Organization and Administration

The work of the School of Medicine is divided among 29 academic departments. Each department includes an appropriate number of professors, associate and assistant professors, instructors, associates, and assistants. Clinical departments also utilize the services of volunteer faculty, drawn from North Carolina’s privately practicing physicians and surgeons.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine is governed by the Board of Trustees of Wake Forest University through its Health Affairs Committee. Administrative responsibility for the school is delegated, by the University President, to the President of Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Health Sciences also has a separate subsidiary board. Responsibility for management of the educational/academic mission is delegated to the Dean of the School of Medicine.