A long-time member of the law faculty and a faculty member with appointments both in medical oncology and the School of Nursing were among the four members elected last week to the Executive Council of the Academic Council (ECAC).
Law professor Thomas Metzloff and Amy Abernathy, assistant professor of medical oncology and of nursing, were joined by Dona Chikaraishi, professor of neurobiology, and Kenneth Surin, professor of literature and religion. Their terms of office begin July 1.
Metzloff's record of university service includes two terms on the Academic Council and two years as chair of the Faculty Compensation Committee. He also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs at the law school from 1999 to 2002. He also has been a member of the Faculty Review Committee and the Human Subjects Committee.
Abernathy joined the medical faculty in 2003 and serves on numerous committees, including two terms as the elected housestaff representative to the Executive Committee of the Medical Center, a term on the Executive Council of the Institutional Committee on Graduate Medical Education, the Department of Medicine Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of the Duke Center for Cancer Survivorship.
Chikaraishi joined the Duke faculty in 1995. Among her service duties at Duke, she is director of Graduate Studies for Neurobiology, a position she has held for nine years, serves on the Medical Center Appointments, Promotion and Tenure (APT) Committee for Basic Sciences and was elected to the Academic Council in 2005.
Surin came to Duke in 1987. Currently director of the Center for European Studies, chair of APT for the second year, he has also chaired the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, as well as serving on the Academic Council for four terms. Surin will serve a one-year term. The others were elected to two-year terms.
The four will join returning ECAC members Academic Council Chair Paula McClain of political science, Susan Lozier of the Nicholas School, Lori Setton of biomedical engineering and surgery, and faculty secretary John Staddon of psychology and neuroscience.