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

  
  

  Rebecca A. Simmons, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Simmons is a nationally and internationally renowned neonatologist who is a leading investigator in the origins of adult disease in the fetal period, focusing particularly on the molecular basis of the developmental origins of diabetes. She is the Director of the Nutrition/Metabolism Research Affinity Group at CHOP, the Associate Director of the Center for Research in Reproduction and Women's Health at Penn and the Director of the Career Development Core for the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) at Penn. She has published her research in leading journals including The Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Pediatrics and Endocrinology. She reviews grants for the NIH, the Medical Research Council of Great Britain, the Wellcome Trust, the American Diabetes Association and the Medical Research Council of Canada. Dr. Simmons is the course director for the Frontiers in Environmental Health Sciences elective course for fourth-year medical students. She presents her work nationally and internationally including recent lectures at a Keystone Symposium, the Japanese Diabetes meetings, the International Endocrine Congress, and the European Diabetes Annual Meeting. She is a member of a number of professional and scientific societies including the Perinatal Fellows Advisory Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Perinatal Research Society.