CLEVELAND -- Robert Haynie has been named associate dean of student affairs at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine. Nathan Berger, dean of the school and vice president for medical affairs, made the appointment.

Haynie is an expert in hypertension and a medical educator with a long history of service to the school as a faculty member and alumnus. He has served as interim associate dean for student affairs for the past year.

He has worked on many committees at the medical school, including the admissions committee, which he chaired from 1996-2000; the committee on students, which he chaired from 1993-95; the steering committee of the Faculty Council; the board of trustees of the CWRU Medical Alumni Association; the committee on medical education; the core clerkship directors committee; and the dean's minority advisory committee.

Haynie holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from CWRU's School of Graduate Studies and an M.D. from the school of Medicine. He also has been a faculty member at Chicago State University.

He had a long career at the former Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland following his internship and residency there. During his career at Mt. Sinai, Haynie was a member of the emergency medicine department, director of the internal Medicine Residency Training Program, director of the Medicine Clerkship Program, director of the Hypertension Control Center, director of the transitional year program, medical director of the Center for Urban Health, and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine.

Haynie has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Professor at CWRU, Outstanding Professor of the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, the Mt. Sinai Medical Society Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, and the medical school's 1995 Clifford J. Vogt, M.D., '34 Alumni Service Award.

He currently is a member of the American Society of Hypertension (AHS) and has received the designation of ASH specialist in clinical hypertension. Haynie also is a member of the Cleveland Medical Association, National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program, and the High Blood Pressure Council of Greater Cleveland. He has published a number of articles, primarily in the field of hypertension.