Michael V. Drake

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Michael V. Drake is a United States physician and currently serves as the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. Prior to his appointment at UCI, he had a dual appointment at the Office of the President of the University of California as the director of policy for the five University of California medical schools and other health sciences programs, while continuing to hold his long-held appointment at University of California, San Francisco in the department of ophthalmology. Dr. Drake, 56, was a vocal opponent of Proposition 209, often leading forums on the UCSF campus to garner opposition to it. He is an African-American physician who graduated from Stanford University and attended medical school at UCSF. After an ophthalmology residency, he practiced mainly academic medicine, at one point overseeing $10 million dollars in grants. He served as the director of admissions at UCSF medical school and sat on the resident selection committee for the department of ophthalmology prior to his appointment at the Office of the President. His salary at the Office of the President was $350,000, which is his current salary as the UCI chancellor, although the prior chancellor's salary had been $70,000 less prior to his filling the vacancy, according to University of California, Irvine press releases in Today@UCI from May 26, 2005, the day he was appointed chancellor.