Principal, Academic Medicine and Health Sciences
WittKieffer
Valerie Weber, M.D., M.S., FACP is a physician leader and International Coaching Federation-credentialed executive coach with over 25 years of experience in academic medicine, healthcare systems leadership, and clinical operations. Informed by her clinical background in Internal Medicine, she is passionate about identifying and developing executives who can truly make a difference in their work. As a Principal for WittKieffer, Valerie supports the recruitment of CEOs, chief medical officers, deans, department chairs, and other senior academic medicine executives.
In her past role as Dean at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University, she was responsible for the academic operations of the medical school, a multi-specialty group practice, and community-academic partnerships with regional health systems. (She remains Dean Emerita for BSOM.) Earlier, as Senior Vice Dean for Educational Affairs at Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Valerie led all aspects of undergraduate and graduate medical education, creating multiple new clinical campuses, including a new four-year medical school campus, and spearheading a wide-ranging curriculum renewal process that resulted in a state of the art, innovative medical curriculum. She was on the founding leadership team for a new medical school, The Commonwealth Medical College (now Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine), where she served as Chair of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Prior to that, she spent ten years in a clinical and operational leadership role at Geisinger Health System. She has served on the administrative board of the Council of Deans, AAMC, and has extensive knowledge of LCME accreditation requirements. Valerie received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in health care management from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
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Moving Into a Physician Leadership Role Boot Camp (PLEAD)
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