Barchi began as his career an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. By 1985,he was the David Mahoney Professor of Neurological Sciences. He served as director of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences from 1983 to 1996. In 1992,Barchi became the chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine,a department that he had founded. He led the Department of Neurology from 1995 to 1999.
At Thomas Jefferson University,Barchi oversaw establishment of the College of Pharmacy and College of Population Health,expanded oncology programs,and increased student enrollment by 51 percent. He also doubled the level of annual fundraising.
Barchi oversaw the formation of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences in 2013 and the entrance of Rutgers University-New Brunswick into the Big Ten Conference a year later. He led the establishment and construction of an honors college at New Brunswick that contributed to a 50-point rise in average SAT scores of incoming students over four years. Barchi welcomed President Barack Obama to speak at the 2016 commencement ceremony celebrating Rutgers' 250th anniversary year. He directed $2.5 billion in new construction at Rutgers and an increase in annual fundraising from $95 million in 2012 to $251 million in 2019. Barchi helped negotiate an agreement between Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health in 2018 to jointly operate New Jersey's largest academic health system.
In July 2019,he announced that he would retire at the end of the 2019–2020 school year.
Personal life
Barchi is married to Francis Harper Barchi,an academic on faculty at Rutgers' Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Barchi is an authority on timepieces,with a special interest in their history and mechanical development.[7][8][9][10] He has two adult children,Jonathan and Jennifer,and two adult step-children,Faris and Millan.[7]
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