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

  
  

  Mary B. Leonard, M.D., M.S.C.E. Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Leonard is an international leader in the field of bone health and nutrition in chronic disease who has established a multidisciplinary research program in clinical bone disease in children and adults. Her independent and highly collaborative research program focuses on the assessment and diagnosis of osteoporosis in children; the detrimental effects of glucocorticoid therapy, muscle deficits and inflammation on bone development in varied pediatric disorders; the assessment of the unique effects of kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation on skeletal structure in children and adults using novel micro-imaging techniques; the effects of vitamin D deficiency on physical functioning and cardiovascular disease in adults with chronic kidney disease; and the evaluation of biomechanical interventions as potential anabolic bone therapies in patients with chronic disease. In recognition of her accomplishments, she was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2007. She has served as a member of numerous NIH study sections and chaired two NIDDK special emphasis panels. Dr. Leonard makes substantial contributions as an educator and mentor of medical students, residents, fellows and master's students in clinical epidemiology. In 2007, she received the Faculty Mentor Award at CHOP. She is frequently invited to lecture nationally and internationally. She is an active member of a number of professional and scientific societies.