Colleen E. Clancy

Colleen Clancy

Position Title
FRI Board Member
Associate Dean for Faculty and Professional Development at the School of Medicine
Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Membrane Biology and Pharmacology
Director of the UC Davis Center for Precision Medicine and Data Science

  • Department of Pharmacology
Bio

Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D., is committed to improving the well-being of faculty, as demonstrated by her past roles as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel at UC Davis Health; 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 on the school’s faculty salary equity task force.

She is an alumna of the 2015–16 class for the national program Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), and was awarded the 2014 Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award in the area of Research at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Clancy was also the recipient of the 2018 Deans’ Team Award for Excellence in the area of 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 received the 2020 UC Davis School of Medicine Research Award.

Clancy has authored more than 100 published works. She serves as associate editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology Clinical Electrophysiology and as a member of the editorial board of The Journal of General Physiology, the advisory board of the National Biomedical Computation Resource, as a member of the NIH Multiscale Modeling Consortium and on 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 junior and senior investigators are funded by multiple NIH programs to support computational modeling and simulation of physiological systems research.