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Stephanie Pincus, M.D., M.B.A.

Skills and Experience

Experienced federal health-care education leader; Acknowledged national expert in women's career development and organizational culture change, Broad-based knowledge of academic organizations based on senior faculty positions in multiple medical centers; Leadership positions in national specialty and medical organizations; Understanding of complex medical systems including research and clinical operations from national perspective

Demonstrated skills in workforce, healthcare, and education management:

•  Systems-oriented with integrated experience in government, healthcare, and academic medicine

•  Innovative strategic planning and alignment with organizational goals

•  Revitalization of local and national programs

•  Creation of new organizational structures to support program modernization

•  Managed budget over 500 million dollars and activities of over 80,000 health-professional trainees

Specific Accomplishments

· Initiated The RAISE Project, a national awards website and clearing house to facilitate recognition of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine Results: Received Sloan Foundation grant to fund development, created national awareness of substantive career issues, recognized as national expert in women’s career development

· Led academic mission of the Veterans Health Administration as the Chief Academic Affiliations Officer Results: Implemented new national policies for oversight of medical training, affiliation with academic medical centers, and national trainee registration

· Developed mission statement and strategic plan for the Office of Academic Affiliations, guiding transition from an organization focused solely on resource allocation to one focused on broad aspects of VA's educational mission. Results: Enhanced field relationships, strengthened programs and relationships at VA's 130 teaching hospitals; created 6 new fellowship programs aligned with goals of VA

· Implemented national review of VA's Graduate Medical Education Program (GME) Results: Guided internal and external review panels to evaluate number, distribution, and specialty mix of VA's 9000 medical resident positions representing 9% of the nation's GME

· Innovated structural redesign of VA's Special Fellowship Programs by creating hub sites for new programs. Results: Transformed individual programs to national programs through integration of curriculum and activities, leveraging resources, and creating national program identities

· Refocused national specialty organization, Women's Dermatologic Society. Results: Strengthened organization with Increased membership to 1000 members, new career development programs, and new organizational activities

· Restored academic department: Results: Restoration of full academic approval, creation of faculty practice plan, integration of activities across geographic sites

Professional Background

EDUCATION

1961-64 B.A., Reed College, Portland, OR

1964-68 M.D. (cum laude), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1996-98 M.B.A., J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

1968-69 Intern, Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA

1969-71 Fellow, Research Training Unit, Dept. of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1971-72 Resident, Dept. of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1972-74 Assistant in Medicine, Senior Fellow (Resident) Division of Dermatology, Dept. of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1974-75 Research Fellow in Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, MA

1987-88 Visiting Scientist, Biogen Research Corporation, Cambridge, MA

BOARD CERTIFICATION

1972 American Board of Internal Medicine

1975 American Board of Dermatology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

2000- Professor and Chair Emeritus, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

2000-04 Chief Academic Affiliations Officer, Office of Academic Affiliations, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

1989-00 Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, State University of New York at Buffalo

1977-89 Assistant/Associate Professor, Depts. of Medicine and Dermatology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Assistant/Associate/Vice-Chair/ Associate Dermatologist in Chief, Department of Dermatology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA

1975-77 Assistant Professor Dept. of Medicine, University of Washington and Chief of Dermatology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Seattle, WA

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2005- Founding Director, The RAISE Project, Washington, D.C.

2001-05 Board of Directors, American Academy of Dermatology

2000-01 President, Women's Dermatologic Society

1993-96 President-elect/President, Harvard Medical Alumni Association

CONTACT INFORMATION

Stephanie Pincus, M.D., M.B.A.

269 Middlesex Road Buffalo, New York, 14216

716/ 873-1296 or 716/570-5986

shp@shpincus.com