As announced during the October 2019 faculty meeting, I would like to welcome our students, faculty, staff, colleagues, and friends and communicate – from the dean’s perspective – about our ongoing activities, plans, directions and challenges that will influence our culture and shape the collective vision for the future of our MD College. I am planning on sending updates every other week during the academic year and if you have comments, suggestions or announcements of events of general interest, please let me know, so that such news can be shared with our whole community. Please address your queries and comments to jvieweg@nova.edu