UChicago Medicine names new leader

Polonsky announced earlier this year that he would step down at the end of September. He first came to the university for an endocrinology fellowship in 1978. Polonsky will remain on faculty and serve as a senior adviser to University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos.

Anderson is director of the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins, the William Osler Professor of Medicine and physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Before…