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University of Louisville interim president Greg Postel addresses graduates at the commencement ceremony at the KFC Yum Center on May 13. SAM UPSHAW candidacy for the permanent Added Ricky Jones, professor and chairman of the Department of Pan- African Studies: seems like a guy who is very adept at articulating things that have been decided But only one former colleague seems to expressly dislike him. Dr. Jannice Aaron, who preceded Postel as chair- woman of diagnostic medicine, said he ass and never says anything and is about self- aggrandizement and being viewed as Postel said Aaron, who practices in La Grange but is partly retired, left the university in the 1990s under in a personnel matter that he declined to discuss. As for his lack of tenure, experts on medical education say that is not un- common for clinical professors.

And Postel said he focused on teaching young doctors, clinical work and ad- ministration, rather than research. More than a game backers, including Pitino and radio personality Terry Meiners, have questioned independence, charging that he takes marching orders from J. David Grissom, the investor, for- mer banker and current board of trust- ees chairman. you think coming out with these accusations and that one or two members of the board of trustees behind him prodding him to do this, Pitino said Oct. 10 on show.

Postel notes Pitino was by the Athletics Association board, and Jurich by the board of trust- ees, Though he said trustees have no role in percent of what I he added that the end of the day, the board is my boss and if they ask me to do some- thing, I do Still, when Grissom emerged from a September board meeting and told re- porters that it would select the univer- next president through a dential search because that is the Postel contradicted the boss. are open searches and closed Postel said, but know that there is a Doing the right thing A native of Canton, Ohio, Gregory Carl Postel said he grew up in a ly middle-class His mother, a homemaker, was best mom he said, while his father, a mechanical engineer, designed nuclear centrifuges for Goodyear Aerospace in Akron and wrote stories and designed toys in a workshop in the basement. The couple moved to Louisville in 1996 to be closer to their only child. Carl Postel continued to invent puzzles such as even as he was rav- aged by disease, according to a 1999 Courier Journal feature. He died in 2004.

dad taught me how important it is to be honest that a clear conscience is the softest Postel said. He said he met Sally, his second wife and two years his junior, at of Hospi- tal, where she was director of risk man- agement. The Postels share a $2 million home in Mockingbird Valley. Postel, who donned his white coat in three years, practiced as an in- terventional neuroradiologist, diagnos- ing and treating conditions in the brain. In his biggest project before taking on the presidency, Postel in 2011 helped consolidate 70 university medical prac- tices into one University of Louisville Physicians, which now has 700 doctors among 2,000 employees.

Postel was its founding chairman and later CEO. Tax reports show it has operated millions of dollars in the red in some years, but McMasters and other doctors attribute that to startup costs and changes in fed- eral reimbursement rules. Postel attends Holy Spirit Catholic Church with his family, although not Catholic, said close friend Alex P. Herrington a corporate attor- ney at Stites Harbison. The interim president is a registered Republican, and describes himself as conservative on the sides of things and more liberal on so- cial He declined to say whether he voted for Bevin try not to mix my political views with campus but said he gets along great with the governor.

He has hosted Bevin at Louisville football games and they went together to the U2 concert at Papa Cardinal Stadi- um in June. Still, Postel stood up to the governor gently when he suggested in Sep- tember that public universities elimi- nate liberal arts majors such as pretative that produce high-demand jobs. would require an awful lot of thought before one would do anything that Postel said at the time. Postel said his typical day starts at 5 a.m., when he gets up and works out, either with a personal trainer or on an aerobic skier. He gets his Starbucks on the way to the usually arriving by 7:30.

He tries to get home before din- ner to play ball in the yard with his kids. Herrington said claims that Postel know or care about athletics are that the doctor enjoys watching sports and taking his kids to the games. is a good person. He is genuine. And he is in this for the right Herrington said.

is not trying to get any for himself. certainly deserve the grief getting. He is trying to do the right Reporter Andrew Wolfson can be reached at 502-582-7189 or Name: Dr. Greg Postel Age: 55 Position: Interim vice president, Univer- sity of Louisville, interim executive vice president for health affairs Education: College of Wooster, bache- degree in chemistry; Case Western Reserve University, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, post-graduate fellowship in neuroradiology. Family: Wife, Sally; sons Chris and Alex.

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