Dr. Carethers, MD became the Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at UC San Diego in January 2023, overseeing UC San Diego Health along with the School of Medicine, School of Public Health and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences to integrate, grow, and expand the missions of clinical excellence, education, discovery, and community engagement. He obtained his MD from Wayne State, followed by residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Michigan. He served as Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan from 2009 through 2022. Dr. Carethers is a trained gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who focuses his research in the area of hereditary colon cancer genetics and colon cancer disparities publishing over 250 manuscripts and book chapters. He has been continuously funded by the NIH for nearly 30 years. His work has focused on DNA mismatch repair function that drives post-replicative repair of DNA. He served as Senior Associate Editor for Gastroenterology, completed a 2-year appointment on the National Commission for Digestive Diseases, and currently serves on the NIDDK Advisory Council. He is the immediate past President of the American Gastroenterological Association, past President of the Association of American Physicians, and is currently on the Board of Directors of AACR. He is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.