Texas Medicine Magazine, July 2007 AUSTIN - The University of Texas System Board of Regents has named David L. Callender, M.D., MBA, as the next president of the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. He will succeed John Stobo, MD, who will step down as UTMB president on Aug. 31. Dr. Callender formerly served as associate vice chancellor and chief executive officer of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Hospital System. He also was an adjunct professor of surgery at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and is a member of the governing board of the University Health Consortium. Dr. Callender's appointment was effective July 1.