Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD) is committed to fostering a vibrant, healthy, diverse and inclusive community where everyone can thrive and advance the school’s mission and cultivate its core values.
Focused on vitality, ongoing professional development, and promotion and tenure, this office provides both the resources and guidance to see faculty members from recruitment and appointment through to full tenure.
FAPD offers programming and events to support the IU School of Medicine community along their career journey.
Led by Mary Dankoski, PhD, executive associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, this team nurtures a culture that promotes faculty vitality and diversity; provides development activities that ensure effective and successful recruitment, appointment, retention and promotion; and trains and educates visionary, innovative leaders who are capable of promoting the school’s mission and capitalizing upon emerging challenges.
Dankoski’s interests include the advancement of women and underrepresented minority faculty, the study of faculty vitality, identifying how policies shape faculty life, and organizational and faculty development in academic medicine. Under her leadership, Faculty Affairs and Professional Development focuses on five key priorities to advance IU School of Medicine: faculty affairs, professional development, diversity, wellness along with faculty vitality and engagement.
Programs, policies and practices foster faculty success through each phase of their career at IU School of Medicine.
Training programs and resources enable faculty, learners and staff to enrich their careers and the communities they serve.
IU School of Medicine is committed to the comprehensive wellness of the school community.
Faculty input from surveys and town halls inform programmatic and policy decisions for the school.
7 IU faculty members named 2024 AAAS Fellows
The IU faculty are among 471 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been elected for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements throughout their careers.
March 27, 2025
IU School of Medicine faculty elected 2025 members of American Society for Clinical Investigation
Three Indiana University School of Medicine faculty have been recognized as 2025 members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
February 18, 2025
IU School of Medicine names clinician-scientist as new Department of Urology chair
IU School of Medicine's own Clint Cary, MD, MPH, MBA, has been named the new leader of the department.September 09, 2024
VA funds IU School of Medicine research projects relevant to veterans’ health
IU School of Medicine researchers have cumulatively been awarded grant funding through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to support research on diabetes, skin inflammation, cancer and aging.August 22, 2024
IU School of Medicine names new chair to lead Department of Ophthalmology
Indiana University School of Medicine has named a nationally-recognized glaucoma specialist as the new chair of the Department of Ophthalmology.March 21, 2024
