UHS Resignation

Dr. Paul A. Walters, director of mental health services at University Health Services, will resign this year in order to start as director of the Cowell Health Services at Stanford University in September, Walters said yesterday.

"I've been at Harvard a long time and it's time for a change," Walters said.

Dr. Warren E. Wacker, director of UHS, said of Walters's decision. "I'm very sorry to have him leave, but this is a step upward in his career." Wacker said that UHS has formed an open search committee to find a replacement for Walters.

Wacker said he has not decided whether the new mental health services director will be a full-time appointee or operate on "three-quarters time," as Walters does Walters has a small private practice in addition to his UHS post.