University Leadership and Governance

Amy Adelman is interim senior vice president and general counsel.

Adelman has served Emory University since 2003, most recently as a deputy general counsel, where she managed the university’s litigation portfolio and served as a member of the Office of the General Counsel leadership team. In addition to litigation, her primary practice areas include employment law, faculty issues, student matters, and other issues specific to higher education.

At Emory, Adelman was a founding member of the university’s Threat Assessment Team and continues to co-lead the team. She received the 2008 Emory University Campus Life Awards of Service for dedication in supporting the mission of Campus Life. She is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and served on the 2019 Princeton University Title IX External Review Panel.

Prior to joining Emory in 2003, Adelman was a partner with Kilpatrick Townsend in its labor and employment law section. She is a member of the Georgia Bar and has coauthored articles in such publications as the Employee Relations Law Journal. She has spoken extensively on a variety of employment law topics.

Adelman is a graduate of Newcomb College of Tulane University, where she received a BA, cum laude, in international relations. She received a JD from Washington University School of Law.

Luke Anderson is vice president of communications and marketing.

He came to Emory from the University of Florida Foundation, where he served as associate vice president for strategic communications and chief marketing officer.

At the University of Florida (UF), Anderson has made many key contributions that helped build momentum as the university rose to become a top-five public institution as ranked by US News & World Report.

He played a leadership role in developing the story behind UF’s artificial intelligence initiative; worked alongside the university’s executive leadership team to develop strategy and communications for an emerging regional presence for UF in Palm Beach County; and led campus-wide efforts to promote Go Greater, UF’s record-breaking $3 billion capital campaign, among other accomplishments.

Prior to joining UF, he served as assistant vice president for communications at the University of Virginia, where he helped lead efforts to build UVA’s central communications and marketing team while enhancing the UVA brand.

Anderson currently serves as a co-chair for the American Marketing Association’s Higher Education Symposium.

He has a BA in English language and literature from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Dublin–Trinity College.

Christopher L. Augostini serves as the executive vice president for business and administration (EVPBA) and chief financial officer for Emory University and Emory Healthcare as well as the vice chair for Emory Healthcare’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for ensuring the Emory enterprise, in which Emory University and Emory Healthcare are strategically and financially integrated, is poised to create an environment that fosters excellence in people, facilities, infrastructure, and operating and financial performance. His innovative and collaborative leadership style brings cross-functional and enterprise-wide teams together, enables them to do their best work, and drives excellence operationally and financially. The exceptional results that Augostini and his team have delivered have led to Emory being the university of choice for students, faculty, and staff and the health system of choice for patients, doctors, nurses, and staff.

Reporting to the president of Emory University, Augostini collaborates with members of the president’s leadership team, senior management leaders of Emory Healthcare, the Emory University Board of Trustees, the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors, and other stakeholders to identify enterprise opportunities and issues and to implement long-term sustainable solutions. As chief financial officer, he is responsible for strategic oversight and leadership of integrated financial, debt management, and cash strategies for the Emory enterprise. Under his direction, Augostini launched teams to develop the first all funds integrated financial plan and debt portfolio restructuring. Augostini leads the overall business operations strategy for Emory University including enterprise-wide master planning and real estate strategies; management of Emory’s approximately $7 billion investment portfolio; information technology and cyber security strategies; enterprise risk management, internal audit, and compliance integration; human capital practices of one of Georgia’s largest employers; and execution of campus services across Emory’s Druid Hill and Oxford campuses.

As the vice chair of Emory Healthcare’s Board of Directors, Augostini provides oversight of Emory Healthcare’s strategic financial position. Working with the executive vice president for health affairs and the Emory Healthcare leadership team, Augostini is responsible for multi-year financial planning to align with and in support of Emory Healthcare’s strategy with emphasis on high-quality, patient-centered care. Emory Healthcare, with more than 24,000 employees, 11 hospital campuses, and 425 locations, is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia.

Prior to joining Emory, Augostini served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Georgetown University. Over his 17-year tenure at Georgetown, he consistently delivered improved operating results, balance sheet metrics, and investment returns. Specifically, he initiated the first multi-year operating, capital, and financial plan that addressed health care system losses and the impact on the enterprise. He also served as chief of staff to the first deputy mayor of the city of New York 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 in Albany, New York. He served in numerous positions within New York State (NYS), including principal budget analyst for the NYS Ways and Means Committee and program analyst for the NYS Assembly Higher Education Committee. He is currently on the Board of Directors for W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company. Augostini has a master's degree in public policy analysis from the State University of New York at Albany.

Ravi V. Bellamkonda serves as Emory’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. He is the chief academic officer of Emory University and is responsible for ensuring the quality of undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and enhancing Emory’s role as an eminent research university through excellence in faculty research, teaching, and scholarship.

Bellamkonda collaborates with members of the Provost Leadership Team and other university leaders to formulate academic priorities and policy, allocate resources appropriately, and oversee the faculty promotion-and-tenure process with assistance from the Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee. He serves as chair of the Council of Deans, which comprises the leaders of Emory’s nine schools and the Emory Libraries, and as chair of the Ways and Means Committee, which leads the preparation of the university’s annual unrestricted operating budget.

Prior to becoming provost at Emory, Bellamkonda served as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Previously, he was Wallace H. Coulter Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. 

A trained bioengineer and neuroscientist, Bellamkonda holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. His graduate training at Brown University was in biomaterials and medical science (with Patrick Aebischer), and his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on the molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and neural development (with Jerry Schneider and Sonal Jhaveri). 

Bellamkonda is committed to fostering transformative research and pedagogical innovation as well as programs that create an entrepreneurial mindset among faculty and students. His current research explores the interplay of biomaterials and the nervous system for neural interfaces, nerve repair, and brain tumor therapy.

From 2014 to 2016, Bellamkonda served as president of the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, the leading policy and advocacy organization for biomedical engineers, with representation from industry, academia, and government. Bellamkonda’s numerous awards include the Clemson Award for Applied Research from the Society for Biomaterials, EUREKA award from the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award from Ian’s Friends Foundation supporting Pediatric Brain Tumor Research, and Best Professor Award from the Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering student body.

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 senior 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.

As university chaplain and dean of spiritual and religious life, the Rev. Dr. 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 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 holds a doctor of ministry degree from 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 Gregory L. Fenves, 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.

As vice president, Cameron Taylor leads Emory’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA).

The office is the university’s official government liaison—advocating for Emory on a range of topics and monitoring legislative and regulatory priorities. Under Taylor’s direction, staff work closely with the U.S. Congress; the Georgia Legislature; local governments; and local, state, and national civic organizations as well as professional associations to advance policy positions important to the university.

Taylor recently oversaw the creation of Emory’s first enterprise-wide community engagement strategy. Identifying three priorities—health and well-being; social and economic mobility; and arts, science, and cultural enrichment—the strategy uses Emory’s deep well of research, scholarship, economic influence, and human capital to focus on the greatest need areas, in conversation with community partners.

Prior to joining Emory in 2003, she spent a decade on Capitol Hill in a variety of roles. Taylor worked for the now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment, serving as principal author for a congressionally requested status report on aquaculture.

She also worked as legislative director for a member of the House Committee on Agriculture and served as lead Senate staffer for the Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition under co-chairs Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) and Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT). When Senator Jeffords became chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Taylor joined as professional staff and worked to advance brownfields redevelopment efforts, including passage of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act.

In more than 18 years of service to Emory, Taylor has defined excellence in some of the roles she now oversees.

She began her tenure as Emory’s Washington representative, advancing both specific project goals of the university as well as its larger policy objectives. Understanding the central role of productive working relationships in Washington, Taylor skillfully earned the trust of members of Congress, key members of their staffs, and representatives of the executive branch and federal agencies. To advance Emory policy goals, she coordinated with internal advisory groups and national medical, educational, and research associations.

Beginning in 2012, Taylor served three years as the university’s director of federal affairs, during which time she formed strong and collaborative relationships with congressional members, including Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and John Lewis (D-GA). Since 2015, when she was promoted to vice president and began overseeing the OGCA, Taylor has worked to ensure Emory’s strategic engagement of government stakeholders and community partners.

She is highly involved in the national higher education and health care trade associations. Taylor has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Government Relations Representatives (GRR) Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the GRR Steering Committee of the Association of American Universities. She also is a member of the Outreach and Engagement Committee of the Council on Competitiveness.

Taylor earned an MS in resource policy and administration from the University of Michigan and a BA in sociology and ecology from Emory. She also is a 2014 graduate of Emory’s Woodruff Leadership Academy.

Ravi I. Thadhani is the executive vice president for health affairs (EVPHA) of Emory University, executive director of Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC), and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors. He began his role on Jan. 1, 2023.  

As EVPHA and executive director of the WHSC, Thadhani oversees Emory’s renowned academic health sciences enterprise focused on advancing research, training, and health care delivery innovation. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center includes Emory’s schools of medicine, public health, and nursing; Winship Cancer Institute; Emory National Primate Research Center; Emory Global Health Institute; Goizueta Institute @ Emory Brain Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; and Emory Healthcare.

As vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board, Thadhani provides oversight of Emory Healthcare’s CEO and leadership team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care focused on supporting the health and well-being of patients around the state. Emory Healthcare, with more than 24,000 employees, 11 hospital campuses, and 425 locations, is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia.

Thadhani most recently served as chief academic officer and dean for faculty affairs for Mass General Brigham and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts. At Mass General Brigham, he was a member of the executive leadership team and oversaw graduate medical education, professional development, and a $2.3 billion research enterprise. Previously, Thadhani served as vice dean of research and graduate research education at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (2017–2019), associate director of research at Mass General Brigham (2012–2017), and chief of nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital (2013–2017).

With more than 30 years as a general and specialized internal medicine physician, Thadhani has extensive experience in patient care, research, and clinical trials. He has led a successful research lab with continuous federal funding for more than 25 years, with a focus on kidney disease and developing diagnostics and therapeutics for patients with preeclampsia. Thadhani has performed several clinical trials focused on effective treatments and preventative measures for preeclampsia, one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. 

He is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific manuscripts and has published in top-tier journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Journal of the American Medical Association. Thadhani has been inducted into several honor societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, American Epidemiological Society, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He also serves as a board member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a research organization that convenes a community of researchers from across many disciplines and partner institutions—MIT, Harvard, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

A recipient of several distinguished national awards, Thadhani has an extensive track record of recruiting and mentoring women and underrepresented staff, trainees, and faculty. He has been honored with the Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School, the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the John P. Peters Award from the American Society of Nephrology.

Thadhani earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1991. He received a master of public health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. He also completed the LEAD Innovation Certificate Program in 2020 at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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.

Ken Carter is interim dean of Oxford College and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology.

An Oxford College and Emory University alumnus, Carter joined Oxford in 1996 as an assistant professor after serving as a senior assistant research scientist in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He has served as chair of the Division of History and Social Sciences and taught introductory courses in psychology as well as advanced courses in psychopathology and clinical psychopharmacology.

The winner of the 2017–2018 Oxford College Alumni Board Award for Outstanding Teaching, Carter makes student-focused learning his goal. In November 2022, he will publish a new textbook, Psychopathology: Understanding Psychological Disorders (Cambridge University Press), based on what real students want to learn about psychological disorders. It uses contemporary examples and language that students can relate to and was crafted with their success in mind.

His other writing includes 2019’s Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies (Cambridge University Press) and a number of articles appearing in publications ranging from the popular to the peer-reviewed.

Carter earned his AA and BA degrees from Oxford College and Emory University, respectively, followed by an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. Additionally, he received an MS degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Carlos del Rio is the interim dean of the School of Medicine. He is the Leon L. Haley, Jr. MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine and interim chief academic officer for Emory Healthcare. He is also professor of global health and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health. Del Rio is co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV Clinical Trials Unit and the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit.

Del Rio is a native of Mexico where he attended medical school at Universidad La Salle, graduating with honors in 1983. He did his internal medicine and infectious diseases residencies at Emory University. In 1989 he returned to Mexico where he was executive director of the National AIDS Council of Mexico (CONASIDA, the federal agency of the Mexican government responsible for AIDS policy throughout Mexico) from 1992 through 1996. In November of 1996, del Rio returned to Emory where he is involved in patient care, teaching, and research.

Del Rio’s research focuses on the early diagnosis, access to care, engagement in care, compliance with antiretrovirals, and the prevention of HIV infection. He has worked for more than two decades with marginalized populations to improve clinical care and outcomes in the US and abroad. Del Rio was a member of the WHO Influenza A(H1N1) Clinical Advisory Group and of the CDC Influenza A(H1N1) Task Force during the 2009 pandemic. He is chief section editor for HIV/AIDS for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases and member of the editorial board of Journal of AIDS, Vaccines, and Global Public Health. He has co-authored thirty book chapters and more than five hundred scientific papers. 

Del Rio is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of PEPFAR, member of UNAIDS Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, and president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and in 2020, he was elected as the international secretary of the National Academy of Medicine.  In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Among his many honors are the James H. Nakano Citation received in 2001 and awarded by the CDC for an outstanding scientific paper published in 2000; the Emory University Marion V. Creekmore Achievement Award for Internationalization; the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University, the highest award conferred by Emory to a faculty or staff member who has significantly enriched the intellectual and civic life of the Emory community; the Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico for work that benefits communities of Mexican origin living in the US; the APHA Award for Excellence in Public Health; and the MAP International Bill Foege Global Health Award. In 2021 he was recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a “Great Immigrant, Great American.” Del Rio was recognized in 2022 by the CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Equity as a Health Equity Champion.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, del Rio has been a leader locally and nationally, doing research, developing policies, writing scientific publications, and making countess media appearances. He has advised municipal, state, and national leaders including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Tyler Perry Studios, the NCAA, the USTA, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Truist Bank, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Opera, among others. He also serves on the national advisory committee of the COVID Collaborative, which focuses on developing consensus recommendations and engaging with US leaders on effective policy and coronavirus response.

With more than 250 scientific publications that have been cited more than 22,000 times, Fallin’s globally recognized research focuses on applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder and to developing applications and methods for genetic and epigenetic epidemiology, as applied to mental health and development.   

Fallin has led multiple CDC- and NIH-funded projects regarding how environments, behaviors, genetic variation, and epigenetic variation contribute to risk for psychiatric disease, particularly autism. She currently leads the B’more Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, one of 25 sites of the NIH’s newly initiated HBCD study, where she also serves as an associate director of the administrative core to guide epidemiologic design.

Prior to joining Rollins, Fallin worked at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for 22 years, where she served as chair of the Department of Mental Health, Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor, Bloomberg Centennial Professor, and held joint appointments in the Bloomberg School’s Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. While at the Bloomberg School, Fallin directed the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities and previously served as director of the genetic epidemiology area within epidemiology prior to becoming chair of the Department of Mental Health in 2013.  

Fallin completed a bachelor of science from the University of Florida–Gainesville and earned a PhD in genetic epidemiology from Case Western Reserve University.

Carla Freeman, Goodrich C. White Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, is interim dean of Emory College.  

Freeman joined the Emory College faculty in 1995 as an anthropologist and scholar of globalization, gender, and labor. In addition to her work as a scholar and teacher, she also took on leadership opportunities, first as department chair. Freeman joined the college administration in 2014, serving as senior associate dean of faculty and in 2020 became executive associate dean. 

As a leader, Freeman has implemented ambitious initiatives to enhance the diversity of the Emory College faculty and mentor early-career faculty as successful scholars, pedagogues, and engaged citizens of the university.  

As interim dean, Freeman is eager to advance student flourishing and to partner with leaders across the university to fully integrate the undergraduate experience. 

Freeman has remained a prolific scholar and leader in her interdisciplinary fields throughout her time in leadership roles. Her research examines the culture, gender, and political economy of labor and globalization, the changing forms and meanings of work in people’s everyday lives in the 20th and 21st centuries. Freeman has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean for more than 30 years, and her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Fulbright Program. She co-edits the Oxford University Press series Issues of Globalization and recently served as the president of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. 

Freeman is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she earned an AB in anthropology. She received an MA and a PhD in anthropology from Temple University. 

Kimberly Jacob Arriola serves as dean of Laney Graduate School, vice provost for graduate affairs, and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences in Rollins School of Public Health. 

As dean of Laney Graduate School, Arriola seeks to strengthen the graduate student experience and Emory’s ability to attract the best graduate students. This entails ensuring a student-centered educational experience that leverages curricular innovation to prepare students across all disciplines for careers that carry the greatest societal impact. As a result of significant investments and strategic decisions in the past decade, Laney has become a major player in the national and international graduate education landscape for the ways that it supports students and faculty. By focusing the school on interdisciplinary study, professional development, career planning and diversity, and inclusive excellence, Arriola solidifies Laney’s role as an important driver of Emory’s overall institutional trajectory.

Arriola serves as the chief academic, administrative, and fiscal officer of Laney Graduate School. Working collaboratively with critical constituencies, she supports the university’s academic mission through the creation of new programs, facilitates the establishment of processes and procedures to assist all graduate programs, and identifies and develops synergies between graduate education and research across the enterprise.

As vice provost, Arriola is responsible for developing and implementing an aligned and integrated vision for graduate and professional education across the university in collaboration with key constituents. This entails enhancing the student experience across all graduate and professional schools; fostering the recruitment, retention, and successful matriculation of students from historically underrepresented groups; and expanding interdisciplinary graduate and professional education across all relevant schools at Emory.

Arriola holds a PhD and MA from Northeastern University, an MPH from Emory, and a BA from Spelman College.

Gareth James became the John H. Harland Dean of Goizueta Business School in July 2022.

James is renowned for his visionary leadership, statistical mastery, and commitment to the future of business education. He brings a powerful optimism and contagious enthusiasm to further Goizueta’s work, not only through the school’s stellar scholarship, but also by continuing to build strong bridges to the business community. He believes in the central role that business plays in society and the impact that Goizueta has in preparing the thinkers and innovators of tomorrow. His ambition to drive excellence and strengthen Goizueta’s future is fueled by his experience in data-informed decision making, strategy, and support.  

James is a noted scholar and researcher. His extensive published works include numerous articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters focused on statistical and machine learning methodologies. His work has been cited more than 20,000 times. James is also co-author of the extremely successful textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Learning. He has led multiple National Science Foundation research grants and has served as an associate editor for five top research journals. The recipient of two Dean’s Research Awards from the Marshall School of Business, he is a life member, and elected Fellow, of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.  

His many accolades also encompass honors for his superb teaching and mentoring. James is a recipient of the Evan C. Thompson Faculty Teaching and Learning Innovation Award and three-time winner of the Marshall School of Business’ Golden Apple Award for best instructor in the full-time MBA program. He has also been awarded Marshall and USC’s highest honors for mentoring junior colleagues and graduate students, including the Dean’s Ph.D. Advising, USC Mellon, Evan C. Thompson and Provost’s Mentoring awards. 

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.

Lynell Cadray advises the president on policies and systemic issues of concern as well as identifies behavioral trends and patterns that require attention. Cadray serves faculty and staff—and, when appropriate, students—with resolving their concerns and issues. She is a member of the International Ombudsman Association and the International Association for Conflict Management. 

Since arriving at Emory in 1994, Cadray has served in numerous roles, including vice provost of equity and inclusion; associate dean of enrollment and student services and chief diversity officer at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; and dean of admission and financial aid and chief diversity officer at Emory University School of Law. 

She has been recognized with numerous awards, among them, at Emory, the Award of Distinction (2014), the Distinguished Leadership Award for Women of Excellence (2016), and the Career Excellence Award in Equity and Inclusion from the Office of the Provost (2019). In 2017, Cadray was nominated to advance her work on peace as an “Emory Peacemaker” during the 21 Days of Peace celebrations on campus. External accolades include the Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award (2017) from the National Diversity Council.

Cadray received her BA from Tulane University, MA from Georgia State University, and a certificate in conflict resolution from Cornell University. She is a trained conflict coach and mediator as well as a national facilitator on implicit bias who worked with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to present this training during the Obama administration.

When she is not working within the Emory community, she serves as board chair for the Georgia Zoological Society, a partner to the Georgia Safari Conservation Park.

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.