Administrative Changes Announced
MCG President Daniel W. Rahn recently announced four administrative changes.
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Vice President for External Affairs and Government Relations R. Bryan Ginn Jr. has been charged with expanded duties in the reconfigured role of vice president for university advancement. The new role encompasses development, alumni affairs, government relations, media relations, strategic communications, special events and community affairs. He came to MCG in 2002 from Kennesaw State University where he was director of state and local relations and assistant to the vice president of university advancement. |
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Deb Barshafsky, executive assistant to the president and director of institutional research, has been named vice president for decision support. Ms. Barshafsky joined MCG in 1989 as an institutional research associate. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Augusta College (now Augusta State University) and a master’s degree in educational research from the University of South Carolina. |
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Dr. Frank A. Treiber, director of the Georgia Prevention Institute and Regents Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Health Behavior, has been named vice president for research. He will continue his research activities, which include serving as principal investigator on a $10 million National Institutes of Health Program Project grant seeking hypertension risk factors. Dr. Gregory Harshfield, associate director of the Georgia Prevention Institute, will serve as interim director of the Georgia Prevention Institute. |
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Dr. Gretchen B. Caughman, interim dean for the School of Graduate Studies, has been named to the position permanently. She joined the MCG faculty in 1985 and was named associate dean for the School of Graduate Studies and associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Medicine in 1999. |