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

  
  

  Ebbing Lautenbach, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.C.E. Professor of Medicine Dr. Lautenbach is a prominent physician-scientist in the field of infectious disease epidemiology. His influential and productive research focuses on the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria in the hospital and long-term care settings and the emergence of traditional health care-associated antibiotic-resistant organisms in the community. Since 2008, he has served as Director of Research for the Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control at HUP. He received the 2007 Investigator Award from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology and was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2009. He is associate editor of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and Annals of Internal Medicine, editor of the Section of Infectious Diseases of Emedicine.com and is a member of the editorial boards of Clinical Microbiology Reviews, BMC Public Health, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Microbial Drug Resistance. Dr. Lautenbach is an outstanding teacher and mentor. He is vice chair of the graduate group in the department of biostatistics and epidemiology and Associate Director of Educational Programs for the Clinical Epidemiology Unit in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is an active member of a number of national and international scientific and professional societies and has assumed leadership positions in many societies including Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Society for Microbiology, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.