University and hospital officials are releasing few details in advance of the event.
“There is a shortage of neurologists in the region,” said Cindy Young, spokeswoman for Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. “Anything we can do to remedy that is a good thing.”
The Feb. 15 event comes as the Ohio Board of Regents prepares to announce Ohio’s biomedical and health-care Centers of Excellence.
Centers of Excellence are meant to position the state’s university system to be a magnet for talent and a leader in innovation and entrepreneurial activity by developing distinct missions for each institution, while eliminating unnecessary competition among those universities.
Rob Evans, press secretary for the Ohio Board of Regents, said Chancellor Eric Fingerhut’s office is planning an event for February or March to announce the Centers of Excellence in biomedical fields and health care, but hasn’t settled on a firm date.
Amanda Wurst, a spokeswoman for Gov. Ted Strickland, later said no announcement about Centers of Excellence is planned for Feb. 15.
Fingerhut on Friday had not made a final decision on which universities will be designated biomedical and health-care Centers of Excellence, Evans said.
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