Dean's Role

The dean of the School of Medicine's specific duties and responsibilities are enumerated below:

Reports to the vice chancellor for Health Affairs — with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the UCI provost that includes regularly scheduled meetings
Serves on the College of Health Sciences executive leadership team
Serves on the UC Irvine Medical Center executive leadership team
Serves on the UCI Health Strategic Plan executive committee
Supervises all School of Medicine vice deans and associate deans
Supervises all School of Medicine department chairs
Oversees all School of Medicine departments, centers and institutes
Adjudicates staff grievances in conjunction with human resources and legal counsel
Ensures diversity of faculty, students and senior administrative staff
Ensures that local and system‐wide policies, including Academic Senate regulations, are observed

Presides over the School of Medicine faculty
Approves recruitments for faculty in the In‐Residence, Clinical X, Health Science Clinical and Adjunct series
Approves recruitments for faculty in the Line (FTE) series
Approves and signs tentative offer letters for faculty
Approves searches for School of Medicine department chairs, including the composition of the search committee and search firm, and chair appointment
Adjudicates faculty grievances in conjunction with academic personnel and legal counsel
Responsible for compensation plan approvals, academic programmatic unit (APU) changes and exceptions

Serves as the School of Medicine's chief academic officer
Responsible official for accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)
Responsible for oversight of Medical Education, including the planning, implementation and evaluation of the education program for medical students
Responsible for oversight of doctoral and master’s programs in the School of Medicine

Responsible for oversight of all research matters for the School of Medicine
Responsible for review/approval of requests for research equipment or infrastructure improvements
Responsible for review/approval of requests for research space
Responsible for review/approval of requests for financial support of facilities

Engaged in clinical strategic planning for the health system as a member of the College of Health Sciences executive leadership team
Approves clinical effort and assignments for all School of Medicine faculty
Direct report from the senior associate dean for Quality and Safety
Direct report from the vice dean for Clinical Affairs

Responsible for School of Medicine finances
Approves budgets for Medical Education and all departments
Approves the dean’s delegated financial transactions (i.e. Total Negotiated Salary requests, bonus payments, and all items requiring dean’s exceptional approval)
Approves the dean’s delegated contracts, grants and affiliation agreements

Responsible for the allocation of all School of Medicine space, with advice from the SRAAC Committee
Approves space renovation and improvement projects
Reviews equipment purchase requests

For more information on the role of deans, you may also view the University of California's Academic Personnel Manual ›