Three Faculty Members Selected as Provost Faculty Fellows for 2024-25

Program offers introduction to Duke leadership, strategic initiatives

Professor M. Kate Bundorf and Associate Professors Johann Guilleminot and Benjamin Smallheer have been selected to serve as Provost Faculty Fellows for 2024-25.
As Provost Faculty Fellows, professors M. Kate Bundorf, Johann Guilleminot and Benjamin Smallheer will take on a project on an issue of importance to the university.

Professor M. Kate Bundorf and Associate Professors Johann Guilleminot and Benjamin Smallheer have been selected to serve as Provost Faculty Fellows for 2024-25.

The Provost Faculty Fellows program is a new initiative that aims to introduce Duke faculty members to key leadership roles and responsibilities and areas of strategic focus of the university. Fellows are nominated by the deans of their respective schools or college and selected by Provost Alec D. Gallimore.

Over the course of an academic year, fellows work on a project that is either assigned to them by a sponsoring campus leader or one of their own choosing that is embraced by a campus leader. Fellows also attend meetings of Duke’s senior leadership and contribute to discussions of university issues.

“I congratulate these three outstanding scholars and teachers on being selected as the inaugural Provost Faculty Fellows,” Gallimore said. “I am excited that they will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and capability in academic leadership during their year-long fellowship and that I and other senior leaders will have the benefit of their insights and expertise through this new program.”

Bundorf is the J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Sanford School of Public Policy, a core faculty member at Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her M.B.A. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. in health economics from the Wharton School. 

Bundorf’s research, which focuses on health insurance and health care provider markets, has been published in leading economics and health policy journals and has received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute for Health Care Management and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Her fellowship project will examine how the university can more effectively engage faculty in interdisciplinary research around important social challenges.

Guilleminot is the Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science. He joined in 2017.

Prior to that, he held a Maître de Conférences position in the Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Laboratory at Université Paris-Est in France. He earned an MS and PhD in theoretical mechanics from the University of Lille 1 Science and Technology and his habilitation in mechanics from Université Paris-Est.

Guilleminot’s research focuses on uncertainty quantification, computational mechanics and materials science, as well as on topics at the interface between these fields. His project aims to develop and strengthen educational and research exchange programs between Duke and international institutions at the graduate level.

Smallheer is an associate professor in Duke’s School of Nursing, where he serves as assistant dean for the Master of Science in Nursing program. He received his bachelor of science in nursing from Florida State University and his master of science and doctor of philosophy in nursing science from Vanderbilt University. He completed a post-masters certificate in family practice nursing from Tennessee State University.

Smallheer’s research is dedicated to improving the educational experience of nursing students. He is internationally recognized for his use of simulation and alternative teaching strategies that create learning environments that allow students to transition from the role of a bedside nurse to one of an advanced practice provider. His fellowship project will be to conduct a market analysis and needs assessment of national trends in graduate nursing education.