Standing Committees

The following is a list of standing committees within the School of Health Professions, including each purpose, chair, and membership.

Centralize resources and information to address issues within SHP. 

Chair   Dr. William Undie
 

Members 

• Dr. Hady Abdin, Assistant Professor, SHP
• Mark Bailey, Associate Professor, SHP
• Dr. Catherine Bammert, Assistant Professor, SHP
• Dr. Suzieann Bass, Assistant Professor, SHP
• Heather Beckles-Bright, Director, Student and Financial Services, UTH
• Kevin Burnett, Associate Dean for Management, UTH
• Dr. Shaun Caldwell, Associate Professor, SHP
• Dr. Kevin Clark, Associate Professor, SHP
• Dr. Mary Coolbaugh-Murphy, Assistant Professor, SHP
• Dr. Mahsa, Dehghanpour, Professor, SHP
• Celete Dennis, Director, Leave and Accommodations, MDA
• Nghi Do-Ferreira, Program Manager, Recruitment, SHP
• Mena El-Sharkawi, Program Manager, E&T Publications, MDA
• James Fore, Assistant Director, Student Financial Services, UTH
• Amy Gentry, Senior Legal Officer, MDA

Review and recommend policies concerning the grading, examinations, academic and nonacademic disciplinary matters.

To oversee continuous improvement to curriculum and student learning, etc. via oversight and review of SHP's program and general education assessment (student learning outcomes).

Chair   Dr. Brandy Greenhill (Clinical Laboratory Sciences)

Members

Ex-Officio Members

Dr. Ryan Beard & Dr. Dyaz Godfrey

Review and update the school’s annual cataloge and determine appropriate alignment of its content with the school’s web site. The committee will ensure that public information on the web site is maintained, well-organized and easily assessable to the public.

• Review all changes proposed by each academic program, including all program currcilum changes.
• Review SHP programs Student Handbook and determine consistency and alignment of policy and procedure guidelines for students in all programs.
• Establish a timeline for submission of all requests for consideration.

• Review and propose revision to SHP and institutional policies that affect faculty and student responsibilities.
• Determine the feasibility of creating and maintaining an Education Policy Library for SHP.
• Present recommendations and proposals to the chair of AAC for discussion and approval.

Responsible for coordinating scholarships awarded by the SHP using donor funds provided by the MD Anderson Development Office. Includes

• Calling for faculty/staff reviewers of applications.
• Evaluating applicants for eligibility.
• Reviewing the ranking and matches the candidate’s application with donor-specific criteria.
• Communicating the decision to the chair of AAC and the Dean.
• Notifying the scholarship recipients of the award.

• Overseas all students’ academic and scholarship recognition awards.
• Notifies students of all recognition for academic and leadership achievement.
• Coordinate the required application packets and notification for presentation and publication of all awards.
  

• Communicate with each program the resources that are available to students seeking tutorial assistance.
• Evaluate and present a plan and budget for the program.
• Review all applications for tutor selection.
• Evaluate benefits and challenges for hosting tutoring sessions face-to-face and online.
• Propose criteria for recommending tutoring services to students.
• Review consideration to have individual and group tutorial sessions.