University Leadership and Governance

Christopher Augostini serves as Emory’s executive vice president for business and administration and chief financial officer. He is responsible for ensuring that the university is financially poised to create an environment that fosters excellence in people, facilities, infrastructure, and financial stewardship. 

Augostini collaborates with members of the President’s Leadership Team, the Board of Trustees, and other stakeholders to create and enhance business priorities, policies, and budgets. He is responsible for strategic oversight and leadership of financial strategy for the enterprise, which includes the university and Emory Healthcare. He is committed to innovative thinking and collaboration that will allow Emory to continue to be highly ranked and continue as a university of choice for students, faculty, and staff. Augostini oversees budget development for the university and provides leadership of analytics, modeling, and risk assessment for the Emory enterprise.

The Business and Administration division leverages its dedicated and talented staff to enable Emory to achieve its mission to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Division staff are responsible for capital master planning, finance and treasury, investment management, human resources, information technology, campus services, internal audit, enterprise risk management, compliance, business operations, and financial planning and analytics.

Prior to joining Emory, Augostini served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Georgetown University. He also was chief of staff to the first deputy mayor of New York City under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, as well as deputy budget director and director of intergovernmental affairs overseeing the city’s efforts in Washington, D.C., and Albany, New York. He has served in numerous positions within New York state, including principal budget analyst for the Ways and Means Committee of the New York State Assembly and program analyst for the assembly’s Higher Education Committee. He is currently a member of the board of directors for W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, and holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from the State University of New York at Albany.

Deborah Watkins Bruner is Emory’s senior vice president for research. In this role, Bruner partners with other research leaders across Emory to identify and facilitate interdisciplinary research, including breaking down institutional and cultural barriers to encourage opportunities for collaboration through academic activities that reach across schools, colleges, centers, and institutes.

An internationally renowned researcher and clinical trials expert with a focus on patient-reported outcomes, Bruner also serves as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair in Nursing and assistant dean for faculty mentoring at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Bruner holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine and serves as associate director of faculty mentorship, training, and education at Winship Cancer Institute.

In terms of leadership and funding, Bruner is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and was appointed by President Obama to one of only two National Institutes of Health (NIH) US presidential–appointed committees, on which she continues to serve. She is also the first and only nurse ever to lead as principal investigator (PI) on one of the National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups, first as PI of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Community Clinical Oncology Program and now as multi-PI of the NRG Oncology-National Clinical Oncology Research Program.

Bruner’s research has been continuously funded since 1998, contributing close to $95 million as PI and more than $86 million as co-PI in funding from sponsors including the Department of Defense, National Institute of Nursing Research, and National Cancer Institute. Her research funding puts her in the top 5 percent of all NIH-funded investigators worldwide since at least 2012.

Allison K. Dykes is vice president and secretary of the university, a role she has held since 2014. She and her team are responsible for facilitating and supporting the Board of Trustees in its work of governing the university by establishing policy and exercising fiduciary responsibility for the long-term well-being of the institution, including real property, endowment, all contracts, financial resources, faculty appointments, and student life.

The Office of the Secretary facilitates the engaged collaboration of the president’s leadership team as well as others throughout the Emory community to promote effective and sound university governance. The office is also responsible for preserving institutional memory by maintaining the official record of the Board of Trustees.

Dykes and her team manage and assist the Honorary Degrees Committee, which reviews all honorary degree nominations submitted by the Emory community and recommends to the president a slate of candidates who represent the highest values and breadth of the university's mission “to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity.”

She joined Emory in 1997 as director of regional programs for the Emory Alumni Association and in 2003 was named vice president for alumni relations. She received the Emory University Award of Distinction, Emory’s highest staff honor, in 2012.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Georgia, Dykes holds a bachelor's degree in French and a certificate in global policy studies.

In addition to serving as senior adviser to the president, Robert M. Franklin holds the inaugural appointment to the James T. and Berta R. Laney Chair in Moral Leadership. His broad portfolio of academic leadership and faculty experience includes tenure as the tenth president of Morehouse College as well as service on the faculties of Emory, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. An ordained minister, he is nationally known as a scholar, teacher, and author of books and public commentary on spirituality and faith in African American communities and families. Franklin has served as president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and as theologian in residence at the historic Chautauqua Institution.

Franklin earned his BA degree from Morehouse College, his MDiv degree from Harvard Divinity School, and his PhD degree from the University of Chicago. First appointed to the Candler School of Theology in 1989, he built a national reputation at Emory as director of Black Church Studies and later as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. His work as special adviser dovetails with his teaching role at Candler, where he leads students through explorations of moral leadership in the twenty-first century in different cultures and contexts in the United States and around the world.

In her role as vice president and dean of Campus Life, Enku Gelaye is responsible for delivering Campus Life’s services and support for more than 15,000 students in areas such as undergraduate residential life, health and wellness, athletics, and civic engagement, among others.

Gelaye also provides strategic and visionary leadership for Emory’s Campus Life division, which is recognized internationally for building a campus culture that reflects Emory’s values and the division’s mission to “enhance the overall student experience and develop adults who are informed, compassionate, conscientious, healthy, and active global citizens.” 

Before coming to Emory, Gelaye served as vice chancellor of student affairs and campus life at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. In that capacity, she provided leadership for more than 600 full-time staff members serving more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Her responsibilities included residential life; multicultural advancement; counseling and psychological health; student success, engagement, and leadership; as well as parent and student programs. 

She brings to Emory more than 20 years of professional experience in higher education. Prior to her role at the University of Massachusetts, Gelaye served that institution as associate vice chancellor and dean of student affairs and campus life. Earlier in her career, she held positions at the University of California–Los Angeles, as executive officer in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and as associate dean of students in the Office of the Dean of Students, and at the University of Southern California in the Office of Student Conduct.

Gelaye holds a JD from the University of Georgia and a BS in print journalism from the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.

Carol E. Henderson joined Emory in 2019 as vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and adviser to the president. Prior to her arrival, she had a long and distinguished record of service in teaching, administration, and research at the University of Delaware, where she joined the faculty in 1995.

Henderson served as chair of the Department of Africana Studies and professor of English and Africana studies at Delaware. Appointed the university’s first vice provost for diversity in 2014, she developed and led the implementation of Inclusive Excellence: An Action Plan for Diversity, an initiative that helped promote a welcoming and inclusive campus climate and for which Delaware received a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT into Diversity magazine in both 2017 and 2018. Henderson was a co-recipient of the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Gold Award from the Delaware Society for Human Resource Management as well.

At Emory, her office will focus in the immediate term on developing a community vision to address the three themes persistent in campus listening sessions during her time here: climate and culture practices that lead to real inclusion; professional development and education awareness around intercultural competencies in classrooms, curricula, and workspaces; and better accountability mechanisms.

Henderson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California–Los Angeles, an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a PhD from the University of California–Riverside.

Jonathan Lewin, MD, is currently the executive vice president for health affairs, Emory University; executive director, Woodruff Health Sciences Center; and CEO and chair of the board, Emory Healthcare. He also serves as professor of radiology and imaging sciences and as professor of biomedical engineering in the Emory School of Medicine and professor of health policy and management in the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Lewin is a national leader in academic medicine strategy and integrated health care delivery and an international scientific leader in interventional and intraoperative MRI.

Prior to his Emory appointment, Dr. Lewin served as the Martin Donner Professor and chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins University and the radiologist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2004 until 2016, with secondary appointments as professor of oncology, neurosurgery, and biomedical engineering. From 2012 to 2016, he also served as co-chair for strategic planning and from 2013 to 2016 as senior vice president for integrated healthcare delivery for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Lewin was the director of the Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at University Hospitals of Cleveland and professor and vice chair for research and academic affairs in the Department of Radiology at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Lewin received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Brown University in 1981 and his doctor of medicine degree from Yale University in 1985. Following his internship in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and residency in diagnostic radiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he completed a magnetic resonance research fellowship in Germany, a neuroradiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, and additional training in head and neck radiology at the Pittsburgh Eye and Ear Hospital.

A pioneer in interventional and intraoperative MR imaging, Dr. Lewin has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and more than 70 book chapters, reviews, commentaries, and other invited papers on topics including the basic science and clinical aspects of interventional MR imaging, functional MRI, head and neck imaging, MR angiography, and the imaging of acute stroke.

Dr. Lewin holds 28 US and seven international patents and has been PI or co-PI on NIH and other federal and state grants with awards of more than $54 million, as well as a co-investigator on a number of other grants and projects. He is a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and of the American College of Radiology and has lectured around the world on a number of topics in magnetic resonance imaging, interventional radiology, neuroradiology, and leadership in academic medicine. Dr. Lewin has served on numerous national committees, editorial boards, and grant review groups for foundations and the NIH, and on the task force on minimally invasive cancer therapy for the National Cancer Institute.

He is past president of the Society of Chairs of Academic Radiology Departments, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Association of University Radiologists, the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology, and the Academy for Radiology Research. Modern Healthcare named him one of the 50 Most Influential Physicians of 2017. He was also named one of the Most Influential Atlantans of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians of 2018 and 2019 by Georgia Trend.  He recently was presented with Gold Medal awards from two professional societies for distinguished service to the field—the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Association of University Radiologists—and is the 2019 recipient of the National Medical Fellowships Pioneer Award. In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Jan Love serves as interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean of Candler School of Theology, and professor of Christianity and world politics.

She is an internationally recognized leader in church and ecumenical arenas and a scholar of world politics, particularly issues of religion and politics, conflict transformation, and globalization. Before coming to Emory, Love served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina for 22 years in the departments of religious studies and political science.

She has been a leader at state, national, and international levels since she was in high school, including representing the United Methodist Church (UMC) on the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1975 to 2006, leading the WCC delegation to the United Nations FourthWorld Conference on Women, and serving on the boards of several United Methodist agencies. The United Methodist Council of Bishops recognized her in 2000 for “Exceptional Leadership in Ecumenical Arenas.” From 2004 to 2006, Love was chief executive officer of the largest denominational women’s organization, United Methodist Women, with 800,000 members worldwide.

Known in theological education for her administrative acumen and effective leadership, she served eight years on the board of directors of the Association of Theological Schools and is immediate past president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools and the Atlanta Theological Association. She is currently secretary of the UMC’s University Senate.

Love earned an MA and PhD in political science at Ohio State University.

As university chaplain and dean of spiritual and religious life, the Reverend Gregory W. McGonigle oversees and supports all religious and philosophical life at the university, leads the team in the university’s Office of Spiritual and Religious Life, provides pastoral care and supports interfaith engagement initiatives on Emory’s campus, in Atlanta, and beyond.

Before coming to Emory, McGonigle served for six years as the university chaplain of Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he oversaw Goddard Chapel and the Tufts Interfaith Center and led a team of ten chaplains and staff supporting the diverse religious and philosophical life of that university. In addition to adding positions for Humanist, Buddhist, and Hindu chaplains, he worked with students, faculty, and staff to revive the CAFÉ Interfaith Social Justice Pre-Orientation Program—a student interfaith engagement program that has won a national award and has been written about as a distinguished program for developing interfaith leaders. He also received Tufts University’s Faculty and Staff Multicultural Service Award.

Before Tufts, McGonigle served for five years as the first multifaith director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Oberlin College. He involved Oberlin in the White House Interfaith Community Service Campus Challenge, created the Oberlin College Interfaith Council, opened a new Multifaith Center, and helped to appoint the college’s first Muslim chaplain. He also taught courses on interfaith leadership and religion, gender, and sexuality, and he led an alumni trip to India as an exploration of world religions and sacred space.

Prior to Oberlin, he served as a campus minister at the University of California at Davis, helping to build interfaith relationships for a multifaith living community. He has also served in ministry in congregations, at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and at an HIV/AIDS community center.

McGonigle is an ordained minister in the Unitarian Universalist Association—a religious movement rooted in Judaism and Christianity that honors spiritual insights from the world’s religions and promotes progressive principles of personal ethics and social justice. He is past president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains, a board member of the Association for College and University Religious Affairs, an affiliated minister in Harvard University’s Memorial Church, and a member of the American Academy of Religion.

He received a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School focused on higher education chaplaincy, and a bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude in religious studies from Brown University focused on South Asian religions. He is currently completing a doctor of ministry degree at Boston University School of Theology.

In August 2018, Newton returned to Emory as senior vice president for advancement and alumni engagement. Previously, he had served for a decade in various leadership positions at the university. In partnership with President Claire E. Sterk, Newton is responsible for the development and implementation of the university’s next philanthropic campaign, building on Emory’s 10-year strategic plan and its focus on academic eminence. He also will play an important role in furthering Emory’s relationships in the Atlanta community as well as engaging nationally and internationally on behalf of the university.

Newton previously served as president and CEO of the University of Connecticut Foundation. In that capacity, he presided over the five most successful fundraising years in the foundation’s history, raising a total of nearly $400 million in fiscal years 2014 through 2018, representing a 46 percent increase. During his tenure, he focused on increasing scholarship support for students and worked to strengthen engagement of University of Connecticut alumni and other constituents with the university.

A graduate of Belmont Abbey College, Newton’s fundraising experience also includes Converse College (Spartanburg, South Carolina) and Presbyterian Hospital (Charlotte, North Carolina). He has served in multiple leadership roles with the Association of Fundraising Professionals International Board and is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Educational Advisory Board.

David B. Sandor is senior vice president of communications and public affairs. He leads the division as it works strategically through print, digital, and media platforms to create awareness, understanding, and support of the university and its mission.

Sandor has three decades of experience in corporate positioning and reputation management. He has led large teams engaged in earned and social media relations, thought leadership, marketing communication, community relations, and employee engagement for such brands as The Home Depot, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NCR, and Visa USA. His work aligning business and social responsibility initiatives has been nationally recognized by The Civic 50, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Boston College, EPA, and World’s Most Ethical Companies.

Most recently, he served for seven years as vice president of communications for the nation’s largest customer-owned health insurer, HCSC, a $30 billion company that operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans across the nation serving nearly 15 million members. In addition to his corporate experience, he helped to found Powell Tate, a well-regarded public relations agency led by former presidential press secretaries Jody Powell and Sheila Tate. His experience in public service includes work as special assistant for public affairs to US Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner and as a headquarters spokesperson for the Bush–Quayle 1988 campaign and presidential transition.

He earned a BA in international affairs from George Washington University and served four years on the Civilian Public Advisory Council of the US Military Academy at West Point and the Communications Advisory Board of the College of Charleston. He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society. Sandor is married and has two adult sons.

As senior vice president and general counsel, Sencer is the chief legal officer for Emory University, including Emory Healthcare, as well as affiliated entities such as The Carter Center and DRIVE. Sencer is also senior adviser to the university president, counseling her on strategic priorities and initiatives.

At Emory, he has taught courses at the School of Law and Laney Graduate School, is a senior Fellow at Emory’s Global Health Institute, serves on the Global Health Chronicles Advisory Board, and cofounded the Emory–South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program and GAP BioSciences, a life sciences business education program taught in South Africa.

Sencer specializes in legal issues relating to higher education, scientific research, technology transfer, global health, risk management, and corporate governance. He serves on the board of Clifton Casualty Insurance Company and Emory Innovations. He is also a member of the American Association of Universities General Counsel Committee and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Legal Services Review Panel, and he previously served on the National Association of College and University Attorneys Board of Directors and the United Educators Legal Advisory Board.

He earned a BA (honors) from Wesleyan University and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Michigan Law Review. He practiced law with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and King & Spalding in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a trial lawyer in the DeKalb County (GA) district attorney’s office. Sencer clerked for Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, sitting in New York City.

In addition to her role as dean, Mary Anne Bobinski is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law. Before joining Emory in 2019, Bobinski was a professor at the Allard School of Law, where she served as dean from 2003 to 2015. Previously, she was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law and director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. 

Bobinski’s research and teaching interests include torts, health law, health care finance, bioethics, legal aspects of HIV infection, and reproductive health law issues. She is a coauthor of Health Care Law and Ethics (9^th ed., 2018) and the co­author/coeditor of a two-volume book series on medical ethics. Bobinski also has published a number of law review articles and book chapters on health law topics. 

She is a past president and board member of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and a past member of the Canadian Public Health Officer’s Ethics Advisory Committee. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Petrie-­Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the University of Sydney Law School, the Melbourne Law School, and the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, where she also held a Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne’s College. 

Bobinski is working on a research project focused on the contested nature of the physician-patient relationship, with a particular focus on legal responses to conflicting values or norms.

She received her LLM from Harvard Law School and holds a BA in psychology and a JD, both received summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

James W. Curran joined the Rollins School of Public Health as dean and professor of epidemiology in 1995, following 25 years of leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is codirector of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, as well as holding faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.

In 1981, Curran was tapped to lead a CDC task force charged with determining what was behind the first cases of what we now know as AIDS. A pioneer in HIV/AIDS prevention, Curran led the nation’s efforts in the battle against HIV/AIDS for 15 years before joining Emory. While at the CDC, he attained the rank of assistant surgeon general.

He is a fellow of the American Epidemiologic Society, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Author or coauthor of more than 290 scholarly publications, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. He was given the Surgeon General’s Medal of Excellence in 1996 and received the John Snow Award from the American Public Health Association in 2003.

In 2015, Curran was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Curran received a BS from University of Notre Dame, an MD from University of Michigan, and an MPH from Harvard University.

Michael A. Elliott, who serves as Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, was named dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences in 2017. As dean, he is the principal investigator on two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support faculty in the humanities.

He specializes in the literature and culture of the United States from the mid-19th to early-20th century, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to American cultures and the place of Native Americans in the United States.

The recipient of several prestigious research fellowships, he has written two books, The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism (2002) and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (2007), and coedited two others, American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader (2003) and The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 6: The American Novel, 1870–1940 (2014). He also serves on the editorial board of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 

A member of the Emory faculty since 1998, Elliott previously served in the Emory College administration as senior associate dean for faculty from 2009 to 2014, as executive associate dean from 2014 to 2015, and as interim dean of Emory College from 2016 to 2017. 

Elliott received his BA from Amherst College in 1992 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1998.

Douglas A. Hicks is dean of Oxford College and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Religion. He also serves as an affiliate professor in Emory’s Candler School of Theology. 

He joined Oxford from Colgate University, where he served as provost and dean of the faculty. From 1998 to 2012, he was professor of leadership studies and religion at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the founding director of its Bonner Center for Civic Engagement. In 2012, Virginia’s State Council of Higher Education awarded him its Outstanding Faculty Award, the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty members in higher education.

Since coming to Oxford in 2016, Hicks has guided the development and endorsement of the college’s strategic plan, setting priorities for academic excellence and leadership education as well as investment in financial aid, infrastructure, and faculty/staff. 

His scholarship focuses on leadership, religion in politics and the workplace, and the ethical dimensions of economic issues, and he is a frequent commentator in the media on these and other topics. He is the author of four books: Money Enough (2010), With God on All Sides (2009), Religion and the Workplace (2003), and Inequality and Christian Ethics (2000). He edited two other books on leadership and has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Hicks received an AB magna cum laude with honors in economics from Davidson College, an MDiv summa cum laude from Duke University, and an MA and PhD in religion from Harvard University.

Karen Sedatole became the Interim John H. Harland Dean of Goizueta Business School in May 2020. A three-time recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Research Award, she brings a synthesis of business acumen and academic expertise to the role. This informs Karen’s leadership and serves as a foundation for her commitment to the future of business education within the broader context of societal needs.

Karen’s pioneering research into the field of performance measurement and reward systems, the role of forecasting and budgetary systems within organizations, and control in interorganizational collaborations have added enormous value across academic and business spheres. In her research, she places emphasis on the role of trust, positive motivation, and systems thinking in the workplace. In tackling these issues, she has partnered across industries – health care, tech, automotive, and more – generating business-relevant research and earning her the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award twice. Karen’s research has merited grants from the PwC Charitable Foundation, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation, and the Institute of Management Accountants. She has also demonstrated her commitment to Goizueta’s core value of principled leadership, serving as Faculty Director for Emory Executive Education’s Executive Women’s Leadership Forum.

Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2017, Karen was the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor of Accounting at Michigan State University. She has also held academic appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and the Stephen F. Austin State University and visiting appointments at Monash University, University of Melbourne, Wake Forest University, and the University of California at Davis.

She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. Her effective forecasting and performance measurement articles have been published in a number of leading journals, including The Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and the Harvard Business Review. Karen previously served as senior editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research.

Karen holds a PhD in business administration from the University of Michigan, a masters of business administration from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor of science in engineering from Baylor University.

Jan Love, professor of Christianity and world politics and dean of Candler School of Theology since 2007, became the school’s Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean in 2017. She is an internationally recognized leader in church and ecumenical arenas and a scholar of world politics, particularly issues of religion and politics, conflict transformation, and globalization. Before coming to Emory, Love served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina for 22 years in the departments of religious studies and political science.

She has been a leader at state, national, and international levels since she was in high school, including representing the United Methodist Church (UMC) on the World Council of Churches (WCC) from 1975 to 2006, leading the WCC delegation to the United Nations FourthWorld Conference on Women, and serving on the boards of several United Methodist agencies. The United Methodist Council of Bishops recognized her in 2000 for “Exceptional Leadership in Ecumenical Arenas.” From 2004 to 2006, Love was chief executive officer of the largest denominational women’s organization, United Methodist Women, with 800,000 members worldwide.

Known in theological education for her administrative acumen and effective leadership, she served eight years on the board of directors of the Association of Theological Schools and is immediate past president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools and the Atlanta Theological Association. She is currently secretary of the UMC’s University Senate.

Love earned an MA and PhD in political science at Ohio State University.

Linda A. McCauley began her appointment as dean in 2009. Since then, she has launched a comprehensive strategic plan to position the school at the forefront of nursing research and policy. Under her leadership, the school has risen from its No. 26 ranking in 2011 to its current position as No. 4 in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Nursing Schools” guide. 

Prior to coming to Emory, McCauley held academic appointments at University of Cincinnati, Oregon Health and Science University, and University of Pennsylvania.

She is a thought leader at the intersection of environmental science and nursing. In 2015, she secured the largest NIH research grant in the school’s history: $5 million to develop the Children’s Environmental Health Center. McCauley is an advocate for worker’s rights, occupational health, and environmental protections and has been called upon for Capitol Hill testimony regarding these issues. 

Additionally, she is an active elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a sought-after expert with features across nationally syndicated outlets such as Time, NPR, and Business Week.

McCauley received her BSN from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, her MSN from Emory University, and her PhD in environmental health at University of Cincinnati.

In addition to his role as dean, Vikas P. Sukhatme is Woodruff Professor and chief academic officer of Emory Healthcare. Prior to coming to Emory in 2017, Sukhatme was the Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as chief academic officer and Harvard faculty dean for academic programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Following receipt of a doctorate in theoretical physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he attended the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and graduated from Harvard Medical School cum laude in 1979. After clinical training in internal medicine and nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, he pursued an immunology fellowship at Stanford. Sukhatme was a Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Chicago from 1985 to 1992, after which he was recruited to Harvard.

He has made outstanding contributions in numerous basic science and clinical research arenas. He identified a family of transcription factors that respond to growth and differentiation signals in a wide variety of cell types and possess what is now recognized as the most common motif in the mammalian genome, the zinc finger. His studies have defined signaling pathways and genes involved in kidney cancer and polycystic kidney disease. Sukhatme and his colleagues have elucidated how statins can cause muscle damage. He has collaborated in research on how tumors grow a blood supply and on how blood vessels leak in patients with serious infections. He was a key member of the team that elucidated the cause of toxemia in pregnancy. His major current focus is on interventions that elicit anti-tumor immunity following tumor resection and on novel targets on myeloid-derived suppressor cells.

Sukhatme is active in national and international efforts that promote translational research. Along with his wife, Vidula, he is a cofounder of a not-for-profit organization, GlobalCures, whose goal is to conduct clinical trials on promising therapies not being pursued for lack of financial reward. Many of these ideas are being incorporated into the newly established Morningside Center for Innovative and Affordable Medicine in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, of which he is the founding director.

Lisa A. Tedesco joined Emory in 2006 as dean of the Laney Graduate School, vice provost for academic affairs – graduate studies, and professor of behavioral sciences and health education at Rollins School of Public Health.

Under Tedesco’s leadership, Laney Graduate School is emphasizing opportunities for interdisciplinary study, career planning, broadened professional preparation, and inclusive community building. She has written and worked institutionally on matters related to curriculum change; inquiry-based learning; and teaching, faculty development, and diversity.

As a health psychologist, Tedesco is interested in how people think about and act to prevent illness and promote well-being. Her research has focused on cognitive behavioral enhancement of oral health status, relapse prevention and stress, coping, and oral disease.

She earned her PhD in educational psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.