The Graduate School would like to acknowledge the faculty members participating in various committees at the school. These committees are instrumental to the school’s operations, and the GSBS greatly appreciates these committee members for their time.

 Academic Standards Committee

Chair: Jason Stafford, PhD

Returning Members: Bin Wang, PhD; Zhen Fan, MD; Prahlad Ram, PhD; Ali Azhdarinia, MD; Nayun Kim, PhD; Sheng Zhang, PhD

New Members: Guangwei Du, PhD; Dung-Fang Lee, PhD; Meagan Choates, MS

Alternates: Melvin Klegerman, PhD; Chunru Lin, PhD; Shawn Bratton, PhD; Roza Nurieva, PhD; Jinzhong Yang PhD; Nicholas De Lay, PhD; Michael Beierlein, PhD; Liang Li, PhD; Xiaodong C. Cheng, PhD;  Kathryn Leal, MS

Standing Committees

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

Chair: Melinda Yates, PhD

Returning Members: Jennifer Czerwinski, MS; Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, MD; Daniel Harrington, PhD; Ralf Krahe, PhD

Admissions Committee

Chair: Anna Konovalova, PhD

New Members: Jun Wang, PhD; Heidi Kaplan, PhD; Ryan Sun, PhD

Returning Members: Lawrence Kwong, MD; Jin Seon Im, MD, PhD; Kai Sun, MD, PhD; Akihiko Urayama, PhD; Sabrina Bertilaccio, PhD; Sheng Pan, PhD (At-Large); Francesca Cole, PhD (At-Large); Eugenie Kleinerman, MD (At-Large); Jian Hu, PhD (At-Large); Kendra Carmon, PhD (At-Large); Jun-Ichi Abe, MD, PhD (At-Large); Suhendan Ekmekcioglu, PhD (At-Large); Nils-Petter Rudqvist, PhD (At-Large); George Eisenhoffer, Jr., PhD (At-Large); Wei Cao, PhD (At-Large)

 Curriculum Committee

Chair: Richard Bouchard, PhD

New Members: Pamela Wenzel, PhD; Wantong Yao, PhD; Jian Wang, PhD

Returning Members: Shane Cunha, PhD; Ann-Marie Krachler, PhD ; Blaine Bartholomew, PhD; Guang Peng, MD, PhD; Michael Zhu, PhD

Alternate: Leslie Dunnington, MS

Executive Committee

3 At-Large Representatives

New Members: Mike Curran, PhD

Returning Members: Pierre McCrea, PhD; Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD

Membership Committee

Chair: Rodrigo Morales, PhD

New Members: Richard Wood, PhD; Aarti Ramdaney, MS; Zheng (Jake) Chen, PhD

Returning Members: Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson, PhD; Patrick Dougherty, PhD; Charles Darkoh, PhD; Suhendan Ekmekcioglu, PhD; Deepa Sampath, PhD

Alternates: Haoqiang Ying, MD, PhD

Student Scholarship

Chair: Keila Torres, MD, PhD

New Members: Hyun-Eui Kim, PhD; Joo Eun Jung, PhD; Chandra Bartholomeusz, MD, PhD (At-Large); John Seymour, PhD (At-Large); Pratip Bhattacharaya, PhD (At-Large); Shabnam Shalahpour, PhD (At-Large)

Returning Members: Bo Hu, PhD; Anil Korkut, PhD; Shiaw-Yih “Phoebus” Lin, PhD; Malorie Jones, MS; Yejing Ge, PhD; Humam Kadara, PhD; Xiaochun Wang, PhD; Jyotika Sharma, PhD (At-Large); R. Eric Davis, MD (At-Large); Goo Jun, PhD (At-Large); Kyoji Tsuchikama, PhD (At-Large)