Steven Lieberman, MD, Joins Leadership Team

Marian Frank
Marian Frank
Dr. Lieberman will lead Undergraduate Medical Education as Senior Associate Dean.

Steven A. Lieberman, MD
Dr. Lieberman
Steven A. Lieberman, MD, has been named University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education.

His responsibilities will include all matters relating to undergraduate medical education at the College of Medicine including admissions, student affairs, curriculum for medical education, assessment and evaluation and LCME accreditation.

Dr. Lieberman previously was Senior Associate Dean for Educational Innovation and Logistics at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) School of Medicine in Galveston, where he led the school’s recent efforts in restructuring and improving its medical school curriculum. He has served as professor of Internal Medicine since 2005.

“Dr. Lieberman has a stellar record of providing visionary leadership to medical school curriculum, and we look forward to him building on the innovative curriculum already in place at the College of Medicine – Phoenix,” said Guy Reed, MD, MS, Dean and Valley of the Sun Professor at the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Dr. Lieberman received the Dr. and Mrs. A.H. Potthast Professorship in Teaching Excellence at UTMB. His many teaching awards include Best Second-Year Course Award for his endocrinology and reproduction class, UTMB American Medical Women’s Association Gender Equity Award and the Golden Apple Award given to the university’s best pre-clinical instructor. He was honored as a Piper Professor for superior teaching in 1999, one of only 10 higher education faculty throughout Texas to receive the award from the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.

Dr. Lieberman received his MD in 1985 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed his training in internal medicine at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose followed by a clinical and research fellowship in endocrinology at Stanford University Medical Center.

He continues to see endocrine patients and has a major interest in pituitary disease.

About the College

Founded in 2007, the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix inspires and trains exemplary physicians, scientists and leaders to optimize health and health care in Arizona and beyond. By cultivating collaborative research locally and globally, the college accelerates discovery in a number of critical areas — including cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury and cardiovascular disease. Championed as a student-centric campus, the college has graduated more than 800 physicians, all of whom received exceptional training from nine clinical partners and more than 2,700 diverse faculty members. As the anchor to the Phoenix Bioscience Core, which is projected to have an economic impact of $3.1 billion by 2025, the college prides itself on engaging with the community, fostering education, inclusion, access and advocacy.