Megan L. “Meg” Mittelstadt is Assistant Vice President for Learning Initiatives, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and affiliate faculty member of the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. As Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, she leads university efforts associated with educational development of faculty and graduate teaching assistants, classroom AV and IT technology, learning technologies, instructional media services, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She coordinates a wide variety of programs and activities aimed at fostering excellence in teaching and learning in support of the instructional mission of the University of Georgia.

Dr. Mittelstadt serves as director of the Senior Teaching Fellows program, co-director of the Lilly Teaching Fellows program, chair of the Sarah H. Moss Fellowship, and chair-elect of the University System of Georgia Regents Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning. In addition, she serves on a number of committees related to teaching and learning across the University of Georgia, University System of Georgia, and the Southeastern Conference.

Prior to joining the Center for Teaching and Learning in 2017, Dr. Mittelstadt was a lecturer of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the director of training and education for the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium at Harvard University. In this role she collaborated with university stakeholders to define and launch a new Harvard-wide graduate education program, the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium, and collaborated with faculty to design and implement innovative curricular and co-curricular offerings for fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates. She taught graduate courses in cancer biology, science pedagogy, and basic science medical education. She also served as adjunct faculty at Simmons College, where she taught Introductory Biology for science majors from 2014-2016.

Dr. Mittelstadt is an alumna of the University of South Carolina, where she completed a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Following her Ph.D., she performed postdoctoral research in epigenetics and gene-environment interactions at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas A&M Health Science Center.

She is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, and an alumna of the UGA Women’s Staff Leadership Institute. She has received the Charles Follen Folsom Teaching Fellowship at Harvard Medical School (2013-2015) and the University of South Carolina George Reeves Trustee Fellowship for excellence in graduate study, research, and scholarship (2010).