Search for the Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences

UC San Diego is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the position of Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences (VCHS). We have enlisted the assistance of a leading executive search firm (Isaacson, Miller) to help us manage the search process. Dr. Gabriel Haddad and Dr. Michelle Daniel have agreed to co-chair the Search Advisory Committee, whose members are listed below.

Members of the Search Advisory Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences:

Michelle Daniel, MD, MHPE, FACEP, Vice Dean for Medical Education and Professor, Emergency Medicine (Co-Chair)
Gabriel Haddad, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Scientific Officer at Rady Children’s San Diego (Co-Chair)
Susan Ackerman, PhD, Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine, and Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Biological Sciences
Natalie Afshari, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, and Professor, Ophthalmology
Zea Borok, MD, Chair and Professor, Department of Medicine
Susan Bukata, MD, Chair and Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Bryan Clary, MD, Surgeon-In-Chief, Chair and Professor, Surgery
Z. Jeff Daskalakis, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Psychiatry
Rina Davison, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Administration
Oluwole Fadare, MD, Professor, Pathology
Howard Feldman, MD, Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, and Professor, Neurosciences
Steven Gonias, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Pathology
Cynthia Gyamfi Bannerman, MD, Chair and Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Tracy Handel, PhD, Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Brendan Kremer, Chief Operating Officer, UC San Diego Health
Maria (Elena) Martinez, PhD, Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
John Mazziotta, MD, PhD, Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, and CEO, UCLA Health, UCLA
Elliot McVeigh, PhD, Professor, Bioengineering
Victoria Ojeda, PhD, Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, Chief, Division of Colon Rectal Surgery and Professor, Surgery
Jamila Stockman, PhD, Vice Chief, Division of Global Public Health, and Professor, Medicine
Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, Director, Translational Research, UC Health Sciences Center for Immunology, Infection and Inflammation and Professor, Pediatrics
Eugene Yeo, PhD, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

The Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences reports to the Chancellor of UC San Diego and is part of the Chancellor’s Cabinet and leadership team. The VCHS oversees the comprehensive operations that comprise UC San Diego Health Sciences. The VCHS, in consultation with the Chancellor, sets the overall vision and strategy of the Health Sciences’ tripartite mission of excellence in education, research and clinical care, with an emphasis on building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive academic and clinical community.

The VCHS must have broad and diverse leadership skills to manage a highly complex organization. The VCHS will work in partnership with the Chancellor’s Cabinet (CEO for UC San Diego Health also sits on the Chancellor’s Cabinet) and leadership team. The VCHS also must collaborate in close partnership with the leadership of the Health Sciences units, which include School of Medicine, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; senior campus administrators; the University of California Regents; the Office of the President; and key external constituencies, including the Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and a diverse set of research institutions that surround the UC San Diego campus.

The Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences working with the leadership team at UC San Diego Health is responsible for the management and growth of a world class health system that delivers the best patient care and is a destination for care locally, nationally and internationally. The overall management of a financially sound and innovative health delivery enterprise is a key responsibility.

Through a series of listening sessions with various constituencies on campus, the search firm will develop a comprehensive position profile that includes challenges and opportunities for the next VCHS. The Search Advisory Committee will begin reviewing candidates soon after the position profile is developed and will continue until the position is filled.

Direct inquiries and nominations should be emailed to David Bellshaw, Partner at Isaacson, Miller at UCSDVCHS@imsearch.com. You need not contact the nominee to ascertain if they are willing to be considered as a candidate. All nominees will be contacted in confidence by the search firm, to discuss their willingness to have their names put forward to the search advisory committee.

Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor