Administration &
Faculty Governance
Administration
The School of Medicine's chief academic officer is the Dean of the School of Medicine, Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD (also carrying the University title of Vice President for Medical Affairs).
The current (2014) roster of the medical school’s administrative and departmental leadership is as follows:
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ADMINISTRATION
Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD Dean, School of Medicine, and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs
Patricia Thomas, MD Vice Dean for Medical Education
Carol L. Moss, MS Vice Dean for External Affairs and VP for Medical Development
Sana Loue, PhD, JD Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity
Christopher D. Masotti, CPA, MBA Vice Dean for Finance and Administration
Mark Chance, PhD Vice Dean for Research
Lisa M. Mencini, CPA, MBA Senior Associate Dean and Chief of Staff
Murray D. Altose, MD Senior Associate Dean for Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Alfred Connors, Jr., MD Senior Associate Dean for the MetroHealth System
C. Kent Smith, MD Senior Associate Dean for Students and Assistant Dean for Student Societies
James Young, MD Executive Dean for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Alan Hull, MD, PhD Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Lina Mehta, MD Associate Dean for Admissions
Jeffrey L. Ponsky, M.D. Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
vacant Associate Dean for Curriculum
Robert Daroff, MD Associate Dean for Development
Gene H. Barnett, MD Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Daniel Anker, PhD, JD Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Human Resources
Paul N. MacDonald, PhD Associate Dean for Graduate Education
Susan Nedorost, MD Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
Jill Stanley, MBA Associate Dean for Space and Facilities Planning
Kathleen Franco, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Admissions for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Robert Haynie, MD, PhD Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Assistant Dean for Student Societies
Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD Assistant Dean for Basic Science Education
J. Harry Isaacson, MD Assistant Dean for Clinical Education for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Susan Padrino, MD Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences
Nicole Addington, CPA Assistant Dean for Finance and Planning
Robin Bissell Assistant Dean for Grants and Contracts
Vacant Assistant Dean for Medical Student Research
Joan M. Schenkel Assistant Dean for Research Administration
Linda M. Graham, MD Assistant Dean for Research Education for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Lynda Montgomery, MD Assistant Dean for Student Societies
Steven Ricanati, MD Assistant Dean for Student Societies
Siu Yan Scott Registrar
SOM Departments and Chairs
Basic Sciences
Anatomy Clifford V. Harding, MD, PhD (Interim)
Biochemistry Michael Weiss, MD, PhD
Bioethics Stuart Youngner, MD
Biomedical Engineering Robert F. Kirsch, PhD
Environmental Health Sciences Dorr Dearborn, MD, PhD
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Jonathan L. Haines, PhD
Genetics and Genome Sciences Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD
Molecular Biology and Microbiology Jonathan Karn, PhD
Molecular Medicine Paul DiCorleto, PhD
Neurosciences Lynn Landmesser, PhD
Nutrition Hope Barkoukis, PhD (Interim)
Pathology Clifford V. Harding, MD, PhD
Pharmacology Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD
Physiology and Biophysics Walter Boron, MD, PhD
Basic Sciences Centers
Division of General Medical Sciences Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD
Cancer Center Stanton Gerson, MD
Center for Clinical Investigation Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD
Center for Global Health and Diseases James Kazura, MD
Center for Medical Education vacant
Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics Mark Chance, PhD
Center for Psychoanalytic Child Development vacant
Center for Regenerative Medicine Stanton Gerson, MD
Center for RNA Molecular Biology Timothy Nilsen, PhD
Center for Science, Health and Society Nathan A. Berger, MD
Center for the Study of Kidney Biology and Disease John Sedor, MD
Clinical Sciences
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University Hospitals Case Medical Center James R. Rowbotton, MD
Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation David L. Brown, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Tejbir Sidhu, MD
Dermatology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Kevin Cooper, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Stephen C. Somach, M.D. (Interim)
Emergency Medicine
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Edward A. Michelson, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Charles Emerman, MD
Family Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation (vacant)
MetroHealth Medical Center Christine Alexander, MD (Interim)
Family Medicine and Community Health Michael Anderson, MD; Clint Snyder,
University Hospitals Case Medical Center PhD; Wanda Cruz-Knight, MD; (co- Interim)
Medicine
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Richard A. Walsh, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Brian Mandell, MD, PhD
MetroHealth Medical Center M. Michael Wolfe, MD
Neurological Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Warren R. Selman MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Michael Patrick Steinmetz, MD
Neurology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Anthony J. Furlan, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Joseph Hanna, MD
Ophthalmology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Daniel F. Martin, MD
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Douglas Rhee, MD
Orthopeadics
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Randall Marcus, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center John H. Wilber, MD
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Cliff A. Megerian, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Joseph Carter, MD
Pathology (Clinical)
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Clifford V. Harding, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Kandice Kottke Marchant, MD, PhD
MetroHealth Medical Center Joseph Tomashefski, MD
Pediatrics
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Michael W. Konstan, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Robert Wyllie, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Nazha Abughali, M.D.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
MetroHealth Medical Center John Chae, MD (Interim)
Plastic Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Bahman Guyuron, MD
Psychiatry
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Robert Ronis, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Ewald Horwath, MD
Radiation Oncology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Mitchell Machtay, MD
Radiology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Pablo R. Ros, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Gregory Borkowski, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Robert Ferguson, MD
Reproductive Biology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center James Liu, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center Brian Mercer, MD
Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Jeffrey Ponsky, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation John Fung, MD, PhD
MetroHealth Medical Center Christopher Brandt, MD
Urology
University Hospitals Case Medical Center Firouz Daneshgari, MD, PhD
Faculty Governance
The Bylaws of the Faculty of Medicine (as last amended in February 2012) govern the Faculty of Medicine. The current form of governance was established when the Bylaws were adopted in 1978.
The Faculty Council is the primary governing body. Faculty elect department representatives for the Council; institutional representatives are selected by the faculty at each affiliated hospital; and at-large representatives are elected by the full-time and part-time faculty. The Council has three major committees: a Steering Committee elected by the Faculty Council; a Nominating Committee elected in part by the Council and in part by the full-time faculty; and a Bylaws Committee elected by the Faculty Council.
The Council meets at least five times each year, with an agenda set by the Steering Committee. The Dean includes the Chair of Faculty Council on her leadership committee, linking the faculty to the medical school’s administrative leadership.
The Bylaws describe the governance process and areas of responsibility of the Council in detail. A roster of the membership of the Faculty Council and standing committees is published each summer. Robert Petersen, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology is the 2013-2014 Chair of Faculty Council.
There are nine standing committees of the Faculty of Medicine; each reports at least once per year to the Faculty Council. The committees are as follows:
• Admissions Committee
• Budget, Finance, and Compensation
• Bylaws Committee
• Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure
• Committee on Medical Education
• Committee on Students
• Lecture Committee
• Nominating Committee
• Research Committee
Ad hoc committees carry out special tasks for the faculty or Dean, as needed, and may be appointed by the Faculty Council, by the Faculty Council and the Dean together, or by the Dean alone, and may also include elected members. Copies of the official charges to the standing committees are available in the Office of Faculty Affairs and on its website at: http://casemed.case.edu/facultyaffairs/faculty/governance.cfm.
You may find serving on committees rewarding. Service offers the opportunity to work together with members of the faculty from different disciplines and hospitals. Faculty wishing to be nominated for election to a standing committee should notify their department chair and look out for the emailed announcement each spring soliciting those willing to stand for election.
Academic Personnel Policies and Procedures
There is no single document covering all the information regarding appointments, tracks, promotion procedures, grievance actions, termination policies, and related personnel matters. The Faculty Handbook defines the basic procedures and policies for full-time University faculty; however, it does not cover policies modified specifically for the medical faculty. For example, because medical school departments have large numbers of faculty who often are located in various sites around campus or the city, voting on faculty actions is by committee; or, as another example, the medical school has a nine-year pretenure period and a non-tenure track. Many policies specific to the medical school are found in the School of Medicine Bylaws and the Qualifications and Standards for Appointment, Promotion and the Award of Tenure for Faculty Members in the School of Medicine. Following are key points drawn from these documents.
The School of Medicine has a two-track system for full-time faculty: 1) tenure and tenure track (appointments either with tenure or leading to tenure consideration); and 2) non-tenure track (appointments not leading to tenure consideration). In addition, there is a sizeable "part-time" faculty (also referred to as the volunteer faculty) consisting primarily of clinicians in private practice who donate their time to teach in a clinical setting. These individuals have the word "clinical" in their titles. Others on the volunteer faculty who donate their efforts in a non-clinical academic activity have the word "adjunct" in their titles.
Faculty in the tenure track devote their efforts primarily or substantially to performing research. Many are traditional individual scientists, but others are team scientists or a combination of both types. While faculty in the non-tenure track may engage in research, most will focus on teaching or on clinical service. All faculty are expected to contribute a reasonable amount of teaching and administrative service. There are many areas in which faculty may contribute (see the Qualifications and Standards document for examples of professional service).
Appointment Process
Appointments to the faculty are initiated by department chairs. The School of Medicine uses the ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, senior instructor, or instructor.
Appointment at the rank of professor or associate professor requires nomination by the chair, approval by the department (or affiliated hospital’s) committee on appointments, promotions, and tenure (the department CAPT), the School of Medicine's CAPT, the dean, the provost, the president, and the University's Board of Trustees. Senior faculty at these ranks must demonstrate, among other qualifications, i) national prominence in research or ii) regional prominence (for associate professor) or national prominence (for professor) in teaching or clinical service.
Appointment at the rank of assistant professor, senior instructor, or instructor requires the same review and approval as above except for the faculty's CAPT and the Steering Committee review which are not necessary for these ranks.
Searches for new full-time faculty receiving the majority of their compensation from CWRU must comply with the university’s affirmative action search requirements, verified by the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equal Opportunity (OIDEO).
All initial full-time faculty appointments require approval by the university’s Board of Trustees.
Promotion and Tenure Process
Promotion to senior level ranks (associate professor and professor) and tenure awards are made each year effective July 1. Review for promotion to senior faculty rank and for the award of tenure is carried out on a timetable determined largely by our rigorous review process and deadlines set by the Provost. The entire promotion/award of tenure process for senior faculty takes approximately fifteen months to complete, beginning in the spring of the academic year and concluding with the promotion/award of tenure becoming effective July 1 of the following calendar year.
1) Departments are required to complete their review of candidates for senior level promotion and/or award of tenure in time for candidates to forward documentation to the Faculty Affairs office by the end of May. This allows the Faculty Affairs office to contacting references and compile dossiers during the summer. In order to meet the May deadline, the department promotions committees must review the candidates and reach decisions earlier in the spring.
2) The School of Medicine CAPT reviews candidates throughout the fall and early winter. Each recommendation of the CAPT is reviewed by the Steering Committee of the Faculty Council, which is responsible for ensuring that the process has been fair and equitable.
3) After reviewing the recommendations of the faculty CAPT and Steering Committee, the Dean submits her recommendations to the Provost in December or January. In the case of tenured or tenure track faculty nomination, the Provost may convene an advisory committee (a group of CWRU professors) to assist in the review. Faculty in the non-tenure track are not reviewed by the advisory committee. The President performs the final review and makes recommendations for formal action by the Board of Trustees.
4) The Board of Trustees acts on the recommendations at its meetings in the spring. All actions become effective July 1.
Helpful Hints
It is extremely important that full and detailed information on a candidate’s activities be available to the faculty Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure. Since the CAPT is not an investigatory body (it reviews only the information before it), incomplete dossiers are potentially detrimental. It is the responsibility of the candidates and their department chairs to ensure that complete information is provided. Since all information should be as up-to-date and complete as possible, it is critical for candidates to submit any new relevant information (such as the acceptance of a grant or publication, appointment to committees/boards, etc.) throughout the year they are under review for promotion. Such new information should be provided through the academic chair, who will forward the information to the Faculty Affairs Office for distribution to the CAPT.