Mission Statement

Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD) works with the leadership, faculty and administrators of the 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 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 School of Medicine, Health System and University

News & Events

• 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 2009 promoted Faculty View information about all 2008 promoted faculty

  
  

  Vivian G. Cheung, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Cheung is a prominent investigator in the field of genetics who is making important contributions in human genomics. Her innovative and influential research focuses on the genetic analysis of complex human phenotypes and diseases. She is recognized internationally for her work combining genetic analyses with genomic tools to identify the cis- and trans- regions that influence gene expression. This research has important implications for understanding transcriptional regulation in normal cells and in disease processes. As an indication of the high quality of her research, she was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2008. She is associate editor of PLos Genetics. She has served on NIH study sections and the National Academies Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents. She has been invited to present her work nationally and internationally. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Society of Human Genetics.