Dr. Richard Hart, MD, DrPH, current chancellor and chief executive officer of Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center, will assume the duties of LLUAHSC president on March 24, university officials said today.

The search committee assigned to replace former president Dr. B. Lyn Behrens—who announced her retirement in December—agreed that Hart, with his distinguished career as both physician and academic, coupled with his humanitarian outreach, would best serve the interests of the Seventh-day Adventist-owned university complex in Southern California.