Who We Are

We are elected representative members of the faculties from all seven schools that make up the UMB campus. Those schools include medicine, law, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, and the Graduate School.

Each school has four or more senators, with larger schools having more seats on the senate in proportion to the size of the faculty in that school. We also have a representative from the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL), the adjunct faculty, and the staff and student senates.

Executive Committee 2023-2024

Sarasijhaa Desikan

Sarasijhaa Desikan, MD, President, School of Medicine
2019-2025

Qoot Alkhubaizi

Dr. Qoot Alkhubaizi, BSc, BChD, MFDRCS, Irel, MS, ABGD, Vice President, School of Dentistry, 2022-2024

Dr. Joshua Abzug

Joshua Abzug, MD, Past President, School of Medicine
2019-2025

Terry_Shaw

Terry Shaw, MSW, MPH, Secretary, School of Social Work,
2019-2025

School of Dentistry 2023-2024

Eve Desai

Dr. Eve Desai
2022-2025

Ina Griffin

Dr. Ina Griffin
2022-2025

 

Coming_Soon

Dr. Hwan Hee Park 
2023-2026

Graduate School 2023-2024

Karen Gordes

Dr. Karen Gordes
2020-2026

Violet Kulo

Dr. Violet Kulo
2020-2026

Library Faculty 2023-2024

Emily Gorman

Emily Gorman
2022-2025

Carey School of Law 2023-2024

School of Medicine 2023-2024

Neeraja Murali

Dr. Neeraja Murali
2023-2026

 

Seema Patil

Dr. Seema Patil
2023-2026

 

Erik Strauss

Dr. Erik Strauss
2021-2024

 

School of Nursing 2022-2023

Karin Russ

Dr. Karin Russ
2023-2026

School of Pharmacy 2022-2023

Peter Doshi

Dr. Peter Doshi
2022-2025

Scott Riley

Dr. Scott Riley
2022-2025

Jana Shen

Dr. Jana Shen
2022-2025

 

Jason Noel

Dr. Jason Noel
2023-2026

School of Social Work 2022-2023

Part-Time Faculty 2023-2024

Staff Senate Representative

Coming_Soon

Lei Zhang 
2023-2026

UMB/CUSF Representatives

Dr. Thomas Abrams, School of Medicine
Dr. David Gray, School of Law
Emily Gorman, Library
Miroslaw Janowski, School of Medicine
Terry Shaw, School of Social Work

Faculty Senate Representative to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC)

Dr. Roger J Ward

Student Senate Representative

TBA

Administrative Support

Celeste Gerhart