Office for Academic Careers (OAC) Faculty

As the Faculty Career Development Director, Dr. Hackney will be responsible for internal and external facing constituencies, including but not limited to, facilitating the work of the other directors in the Office for Academic Careers; improving communications and contacts with HMS, and other HMS-affiliated academic medical centers; and, serving as the primary liaison to the Consortium of Harvard Affiliated Offices for Faculty Development and Diversity (CHADD), and Harvard Catalyst. This role will be focused on improving interactions and communications across BIDMC, including integrating efforts for improved funding/support and career advancement, and working synergistically with department chairs, HMFP, and the Shapiro Institute, among others, to allow integration and avoid duplication.

Dr. Hackney is a Professor of Radiology and an Assistant Dean for Faculty Development at Harvard Medical School. David has been at BIDMC since July 2003, starting as the Chief of Neuroradiology and now as Radiology Vice Chair for Faculty Development and for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as the Chief of Neuroradiology. He founded a Radiology Department Faculty Development Committee and has led efforts to make the HMS process more transparent while helping BIDMC faculty progress in their careers. Prior to joining BIDMC, David was a professor at UPenn where he founded and led the Radiology Department Faculty Development Committee, and served as the Chair of the Faculty Senate, representing the faculty throughout the University, not just those in the medical school. David earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard College and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the University of California San Diego-affiliated hospitals and his fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Lembo, in his role as the Clinical Research and Education Career Director, will work one-on-one with our physician colleagues and in larger settings geared toward advancing clinical careers for academic clinicians and clinical educators. This internal (BIDMC) facing role is focused on our colleagues interested in clinical research with industry trials, smaller projects and with only limited grant funding/expectations, or those on the educational pathways. The Clinical Research and Education Director will work synergistically with the department chairs, HMFP, and the Shapiro Institute, among others, to integrate resources in support of our colleagues in their progression along the HMS Clinical Expertise and Innovation promotions track.

Dr. Lembo is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has been a member of the BIDMC Division of Gastroenterology since 1997. As the Director of the GI Motility and Functional Bowel Disorder Center, he has reviewed legions of medical school, residency, and fellowship applications; revised myriad grant requests; and worked to ensure that numerous junior faculty members have the requisite publications and speaking engagements for promotion. Dr. Lembo has mentored and celebrated numerous Research Assistants' acceptances to medical schools, Residents' publications in reputed journals, Fellows' successful applications for NIH K Awards, and Clinical Instructors' promotions to Assistant Professors. Through hundreds of multicenter clinical trials and other collaborative research projects along with numerous speaking engagements and professional organization committee posts, he has built relationships with faculty at most of the major academic medical centers nationwide. His research has focused on the development of novel treatments for functional bowel disorders including chronic idiopathic constipation, and has also explored the role of placebo and methods of enhancing the placebo response. Dr. Lembo earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Amherst College, and his medical degree from Tufts Medical School. He subsequently completed his internal medicine internship/residency as well as gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

As the Translational/Basic Research Career Director, Dr. Otterbein will work one-on-one with our colleagues and in larger settings geared toward advancing translational/basic research careers. This internal facing (BIDMC) role is focused on our colleagues whose efforts require federal grant funding to complete their work with an emphasis on translational and basic science research. The Translational/Basic Research Career Director will work synergistically with the department chairs, HMFP, and others, to integrate resources in support of our faculty in their career progression, including the HMS Investigations promotions track.

Dr. Otterbein is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and joined BIDMC in 2004. He earned his PhD in Physiology at Johns Hopkins University with graduate and postdoctoral training at Yale University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His research program investigates gastrotransmitters and danger signaling and their role in health and disease. Dr. Otterbein brings over twenty years of experience as a successful academic researcher and mentor with continued funding, service to the NIH and Department of Defense, as well as the medical school and affiliated institutions. He brings decades of experience in working with technology venture, drug development, and promoting relationships with the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. Collectively, Dr. Otterbein brings unique expertise in guiding career development and is dedicated to teaching and mentoring the next generation of translational researchers.