Professor Jon Cohen, appointed in 2001 as the founding Dean of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Published in the Bulletin on 2 November 2001.

This week in 2001, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) appointed Professor Jon Cohen as its first Dean. The same week, a new £5.5m state-of-the-art teaching building was proposed to house the trainee doctors. 

BSMS admitted its first students in 2003. 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published Friday 2 November 2001:

New Dean of Medical School finds enthusiasm infectious

A founding Dean for the new Brighton and Sussex Medical School, due to open in 2003, has been appointed.

Professor Jon Cohen, who has been head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine for nine years, will take up the post in January.

"I'm enormously excited by this opportunity," says Professor Cohen. "I don't underestimate the challenge, but I have been hugely impressed by the enthusiasm of everyone I have met who is involved with the project, and I am sure that the new school will succeed in producing great doctors." 

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