UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - Key Persons


Alana Kyriakakis - Chief Legal Officer, VP

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Vice President

Alda Hrvat

Job Titles:
  • Loan Collections Specialist

Alex Ganzermiller

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Development

Alex Hortis

Job Titles:
  • Associate University Counsel

Alexandra Zouras-Wieneke

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Controller

Alice Maxwell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director - Project & Capital Accounting

Alina Voey

Job Titles:
  • Analyst

Alison Watkins

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President / Chief Conflict of Interest Officer
  • Assistant Vice President, Office of Policy and Procedures, and Conflict of Interest Officer

Alma Rowe

Job Titles:
  • Business Operations Specialist

Andrew Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Research Administration
  • Research Quality Improvement and Compliance Specialist

Andrew Flerlage

Job Titles:
  • Director - Financial Analysis

Angel Chavez

Job Titles:
  • Director, Instructional Technology

Angela Fowler-Young

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Angela Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Financial Analyst - Budget

Ann Kim

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Affairs, Francis King Carey School of Law

Antonio Williams

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Public Safety
  • Member of Committee

Anuja Prasad

Job Titles:
  • Accountant Senior - Financial Analysis

Arthur "Skip" Rose

Job Titles:
  • University Counsel

Ashley Simon

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Supervisor

Aynsley Hamel

Job Titles:
  • Academic Services Specialist

Betsy Hostetler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant
  • Member of Committee

Bill Crockett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Center Operations Team
  • Executive Director of UMB Student Affairs

Bill Gardiner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Bill Joyner

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Brett Weinstein

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Recruiting and Admissions

Brian Godette

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Brian Scruggs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Brian Sturdivant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Director, Community Affairs
  • Member of Committee

Briana Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Bryan Mack

Job Titles:
  • Reporting and Tax Accounting Manager

Buzz Merrick

Job Titles:
  • Training Lead

Candace Chow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Controller, Payroll

Carl Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Office of the Provost

Carolina Souza

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant

Carroll Trotman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Office of Academic Affairs / Dental School
  • Member of Committee

Carvella A. Hudson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Administrative Assistant

Celeste Williams

Job Titles:
  • General Accountant

Chantel Todd

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Analyst

Cherita James

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Accountant

Cheryl Fuller

Job Titles:
  • Associate Management Advisory Analyst

Cherylann Bariebeault

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Chiradeep Mukherjee

Job Titles:
  • Director

Chris Smoker

Job Titles:
  • AP Accounting Associate

Christina Way

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Senior Organizational Change Management Analyst

Christopher Stanton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Cindy Lyons

Job Titles:
  • AVP and University Controller

Claudia Ahwireng


Cody Buck

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Crystal Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Curt Civin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Research Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine / Professor, Department of Pediatrics
  • Member of Committee

Damon West

Job Titles:
  • WF Accounting Associate

Daniel Fitzpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Academic Development Specialist

David George

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Dawn M. Rhodes

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Co - Chair ) Senior Vice President and Chief Business and Finance Officer, Office of Administration and Finance

Deepa Bhattacharyya

Job Titles:
  • University Counsel

Diane Hoffmann

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean and Professor / School of Law
  • Member of Committee

Dina Boogaard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant
  • Member of Committee

Donna Bethke

Job Titles:
  • Administration
  • Administrative Manager / Administrative Assistant to the Chair, APT, Office Administration

Donna Coates

Job Titles:
  • AP Specialist I

Donna Harrington

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor

Donna L. Parker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, School of Medicine

Dorothy Trueheart

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Manager, Business Operations

Elaine D. Portnoy

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Elice GarcĂ­a-Baca

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Program Administrator

Elizabeth Embry

Job Titles:
  • General Associate

Fiama Romero

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Staff Senate Representative

Fred Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Gerald Kayingo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Research and Executive Director, Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy, Graduate School

Gina Baker

Job Titles:
  • AP Program Specialist / Supervisor

Glenda Habeych-Randall

Job Titles:
  • Manager
  • Lead - HCM Implementation

Gregory Spengler

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Office of Institutional Research and Planning
  • Member of Committee

Heather Boulanger

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Student Leader / School of Nursing

Herty Cortez Diaz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

India Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator

India Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Travel Specialist

Irma Robins

Job Titles:
  • Deputy General Counsel
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Office of General Counsel

James Kaper

Job Titles:
  • Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine

Jane Allgair

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Jane Lipscomb

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, Department of Family and Community Health / School of Nursing

Janell Hooks

Job Titles:
  • Budget Analyst

Jeffrey A. Rivest - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of Committee

Jennifer Aumiller

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Director, Office of Postdoctoral Scholars and Director, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development

Jennifer B. Litchman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Senior Vice President for External Relations

Jennifer L. Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jenny Owens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Office of the Provost
  • Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives
  • Warnock Social Innovation Fellow
Jenny Owens, ScD, MS, was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore's (UMB) vice provost of academic affairs and strategic initiatives in April 2024. She previously served as associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor in the University of Maryland Graduate School as well as executive director of the Graduate Research Innovation District (Grid). As an educator and scholar practitioner with a diverse career path in academia, Owens has a record of effective strategic planning, leadership, and management resulting in innovative new services and academic programs. Before becoming vice provost, she was instrumental in the Graduate School's growth strategy and successfully launched over 20 self-sustaining graduate programs, responsive to the evolving needs of the health and human services workforce in the state. Owens further has experience in student and academic affairs, admissions and enrollment, and accreditation, and she enjoys building new ventures from the ground up through creative partnerships and with a commitment to quality. Owens is a former Warnock Social Innovation Fellow, an alumna of the Johns Hopkins University Social Innovation Lab, and was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader. She actively contributes to research on health equity, health-related social needs, and health care access, focusing on housing. She co-leads an awareness and advocacy committee in a national housing organization. Owens earned a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master's in management and leadership from East Stroudsburg University, and a doctor of science degree in information and interaction design from the University of Baltimore. With experience teaching across in-person, online, and hybrid environments, she has taught graduate courses in leadership and communications, health science capstone, and human-centered design, among others.

Jessica A. Mong

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Assistant Dean for Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholars / Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Jibola Akintola

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jill Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Contracts and Grants Specialist, School of Pharmacy
  • Organizational Change Management Analyst

Jimmy Heiner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Center Operations Team
  • Associate Director of Operations

Jingwen Hu

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member

Joanne Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Jodi Frey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

John Geiman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President, Budget and Finance
  • Member of Committee

John Yurich

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jon Kucskar

Job Titles:
  • Special Assistant to the President and Assistant Vice President for Enterprise Risk Management

Jordan Nixon

Job Titles:
  • Bursar, Assistant Controller

Joseph O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Director, Global Health Initiatives
  • Member of Committee

Judith Porter

Job Titles:
  • Director, Student Counseling, Division of General Dentistry / Dental School
  • Member of Committee

Juliet Dickerson

Job Titles:
  • HR Project Lead - HCM Implementation

Karen Allen

Job Titles:
  • Budget Analyst

Karen Park

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Projects, Office of Administration

Katherine "Katie" Levy

Job Titles:
  • University Counsel

Kathryn Montgomery

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives / School of Nursing
  • Member of Committee

Katrina Foster

Job Titles:
  • AP Accounting Associate

Keiver Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Lead - HCM Implementation

Kenneth Wong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Kenyatta Woolridge

Job Titles:
  • Senior Disbursements Specialist / Supervisor

Kevin Cooke

Job Titles:
  • Lead - HCM Implementation

Kevin Donegan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Asst VP, Budget & Financial Analysis

Kevin Enright

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, School of Medicine

Kiki Onwuka

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Processing Associate

Lacie Rockel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Laura Kozak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Assistant Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs / Communications and Public Affairs
  • Member of Committee
  • Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Communications and Public Affairs

Laura Pogliano

Job Titles:
  • Training Lead

LaVern Laury

Job Titles:
  • Director, Network and Communications Services, Center for Information Technology Services

Lily Robin Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Program Specialist, Center for Disability Justice

Lisa Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Student Accounts Supervisor

Loren Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Research Conflict of Interest & Conduct Compliance Analyst

Louisa Peartree

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Finance and Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer / School of Medicine
  • Member of Committee

Louise Michaux Gonzales

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Member of the Board of Regents / University System of Maryland

Luke Quell

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director

Lynell Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Controller, Disbursements

M. Beth Gallico

Job Titles:
  • Senior Organizational Change Management Analyst

Mahogany Gorden

Job Titles:
  • WF Accounting Associate

Marc Lennon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Mark A. Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Dean of the School of Dentistry

Mark Macek

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Curriculum Innovation and Scholarship, School of Dentistry

Melissa Flanagan

Job Titles:
  • Business Operations Specialist

Melissa Kroeger

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Program Specialist

Melissa Roane

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • Allied Health Research Building, Room 131A

Meredith Bond

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Physiology / School of Medicine
  • Member of Committee

Michael Patterson

Job Titles:
  • Director, Student Services

Michele L. Evans

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Monica Maggiano

Job Titles:
  • Director, Leadership Communications, Office of the President

Morgan Fique

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Clinical Research Assistant

Nadine Gayle

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate

Neal Gallico

Job Titles:
  • Lead - HCM Implementation

Nicole King

Job Titles:
  • Accountant I

Nicole Lennon

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Contract Specialist

Nicole Vallar

Job Titles:
  • Student Systems Supervisor

Nikki McCormick

Job Titles:
  • AP Accounting Associate

Nirav Shah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Patty Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Peter Danchin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Director, International and Comparative Law Program, Francis King Carey School of Law

Peter Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • CO - CHAIR / Vice President, Planning and Accountability
  • Member of Committee

Peter Swaan

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor and Director, Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery / Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences / School of Pharmacy

Priya Srivastava

Job Titles:
  • Financial & Budget Analyst - Project & Capital Accounting

Provost Ward

Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MSL, MPA, serves as Provost and Executive Vice President of University of Maryland, Balitmore (UMB). Provost Ward also leads UMB's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program as it continues evolving to embed, sustain, and support an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and responsible risk-taking culture across UMB. Provost Ward also has been teaching on-site, online, and in a blended environment since 2004 and has taught graduate courses in ethics, the history of higher education, leadership and organizational behavior, legal issues in higher education policy, and cybersecurity policy, among others. Previously, Provost Ward served as UMB vice president for operations and institutional effectiveness. In that role, which began in January 2018, he served as UMB's chief operating officer, directing a portfolio of departments and initiatives that promote institutional effectiveness and assure accountability including human resources, strategic planning, enterprise risk management, and institutional accreditation. Ward joined UMB in March 2009 as the associate vice president for academic and student affairs. He served as chief academic officer and interim dean of the Graduate School during the 2011-2012 academic year. In June 2012, Ward was named UMB's first chief accountability officer and was promoted to vice president for academic affairs in October 2013 and to vice president of operations and planning in June 2015. He served as interim chief human resources officer from October 2014 to November 2015. Before joining UMB, Ward served as assistant vice president for student affairs at the New School in New York City and also held senior administrative positions in the City University of New York system. Provost Ward earned an associate's degree in data processing/computer programming from Kingsborough Community College, a bachelor's degree in government and a master's in public administration, both from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He holds two law degrees: a Doctor of Law degree from New York Law School, and a Master of Science in Law (cybersecurity law) from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Ward also holds a Doctor of Education degree (with distinction) in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rachel Skolky

Job Titles:
  • Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor

Rae Gray

Job Titles:
  • Payroll Accountant

Rebecca Bell

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst
  • Member of Committee

Reetta Gach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Renita Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Lead Paralegal

Robin Reid

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Training

Roger J. Ward

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CALIBRATE Committee
  • Associate Vice President, Academic and Student Affairs
  • Member of Committee
  • MSL, MPA ( Chair ), Provost and Executive Vice President

Roksana Mazdeyasni

Job Titles:
  • Accountant

Roshaun Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Supervisor

Samantha Benton

Job Titles:
  • Academic Services Coordinator

Sarah Archibald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Shana Bynon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Analyst

Shanay Smith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Accountant

Shane Dubiel

Job Titles:
  • Accountant I

Sharen Bisson

Job Titles:
  • Psychiatrist

Sharron Graves

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Executive Director, Student Enrichment and Programmatic Initiatives, Office of Student Enrichment and Strategic Initiatives

Shelby Ronco

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Associate
  • Cashier

Shelvia McGee-Chavis

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Supervisor

Soh-Hyun Hur

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Clinical Research Assistant

Stacey Marriott

Job Titles:
  • Training Specialist

Stacey Rose

Job Titles:
  • Core Values Program Director

Stacy Dubon

Job Titles:
  • Accountant Senior - Financial Analysis

Stephanie Brandal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee
  • Staff Senate Representative / Andy Coop, School of Pharmacy

Stephanie Fuller

Job Titles:
  • AP Accounting Associate

Stephanie Suerth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Stephen T. Bartlett

Job Titles:
  • CO - CHAIR / Chair, Department of Surgery
  • Member of Committee

Steven Deck

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ERM Implementation Committee

Sunday Jones

Job Titles:
  • Director, Employee and Labor Relations, Human Resource Services

Surekha Vishwasrao - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Tamara Borisevich

Job Titles:
  • Financial Analyst - Budget

Tanisha Burt - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director, Human Resources

Taylor DeBoer

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Operations Specialist, the Grid, Graduate School

Teresa LaMaster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Planning and External Affairs / School of Law
  • Member of Committee

Thomas McHugh

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Program Director, GPILS / School of Medicine

Thurgood Marshall Law

Job Titles:
  • Library

Thuy Langrill-Miles

Job Titles:
  • Staff Attorney

Tierra Major Kearney

Mrs. Major Kearney assists UMB students by providing mental health programming and connecting students with local mental health providers for long term care. When not at the counseling center, she enjoys reorganizing her home and creating holistic remedies for selfcare.

Tolulope Sogbade

Job Titles:
  • Accountant - Project & Capital Accounting

Tracy Ngo

Job Titles:
  • Director - Budget

Vanessa Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Special Assistant to the Dean, School of Dentistry

Vic Matusak

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Marketing Specialist

Victoria Marchese

Job Titles:
  • Allied Health Research Building, Room 115D
  • Department Chair

Victoria Meadows

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the ERM Implementation Committee
Victoria Meadows, MS, serves as Assistant Director of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program at UMB. As Assistant Director, Victoria is leading the way in the development of the ERM program to bring it to new heights through program development, data analytics, project management, strategic plan connection, relationship building across UMB schools and units, and related tasks. Previously, Victoria worked in the University of Maryland School of Medicine as lab manager and research specialist in the Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development in the Department of Pharmacology. Victoria originally joined UMB in 2016 in the School of Medicine as a research assistant in the Department of Anesthesiology. Victoria is very honored and proud to have been recently recognized as one of the 2024 Daily Record Leading Women Under 40 for her tremendous accomplishments she has made so far in her career, for her community involvement, and for her commitment to inspiring change. Victoria earned her MS in Management (specialization in Interdisciplinary Studies) from University of Maryland Global Campus and her BA in Biology (minors in Chemistry and Mathematics) from Notre Dame of Maryland University. Victoria is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Law with a focus in Homeland Security and Crisis Management Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. One cool item about Victoria is that she is former marine mammal assistant trainer at the National Aquarium. where she worked alongside seven Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. She currently volunteers at the National Aquarium as an Assistant Animal Trainer working alongside reptiles that include turtles, lizards, and snakes.

Willa Fan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Analyst

William Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Senior Associate Dean, Administration and Finance / School of Pharmacy

William T. Wood

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Yaw Tweneboah-Koduah

Job Titles:
  • Lead - HCM Implementation