


People
Alan M. Garber, Provost
Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD is Provost of Harvard University and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. From 1997 to 2011, he was Director of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research in the Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University. From 1986 to 2011 he served as a Staff Physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Garber is an Elected Member of American College of Physicians, the Association of American Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and an Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Health Economics. He is a member of the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office and of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Academies. Dr. Garber graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an AB in Economics in 1976. He earned an AM in Economics in 1977 and a PhD in Economics in 1982, both from Harvard University. In 1983, he received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Mark Barnes,
Mark Barnes is Senior Associate Provost, University Chief Research Compliance Officer,
and Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School. For the Harvard AIDS treatment programs in Nigeria,
Tanzania and Botswana, he served as executive director during periods from 2004 until 2009, and
now serves as the Chair of the University Oversight Committee for that project. Mark was formerly
a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative
Officer of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and has held senior appointed positions in the
New York City and New York State Departments of Health. He currently co-chairs the Subcommittee
on Harmonization of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, which
seeks to harmonize FDA, OHRP and other HHS research regulations, and is a member of the Ethics
Working Group of the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network. He also holds a faculty appointment at
Yale School of Medicine.
Amy Brand,
As Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments, Dr. Brand joined the Office in September 2009 to oversee and coordinate the review of faculty appointments. She works closely with the senior administration, faculty members, and deans across the University on a range of faculty affairs matters, with a focus on improving faculty appointment processes, systems, and policies University-wide. Amy's career spans academia, publishing, and scholarly communication technologies. She served as Program Manager of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication from 2008 to 2009. Before moving to Harvard, Amy held long-term positions as an Executive Editor at the MIT Press and as Director of Business and Product Development at CrossRef. She currently serves as Harvard's representative to the Board of Directors of ORCID Inc., the researcher identifier and profile collaborative.
Kathleen Buckley,
Dr. Buckley works with the Provost and the President in developing
University-wide, inter-faculty science-based initiatives, and advises them on a
wide variety of science policy issues. She also works with the senior
management of the science departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard School of
Dental Medicine and the School of Public Health on academic planning and budget
processes that will inform University-wide planning efforts. She monitors and
provides staff support on selected hospital issues, and serves as the liaison
to working groups and committees focused on science issues.
Rick Calixto,
Mr. Calixto oversees the office responsible for protecting and licensing Harvard’s trademarks throughout the world. Under Mr. Calixto’s guidance, the office also assists Harvard schools, departments and other University units with trademark related issues and provides advice concerning the University policies governing the proper use of the Harvard name and trademarks.
Liza Cariaga-Lo,
Dr. Cariaga-Lo joined the staff as Assistant Provost for Faculty
Development and Diversity in 2007. Prior to joining Harvard, she was the
Assistant Dean and Director of the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity
at Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She also held a position as
Assistant Clinical Professor at the Child Study Center at Yale School of
Medicine. Dr. Cariaga-Lo received her master’s and doctorate in education
from Harvard University, and has also been an assistant professor of medical
education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She taught courses in
minority health and developmental psychology, as well as some courses in
African American Studies and Asian American Studies. Her research deals with
educational program evaluation, minority student development, ethnic minority
health care and public policy affecting children and families.
Ken Carson,
Lydia Cummings,
Ms. Cummings serves as ombudsman for all members of the University
community. The University Ombudsman Office is open to faculty, staff, students,
fellows and retirees. The ombudsman is an independent resource for problem
resolution and works to insure that all members of the University community are
treated equitably and fairly. The ombudsman can provide confidential and
informal assistance to help resolve issues related to workplace and learning
environments. The ombudsman is confidential, independent and neutral. The
Ombudsman Office is able to provide upward feedback for the institution. Ms.
Cummings has been a member of the University community for over 25 years. Prior
to becoming Ombudsman, she was the Associate Director of Labor and Employee
Relations in the Office of Human Resources. Her professional areas of expertise
include employee counseling, contract negotiation, informal mediation of group
conflicts, and assisting individuals to develop strategies for conflict
resolution.
Jorge I. Domínguez,
Professor Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, develops and oversees a variety of
University-wide initiatives and policies relating to international research and
education. He works with deans and faculty across the University to create and
support new international research collaborations. In addition to this
University-wide appointment, Professor Domínguez also serves as the
Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences. He continues to teach courses in the Government Department and
carries on with his research.
Lori Gross,
Lori Gross, associate provost for arts and culture, works with Harvard's arts and culture institutions, including the Harvard Art Museums, the American Repertory Theatre, Villa I Tatti, and the Harvard University Library, among others, on issues ranging from day-to-day operational matters to strategic planning and fundraising. She collaborates with the Office for the Arts to make resources more visible and accessible to the University and broader communities, and she participates in planning discussions for the artistic and cultural components of both the Cambridge and the Allston campuses. Gross worked at MIT for over 13 years, establishing and directing the Museum Loan Network, advancing arts-related initiatives, and fostering dialogue on arts, culture policy and the role of museums nationally and internationally.
Mary Lee Kennedy,
Mary Lee Kennedy joined the Office of the President and Provost on July 15, 2011 as Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library. She is responsible for working with constituents both inside and outside of Harvard to develop strategies and policies for the 21st- century Harvard Library, and for leading and overseeing the transition of Harvard's libraries into a more closely coordinated management structure. In its new structure the Harvard Library reports to the Senior Associate Provost. Ms. Kennedy is a member of, and works closely with, the Library Board. Previous to this position she was on the Library Task Force and the Library Implementation Work Group. In 2004, Ms. Kennedy joined the Harvard Business School as executive director of Knowledge and Library Services. She came to Harvard from the high technology sector where she led knowledge management organizations at Microsoft Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. Since the beginning of the Internet age, Ms. Kennedy has pioneered innovative technologies, business models, information services and products to enable the exchange of ideas, expertise and information.
Isaac Kohlberg,
Mr. Kohlberg, formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Tel Aviv
University Economic Corporation and CEO of its technology transfer
organization, oversees the development of new inventions and technologies
arising from research at Harvard. The Office of Technology Development (OTD)
elicits and evaluates new inventions and discoveries made by the faculty, and
determines whether to pursue patent protection on behalf of the University. In
keeping with Harvard's mission to serve the public good, OTD strives to make
these new technologies widely available to society by transferring them to
industry for development and real world application. Companies seek to acquire
rights to promising new inventions made at Harvard in order to develop them
into new products, such as biopharmaceuticals, medical devices and advanced
research materials which, it is hoped, will one day be available on the market,
thereby contributing to society through the advancement of science, medicine
and industry. Licenses include a financial consideration for the University
which, in turn, helps support the expense of patenting future inventions, as
well as of ongoing research and academic endeavors at Harvard. Thus, OTD serves
to protect new discoveries made by Harvards research enterprise while
simultaneously helping to make additional research possible, often resulting in
direct or indirect benefit to the public at large.
Doreen Koretz,
Dr. Koretz serves as the Provost's chief adviser on matters involving
the social sciences and departments or schools of public policy, law, education
and business. She manages cross-faculty initiatives in these areas and supports
the development of new interfaculty projects. Dr. Koretz also works with senior
management of the social sciences and related professional schools on academic
and budget planning and various aspects of visitation and appointments for
which the Provost's office has responsibility.
Judith Singer,
Professor Singer, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education at
Harvard University, was named Harvard’s Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
in July 2008. Working closely with the President and Provost, she is
responsible for faculty development and diversity across the University,
addressing the need for more systematic review and analysis of appointments,
with an eye to ensuring greater excellence and diversity in faculty ranks. She
serves as a key adviser in the ad hoc tenure process, chairs the
Provost’s Review Committee on Faculty Appointments, and oversees the
administration of funds designated to facilitate the appointment of outstanding
scholars who increase the faculty’s diversity. Working closely with
colleagues across the University, Singer oversees and guides institutional
policies and transformation in all areas of faculty affairs, providing
intellectual leadership and coordination across the Schools with the twin goals
of increasing accountability and fostering measureable progress in important
domains. An internationally renowned statistician, Singer has written nearly
100 papers and three books primarily focused on the practice of multilevel
modeling, survival analysis, and individual growth modeling in a broad array of
disciplines including statistics, education, psychology, medicine, and public
health. Singer has received numerous honors for her work, including a
fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and
election to the National Academy of Education. Singer received her B.A. in
Mathematics, summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at
Albany in 1976. She has been at Harvard ever since, receiving her Ph.D. in
Statistics in 1983. In 1984, she began her academic career as an Assistant
Professor of Education and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and
Professor in 1993. She was named the James Bryant Conant Professor of
Education in 2001. From 1999 to 2004 Singer served as academic dean of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education and acting dean from 2001 to 2002. For
further information, you may visit Professor Singer's faculty website.
Todd Washburn,
International Affairs
Dr. Washburn was named the University's Assistant Provost for
International Affairs in September, 2007. In this role, Washburn's primary task
is to work with the Vice Provost and with faculty and administrators from
Harvard's schools to facilitate the University's international teaching and
research activities by coordinating those activities across the University and
by developing uniform policies and procedures for their governance. Prior to
joining the Provost's staff, Washburn was an Assistant Dean in the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, where he coordinated academic reviews of FAS research
centers and served as liaison to the Provost's Office on a variety of FAS
international activities.

