Professional Development
Under the direction of Dr. Petros Levounis, Associate Dean for Professional Development, the office guides and mentors faculty as they seek promotions in their academic rank, or tenure, as well as oversee student career development.
Faculty and students achieve personal and professional fulfillment by:
- Clarifying their values
- Setting their career mission
- Assessing their skills and abilities in specific domains
- Conducting a personal SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) with their career mission in mind
- Asking themselves "How does this fit with what the institution expects?"
Petros Levounis, MD, MA, serves as professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean for Professional Development at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is also the chief of service at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Levounis came to Rutgers from Columbia University where he served as director of the Addiction Institute of New York from 2002 to 2013.
Dr. Levounis is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University where he studied chemistry and biophysics before receiving his medical education at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1994, he moved to New York City to train in psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University. He graduated from Columbia earning the National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Resident Award and went on to complete his fellowship in addiction psychiatry at New York University.
Dr. Levounis has served on the boards of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and from 2005 to 2009 chaired the national Committee on Addiction Treatment of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Levounis is a Betty Ford Scholar and a recipient of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists’ Distinguished Service Award and the ASAM Educator of the Year Award. In 2017, he was elected as an honorary member of the World Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Levounis has published fourteen books on substance abuse, addiction, mindfulness and mental health; his work has also been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
