UC San Diego Health Sciences has more than 1,500 physicians and scientists who serve as faculty members for more than 900 residents and fellows, 500 medicine and pharmacy students, and hundreds of other graduate students. Its academic programs rank among the best in the country for primary care and research. The organization's leadership embraces a culture of academic excellence coupled with innovation and collaboration, and continuously seeks to align its educational programs with cutting-edge research, new clinical technologies and techniques, and hands-on experience through pioneering programs that emphasize compassionate, personalized patient care.
The dynamic Health Sciences enterprise comprises the School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and UC San Diego Health. Our patient care locations include the UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest; Jacobs Medical Center, Moores Cancer Center, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, and Shiley Eye Institute in La Jolla; and many other centers, clinics, and affiliates throughout Southern California.
Open Positions
Health Sciences is recruiting for a number of senior leadership positions. Please select a name to see search committee members.
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Search Committee
- Jess Mandel (committee chair), Department of Medicine
- Happy Araneta, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Margarita Baggett, Chief Clinical Officer, UC San Diego Health
- Brookie Best, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Cinnamon Bloss, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- David Bracken (resident), Department of Surgery
- Neil Chi, Department of Medicine
- Bryan Clary, Department of Surgery
- Kama Guluma, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Simerjot Jassal, Department of Medicine
- Alex Maloof (Class 2022)
- Geert Schmid-Schoenbein, Department of Bioengineering
- Sunny Smith, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Mounir Soliman, Department of Psychiatry
- Cate Yashar, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Science
Search Committee
- Sonia Ramamoorthy (committee chair), Department of Surgery
- Jay Doucet, Department of Surgery
- Christopher Glass, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Kathy Kim, VA San Diego Healthcare System
- Wilbur Lew, Department of Medicine
- Michael Madani, Department of Surgery
- Andrew McCulloch, Department of Bioengineering
- Pamela Mellon, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
- Victor Nizet, Department of Pediatrics
- Alex Norbash, Department of Radiology
- Barbara Parker, Department of Medicine
- Renate Pilz, Department of Medicine
- Thomas Savides, Department of Medicine
- Stephen Spector, Department of Pediatrics
- Sam Ward, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Search Committee
- Jill Buckley (committee chair), Department of Urology
- Richard Gallo, Department of Dermatology
- Stephen Hayden, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Alexander Kauffman, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine
- Christine Miller, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine
- David Pride, Department of Pathology
- Elizabeth Rosenblum, Department of Family Medicine and Publich Health
- Mark Sawyer, Department of Pediatrics
- Farah Sheikh, Department of Medicine
- Ruth Waterman, Department of Anesthesiology
- Rebekah White, Department of Surgery
- Sidney Zisook, Department of Psychiatry
Search Committee
- Theodore Chan (committee chair), Department of Emergency Medicine
- Dalia Banks, Department of Anesthesiology
- Giovanna Casola, Department of Radiology
- Arno Ceponis, Department of Medicine
- Christine B. Chung, Department of Radiology
- Francis Gabbai, Department of Medicine
- Ken Kalunian, Department of Medicine
- Jeanne Lee, Department of Surgery
- Sara Merrill, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Robert Sah, Department of Orthopaedics, Bioengineering
- Reema Sanghvi, Department of Anesthesiology
- Simon Schenk, Department of Orthopaedics
- Alexandra Schwartz, Department of Orthopaedics
- Kenneth Taylor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
Search Committee
- Susan Ackerman, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
- James Brewer, Department of Neurosciences
- Ju Chen, Department of Medicine
- William Gerwick, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Asa Gustafsson, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Gabriel Haddad, Department of Pediatrics
- Andrew Lowy, Department of Surgery
- Christina Sigurdson, Department of Pathology
- Deborah Spector, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
- Nicholas Spitzer, Department of Neurobiology
- JoAnn Trejo, Department of Pharmacology
- Jing Yang, Department of Pharmacology
- Eugene Yeo, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Search Committee
- Mark Wallace (committee chair), Department of Anesthesiology
- Darwin Berg, Department of Neurobiology
- Gerry Boss, Department of Medicine
- Kerri Boutelle, Department of Pediatrics
- Hank Chambers, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Jody Corey-Bloom, Department of Neurosciences
- Ron Ellis, Department of Neurosciences
- David Folsom, Department of Psychiatry
- Healther Hofflich, Department of Medicine
- Kathy Kim, VA San Diego Healthcare System
- Paul Mills, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Abraham Palmer, Department of Psychiatry
- Marc Shuckit, Department of Psychiatry
- Susan Tapert, Department of Psychiatry
- Colin Thomas, Department of Medicine
- Karen Van Hoesen, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Marie Webber, Chief Administrative Officer - Women and Infants, Psychiatric and Ophthalmology Services
Search Committee
- Alison Moore (committee chair), Department of Medicine
- Tarik Benmarhnia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography / Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Christina Chambers, Department of Pediatrics
- Cristina Della Coletta, Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities
- Thomas Csordas, Department of Anthropology
- Janis Jenkins, Department of Anthropology
- Richard Kronick, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Scott Lippman, Director, Moores Cancer Center
- Elena Martinez, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
- Patty Maysent, CEO, UC San Diego Health
- Elliott McVeigh, Department of Bioengineering
- Andrew Ries, Department of Medicine
- Chip Schooley, Department of Medicine
- Randy Taplitz, Department of Medicine
- Robert Weinreb, Department of Ophthalmology
- Joshua Zivin, Department of Economics
How to Apply
Interested applicants should apply through UC San Diego Academic Personnel Services at its
AP On-Line Recruit website.