The Faculty Senate consists of 32 faculty members: 28 senators and four officers. Nine senators from clinical departments, nine senators from basic science departments, and two senators from faculty not billeted to USU represent the School of Medicine (SOM). Three senators represent the Graduate School of Nursing (GSN), three senators represent the Postgraduate Dental College (PDC), and two senators represent the College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS). Senators serve three-year terms and are expected to represent the common good of the university rather than individual constituencies. The senate officers are the President, the President-Elect, the immediate Past President, and the Secretary-Treasurer. Each presidential officer serves a one-year term. A new President-Elect is chosen each year, and after serving in that capacity for one year, becomes the Senate President. Following that, a one-year term as immediate Past president is served. Thus, it is a three year commitment. Beginning with the 2015 election, the Secretary-Treasurer will serve a two-year term. Senate elections are held each May, and terms of office begin in July.
2019-2020 Roster
Officers
President
Penny Pierce, PhD GSN
President-Elect
Bernard Dardzinski, PhD RAD
Past President
Sara Contente, PhD SOM
Secretary-Treasurer
SOM Basic Science Senators (9)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
Natasha Schvey, PhD | MPS-SOM | 2020 |
LtCol Michael Stone, MBA, MIS | MEM-SOM | 2020 |
LTC Craig Myatt, PhD | MEM-SOM | 2021 |
Galina Petukhova, PhD | BIO-SOM | 2021 |
Alex Stubner, PhD | PMB-SOM | 2021 |
Sherrie Wilcox, PhD | PMB-SOM | 2021 |
LCDR James Dunford, PhD | PMB-SOM | 2022 |
Luke Michaelson, PhD RN | ANE-SOM | 2022 |
LTC Cuong (Kirk) Nguyen, DO | PAT-SOM | 2022 |
SOM Clinical Science Senators (9)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
Guinevere Granite, PhD | SUR-SOM | 2020 (1 yr appt) |
He Li, MD, PhD | PSY-SOM | 2020 |
Minnie Malik, PhD | OBG-SOM | 2020 |
Viqar Syed, PhD | OBG-SOM | 2020 |
LtCol Kirk Jensen, MD | PED-SOM | 2021 |
LtCol Courtney Judd, MD | PED-SOM | 2021 |
Beth Aronson, MD | OBG-SOM | 2022 |
Maria Mendonca-Torres, MD | PED-SOM | 2022 |
Marzena Pazgier, PhD | MED-SOM | 2022 |
SOM Non-Billeted Senators (2)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
CAPT Thomas Herndon, MD | MED-SOM | 2020 |
LCDR J Kent Werner, MD | NEU-SOM | 2022 |
Graduate School of Nursing (3)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
CDR Raymond Bonds, DNP | GSN | 2021 |
CDR Jerrol Wallace, DNP | GSN | 2021 |
Jill Schramm, DNP | GSN | 2022 |
Post-Graduate Dental College (3)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
LCDR James Hawkins, DDS | NVD-PDC | 2022 |
LTC Nathan Krivitzsky, DDS | AFD-PDC | 2022 |
COL Lisa Yarbrough, DMD | ARD-PDC | 2022 |
College of Allied Health Sciences (2)
Name | Department | Term Ends |
LCPO Branden Clayton, BS | CAHS | 2022 |
1LT Hamidah Brown, MPH | CAHS | 2022 |
