic setting.  In early 1993, he returned to the university as a professor of radiology and medicine and head of the section of thoracic radiology.  He was appointed associate dean for graduate medical education in January 1996 and vice dean in 2001.  He earned his MBA from KU in 2004, along with a master’s in health services administration.

Among his many research interests, Cox investigates observer performance and the applications of digital image archiving and communication networks in diagnostic radiology.  He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Radiology.

Cox has published extensively and has been listed for several years in Best Doctors in America. In 2005, he received the Health Care Executive of the Future Award from the department of health policy and management at the University of Kansas Medical Center.