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 Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts Career Narrative Presentation

• The Perelman School of Medicine Plan for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion

• Video of the New Promotion Standards for the Academic Clinician Track presented by Dr. Lisa Bellini

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

• Recently Promoted Faculty

  View information about all 2011 promoted faculty View information about all 2012 promoted faculty

  
  

  Emmanuel S. King, M.D. Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Dr. King is an accomplished and highly productive clinician whose expertise in the care of hospitalized patients is widely acknowledged. He is the Director of Clinical Operations for the hospitalist physicians in the Section of Hospital Medicine and has emerged as one of the key faculty responsible for improving the quality of inpatient care. He has overseen numerous quality improvement initiatives throughout HUP including the BOOST project, a national program sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine to improve the quality and safety of the hospital discharge process. His success as a leader in quality improvement has been recognized with receipt of the UPHS Patient Safety Advocate and Innovator Award, the UPHS Operational Quality and Safety Award and the HUP Patient Advocacy Award. He is a committed educator of medical students and residents. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Hospital Medicine.