{"id":7988,"date":"2012-02-15T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/lets-give-the-new-executive-dean-of-the-faculty-of-health-sciences-a-good-old-pe-welcome\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:05:47","slug":"lets-give-the-new-executive-dean-of-the-faculty-of-health-sciences-a-good-old-pe-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lets-give-the-new-executive-dean-of-the-faculty-of-health-sciences-a-good-old-pe-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Give the new Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences a Good Old PE Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Growing up as the son and grandson of medical doctors, but wanted to become an architect. As a compromise he became a dentist and has in the course of his career, worked in the corporate sector and as an independent health management consultant.<\/p>\n

He is Prof Vic Exner, the newly-appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Prof Exner brings with him a wealth of experience, having been the first Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Johannesburg (UJ). He is experienced in project management, needs analysis and co-ordination, is fully bilingual in English and Afrikaans and can understand some Zulu having grown up on a mission station in Kwazulu-Natal in the sixties.<\/p>\n

Exner is looking forward to the opportunities and challenges the position brings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the faculty should be more prominent in the university community and beyond. It is well-positioned and the province needs the faculty and the university,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Before joining NMMU<\/a>, Prof Exner was a senior stomatologist at the University of the Western Cape Dental Faculty where he enjoyed working in the disadvantaged communities of Cape Town<\/a> with dental students. He started his full-time academic life at UWC in 1982 but left for Medunsa and a promotion to principal stomatologist in 1984, associate professor in 1985 and to professor\/chief stomatologist in 1991. He then transferred to Wits in 1996 as head of the department of Restorative Dentistry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited about transformation. I\u2019ve lived a long life of transformation. What is also good is that the university\u2019s transformation plan is part of the entire strategic plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

He opted for early retirement in 2006 and joined his wife, Dr Rosemary Exner, an educational psychologist at UCT, and their three sons in Cape Town<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might have retired early from the university, but cannot sit and do nothing. I believe my experience in and outside of academia will be very useful in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Exner grew up in rural Kwazulu-Natal where his father was a missionary doctor. He is the eldest of five children of an Afrikaans mother and German father, who are both well into their eighties.<\/p>\n

When not working Prof Exner is an active runner, gardener, chef and house renovator, who is already looking for a house to buy and restore.<\/p>\n

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Prof Vic Exner, the newly-appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University<\/p>\n

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