Executive Vice President and Dean of Clinical Affairs
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. James McDeavitt serves as Executive Vice President and Dean of Clinical Affairs at Baylor College of Medicine. In that role he is responsible for the clinical mission of Baylor, including leadership of the Baylor Medicine academic practice. In addition, his responsibility is to create linkages—between physicians and affiliated hospitals; between Baylor educational programs and healthcare providers; between cutting-edge research programs and the bedside. These linkages help Baylor and its world-class affiliate institutions deliver patient-focused, high-quality care to the people of Houston and the world. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, he also served as Baylor’s Incident Command Center commander.
Dr. McDeavitt came to Baylor from the Carolinas HealthCare System (now Atrium Health), one of the largest and most comprehensive systems in the country, where he served as chief academic officer and senior vice president for education and research. During his nine years in that position, he led a substantial expansion of the academic mission of that organization. His responsibilities included all aspects of the academic enterprise: undergraduate and graduate medical education, continuing medical education, research from bench to clinical implementation and allied health education. Dr. McDeavitt also served as the founding associate dean for the Charlotte Campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Prior to his role at the Carolinas HealthCare System, Dr. McDeavitt was the founding chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Carolinas Medical Center. As chair, he worked with a team that built nationally recognized education and research programs, while simultaneously expanding inpatient and outpatient programs regionally.
