Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Sciences

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Organize SKMC research assets, address gaps and build necessary partnerships to achieve the goal of becoming a CTSA hub.
• Identify opportunities to strategically unite the business of healthcare with the academic and scientific base to enhance medical education and community impact.
• Provide leadership to expand and sustain SKMC’s translational research portfolio, including ongoing planning, monitoring, analysis and assessment.
• Oversee dissemination and implementation activities to support innovative approaches to identifying and developing strategies to promote adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies into routine health care and public health settings to improve the impact on population health.
• Identify opportunities to cultivate an environment where CTS and training for clinical research professionals can flourish.
• Identify opportunities to build a community of scientists committed to diversity and inclusive excellence and to advance and sustain a scientific environment and institutional culture that positively impacts faculty development, retention, progression, and eventual promotion.

Key Qualifications & Experiences

• An MD/DO/MD-PhD or equivalent international degree, current board certification, and licensed/eligibility to practice in the state of Pennsylvania.
• National recognition as a senior physician-scientist with demonstrated leadership in large programs in T3 and T4 translational research.
• Experience and involvement in an ongoing CTSA program or a program of similar caliber is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading scientific programs demonstrated by a strong track record of NIH-funding.
• Experience in creating, providing and disseminating innovative research programs and partnerships within an organization, between organizations and with communities to address health equity and deliver the benefits of translational research.
• Experience mentoring and developing trainees and junior faculty members in research careers that enhances equity.
• Experience building comprehensive medical research and educational programs with administrative leadership (including experience as a dean, chair, senior associate dean, center/institute director or comparable position) in a complex academic medical environment.
• Academic accomplishments which merit appointment at the rank of full professor at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.