LEAD: Enhancing Processes for Selecting Departmental Leaders

LEAD - an intervention focusing on enhancing the processes and procedures for selection of leadership positions within the School of Medicine (SOM) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) entailed developing and implementing a leadership selection toolkit comprising comprehensive resources for transparent search processes and procedures for internal, departmental leadership positions, as well as accountability measures to facilitate promising practices and track outcomes. LEAD increased utilization of transparent systemic processes for leadership selection and tracking of sustainable accountability structures across 28 departments. The toolkit is publicly accessible to facilitate application across academic medicine and other disciplines. LEAD-UC – Enhancing Processes for Selecting Leaders across UC Health Sciences involves the broader dissemination of LEAD across UC Health Sciences campuses.

LEAD and LEAD-UC have been supported by UCOP Advancing Faculty Diversity Awards.