For Immediate Release January 17, 2005

For More Information Contact: Mary Hardin, 317-274- 7722 mhardin@iupui.edu

IU Medicine Dean Named to Olympic Ethics Committee

INDIANAPOLIS - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has appointed Indiana University School of Medicine Dean Craig Brater, M.D., to its five-member Ethics Committee, created as one of the final elements of the most sweeping transition in the history of the organization.

Other appointees to the committee are Harold Shapiro, Ph.D., committee chair; Leslie Caldwell of New York City; Lisa Fernandez of Long Beach, Calif.; and Thurgood Marshall Jr. of Washington, D.C.

Under the direction of Dr. Shapiro, the Ethics Committee will be responsible for assisting the board of directors and other management to ensure the USOC maintains the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity in all business matters.

Dr. Brater said he is excited to have a role in launching the USOC as a role model for ethics in sports.

"I have always been a sports fan and am one of those people who has had modest ability at many sports, true skill in none, and loves spectating many," said Dr. Brater. "I have always been Pollyanna-ish in believing that sports, in many ways, are a metaphor for life and, as such, should adhere to high values and be a form of role modeling. I am excited about being invited to serve on USOC's Ethics Committee, because it is my fervent desire that the committee exerts national, if not international, leadership in re-establishing the values in sports."

Dr. Brater has served as dean of IU School of Medicine since July 2000. He joined the faculty in 1986 and was named chairman of the IU Department of Medicine four years later. As dean, he oversees the medical school on nine campuses, which includes more than 1,200 full-time faculty and more than 2,200 physicians who serve as volunteer faculty. He plays an integral leadership position in the school's partnerships with Wishard Health Services; Roudebush VA Medical Center; LaRue Carter Hospital ; and Clarian Health, which includes Riley Hospital for Children, IU and Methodist hospitals.

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