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

• 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

  
  

  Kevin G. Volpp, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Volpp is making landmark contributions to health care policy and research. He uses the foundations and methods of economics to address how regulatory and financial policies affect health care decisions in such areas as the impact on quality of price competition among hospitals; the impact on quality and health care disparities of financial stress in hospitals; the effect of ACGME work hour regulations on physicians in training; and the effectiveness of financial incentives in changing patient behaviors. Dr. Volpp has received highly competitive national awards including the Doris Duke Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award in 2002, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2005, the Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Junior Investigator Award and the John Thompson Award from the Association of Programs in Health Administration in 2006. In 2007, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from Academy Health, the leading national organization for health services research. His contributions have been recognized internally with receipt of the Robert Austrian Award for Evaluative Research in 2005 and the Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research Award in 2007. He was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2008. He is an excellent educator and mentor.