Codeine is a well-known opioid pain reliever.
But what, you might ask, is a co-dean?
Longtime healthcare administrator Jim Nathan thinks it’s more than a play on words.
“Codeine is used to relieve pain, but if you take it too long, it becomes addictive,” he says. He believes a co-dean may produce much the same effect.
Pun aside, co-dean was the original title of the position to which the retired Lee Health CEO was appointed last fall in Marieb College of Health & Human Services. The title was recently modified to co-acting dean, a title he shares with Shawn Felton, to give it a bit more gravitas.
