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Andrew Bean, Ph.D.
Of Counsel
Chicago IL USA
Get in TouchAndrew Bean, Ph.D. is an accomplished academic administrator, researcher, and educator with nearly three decades of exceptional experience within academic medicine. Andy earned a doctoral degree from Yale University and served postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and Sweden’s famed Karolinska Institute. He brings a love of learning, science, and leadership to his role as Of Counsel for WittKieffer’s Academic Medicine practice. In supporting the recruitment of CEOs, provosts, deans, department chairs, and other senior academic medicine executives, Andy strives to identify leaders whose unique skillsets and missions can drive growth and transformation at prominent medical/graduate schools and academic health systems.
Most recently Andy was Vice Provost for Research at Rush University as well as Dean of the Rush University Graduate College in Chicago. As Vice Provost, Andy was responsible for development and implementation of a strategic plan for basic, translational, and clinical research to enable the research enterprise to reach aspirational goals. As Dean, he was responsible for development of administrative and leadership teams and implementation of educational policies, faculty hiring/development/tenure and promotion policies, as well as strategic planning and partnership development that enabled the College to achieve academic, educational, and financial goals. Before that, Andy was Professor and served as Associate Dean at the MD Anderson/University of Texas Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In these roles his laboratory performed neuroscience and cancer research, and he was responsible for graduate school admissions, student recruitment and retention, diversity, career development, alumni engagement, and more. For the preceding 10 years, he was the Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the same school. Andy has continued his research, scholarship, and teaching throughout his career.
In his personal life, Andy enjoys exercise (run, bike, swim, ski) as well as playing and listening to many genres of music.
Distinctions
20+ years on NIH and International Grant Review Panels (n>50)
University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award
Rush University Endowed Presidential Professorship
Board service (American Women in Science, Texas Medical Center Consulting Group
Soc. for Neuroscience, Am. Soc. for Cell Biology, Am. Assn. for Cancer Research
Education
Ph.D., Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.A., Psychobiology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Stanford University, Karolinska Institute, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research