Shawn Wilson, PhD

Dr. Shawn Wilson serves as the Faculty Director of Academic Career Support and Advising in the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA). In this role, he partners with academic departments and other key offices to provide faculty development programming for career advancement. Dr. Wilson’s primary functions include offering advice and feedback to individual faculty regarding academic progress, introducing programs such as orientation that assist faculty in achieving their academic goals, overseeing nominations for external faculty awards, and supporting our faculty-related accreditation processes. As an Assistant Professor of Health System Science, Dr. Wilson teaches in the Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID) thread and Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) across all four years of the curriculum. 

Dr. Wilson is a national leader in faculty affairs and EID, having previously served as both Vice Chair of Diversity and Professional Development and Director of Faculty Development at Indiana University School of Medicine. He has spent the past decade creating faculty development programming and coaching faculty. His scholarship and research center on medical education, faculty development, the experience of faculty, and (in)equity in academic medicine. Dr. Wilson is active through the AAMC Groups on Faculty Affairs and Diversity and Inclusion and has also served as an institutional representative for the AAMC Council on Faculty and Academic Societies.