June 2015, MSU announced plans to build an $88 million research complex, Grand Rapids Research Center, near the Secchia Center in downtown Grand Rapids. The center opened in September 2017. In later 2015, Marsha Rappley stepped down as Dean of the College, and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Aron Sousa, M.D., became interim dean. On October 1, 2016, the College of Human Medicine welcomed its new dean, Norman Beauchamp Jr., MD, the second graduate of the college to serve as dean. In October 2019, Dr. Norman Beauchamp was promoted as the Executive Vice President of Health Sciences at MSU. Dr. Aron Sousa once again reprised his role as interim dean and was appointed as dean in April 2022. Clinical training Clinical practice (undergraduate medical education during the third and fourth years of medical school), graduate medical education, and research takes place across eight campuses located throughout Michigan Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Midland, Marquette, Southeast Michigan and Traverse City. In 2022, CHM opened a new campus in Detroit, MI with the Henry Ford Hospital main campus. The college previously had a Saginaw campus, but that was transitioned to the Central Michigan University College of Medicine in 2011. The campus in Kalamazoo, was transitioned to Western Michigan University in 2014. Students are assigned to one of the campuses for their third and fourth years, rather than a specific hospital. The campus administration then places students at hospitals within the campus. After submitting a request, clinical students are also able to take a clerkship at a campus other than their assigned campus. Students may fulfill clerkship electives outside of the MSU system only in their fourth year. Grand Rapids The Grand Rapids campus serves as both a pre-clinical and clinical campus. Spectrum Butterworth Hospital Saint Mary's Health Care Spectrum Blodgett Hospital Flint The Flint campus utilizes three area hospitals. Ascension Genesys Hospital Hurley Medical Center McLaren Regional Medical Center Lansing Adjacent to the pre-clinical campus in East Lansing, the Lansing campus provides clerkship training at area hospitals. Pre-clinical students also have educational experiences at Sparrow Hospital. McLaren–Greater Lansing Hospital Sparrow Hospital Marquette The Upper Peninsula campus, based in Marquette, provides an environment for training physicians in rural medicine. The campus is operated in collaboration with the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation. Marquette General Hospital Midland Regional Campus The Midland Regional Campus is based in Midland, but students at this campus also have