Dean, College of Pharmacy

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC Fort Worth) seeks a visionary leader to serve as the Dean of the UNT System College of Pharmacy. HSC is one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. Our six schools specialize in patient-centered education, research, and health care.

The core mission of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is to create solutions for a healthier community by being an extraordinary team committed to excellence and unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom.

HSC achieves this mission through its six nationally recognized schools and colleges that focus on patient-centered education, transformative research, community, and exceptional health care, all located on a beautiful 33-acre campus in Fort Worth's Cultural District. The university includes the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Health Professions, the College of Pharmacy, and the College of Nursing.

The HSC campus offers the nation's most comprehensive health science education on a single campus. It has more than 1.476 million square feet of state-of-the-art facilities to support our purpose of transforming lives to improve the lives of others. The first immersive virtual reality center in Texas, the HSC Regional Simulation Center, opened in 2022. The clinical enterprise of HSC, housed in the 140,000 square foot Health Pavilion, serves as a learning laboratory while welcoming patients from across the region for primary care and specialized services. The research enterprise, housed in more than 200,000 square feet of laboratory spaces, serves to generate sponsored research awards which surpassed $100 million in 2022. Our 2,338 students, 1,152 staff, and 285 faculty work side by side to impact communities in Fort Worth and across Texas. HSC was recognized in 2022 by D Magazine's Excellence in Healthcare Award.

The UNT System College of Pharmacy (COP) was established in 2011. The COP is committed to developing patient-centered pharmacy professionals trained in an interprofessional environment. COP advocates a team healthcare concept coupled with optimizing health through discovery. Areas of research innovation in the College include health outcomes, drug discovery, and development. The College was recognized nationally for its rapid growth in total research rankings among pharmacy schools, rising from No. 54 in 2019 to No. 36 in 2021.

The Dean of the College of Pharmacy ("the Dean") will build collaborative relationships and innovative programs, recruit an outstanding faculty and staff, organize and direct the process leading to the College's accreditation, and expand and build upon partnerships in this uniquely pivotal opportunity. The College has 46 continuing faculty, 19 adjunct faculty, and 63 staff. Twelve colleagues report to the Dean, with eight being direct reports and four serving as Assistant/Associate Deans whose official reporting line is to their department chair. The College of Pharmacy’s annual operating budget is approximately $15 million. Student enrollment in the College exceeds 360 students, with 316 PharmD students. Among the online offerings, the MS in Drug Discovery & Development program has 23 students, the pharmacy graduate certificate offerings have 18 students, and five students are enrolled in the MS in Applied Outcomes Research program.

The Dean will provide strong personal and professional leadership through informed vision, pioneering spirit, effective communication, and creative ideas. They will embody an entrepreneurial style and have successfully established and led programs through times of uncertainty and change.

This individual will develop and implement academic and financial strategies that promote transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary education, patient-centered care, research programs, and interprofessional education and training across the clinical and academic arenas at HSC as well as collaborations with affiliated health systems of the highest caliber.

As chief academic and executive officer of the College, the Dean will be responsible for the overall direction, oversight, and quality of the educational, research, and clinical missions of the College. The Dean will be responsible for all matters relating to the administration of the College, including curriculum, faculty, staff, students, facilities, resources, budget, alumni, fundraising, and relationships with both institutions and the communities outside of the universities.

In addition, the Dean will represent the College in various regional and national organizations and communities, as well as have responsibility for fundraising and relationships with the Fort Worth community and external stakeholders.

The estimated salary for this position is $350,000. HSC has provided a compensation estimate that represents its good faith estimate of what the institution may pay for the position at the time of posting. HSC may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 403(b) retirement, health savings account, life, STD, and LTD insurance.

For best consideration, please send all nominations and applications to:

Jim Sirianni, Managing Director
Mark Halligan, Senior Associate
Storbeck Search
[email protected]