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With more than 6,000 teammates, we will empower the SOM community to effectively serve North Carolina by creating an ecosystem of development, service and belonging that attracts the best talent and promotes their success and retention.

The UNC School of Medicine aims to recruit, develop and retain highly qualified teammates who can help us achieve our mission. Our teammates provide leadership and excellence in the areas of patient care, education and research, striving to promote employee and learner development in a respectful environment where colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning and create personal and professional sustainability.

Value and Develop Our People Objectives

  • Develop a people strategy that ensures our ability to recruit faculty and staff candidates from all backgrounds, and effectively onboard, develop, retain and promote them.
    • Develop life cycle plans for School of Medicine employees from recruitment to retirement to position our people to meet career goals.
    • Implement outreach and recruitment best practices to attract exemplary candidates from all backgrounds.
  • Cultivate a safe, inclusive environment where all people feel valued.
    • Expand wellness approaches and support services and promote appreciation efforts to make our faculty, staff and learners feel valued.
    • Expand efforts to ensure the School of Medicine sets and maintains high standards of professionalism and creates a welcoming environment.
  • Reduce administrative hurdles across the school to enable our community to focus on advancing the mission.
    • Evaluate and streamline administrative requirements and demands, and establish Centers of Excellence to develop best practices that make it easier for our teammates to make an impact.
  • Ensure school infrastructure, tools and technology are effective in enabling faculty and staff to achieve the tripartite mission.
    • Evaluate and implement technology solutions that enable our teammates to be more efficient and enhance productivity.
    • Partner with UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health to better align technology to enable effective collaboration.
    • Build data infrastructure and enhance data security to optimize data usage across mission areas.

How We Will Measure Our Success

  • SOM community engagement and satisfaction rating
  • SOM full time employee retention rates

Thank Yous

Thank you to the following teammates who helped develop our people pillar:

  • Karlina Matthews
  • Steve Bogdewic
  • Nate Thomas
  • Benny Joyner
  • Nicole Byrd
  • Keisha Gibson
  • Harvey Lineberry
  • Ashalla Freeman
  • Erin Malloy
  • Patty Saponary
  • Joan Taylor
  • Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena
  • Becky Phelps
  • Shannelle Campbell
  • Samatha Meltzer-Brody
  • Michelle Floris-Moore
  • Tye Harrison
  • Patty White
  • Leslie Wimmer
  • Paul Marini
  • Makayla King
  • Kristy Borawski
  • Sara Pflum
  • HJ Kim
  • Nadia Charguia
  • Dallas Carter
  • Eileen Burker
  • Lukasz Mazur
  • Jana Ross
  • Sara Beland
  • Blair Allen
  • Isabel Jordan Roth
  • Paul Clement
  • Alison Regan
  • Jill Jemison
  • Mike Kane
  • Sapna Varkey
  • Jeremy Purvis
  • Aaron Fisher
  • Eric M. Wallen
  • Matt Englund
  • Mike Plesh
  • Brian Penders
  • Joseph Thomas