CHILDREN'S - Key Persons
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- Executive Director, Planned Giving
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- Fiscal Coordinator for Budgets
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Associate Dean for Research Workforce Development
- Senior Associate Dean for Research
- Senior Associate Deans
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- Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
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- Director, Business Development
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- Chief Communications and Marketing Officer ( SMHS / MFA )
- Communications & Marketing
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- Associate Dean for Educational Research / Co - Director, Academy of Education Scholars
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- Administrative Associate, SMHS
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH - NIDCR
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Founder and Former Executive Director of the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology
Additionally, Dr. Bass is the founder and former executive director of the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation, and Education, a state-of-the-art education and research center that has hosted training courses for more than 55,000 health care providers in practice. Dr. Bass served as chair of the surgery department in the Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group and held the John F. Jr. and Carolyn Bookout Distinguished Presidential Chair. She also held positions at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine; Texas A&M College of Medicine; and was a full member of the Houston Methodist Research Institute.
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- Director, Major and Principal Gifts
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- Associate Professor of Medicine
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- Senior Tech Support Associate
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- Research Scientist, University of Virginia ( Deceased )
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- Director, Translational Medical Research, Jining Medical University
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- Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management
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- Assistant Director, Constituent Engagement & Development
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Interim Chair
Catherine Bollard, MD
Associate Center Director for Translational Research and Innovation, GW Cancer Center
Interim Chair of the Department of Pediatrics
Associate Dean for Pediatric Academic Affairs
Professor of Pediatrics
Email: cbollard@gwu.edu
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- Instructional Learning Assistant
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- Manager, Research Programs SMHS / Finance & Research Administration
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- Medical Director, CLASS Center
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Senior Associate Director, Constituent Giving
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- Director, Registration & Records
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- Internal Medicine, Physician Associates of Virginia
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- Director, Major and Principal Gifts
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Director of the SMHS Center of Faculty Excellence
Debra Herrmann, PhD
Director of the SMHS Center of Faculty Excellence
(202) 994-5144
dee2a@gwu.edu
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- Coordinator
- Executive
- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
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- Program Coordinator, GME Office
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- Director of Administration and Strategic Initiatives
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- Program Associate
- Administrative Support
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- Senior Instructional Technologist, CLASS Center
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- Distinguished Teaching Professor / Associate Director, Teaching and Learning Resources and Career Development
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- Assistant Director, Leadership Annual Giving
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- Administrative Associate
- Administrative Support
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- Research Program Assistant / SMHS / Finance and Research Administration
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- Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Keer, S., K.M. Neilson, H.D. Majumdar, S.L. Klein, and S.A. Moody (2023) Bop1 is required to establish precursor domains of craniofacial tissues. genesis, The Journal of Genetics and Development (under revision).
Tavares, A.L.P., Jourdeuil, K., Neilson, K.M., Majumdar, H.D. and S.A. Moody (2021) Sobp modulates Six1 transcriptional activation and is required during craniofacial development. Development 148: dev199684 doi: 10.1242/dev.199684 PMID: 34414417.
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- Admin Supervisor, Classroom Services
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- Administrative Support
- Senior Administrative Assistant - Clinical Public Health
- Senior Center Administrator Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
- Graduate Medical Education
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- Director, SMHS Administration / Ops
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- Executive Director
- Associate Dean for International Medicine
Committee on Health Sciences Student Evaluation In accordance with the Student Handbook for Health Sciences Program, the Committee on Health Sciences Student Evaluation shall serve as the principal body to evaluate, advise, and provide oversight for matters pertaining to the academic and professional performance of students in the health sciences. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Lindsay Garmirian (1) Mountasser Kadrie (3) Graciela Lopez Gamboa (3) Claudia Ranniger (2) Lisa Schwartz (1) Marianne Vail (2) Committee on Research The Committee on Research shall develop policies and procedures to foster and promote research; serve as an advisory body to the Dean of SMHS for the allocation of fiscal and other resources in support of research; receive and review applications for intramural research support; and recommend faculty for awards in recognition of outstanding research activities. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Michael Bukrinsky (3) Aileen Chang Sabrina Figueiredo (2) Mardi Gomberg-Maitland (3) Mamta Gupta (2) Anjeni Keswani (1) Hui Lu (1) Paul Marvar (1) Andrew Meltzer Marcee Wilder
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- Residency Coordinator, Anesthesiology Programs
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- Interim Associate Dean of Admissions
- Interim Associate Dean of Admissions for the MD Program
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- Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, Health and Medicine
- Associate Vice President, Health & Medicine
- Development & Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Dean for Research, Regional Medical Campus / Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
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- Director, Division of Education / Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology / Director, Office of Professional and Respectful Learning
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- Assistant Vice President, Major and Principal Gifts
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health and Population Health Practice / Professor of Medicine
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- Associate Program Director, Clinical Education
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- Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology / Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
John Bethea, PhD, was most recently a professor in the Department of Biology at Drexel University, where he served as the Department Head from 2014 to 2019. Before joining the faculty at Drexel, Bethea held multiple positions within The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Bethea maintains an active, well-funded research program focused on the mechanisms and therapies for chronic neuropathic pain, mechanisms of spinal cord injury-induced immune dysfunction, and TNFR2 (tumor necrosis factor receptor-2) dependent sex differences in functional recovery and mechanisms of remyelination and neuroprotection with funding from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense. He also serves on numerous NIH and DoD review panels and has chaired the New Jersey Commission of Brain Injury since 2012.
Bethea earned his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western University and a Multiple Sclerosis Society postdoctoral fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has published nearly 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and research monographs on neuropathic pain in Multiple Sclerosis, cytokines in brain trauma, and spinal cord injury. He has served on the editorial boards for Neural Regeneration Research, the Journal of Neurochemistry, and the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. Bethea currently serves on the editorial boards for Experimental Neurology, he is the chief editor of Trends in Neuroinflammation, and he is a reviewer for many other journals.
He is a seasoned educator who has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in neuroscience, immunology, and cell and molecular biology, throughout his career. Bethea is a talented mentor, actively guiding the development of more than a dozen PhD students as well as postdoctoral fellows and research assistant professors in his lab.
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- Director, Communications and Marketing ( SMHS )
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- Founding Medical Director
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- Program Manager, Practice of Medicine
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Associate Dean for Health Sciences Director / Doctor of Health Sciences Program
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- Program Director, NIH - NHLBI
Yan, B., Neilson, K.M., Ranganathan, R., Streit, A., and S.A. Moody (2015) Microarray identification of novel genes downstream of Six1, a critical factor in cranial placode, somite and kidney development. Developmental Dynamics 244: 181-210. PMID: 25403746.
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- Assistant Dean for Clinical Public Health
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- Staff Scientist, NIH - NIDCD
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- Program Coordinator, GME MedHub
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- Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
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- Director, Office of Medical Education
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- Professor, University of Utah
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- Director, Major and Principal Gifts
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- Gross Anatomy Laboratory Manager
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- Assistant Dean of Admissions
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- Assistant Director, Stewardship
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- Executive Assistant
- Administrative Support
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Associate Director for Teaching and Learning Resources & Career Development
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- Special Assistant to the Dean and Vice President for Health Affairs:
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- Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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- Assistant Director, Office of Medical Education
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- Administrative Supervisor
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- Assistant Dean, Academic Planning and Curriculum Management
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- Executive Director, Constituent Engagement & Development
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Faculty Recruitment Coordinator
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- Associate Dean for Student Affairs
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- Executive Director of Development, GW Cancer Center
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- Associate Dean for Health Affairs
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- Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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- Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Dr. Spencer's research program explores empirical and theoretical issues in morphological evolution, phylogeny estimation, systematics, and biogeography. He works primarily with archosaurian reptiles (particularly dinosaurs), using phylogenetic systematic methods to determine evolutionary relationships, rates of origination and diversification, and patterns of morphological variation through time.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Committee on the Learning Environment The Committee on the Learning Environment (CLE) shall advise the Dean and provide oversight of the learning environment for students and residents at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Supria Batra (1) Khalil Diab (3) Laura Green (3) Tenagne Haile-Mariam (3) Mountasser Kadrie (2) Jennnifer Keller Maria Lauer (3) Ahdeah Pajoohesh-Ganji (1) Committee on Medical Student Evaluation (MSEC) In accordance with the Regulations for MD Candidates, the MSEC shall provide oversight on all matters related to the evaluation and advancement for promotion for the graduation of medical students. The MSEC will be responsible for evaluating students referred by the Dean's office for academic difficulties, and allegations of honor code violations and/or issues of professional comportment. The MSEC will review and, as necessary, recommend revisions to the Regulations for MD Candidates to the Executive Committee. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Andrea Anderson (1) April Barbour (2) Marie Borum (1) L. Thompson Bowles (1) Gia Bradley (3) Candice Dawes (1) Mark Elliott (3) Joseph Goodman (2) Tina Halley (2) Colton Hood (1) Kurt Johnson (3) David Mendelowitz (2) Keith Mortman (2) Folasade Ogunlesi (2) Abigail Polter (3)
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- Legal Counsel
- Senior Counsel
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- Director
- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Director, Faculty Administration
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- Finance
- Assistant Dean Finance and Principal Business Officer / Finance Director - Research Investment
- Assistant Dean Finance and Principal Business Officer / Finance Director - Research Investment, Strategy & Operations
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- Program Director, NIH - NIDDK
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- Director, Finance & Operations
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- Faculty Development Associate for Education Research
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
Committee on MD Program Admissions The Committee on MD Program Admissions shall be responsible for making decisions regarding accepting students into the MD program and shall recommend changes to the rules and standards for the selection and admission of students to the Executive Committee. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Laura Abate (3) Jonah Abraham (3) Supria Batra (3) Allan Goldstein (2) Katrina Hawkins (2) Vimala Jayanthi (2) Kirti Johal (1) Salim Lala (3) Juliet Lee (2) Susie Lew (3) Angelike Liappis (3) Anne Linton (2) Nehal Mehta (1) Athol Morgan (3) Keith Mortman (1) Christian Nagy (2) Meghan Schott (3) Donna Schwartz (2) Dipa Sheth (2) Simranjeet Sran (2) Sangeeta Sule (1) Alan Wasserman (2) Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure (APT) The APT Committee shall be responsible for reviewing and recommending, for the Dean's approval, faculty appointments or promotions in the ranks of Associate Professor and Professor, in both tenure and non-tenure accruing appointments. The APT Committee shall also review specific and special cases based on the referral by the Dean and shall review the SMHS, "Guidelines for Appointment, Promotion and Tenure" for approval by the Dean and Faculty Assembly. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Janice Blanchard (3) Ellen Costello (3) Jillian Catalanotti (1) Robert Hawley (3) Naomi Luban Paige McDonald (3) Paul Marvar (1) Janini Rangaswami (2) James Scott (3) Ameet Singh (1) Susan Walley (3) Ray-Chang Wu (3) Qing Zeng (3) Vacant
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- Training and Coaching Manager, Leadership Sculptor, Gmbh
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for SMHS MD Program
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- Administrative Associate - VPHA
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- Data Analyst, Curriculum Evaluation
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- Chief / Executive Director, Clinical Research Administration & Operations
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Associate Dean for Student Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Associate Dean for MD Programs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor / Vice Dean
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- Assistant Dean for Pre - Clinical Education
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Program Manager, Immersive Learning Center
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- Administrative Assistant, Class Center
- Director, CLASS Center
Dr. Moody received her bachelor's degree from Goucher College. She conducted her MS research in neuroscience under the tutelage of Richard Meszler, PhD, at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, which launched her career path exploring the nervous system. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Florida and served a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah until 1983. She then went to the University of Virginia and served on the faculty of the Anatomy & Cell Biology Department, the Department of Neuroscience, and the Developmental Biology program. In 1992, Dr. Moody joined GW as a full professor in the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology.
For more than 40 years, Dr. Moody's lab has been working on issues specific to the development of the nervous system including the cranial sensory structures. Her research aims to discover mechanisms regulating neural cell fate and causes of birth defects.
Dr. Moody has published more that 100 scientific articles, numerous book chapters and reviews and five books, co-edited the "Evolutionary Cell Biology" book series, served on several scientific advisory boards, editorial boards and professional society executive boards. She currently is the Special Contents editor for the journal "Developmental Biology". Dr. Moody has received grants for her research from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the March of Dimes. She has been recognized for her contributions by being elected a Fellow of the American Association for Anatomy, a member of the Society for Developmental Biology Academy, and receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Xenopus Conference and the David W. Bixler Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology.
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- Professor, Cincinnati Children 's Hospital Medical Center
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- Research Grant Associate SMHS
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Chief of Staff
- Vice President for Health Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Continuing Education Coordinator
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- Administrative Support
- Executive Coordinator for Year
- Program Coordinator for Student Affairs Year
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- Program Manager, Curriculum Evaluation
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- Assistant Professor, Lincoln Memorial University
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- Assistant Dean for Evaluation
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- Assistant Professor, Worcester State University
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- Senior Research Scientist, New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
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- Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
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- Research Fiscal Administrator SMHS / Finance and Research Administration
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- Director / SMHS / Finance & Research Administration
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Program Associate
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Senior Instructional Designer
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Education
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- Associate Dean for Health Sciences Research
Committee on Health Sciences Curricula The Committee on Health Sciences Curricula shall advise the Dean and provide oversight regarding matters pertaining to the program and curricular development within the Health Sciences Program. This committee shall consider all matters of undergraduate and graduate health sciences education, including new program and course proposals, major changes in existing programs and courses, and other matters significantly affecting the curriculum. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Clifford Cymrot (1) Sabrina Figueiredo (2) Karen Goodman (2) Sephora Morrison (1) Carol Rentas (2) Kathleen Thoma (3) Nate'le'ge Wardlow (2) Committee on Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum (CUMEC) The CUMEC shall advise the Dean and provide oversight on the establishment and review of the goals, objectives, and evaluation of the undergraduate medical education program. Committee Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses) Farhan Ali (3) Andrea Anderson Susan Bathgate (3) Susan Ceryak (2) Michael Czarnecki Teresa Doerre (3) Uhnoh Kim (3) Kurt Johnson (2) David Leitenberg Raymond Pla (2) Christina Prather Anna Rubin (1) Nicholas Shworak (1) Xian "Sam" Zhao (2)
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- Administrative Associate for Student Affairs, Years I & II
- Administrative Support
- Executive Coordinator for Years I & II
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- Associate Dean for Child Health Research
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- Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor / Vice Dean
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- Faculty Affairs Staff Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Continuing Education in the Health Professions
- Interim Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Affairs
- Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Faculty Affairs / Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Continuing Professional Development Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Affairs
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- Project Scientist, University of California, Irvine
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- HRI Scientist, Roswell Park Cancer Institute