About the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean School of Medicine

Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., MD, MHS, serves as Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is responsible for advancing the educational and research missions of Georgetown University Medical Center including the robust and full integration of a shared academic mission with its academic health system partner of MedStar Health. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Neurology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

From 2019 to 2024, Beauchamp served as Executive Vice President for Health Sciences at Michigan State University. From 2016 to 2019, Beauchamp led the reorganization of the health colleges and the clinical practice at MSU into a unified health sciences structure to include the university’s clinical practice, osteopathic (DO) and allopathic (MD) medical colleges and the College of Nursing. He also led the creation of an anchor institution (large employers with significant infrastructure investment) in Grand Rapids and Detroit. In addition, Beauchamp also served as the co-architect, alongside leaders at Henry Ford Health, in establishing a 30-year partnership between MSU Health Sciences and Henry Ford Health. During MSU’s reorganization, Beauchamp held numerous roles including Dean, College of Human Medicine (2016-2019), Executive Dean of the Health Colleges (2018-2019), Assistant Vice President for Health Affairs (2018-2019) and Associate Provost for Health Affairs (2018-2024).

Beauchamp earned his medical degree at Michigan State University (MSU). He began his medical career at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he completed his radiology residency, neuroradiology fellowship, and neurointerventional training before joining their faculty in 1996. There, he served as vice chair for clinical operations and interim chair for radiology. He then moved to the University of Washington, where he spent 14 years as professor and chair of the Department of Radiology before joining MSU. While at University of Washington, he was also founding medical director of the Seattle King County Free Clinic.

Beauchamp is a leading physician/scientist in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke. As a neurointerventional radiologist, his research, published In more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has focused on improving approaches to stroke prevention, diagnosis and treatment.