ABOUT US: Structure

Day to day operations of the Center are under the guidance of a Director and Executive committee, who report to the Health Sciences Board of Deans for academic and programmatic issues and to the Executive Director of the Health Sciences Center for adminstrative matters. This level of reporting is cited in the Academic Health Centers publication Catalysts in Interdisciplinary Education: Innovation by Academic Health Centers as crucial for sustaining the new generation of interdisciplinary effort.

The executive committee is comprised of faculty from each unit.

The current executive committee is comprised of the following:

Pamela Mitchell (Nursing), Chair
Nanci Murphy, Co-chair

Thomas Morton (Dentistry)
Thomas Norris (School of Medicine)
Sherrilynne Fuller (Health Sciences Libraries/Information School)
Anne Marie Kimball (Public Health)
Gunnar Almgren (Social Work)

We anticipate rotating the directorship among the participating schools after the initial startup. An advisory committee is comprised of representatives from each participating school and one or two external advisors from the few established academic health center offices for interdisciplinary education.

The current advisory committee consists of:

Nancy F. Woods (Chair-Dean, Nursing)
Sidney Nelson (Dean-School of Pharmacy)
Harry Bruce (Dean, Information School)
Edwina Uehara (Dean, Social Work)
Susan Marshall (Associate Dean, Medicine)
Mark Oberle (Associate Dean, Public Health & Community Medicine)
Tim DeRouen (Associate Dean, School of Dentistry)
Stanley Weber (Associate Dean, Pharmacy)
H. John Gilbert (Principal, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia)
Denise Holmes (Director, Center for Interdisciplinary & Community-Based Learning, Association of Academic Health Centers)