Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies College of Medicine

Jay Moskowitz, Ph.D., joined the Penn State College of Medicine in January 2002. His administrative and organizational responsibilities are with Penn State University as Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Research (University Park Campus) and at the College of Medicine as Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (Hershey Medical Center). Dr. Moskowitz holds appointments as tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, College of Health and Human Development (University Park Campus).

Dr. Moskowitz has twenty-seven years of experience at the National Institute of Health where he started his career as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Pharmacology Research Associate Program, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and culminated after being appointed Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Moskowitz spent eight years between his appointment at NIH and Penn State at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine as Senior Associate Dean (Science and Technology).

Dr. Moskowitz dedicated his NIH career to developing programs that would serve to facilitate the research careers of emerging basic and physician investigators. He was responsible for developing the Pulmonary Young Investigator Award, Pulmonary Academic Award, numerous trans-NIH career development K awards and the Shannon Award.

More recently he has been publishing in peer-reviewed journals on the plight of the physician investigator. His article on "Preventing the Extinction of the Clinical Research Ecosystem" (JAMA, 1997) is responsible for the Clinical Research Summit that was co-sponsored by the AMA and AAMC and has given rise to the Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable (CRR). Dr. Moskowitz continues to be involved in CRR programs and serves on the Executive Committee of the Academic Health Center Clinical Research Forum.