Professor of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Medicine

About the role

The University of Central Florida seeks an innovative, collaborative, and visionary leader to serve as Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Medicine. The Vice President and Dean will advance medical education, biomedical research, and academic health partnerships at one of the nation’s largest metropolitan research universities.

Responsibilities

• Advance medical education, biomedical research, and academic health partnerships at UCF.
• Serve as the university’s senior advisor on health affairs while leading the UCF Academic Health Sciences Center and College of Medicine.
• Provide strategic leadership to shape the next chapter of UCF’s College of Medicine and Academic Health Sciences Center, strengthening research growth, faculty excellence, student success, growth of the clinical enterprise and clinical training opportunities.
• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration across UCF, healthcare systems, industry, and community partners to advance innovation in medical education, biomedical research, and patient care.
• Position UCF to meet Florida’s evolving healthcare and workforce needs while expanding the university’s impact on the state’s economy, health outcomes, research enterprise, and future talent pipeline.

Requirements

• Hold an MD or an equivalent clinical doctoral degree from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrate a record of teaching, research, and service commensurate with appointment at the rank of Professor with tenure in the College of Medicine.
• Be eligible for appointment as a tenured professor of medicine upon hire.
• Have a proven leader with significant administrative experience and the ability to articulate and execute a clear vision.
• Build infrastructure and recruit personnel necessary to expand the research enterprise and attract extramural funding from government and private sources.
• Strengthen and diversify clinical partnerships, including building relationships with Central Florida health systems to expand training opportunities, enhance community engagement, and increase the College’s regional impact.
• Grow and support faculty, expand high-demand disciplines, build depth in existing areas, and secure the resources needed to sustain growth.
• Operationalize a technology-driven college and deliver undergraduate and graduate education that leverages UCF’s strengths in engineering, optics and photonics, modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence.
• Advance medical education partnerships and affiliations to create new opportunities for medical students, residents, and fellows.
• Secure philanthropic support through strong, sustained relationships with donors, alumni, foundations, industry partners, and public stakeholders.
• Secure extramural funding from government and private sources.
• Develop laboratories and secure extramural funding.
• Translate discoveries into clinical impact.
• Operate with agility and innovation, navigate strategic risk, and adapt to changing academic healthcare dynamics.
• Build and sustain partnerships across the university and with external stakeholders while effectively managing complex, multi-stakeholder relationships.
• Build and sustain a high-quality MD program while expanding faculty and resources to support continued excellence.
• Secure revenue through multiple channels and align resource deployment to institutional strategic priorities.
• Leverage collaboration across UCF’s academic colleges to advance the health sciences mission.
• Make bold decisions, prioritize resources, and demonstrate resilience in navigating challenges and pursuing ambitious goals.
• Hold an unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Florida (or ability to obtain licensure upon relocation).
• Be eligible for ABMS certification.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: MD or equivalent clinical doctoral degree, teaching, research, and service commensurate with appointment at the rank of Professor with tenure in the College of Medicine.
• Preferred qualifications: Proven leader with significant administrative experience, ability to articulate and execute a clear vision, infrastructure and personnel recruitment, clinical partnership building, growth and support of faculty, expansion of high-demand disciplines, securing extramural funding, operationalizing a technology-driven college, medical education partnerships and affiliations, securing philanthropic support, securing extramural funding, developing laboratories, securing extramural funding, translating discoveries into clinical impact, building and sustaining partnerships, building and sustaining a high-quality MD program, securing revenue through multiple channels, aligning resource deployment to institutional strategic priorities, leveraging collaboration across UCF’s academic colleges, making bold decisions, prioritizing resources, demonstrating resilience in navigating challenges and pursuing ambitious goals, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Florida (or ability to obtain licensure upon relocation), and ABMS certification.