Clinical Expertise and Innovation 
This area of excellence is appropriate when a specific area of clinical expertise provides the unifying theme for the candidate's academic activities and achievements. The individual is considered a leader in a clinical field. The candidate may have a reputation as an innovator in approaches to diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease, applications of technology to clinical care and/or in developing models of care delivery. The candidate must demonstrate scholarship, which may include chapters and reviews in the area of clinical expertise, guidelines/protocols for patient care, publications evaluating the impact of a clinical innovation and/or other research publications. There should be a strong educational component in the clinical field (reported in Teaching and Education) and the individual may participate in clinical, translational, or basic scientific research related to the clinical field (if research activities are substantial, investigation should be designated as a supporting activity).
At the Assistant Professor level, the candidate must have evidence of a strong local reputation as an expert in a clinical field with a leadership role and/or a key role in activities that influence practice, such as approaches to diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease, applications of technology to clinical care and/or development or local adoption of innovative models of care delivery. The candidate must have first author scholarship related to the clinical field and should be teaching in the clinical field.
For promotion to Associate Professor, the candidate must have a strong regional, and most often national, reputation as an independent expert who has influenced the clinical field. He/she may have demonstrated innovation in approaches to diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease, the development/application of technology for clinical care and/or the development of novel models of care delivery that influence care at a regional, and often national, level. The candidate must have an active teaching role and have influential first and senior author scholarship in the area of clinical expertise.
For promotion to Professor, the candidate must have a sustained national, and in many cases international, reputation as a leader and innovator in a clinical field. The candidate's expertise must be demonstrated through high impact scholarship. The candidate must have a significant influence on practice in the clinical field nationally, and often internationally, as a result of his/her teaching, scholarship and innovation.
