Mission Statement

Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD) works with the leadership, faculty and administrators of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Health System to support an overarching goal of PENN Medicine - the implementation of the highest standards of excellence in academic medicine.  The mission of FAPD is to support this goal by facilitating the recruitment and appointment, promotion, and retention of distinguished faculty.

We fulfill this mission by a commitment to:

• Overseeing and facilitating proactive administration of all aspects of policies and processes relating to faculty recruitments and appointments, reappointments and promotions and other faculty employment actions
• Developing, interpreting, communicating and administering University and Perelman School of Medicine policies related to faculty employment
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable policies, procedures and external regulations relating to faculty employment, including affirmative action/equal employment opportunity policies
• Supporting faculty careers from appointment through retirement through Advance, the faculty professional development program and other mentoring initiatives
• Serving as official resource for faculty data
• Supporting initiatives relating to faculty diversity
• Serving as a liaison and a resource to other schools and offices of the Perelman School of Medicine, Health System and University

News & Events

• Video of Dr. Lisa Bellini's Presentation on June 13, 2011 regarding the proposed implementation of a Part-Time Academic Clinician Track

• Dean's memo and detailed information on the "Program to Enhance Teaching Skills"

• Letter from Drs. Rubenstein, Gaulton and Quinn about Public Disclosure of Faculty Compensated Extramural Activities

• Upcoming Advance, Faculty Professional Development Programs

• Recently Promoted Faculty

  View information about all 2011 promoted faculty View information about all 2010 promoted faculty

  
  

  Kevin G. Lynch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Lynch is a highly accomplished independent and collaborative biostatistician in psychiatric research, particularly in clinical studies of addiction. His methodological research focuses on the use of causal inference methods in the context of adaptive treatment designs and mediation analyses. He is a valued collaborator who has been central in the planning, design and analysis of clinical trials and provides the quantitative skills necessary for the conduct of research. He is the Director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Core in the Center for Studies of Addiction. His research is funded by federal sources. His peer-reviewed publications are in notable journals including Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Statistics in Medicine. He is a consulting editor for statistics for the Journal of Bipolar Disorders and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. He has reviewed grants for several NIH study sections. In 2009, Dr. Lynch received the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Graduate Program in Biostatistics Teaching Award. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the Biometric Society.