Office of the Provost

Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Founded in 1824, Jefferson Medical College, now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, has awarded more than 31,000 medical degrees and has more living graduates than any other private medical school in the nation. It offers both undergraduate medical education programs and innovative joint degree programs to more than 1,000 students each year.

The Sidney Kimmel Medical College is recognized for its balanced approach to medical education, and approximately one out of four to one out of five applicants throughout the U.S. apply to Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

College & Department Leadership

Said Ibrahim, MD
Anthony F. and Gertrude M. DePalma Dean,
Sidney Kimmel Medical College


David Abraham, PhD
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs
 

Katherine Berg MD, MPH
Associate Dean Assessment, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs

John Caruso, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate
Medical Education & Affiliations

Kristin DeSimone, MD
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
& Career Counseling

Gretchen Diemer, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education & Affiliations

Ronald V. Hall, MD
Assistant Dean, Diversity & Student Diversity Programs, RCSSC

Judd Hollander, MD
Associate Dean, Strategic Health Initiatives

Abigail Kay, MD
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs

Wayne Bond Lau, MD
Associate Dean, Student Affairs &
Career Counseling

Leonard Levine, MD
Associate Dean, Student Affairs &
Career Counseling

Bernard Lopez, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Diversity & Community Engagement, Associate Provost Diversity & Inclusion

Karen Novielli, MD
Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs &
Vice Dean, Faculty Affairs (SKMC)

 

Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD
Associate Dean, Faculty Development & Assistant Provost for Faculty Development

Charles Pohl, MD
Vice Dean Student Affairs & Career Counseling; Vice Provost, Student Affairs
 

Stefani Russo, MD
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs & Career Counseling

John Spandorfer, MD
Roger Daniels Associate Dean for Professionalism in Medicine

Brian Squilla, MBA
Senior Vice President of Administration, Chief Research Officer & Chief of Staff

Michael Stillman, MD
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs

Howard Weitz, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs

David Whellan, MD
Associate Dean, Clinical Research & Senior Associate Provost for Clinical Research

Alliric Willis, MD
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs

 

Deborah Ziring, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education & Academic Affairs

Department Chairs

David Brousseau, MD
Pediatrics
Robert L. Brent Professor in Pediatrics

Theodore Christopher, MD
Emergency Medicine
Green Family Foundation and John & Patricia Walsh Professor in Emergency Medicine

David Cognetti, MD
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Herbert Kean, MD Professor in Otolaryngology

Sandra Dayaratna, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology

 

Adam Dicker, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology

 

Robert Diecidue, DMD, MD
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Dentistry
D. Walter Cohen & Claire H. Reichlin Professor in Dental Biosciences

Anna Flattau, MD
Family & Community Medicine
Alumni Professor in Family Medicine

Leonard Gomella, MD
Urology
Bernard W. Godwin, Jr. Professor in Prostate Cancer

Michael Green, MD, MBA
Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Julia Haller, MD
Ophthalmology
 

Steven Herrine, MD
Medical Education
 

Gregory Kane, MD
Medicine
Jane & Leonard Korman Professor in Pulmonary Medicine

Matthew Keller, MD
Dermatology & Cutaneous Biology

W. Kevin Kelly, DO
Medical Oncology

John Lauriello, MD
Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Daniel Lieberman Professor in Psychiatry & Human Behavior

Steven McMahon, PhD
Associate Dean, Basic Science Research
Senior Associate Provost for Programmatic Science
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Robert Rosenwasser, MD
Neurological Surgery
Jewell L. Osterholm, MD Professor in Neurological Surgery

Abdolmohamad Rostami, MD, PhD
Neurology
Nicholas J. Maiale Distinguished Professor in Neurology

Christopher Roth, MD
Radiology & Molecular Imaging

Matthias Schnell, PhD
Microbiology & Immunology
Dr. V. Watson Pugh & Frances Plimpton Pugh Professor in Microbiology & Immunology

Richard Smeyne, PhD
Neuroscience

Charalambos Solomides, MD
Pathology & Genomic Medicine

Alexander Vaccaro, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery
Richard H. Rothman Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery

Scott Waldman, MD, PhD
Pharmacology, Physiology,
& Cancer Biology
Hilary Koprowski Professor
in Cancer Biology

Steve Williams, MD
Rehabilitation Medicine
Michie Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine

Charles Yeo, MD
Surgery
Samuel D. Gross Professor in Surgery