2024-2025 Faculty Senate Members
(Committee Assignments Listed After Name)
SOM - Basic Science Senators
Bolanle (Bola) Olapeju, MBBS, PhD - PMB
Christina Faherty, PhD - MIC
Emily Ricotta, PhD, MSc - PMB
Eulho (EJ) Jung, PhD - HPE
LCDR Nabil Tahan, PhD, MHA, MS - PMB
Lisa Shank, PhD, MPH - MCP
Mohamed (Moe) Sallam, PhD - PMB
Philip Jordan, PhD - BIO
Sara Young-Baird, PhD - BIO
SOM - Clinical Science Senators
Christina Kelly, MD - FAM
Dina Kurzweil, PhD - MED
Gerald Busch, MD, MPH - PSY
Jill Brown, MD - GSO
Karl Alcover, PhD - MED
LTC Connie Thomas, MD - PSY
Maria Ximena Leighton, MD - SUR
Neil Grunberg, PhD - MEM
Jongeun Rhee, ScD, MS - SUR
Officers
Edmund (Randy) Howe, PhD
President
Geeta Upadhyay, PhD
Past-President
Lindsey Borgia, MD
President-Elect
Lt Col Robert Wittwer, DNP, CRNA
Secretary-Treasurer
SOM - Non-Billeted Senators
COL Megan McKinnon, MD - MEM
MAJ Zachary Weber, DO - PED
Graduate School of Nursing
CAPT Connie Braybrook, DNP, PMHNP
Danette Cruthirds, PhD
COL Deanna Sheets, DNP
Post-Graduate Dental College
CDR Noel Dickens, DMD, PhD - NVD
Maj Kyle Land, DDS - AFD
COL Thomas Stark, DDS - AMD
College of Allied Health Sciences
HM1 Allen Kirkpatrick, BS
LTC Allison Sternberg, PharmD
Liaison Assignments
Senators are assigned as liaisons to each of the departments in the School of Medicine and to the Graduate School of Nursing, Post-Graduate Dental College, and the College of Allied Health Sciences. Senate liaisons ensure that all functional areas have a point of contact in the Senate for two-way information exchange.