The new position aims to support efforts towards innovative career development
Renée Shellhaas, MD, will join Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in October as Vice Dean of Faculty Promotion and Career Development. Shellhaas, whose research focuses on neonatal neurology, will also join the Department of Neurology as a professor.
Renée Shellhaas, MD, has been appointed Vice Dean of Faculty Promotion and Career Development at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. She comes to school from the University of Michigan, where she is the Vice Chairman of Career Development and a pediatric neurologist. She will start her new role in October.
Shellhaas will also be established as Professor David T. Blasingame and will join the Department of Neurology as a professor.
In this position, Shell Hearth works with the Faculty of Medicine leadership team to provide innovative institutional programming aimed at improving faculty career development, including promotion and tenure processes, and other ways to support faculty. Develop In addition, she seeks new ways to bring coaching, management and leadership training programs to school faculties, laboratories and departments.
“Dr. Shellhaas has been selected from a national survey of highly talented candidates and has given us national leadership in innovative strategies to promote a complete and diverse spectrum of faculty careers. Unanimously approved by an executive faculty member to be promoted. The Prime Minister of Medicine, George and Carol Bower Dean, and the prominent professors of Spencer T. and Anne W. Olin. “This is very much for our school. An important area. We aim to be a more attractive home for researchers, clinicians, educators and entrepreneurs seeking a deeply purposed and inspirational career and life balance. Rene’s career as a clinician, educator, and researcher provides a wide range of experience that we can use to pursue these goals. “
The focus of Shellhaas’ research is neonatal neurology and juvenile epilepsy, including seizure detection, an improved therapeutic paradigm, and an approach to predicting long-term outcomes in affected babies. She is also a leader in research on sleep and breathing disorders and their effects on high-risk newborn neurological development, and was awarded the Sleep Science Award by the American Academy of Neurology for this purpose.
She has published extensively and is a Principal Investigator for two active R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Neurology and is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child Neurology, Pediatric Neurology, and the Annals of the Child Neurology Society. Earlier this summer, she was appointed President-elect of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation.
In addition to her many leadership roles at the University of Michigan and multiple professional organizations, Shellhaas was elected a member of the American Pediatric Society and the Pediatric Research Society, and a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society. In addition, she has a strong track record in mentoring and education. She received the first Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Mentorship from the University of Michigan’s Pediatrics Department.
Shellhaas is a graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She was trained in pediatrics, neurology / pediatric neurology, and clinical neurophysiology at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. She joined the University of Michigan Faculty in 2007, was promoted to Professor in 2019, and was promoted to Career Development Leadership in 2020. She also received a Master’s degree in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2009.
