The role of the Appointments and Promotions Committee is to advise the Chair of the Department of Medicine on the granting of promotions and tenure to eligible candidates among the full-time faculty. The committee is also charged with creating an environment in which the process of granting promotions and tenure is fully understood by the faculty.

Criteria developed by the committee are used by the department's division directors to determine the appropriate faculty title and career path for new appointments. The committee has established a formal periodic review process to assist tenure-track members of the department in attaining their goal of promotion and tenure.

Each junior member of the full-time faculty must select a mentoring committee composed of at least three senior faculty members. The mentors meet at least once a year to provide critical assessment and to assist the junior faculty member in achieving his or her academic goals.

The membership of the Appointments and Promotions Committee, which rotates periodically, is drawn from the ranks of the senior full-time Department of Medicine faculty.

Current Members

Martin L. Kahn, M.D.
Joel E. and Joan L. Smilow Professor of Cardiology (Chair)

Jill P. Buyon, M.D.
Professor, Division of Rheumatology

Bruce N. Cronstein, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Pharmacology, and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Joel D. Ernst, M.D.
Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Pathology, and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology

Glenn I. Fishman, M.D.
William Goldring Professor of Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and Pharmacology, and Director, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology

Roberta M. Goldring, M.D.
Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Adina L. Kalet, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Division of General Internal Medicine

Stephan L. Kamholz, M.D.
David J. Greene Professor of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital

David Ron, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, Division of Endocrinology

Fred T. Valentine, M.D.
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology

Dorothea Zucker-Franklin, M.D.
Professor, Division of Hematology