Executive Director, Stanford University Metabolic Center; Hybrid

The Stanford University School of Medicine (Department of Medicine) is launching the Stanford University Metabolic Center, a premier initiative uniting department across the School of Medicine and Stanford Health Care around one of the most consequential health challenges of our time: the epidemic of metabolic disease.

This is a ground-floor opportunity. As the first Executive Director, you won't inherit a center; you will help create one: by building its research infrastructure, forging the clinical-academic partnerships that will define how it operates for years to come, and establishing the philanthropic and industry relationships that will fuel its growth. Few roles in academic medicine offer this level of scope, visibility, and latitude to shape an institution's future.

The Center’s vision is to close the gap between discovery and care, connecting four research cores (Basic Science, Translational & Data Science, Precision Population Health, and Clinical Trials) directly to a Hub & Spoke clinical model across Stanford Health Care, so that advances in metabolic science move seamlessly from bench to bedside. Guided by Executive Sponsors, Dr. Euan Ashley and Dr.

Fatima Rodriguez, and led by Faculty Director, Dr. Paul Kwo, and Associate Faculty Director, Dr. Sun Kim, the Center is built on the premise that the next era of metabolic medicine will be won by institutions that can integrate research, clinical care, education, and philanthropy into a single, coordinated engine and the Executive Director is who makes that integration real.

Reporting to this leadership team, the Executive Director will lead, manage, and administer the Center’s strategic, academic, research, and educational operations with minimal supervision. You will drive the Center's university-side vision, build robust philanthropic and industry pipelines, oversee its research cores, and direct multidisciplinary educational programs, while partnering closely with Stanford Health Care’s Clinical Operations Directors to keep research and clinical care in lockstep.

This is a hybrid role and will require an on-site presence 3 days per week from our Redwood City Offices or the School of Medicine Campus in Palo Alto, with the option to work the remaining 2 days from a non-Stanford site, such as home.

• Integrate research and clinical care. Lead the operational integration of the Center's four Research Cores with Stanford Health Care's clinical pathways, ensuring patient intake flows seamlessly into recruitment registries and biobanking, and aligning the Hub & Spoke clinic model with active research protocols and data pipelines.
• Drive School of Medicine alignment. Build strategic alignment and collaboration across research programs, departments, and divisions throughout the School of Medicine, coordinating their work within the Center's four core areas.
• Build the Center’s infrastructure. Partner with the Research Manager to plan equipment and lab infrastructure from freezers to secure biospecimen storage that will support the Center's research for years to come.
• Shape the Center’s direction. Evaluate programs, policies, and operational trends from biobank throughput to philanthropic and NIH/NIDDK funding cycles and advise Center leadership on strategy, resourcing, and growth.
• Represent the Center. Serve as the School of Medicine's primary administrative representative for the Center, liaising across Medicine, Pediatrics, Genetics, Biomedical Data Science, and Engineering, and present regularly to the Center's Executive Sponsors and Board.
• Launch new ventures. Stand up the Industry Affiliates Program, establishing corporate sponsor ships and biotechnology partnerships that will help fund the Center's research…