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's representative 
Melissa Romine
HSC Chief of Staff

Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Barbara Rodriguez, PhD

Vice President for Research
Ellen Fisher, PhD

Vice President for Research, HSC
Hengameh Raissy, Pharm.D

 

Term members (10)

Faculty/main campus (1 required)

Andrea Polli, PhD
Professor of Art

Faculty/HSC campus (1 required)

Esther Erdei Ph.D., M.P.H., M. Sc. Hons

Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy

Faculty/branch campuses (1 required)

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

Staff (1 required)

Michael Baker
Associate Scientist 2, College of Population Health Center for Health Policy

Norman Cooeyate, MCRP
Pueblo Health Extension Regional Officer, Office for Community Health

Andra Kiscaden
Sr. Business Manager, NM EPSCoR

Andrea Orzoff, PhD
Faculty Research Support Officer

Industry, government and community partners (2 required)

William Chapman
Research Fellow, Neuromorphic Computing, Sandia National Laboratories

Chad Matheson
CEO and President, Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance

Student representative (1 required)

Lucy Malamud-Roam
M.S. student, Geography & Environmental Studies

 

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.