The Graduate School Board of Visitors, established in 2010, serves an important advisory function for the dean of The Graduate School. Comprising alumni from a broad geographic area and representing the comprehensive nature of The Graduate School, the board helps to support and promote the mission of The Graduate School. The board considers and provides information and makes recommendations on matters relating to the graduate experience at Duke. It gives informal advice and assistance about programs and projects and enhances communication among the constituencies of The Graduate School.
Board of Visitors 2018–2019
Chair: Susan Wood M.S.’88, Palo Alto, California
President and CEO of VIDA Diagnostics, Inc.
Zaid Abdul-Aleem ’94, A.M.’96, Chicago, Illinois
Managing Director and Co-Founder, Private Funds Advisory Group at Moelis and Company
Judith E. Beach Ph.D.’76, P’99, P’01, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Consultant in privacy and regulatory law
Bob Beckler ’83, P’22, Richmond, Virginia
Executive Chairman of TemperPack
Peter Dohlman A.M.’90, Ph.D.’93, Washington D.C.
Mission Chief for Greece, International Monetary Fund
Dennis Flores Ph.D.’16, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Yale University School of Public Health’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Dennis Gilmore Ph.D. ’78, Durham, North Carolina
Senior Director of Technology for Energy, Environment & Engineering at RTI International
Cynthia Hougum Ph.D.’93, Brookfield, Wisconsin
VP, Product and Customer Excellence for the Healthcare Digital business, GE
Anna Hrom A.M.’15, J.D.’16, Durham, NC
Min Hui Ph.D.’98, Atherton, California
Founder and CEO of Abacus Financial Services
CEO of HandScape
Michael Hunnicutt ’80, Ph.D.’84, P’15, Midlothian, Virginia
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sally Shaffer Hunnicutt ’83, P’15, Midlothian, Virginia
Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mudit K. Jain Ph.D. ’99, San Francisco, California
General Partner at Synergy Life Science Partners
Nathan Kundtz M.S.’08, Ph.D.’09, Kirkland, Washington
Physicist and Entrepreneur
Formerly CEO and President of Kymeta Corporation
Lori Lehman Ph.D.’83, San Francisco, California
Vice President, Research Strategy and Portfolio Management at Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Augusto Lopez-Claros Ph.D.’81, Washington, D.C.
Senior advisor in the development economics vice-presidency of the World Bank Group
Evelyn Murphy ’61, Ph.D.’65, Brookline, Massachusetts
Founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc.
Adam Sharkawy Ph.D.’97, Concord, Massachusetts
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Material Impact
Ronald Temple ’90, New York, New York
Managing Director, Co-Head of Multi Asset, head of U.S. equity at Lazard Asset Management LLC
Darryl L. Webster ’82, Bay Head, New Jersey
Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property Counsel at Intrexon Corporation
Stephen Williams Ph.D ’80, Los Angeles, California
Partner with Catalyst Advisors, LP
George Wright Ph.D.’77, Cypress Gardens, Texas
Professor of History at Texas A&M University in College Station
David Ye A.M.’88, Ph.D.’91, New York, New York
CEO and Founder of TriLeaf Technologies, LLC
Past Co-Chairs:
- Catherine McKnight ’98, A.M.’04, Ph.D.’07, Brooklyn, NY
- Matt Rhodes-Kropf ’93, Ph.D.’99, Newton, MA