Edward M. Hundert, M.D., became president of Case Western Reserve University
on August 1, 2002. A nationally known scholar, educator, psychiatrist, medical
ethicist, and author, President Hundert is a leader in developing innovative and
effective learning experiences in higher education.
The president’s impact on the university is embodied in Case’s comprehensive
new vision, the development of which he led. Driven by this vision, Case strives
to redefine the role of the research university in the twenty-first century. Under
President Hundert’s leadership, Case has begun implementing the vision through
programs such as SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship),
a new model for liberal learning. The small, interdisciplinary seminars are directed
by faculty across the institution and outside of it, including President Hundert,
who leads a seminar every spring.
On his inauguration day, President Hundert hosted, with Cleveland Mayor Jane
Campbell, the national symposium "Great Universities and Their Cities," seeking
stronger partnerships between universities and their host cities. Since then, he has led Case in an array of partnership
initiatives, including one that has dramatically increased the number of minority- and women-owned businesses
serving as contractors to Case. In October 2004, the "Race at Case" was a city-wide effort surrounding Case’s hosting
of the 2004 Vice Presidential Debate on campus.
President Hundert has served as a leader in the shaping of the powerful academic medical center built on Case’s
affiliations with all the hospital systems in Cleveland. He is behind the creation of a new unified alumni organization
for the university. He also has recruited a world-class leadership team, including Case’s provost and new deans.
Prior to Case, President Hundert was professor of psychiatry and medical humanities and dean of the school of
medicine and dentistry at the University of Rochester, serving there from 1997 to 2002. His academic career earlier
included service on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he held appointments in the departments of
psychiatry and medical ethics from 1984 to 1997.
In 1978, President Hundert received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and the history of science and medicine from
Yale University. He attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, earning a master’s degree in philosophy, politics,
and economics. Later he earned the M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed a psychiatric residency at
McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.
He has written numerous articles and chapters on a variety of topics in psychiatry, philosophy, medical ethics, and
medical education, as well as two books: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind (Oxford
University Press, 1989), and Lessons from an Optical Illusion: On Nature and Nurture, Knowledge, and Values (Harvard
University Press, 1995).
President Hundert lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Mary, and their three children.
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