Strom (born December 8, 1949) is the Inaugural Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, having taken office on December 2, 2013.
On July 18, 2013, Strom was named to be the first chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences by University President Robert L.
Barchi.
Previously, Strom was the Executive Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.Strom is a board-certified Internist and Epidemiologist with an M.D.
from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Strom's appointment came as Rutgers was beginning to absorb most of the schools, programs and facilities of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey following the approval of a merger proposal by the New Jersey Legislature and the Governor of New Jersey during the summer of 2012.