Steering Committee

UNM Grand Challenges Steering Committee

Permanent members

President's representative
Terry Babbitt
President's Office
Chief Of Staff

Executive Vice President for HSC
Michael Richards, MD, MPA

Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
James Holloway, PhD

Vice President for Research
Ellen Fisher, PhD

Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, HSC
Hengameh Raissy, Pharm.D

 

Term members (10)

Faculty/main campus (1 required)

Melissa Emery-Thompson, PhD
Assistant Vice President for Research
Professor of Anthropology

Andrea Polli, PhD
Professor of Art

Faculty/HSC campus (1 required)

Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology

Prajakta Adsul, PhD, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine

Faculty/branch campuses (1 required)

Tracy Lassiter, PhD
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Digital Learning, Department of English, Gallup Branch

Staff (1 required)

Andrea Orzoff, PhD
Faculty Research Support Officer

Gina Urias-Sandoval, EMBA
Chief of Staff, UNM HSC EEVP Office

Industry, government and community partners (2 required)

Matt Fetrow, MBA
Outreach Lead at The Space Rapid Capabilities Office

Alex Roerick
Innovation Manager, UNM Rainforest Innovations

Student representative (1 required)

Olumide Adedeji
PhD candidate, Earth and Planetary Sciences

 

Committee charge

  • Provide feedback and recommendations on Grand Challenge (GC) initiatives, including requests for proposals (RFPs) and opportunities for additional team funding, student fellowship and/or training programs, and others;
  • Monitor GC team progress and provide feedback, recommendations, and/or links to resources to the teams;
  • Review and make recommendations on program applications; and
  • Regularly attend GC public events.