Michelle Baehl
Michelle Baehl pillars of responsibility are recruitment, training and staff development for the division. Prior to joining SMU in 2017, Baehl worked for two years as the Director of Talent Management at the Center for Enhancing Philanthropy for the University of Texas System. Her main responsibilities were recruitment and to develop a system-wide internship program for the 14 UT institutions in development. Before returning to the UT System to work, Baehl was Vice President of Healthcare Recruitment with Performance Search Group in Houston, Texas. She was responsible for healthcare recruiting and for sourcing and attracting top talent for our clients while utilizing best practices to maximize satisfaction for candidate and client companies. Baehl has extensive recruitment and networking experience in physician and executive level positions for academic medical centers and prominent hospitals in The Texas Medical Center. For twelve years, she developed and operated the first in-house Executive Search Program at The University of Texas Medical, Branch (UTMB), the first academic health center in Texas and among the oldest in the nation.