The dean will provide strategic vision and operational leadership for the academic and scholarly program, creating an environment and community that supports the school’s faculty, research agenda, students, residents, and patient care in its clinical facilities.

The dean, with the faculty, will define the standard of excellence for faculty recruitment, promotion, and retention. Supporting the university’s research mission and the opportunities for clinical research with affiliated partners, the dean will advance the scholarly activities of the faculty, including opportunities that interdisciplinary approaches afford.

Minimum

• Candidates must possess an M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or equivalent degree
• Be board certified and be able to obtain a medical license in the State of Ohio
• The successful candidate must also demonstrate broad progressive administrative leadership experience within an academic or similarly complex institution and possess a deep understanding of community-based medical education
• National recognition for achievement in clinical, educational, and/or research pursuits that would warrant appointment as a full professor
• The ability to effectively represent a public academic entity
• Excellent strategic skills and financial acumen, as well as community, government relations, and fundraising abilities are essential

Preferred
Successful candidates should possess:

• Knowledge of or experience working in a community-based medical school
• Broad understanding of current national health policy and future challenges to academic medicine
• Ability to effectively represent a public academic entity on a regional, state, and national level
• Expertise in management techniques, financial management, clinical operations, and oversight of a large, distributed infrastructure
• Balanced commitment to educational, clinical, and research missions
• Commitment to employee, environmental, and patient safety and quality initiatives
• Philanthropy, alumni relations, and development experience

• (20%) Implementation of a vision: Collaboratively develop and implement a vision for the future of the Boonshoft School of Medicine and in its relationships with the rest of the university that will enable responsiveness to future opportunities in education, research, patient care, and services.
• (15%) Grow scholarly activity: Support the fundamentals of Boonshoft School of Medicine’s founding charter as a primary care focused medical school while growing the education and research scholarly activity including increases in basic, translational, and clinical research programs.
• (15%) Strategic alignment of school and clinical partners: Lead the academic (teaching and research) and clinical (patient care) programs and services within the Boonshoft School of Medicine; advancing the responsible growth for Wright State Physicians while continuing to support the meaningful alignment of the common interests between the school and the clinical partner sites throughout the region.
• (10%) Coordination of clinical teaching programs and continuing medical education: provide for and control the clinical teaching sites and program activities for medical students and residents in the patient care facilities. Provide leadership for development, management, review, and coordination of extramural education and research activities including continuing medical education and clinical research by university faculty.
• (10%) Representation of Boonshoft School of Medicine to others: Act as an effective advocate and spokesperson within the university, to the community, region, state, and nation, including state and federal regulatory and research agencies. Communicate effectively and consistently with various publics, including the state legislature in sharing the school's successes, relevance to the state and its citizens, and the plans for the future.
• (5%) Promotion of diversity: Consistent with the university’s commitment to diversity, provide leadership in the realization of diversity of faculty, students, and staff.
• (5%) Administration of facility resources: Oversee facilities planning/utilization for all education, research, and clinical activities; periodic review of space utilization, establishing guidelines for retention or reallocation of space based on faculty productivity.
• (5%) Development and philanthropy: Substantial responsibility for development activities within the university as they relate to the Boonshoft School of Medicine (all in partnership with university development professionals).
• (5%) Social mission: Support the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s passion and commitment to the mission of serving the community.
• (5%) Board leadership: Serve as chair of Wright State Physicians’ board of directors and serve on other boards of affiliated organizations as requested and appropriate.
• (5%) Business/Financial leadership: Develop and implement a thoughtfully aligned budget that maximizes support for all related programs and the long-term strategic goals of Wright State University. Conduct periodic reviews of academic units relative to mission, administration, and finances, making recommendations for improving performance. The university budgeting model is changing in FY2014 to a Responsibility-Centered Management Model; ensure the medical school is prepared for the new model to be implemented July 1, 2013.

For a complete job listing with position requirements and application information please go to https://jobs.wright.edu/postings/4859. Applications should be submitted at this site. Applications should include a letter of interest addressing the responsibilities and qualifications listed above, current curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of four professional references.

First Consideration Date: February 29, 2012

Surrounded by a lush 200-acre biological reserve, Wright State University’s main campus is located in a suburban community approximately 10 miles northeast of Dayton, Ohio. The accessible and state-of-the-art campus enrolls more than 18,000 students, including nearly 4,000 in graduate and professional programs. Wright State’s vision is to be “Ohio’s most innovative university, known and admired for our diversity and for the transformative impact we have on the lives of our students and on the communities we serve.”

Wright State is named for Dayton’s aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright. The university offers 91 undergraduate programs through the colleges of Business, Education and Human Services, Engineering and Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Nursing and Health, and Science and Mathematics.

In addition, the university offers over 40 master's programs, five research doctorates, and three professional doctorates, including the M.D. Known as the birthplace of aviation, Dayton has a population of approximately 180,000 people and is at the center of a metropolitan area that includes seven counties and more than one million people.

Steve Angle, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Provost, Wright State University

Larry Lawhorne, M.D., Co-Chair
Chair, Department of Geriatrics

Evangeline Andarsio, M.D.
President, Boonshoft School of Medicine Alumni Association

Bruce Binder, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Family Medicine

Eloise Broner
Member, Wright State University Board of Trustees

Ann Burke, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Tim Cope, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology

John Czachor, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair, Internal Medicine

Molly Hall, M.D.
VP Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, Premier Health Partners

Richard Laughlin, M.D.
Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine

Rosalie Mainous, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Nursing and Health

Nicholas V. Reo, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Brenda Roman, M.D.
Professor, Psychiatry

Ife Shafeek
Assistant to Pathology Chair, Boonshoft School of Medicine

Courtney Sulentic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology/Toxicology

Riyad J. Tayim
Year 2 Student, Boonshoft School of Medicine

Betty Kangas
Staffing Committee
Assistant to the Dean, Boonshoft School of Medicine