Presidential Task Force on Columbia's Research Mission

Advise Task Force on potential changes to academic policy and on career support for research-related faculty, researchers, post-docs, and students.

• Eugenia Lean, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Co-Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science
• Daichi Shimbo, Professor of Medicine, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs, Columbia University irving Medical Center
• Silvia Martins, Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Dean, Faculty
• Margaret Edsall, Associate Vice President Academic Planning
• Jeffrey Shaman, Professor of Climate and Environmental Health Sciences; Senior Vice Dean, Climate School
• Irene Hahn, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
• Maritza Gutierrez, Executive Director, Recruitment and HR Compliance
• Neil McClure, Chief Human Resources Officer, CUIMC
• Masha Nazginova, Associate General Counsel
• Carlos Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities; Vice President for Graduate Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Ericka Peterson, Executive Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and Early Career Research
• Sandra Ryeom, Associate Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
• Helen Kim, Vice President for Research Operations and Policy (VPROP)

Advise Task Force on a plan to streamline research operations processes, workflows, and the best use of resources to support our research (e.g. space).

• Jennifer Williamson, Associate Vice Dean for Research Policy and Scientific Strategy
• Paul Schuchert, Associate Vice President-Finance & HR
• Janice Savage, Associate Dean, Research Administration
• Eric Vieira, Director of Strategic Collaborations
• William Berger, Assistant Vice President, Sponsored Projects Administration
• Helen Kim, Vice President for Research Operations and Policy (VPROP)
• Danna Drori, Associate General Counsel
• Kristin Davitt, Senior Vice President for Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• David Greenberg, Executive Vice President for University Facilities and Operations
• John Smerdon, Senior Director of Laboratory Research Operations and Capital Projects
• Soulaymane Kachani, Senior Vice Provost; Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Ofra Weinberger, Senior Director of Commercialization & Associate VP for IP and Tech Transfer
• John Seeley, Senior Director of Core Research Technologies

• Alexis Abramson, Dean of the Faculty of Climate; Professor of Climate
• Steven Goldstein, Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Interim Director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Jeffrey Shaman, Professor of Climate and Environmental Health Sciences; Senior Vice Dean, Climate School
• Janice Savage, Associate Dean, Research Administration
• Pierre Gentine, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Climate; Director, Science and Technology
• Lisa Sachs, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Climate; Director, Center on Sustainable Investment
• Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Climate; Dir National Center for Disaster Preparedness in the Climate School

• Kiros Berhane, Cynthia and Robert Citrone-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor of Biostatistics (in Environmental Health Sciences); Chair, Department of Biostatistics
• Charles Branas, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Epidemiology
• Gary Miller, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics); Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation, Mailman School of Public Health
• Ana Navas-Acien, Leon Hess Professor of Environmental Health Sciences; Chair, Department of Environmental Health Services
• Thoai D. Ngo, Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor of Population and Family Health; Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
• Kathleen J. Sikkema, Stephen Smith Professor of Sociomedical Sciences; Chair, Department of Sociomedical Sciences
• Michael Sparer, Professor of Health Policy and Management; Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
• Sami Jarrah, Vice Dean, Finance and Administration; Executive Director for Public Partnerships

• Shih-Fu Chang, Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• George Deodatis, Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering; Vice Dean of Research
• Helen Lu, Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Engineering (in Dental Medicine); Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs and Advancement
• Keren Bergman, Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering; Scientific Director, Center for Integrated Science and Engineering
• Hod Lipson, James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Co-Director, Maker Space Facility; Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Paul Sajda, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Electrical Engineering; Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Dan Steingart, Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Climate; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Vishal Misra, Professor of Computer Science; Vice Dean of Computing and Artificial Intelligence

• Suzanne Bakken, Alumni Professor of the School of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics
• Patricia Stone, Centennial Professor of Health Policy in the Faculty of Nursing

• Hashim Al Hashimi, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Associate Dean for Biomedical Graduate Education, Director of the Biomedical Graduate Training in the Vagelos Institute of Biomedical Research Education
• Gerard Karsenty, Paul A. Marks Professor of Genetics and Development and Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Engineering; Chair, Department of Genetics and Development
• Stavros Lomvardas, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Professor of Neuroscience; Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute; Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
• Emmanuelle Passegue, Alumni Professor of Genetics and Development(in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine); Director, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative
• Donna Farber, George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery) and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
• Gwyneth Card, Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
• Filippo Mancia, Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
• Harris Wang, Associate Professor of Systems Biology, of Pathology and Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering
• Peter Sims, Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
• Cory Abate-Shen, Prof of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, of Urologic Sci (in Urology), of Path and Cell Bio (in Systems Bio, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Ctr and Inst for Cancer Gen) and Robert Sonneborn Prof of Med

• Richard Mayeux, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center and Taub Institute); Chair, Dept of Neurology; Director, Sergievsky Center; Co-Director, Taub Institute
• Noemie Elhadad, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
• Andrew Lassman, John Harris Professor of Neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center; Associate Dean of Clinical Trials at VP&S
• Daichi Shimbo, Professor of Medicine, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Ajay Gupta, Professor of Radiology at Columbia University Medical Center; Chair, Department of Radiology
• Jatin Vyas, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Medicine
• Ira Tabas, Richard J. Stock Professor of Medicine (Immunology) and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)
• Serge Przedborski, Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
• Anthony Ferrante, Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience) Tilden-Weger-Bieler Professor of Preventative Medicine (in Medicine) 
• Magdalena Sobieszczyk, Harold C. Neu Professor of Infectious Diseases (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center 
• Despina Kontos, Professor of Radiological Sciences (in Radiology) and Biomedical Informatics
• Dusan Bogunovic, Professor of Pediatric Immunology (in Pediatrics)
• Kevin Gardner, Donald W. King, M.D. and Mary Elizabeth King, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
• Michel Sadelain, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine
• Benjamin Izar, Associate Professor of Medicine and Systems Biology
• Megan Sykes, Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgical Sciences (in Surgery) 
• Peter Kwong, Richard J. Stock Professor of Medical Sciences (Infectious Diseases) (in Medicine)
• Uma Reddy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Population and Family Health

• Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Co-Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science
• Larry Abbott, William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics (in Biological Sciences and in the Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
• Gwyenth Card, Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
• Nathaniel Sawtell, Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
• Daniel Wolpert, Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)