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

ttran16@bu.edu

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