Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty and Professional Development
Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Professional Development and a professor in the Departments of Physiology and Membrane Biology and Pharmacology at the UC Davis School of Medicine. She currently serves as the Interim Chair of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy and the Director of the UC Davis Center for Precision Medicine and Data Science. Clancy previously served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel at UC Davis Health.
Clancy has served as Chair of a UC System-wide Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity, Chair of the Compensation Advisory Committee at the UC Davis School of Medicine and as a member of the school’s faculty salary equity task force. She is an alumna of the 2015-16 class for the national Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program and was awarded the 2014 Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award in Research at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Clancy was also the recipient of the 2018 Deans’ Team Award for Excellence in Research, the 2018-19 Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community in the Academic Senate Category, and the 2018-19 Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community in the Special Recognition Category (team award). She also received the 2020 UC Davis School of Medicine Research Award.
Clancy has authored more than 100 published works. She has recently served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of General Physiology, the advisory board of the National Biomedical Computation Resource, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Multiscale Modeling Consortium, and the Heart Rhythm Society Fellowship Subcommittee. Additionally, she engages in peer review for dozens of national and international granting agencies and journals. Clancy oversees a multidisciplinary team of investigators funded by multiple NIH programs to support computational modeling and simulation of physiological systems research.