Administrative Team
Executive Director, VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine
L. Franklin Bost, M.B.A., I.D.S.A.
Director of Product Innovation, VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
804-828-5871
lfbost@vcu.edu
Leadership Council
David Chelmow, M.D.
Interim Dean; Professor, School of Medicine
Lyndon F. Cooper, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Dean, School of Dentistry
Dean, School of Pharmacy
Jean Giddens, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Dean, School of Nursing
Carmenita Higginbotham, Ph.D.
Dean, VCUarts; Special Assistant to the Provost for the School of the Arts in Qatar
Affiliates
| Name | Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D. | Executive Director, Institute for Engineering and Medicine and Professor | College of Engineering |
| Henry J. Donahue, Ph.D. | Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Professor and Distinguished Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Co-director, VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine | College of Engineering |
| Lewis Franklin Bost, IDSA, MBA | Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering | College of Engineering |
| Jonathan P. DeShazo, Ph.D. | MPH Associate Professor and Blick Scholar | College of Health Professions |
| Zvi Schwartz, D.M.D., Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering | College of Engineering |
| Rebecca L. Heise, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director | College of Engineering |
| Priscilla Hwang, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | College of Engineering |
| Christopher A. Lemmon, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and Associate Chair | College of Engineering |
| Carrie L. Peterson, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | College of Engineering |
| Shoou-Yih "Daniel" Lee, Ph.D. | Senior Associate Dean For Research and Strategic Initiatives | College of Health Professions |
| Karen D. Hendricks-Muñoz, M.D. | MPH William Tate Graham Professor | Neonatal Medicine Children's Hospital at VCU |
| Peter Pidcoe, PT, DPT, Ph.D. | Director of the Engineering and Biomechanics Lab | College of Health Professions |
| Lauren Siff, M.D. | Assistant Professor | School of Medicine |
| Milos Manic, Ph.D. | Professor | College of Engineering |
| Andrew Ilnicki, MFA | Director of Strategic Technology | School of Arts |
| Kathryn Holloway, M.D. | Professor | School of Medicine |
| Ingrid Pretzer-Aboff, RN, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and Senior Nurse Researcher | School of Nursing |
| Henry Rozycki, M.D. | Vice Chair for Research | Children's Hospital at VCU |
| Nathan Lewis, M.D., FACEP | Associate Professor, Clerkship Director and Assistant Residency Program Director | School of Medicine |
| George Gitchel, Ph.D. | Director of Clinical Research | US Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Bennet Ward, Ph.D. | Associate Professor (Emertitus) | College of Engineering |
| Jonathan Isaacs. M.D. | Professor and Eminent Scholar | School of Medicine |
| Jennifer Puetzer, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | College of Engineering |
| Dean Krusienski, Ph.D. | Professor and Graduate Program Director | College of Engineering |
| Ping Xu, Ph.D. | Professor | School of Dentistry |
| Saïd Sebti, Ph.D. | Associate Director for Basic Research and Professor | Massey Cancer Center |
| Soma Dhakal, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Humanities and Sciences |
| Virginia Chu, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | College of Heath Professions |
| Edgar Rodas, M.D. | Co-Director of VCU Program for Global Surgery, and Associate Professor | School of Medicine |
| Zhao Lin, B.D.S., M.S., M.M.Sc., Ph.D. | Associate Professor | School of Dentistry |
| James Thomas, PT, Ph.D. | Professor | College of Health Professions |
| William Gregory Hundley, M.D. | Director; Professor of Medicine and Chair | Pauley Heart Center |
| Antonio Abbate, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor | Pauley Heart Center |
| Patricia Simes, M.D. | Professor and Chair | School of Medicine |
| Bruce Rubin, M.D., MEngr | Jessie Ball duPont Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics | School of Medicine |
| Umesh Desai, Ph.D. | Professor and Chair | Pharmacy |
| Matthew Woolman | Executive Director | School of Arts |
| Garrett Westlake, Ph.D. | Executive Director | da Vinci Center for Innovation |
| Joshua Cohen, M.D. | Assistant Professor | College of Engineering |
| Dayanjan Wijesinghe Ph.D. | Associate Professor | School of Pharmacy |
| Iain Morgan, Ph.D. | Chair, Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology; Director, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research; Associate Dean for Research | School of Dentistry |
| Gretchen Neig, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | School of Medicine |
| Darcy Mays, Ph.D. | Associate Dean for Research and Operations | Humanities & Sciences |
| Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D. | Robert J. Mattauch Endowed Professor and Vice Chair of Computer Science | College of Engineering |
| Rene Olivares-Navarett, D.D.S., Ph.D. | Associate Professor | College of Engineering |