Daichi Shimbo: New Senior Vice President and Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs

Daichi Shimbo, MD, has been appointed senior vice president and vice dean of faculty affairs for the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and VP&S. Dr. Shimbo is a highly regarded physician-scientist, professor of medicine, and associate dean of research career development at VP&S. Dr. Shimbo also serves as co-director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

Since joining Columbia in 2003, Dr. Shimbo has secured continuous NIH funding as a principal investigator and led groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research that has advanced the understanding of how behavioral, psychosocial, and biological factors contribute to the increased cardiovascular disease risk associated with hypertension.

A dedicated educator and mentor, Dr. Shimbo is a recipient of the Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar Award. He will continue in his current role as a scientific and administrative leader of the Irving Institute’s training and education resource, TRaining And Nurturing Scholars FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary (TRANSFORM), for which he supervises interdisciplinary career development programs for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior and mid-career faculty.

Dr. Shimbo served two terms as a Columbia University senator, serving first on the Faculty Affairs, Academic Freedom, and Tenure Committee, and more recently on the Education Committee. Dr. Shimbo has also held leadership roles on several high-profile scientific committees, including those at the NIH and the American Heart Association, and has served on expert panels organized by the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Shimbo has been working closely with Anne Taylor, MD, senior vice president for faculty affairs and career development at CUIMC and vice dean of academic affairs at VP&S, and her team before Dr. Taylor’s retirement.