Alumna appointed new Health Sciences dean

By Jason Winders, MES'10

Jayne Garland has been appointed to a five-and-a-half-year term as dean of Health Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Current Health Sciences Dean Jim Weese will continue in the position until the end of calendar year.

Garland, MClSc’85, arrives from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she currently serves as professor and head of the Department of Physical Therapy. Prior to joining UBC in 2009, she was a member of Western’s Faculty of Health Sciences since 1989, including eight years as director of the School of Physical Therapy (2000-8). Prior to her faculty appointment at Western, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona and practiced physiotherapy in Kitchener-Waterloo.