The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine.

UCSF is the only campus of the University of California that is devoted solely to the health sciences with professional schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy, and a graduate division. UCSF advances health worldwide by:

• Educating the next generation of health-care professionals.
• Translating leading-edge scholarly and scientific research into knowledge, therapies, and cures for debilitating diseases.
• Providing compassionate patient care.
• Serving the local and global community through low-cost health-care clinics, screening and prevention programs, public policy research and intervention, initiatives to increase access to affordable health-care.

The successful candidate must hold a MD or equivalent degree and be a distinguished academic physician with substantial administrative and scholarly achievements in teaching and research in the health sciences field. Nominees/applicants must have proven leadership abilities in administration of a major health sciences unit.

UCSF seeks candidates whose experience, teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. UCSF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. The University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for underutilized minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for covered veterans.

Nominations, inquiries or applications may be sent in confidence to deborah.brennan@ucsf.edu.