Steering Committee

President Christina H. Paxson established a Steering Committee charged with "imagining, designing, and carrying out an inclusive, diverse, coherent, vibrant and academic mission-oriented series of programs, events, and activities to commemorate and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of what is now known today as the Warren Alpert Medical School over the course of the 2022-2023 calendar years."

Michele Cyr, MD, Chair
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Medicine

Ghada Bourjeily, MD
Professor of Medicine

Cailie Burns
Associate Dean for Biomedical Advancement

Blair Byg MD’24
Medical Student

Kris Cambra
Assistant Dean of BioMedical Communications

Madeline Chin ’17 MD’23
Medical Student

Cass Cliatt
Senior Vice President for Communications

Al Dahlberg
Assistant Vice President, Government and Community Relations

Kimberly Galligan
Executive Dean for Administration

Marguerite Joutz
Chief of Staff to the President

Carly Kite Lapinski
Associate Vice President for Marketing Communications

Linda Nici, MD
Professor of Medicine

Katina Robison, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Karen Scanlan
Director of Communications and Outreach in the School of Public Health

Katherine Silberman
Director of Community Relations

Joe Zappala
Associate Vice President for Advancement Communications