Contact the Faculty Senate

The Faculty Senate represents all Standing Faculty and Standing Faculty Clinician-Educators at Penn.

Please contact the Senate Office to register a comment on a matter of pertinence to Penn faculty and/or to get involved in the work of the Faculty Senate and its committees.

J. Patrick Walsh
Faculty Senate Executive Assistant

Mailing and Physical Address:
Duhring Wing, Room 109
236 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA  19104

Office phone:  (215) 898-6943

Email: senate@pobox.upenn.edu

Faculty Senate Tri-Chairs (2025-2026)


  • Past Chair, Faculty Senate
  • Heimbold Chair in International Law
  • Professor of Law
  • Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
  • Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate
  • Special Advisor to the Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine
  • Director, Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS)
  • Director, Penn Brain Science, Translation and Modulation (brainSTIM) Center
  • Professor of Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
  • Chair, Faculty Senate
  • David Boies Professor of History