Nominations are now being sought for the following open positions on the Executive Committee:
- Chair, Clinical Department (1 position)
- Chair, Health Sciences (1 position)
- Faculty Member, Basic Sciences (1 position)
- Faculty Member, Children's National Hospital (1 position)
- Faculty Member, Regional Medical Campus (1 position)
To make a nomination, complete the nomination form by 12:00 pm on Friday, February 27, 2026.
The Executive Committee is elected by the Faculty Assembly and acts on the Assembly’s behalf to:
- Meets monthly to consider any matters of interest or concern to the Faculty Assembly and to make recommendations to the Faculty Assembly, Dean, and to the University Faculty Senate;
- Serve as the liaison between the Dean and the Faculty Assembly;
- Appoint the membership of standing committees, and to establish and appoint members to ad hoc committees to study and make reports on any matters of concern to the faculty;
- Receive reports from all Committees and present them to the Faculty Assembly;
- Assign specific matters for study to the appropriate standing or special committees;
- Propose the agenda for meetings of the Faculty Assembly in consultation with the Dean, and serve as the means through which regular faculty members may introduce matters for consideration by the Faculty Assembly;
- Act, in accordance with its Bylaws, on behalf of the Faculty Assembly in those matters requiring immediate action when it is not feasible to call a special meeting of the Assembly;
- Serve as the Committee on Committees for the Faculty Assembly.
Voting Membership (Years of term remaining shown in parentheses)
| Jeffrey Berger (1) | John Bethea (3) |
| Marisa Birkmeier (3) | Kirsten Brown (2) |
| Jillian Catalanotti (N/A) | Andrew Choi (2) |
| Ellen Costello (2) | Anandapadmanaban Gourishankar (1) |
| Tenagne Haile-Mariam (2) | Rong Li (2) |
| Raymond Lucas (3) | Aziza Shad (1) |
| Anton Sidawy (N/A) | Marianne Vail (3) |
| Mary Warner (1) | Colin Young (2) |
Ex-Officio
| Jeffrey Akman | Barbara Bass |
| Marie Borum | Shawneeque Callier |
| Karen Fagan | Yolanda Haywood |
| Scott Krugman | Nathan Kuppermann |
| David Mendelowitz | Robert Miller |
| Lorenzo Norris |