FAP (Fac Appt & Prom) Summary:
CV Bootcamp, 2017
Kitt Shaffer, MD PhD FACR, Chair BUSM FAP Committee
Vice-Chair for Education in Radiology
Professor of Radiology
Committee
• Administration
–Trang Tran
Manager of Faculty Actions
Office of the Dean and Provost, BUSM
617-638-5301
Committee members• Chair, Kitt Shaffer MD PhD FACR, Professor Radiology
• Karen Antman MD, Provost and Dean
• Tsuneya Ikezu MD PhD, Professor Pharmacology
• Michael Sherman PhD, Professor of Biochemistry
• Elizabeth Barnett MD, Professor Pediatrics
• Emelia Benjamin MD, Professor Cardiovascular Medicine
• Robert Stern PhD, Professor Neurology/Neurosurgery
• Ali Guermazi MD, Professor of Radiology*
• Jennifer Vasterling PhD, Professor Psychiatry (VA)
• Mieke Verfaellie PhD, Professor Psychiatry (VA, Alternate)
*new member, Feb 2016
Appointment & Promotions procedures
• Associate or Professors reviewed/presented by a committee member in detail
– discussed by group
– final approval by President Brown
• Assistant and Instructor generally approved without discussion unless issues raised
Key components
Assistant Associate Professor
reputation Local National(should make selection of 6 arm’s length letters easy)
Nat’l/International(should make selection of 6 arm’s length letters easy)
scholarship 1 peer-rev paper
generally 20+, depends on quality and impact(shift from 1st to last author begins)
generally 30s-40sdepends on quality and impact(more last than 1st
authorship)
Peer-reviewed publications and curricula
Peer-reviewed publications and curricula
Other Data: Assoc Professor, unmodified since 12/11
N=40
N=15
(27%)
Other Data: Professor, unmodified since 12/11
N=24
N=8
(25%)
What does the president say?
• LETTERS are the first thing he looks at!!!
• LETTERS that are strong can overcome virtually any apparent deficits in the CV
ideal letters
• NOT from any program where applicant trained
• NOT from anyone who knows the applicant very well personally
• NOT from mentors, collaborators
ideal letters-where to find them
• Chairs of national committees on which applicant serves
• Editors or section editors of journals for which applicant reviews
• People who invite the applicant to speak at a national course, or be a visiting professor
• Speakers at conferences at which applicant also spoke