Meet the Provost's Office Team

The Provost's Office proudly supports the success of the UTMB's Academic Enterprise.

Members of our team provide a wide array of services and resources to meet the needs of our faculty, staff, students, and trainees. We work collaboratively with colleagues across the AE to ensure UTMB's continued excellence in education, research, and patient care.

View all of the Provost's Office's business areas below and get to know the talented and knowledgeable people who make up our team.

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Executive Leadership

Charles P. Mouton, MD, MS, MBA Executive Vice President, Provost and Dean, John Sealy School of Medicine Thomas N. and Gleaves T. James Distinguished Chair	Vicente Resto, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS Chief Physician Executive, Faculty Group Practice Senior Vice President, Health System Ambulatory Operations and Surgical Services	Susan Chubinskaya, PhD, MS, FIOR Vice President and Executive Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Peaches and Shrub Kempner Distinguished Professor in Health Disparities
David Hileman, MHA/MBA, FACHE Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Academic Enterprise	Gabriel Hernandez, MBA, CPA Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Academic Enterprise	Michelle Moreno Chief of Staff Office of the Provost Academic Enterprise
Victor Moreno Associate Vice President, Workforce Operations Office of the Provost Academic Enterprise

AE Capital Planning and Space Management

Zachary House
Associate Director
Carlos Galvez Dominguez
Facility Coordinator
AE Communications

Cortney Martin
Manager, Communications & Community Initiatives
Ashley Torres
Senior Communications Specialist - Enterprise Support Richard "Joey" McCusker
Communications Specialist AE
AE Finance

Anan El-Mubasher
Director AE Finance Michael Turner
Director, Business Analytics and Intelligence
John Rodriguez
Finance Manager, Sr
Marlo Alcala
Financial Analyst, Sr. Puja Patel
Financial Analyst, Sr.

AE Service Center

AESC Procurement Team
Eileen Garza Associate Director Service Center - AE
Jennifer Taylor Team Lead, Service Center - AE
Bianca Salazar Administrative Specialist	Blanca Major Administrative Specialist	Elaine Bullard Administrative Specialist
Hillary Goodgion Administrative Specialist	Jordan Sechelski Administrative Specialist	Katharine Gibson Administrative Specialist
Maida Ortiz Administrative Specialist	Marisol Gomez Administrative Specialist	Whitney Chavez Administrative Specialist
AESC HR Team
Linda Nolasco Team Lead, Service Center-AE
Brianna Vuong Administrative Specialist	Michellstefany Perez Administrative Specialist	Vivian Ward Administrative Specialist
AESC Travel and Entertainment Team
Delilah Hymas Team Lead, Service Center-AE	Tricia Pemberton Team Lead, Service Center-AE
Diego Garza Administrative Specialist	Griselda Varvarekos Administrative Specialist	Jeanette Correa Administrative Specialist
Jennifer Patenia Administrative Specialist	Jonisha Tisino Administrative Specialist	Kasey Kirby Administrative Specialist
Patrice Lewis Administrative Specialist

Faculty Group Practice

Salim Hayek, MD Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer, Faculty Group Practice
Pennelope Kunkle Program Manager

Robert Trieu, MPH Associate Vice President Faculty Group Practice Business Development and Clinical Operations
Christine Young Administrative Manager	Eimilly Cabrera Ortiz, MBA Program Manager	Loreal Hawthorne Administrative Coordinator
Nicole Huynh Management Analyst I

Scott Hermstein, JD, MS, FACHE Associate Vice President Clinical Business & Value Attainment Faculty Group Practice
Paula Summerly, MSc, PhD Curator Archivist (Old Red Medical Museum)

Jasmine Garza, MBA, MHA Administrative Manager

Faculty Ombudsperson

Michele Carter
Faculty Omdubsperson
Global Health Coordinating Center

Robert A. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH
Director, Business Operations AE
Sadie Odem
Administrative Coordinator

Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA)

Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH Associate Vice Provost, Leadership Development
Amanda Persons, PhD Director, Mentoring Programs	Holly West, DHEd, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA Director, Educational Mentoring Programs Senior Medical Educator, John Sealy School of Medicine, Office of Educational Development	Dina Rubakha, MEd Associate Director, Business Operations
Anasthasia Guajardo Business Coordinator, Sr.	Dena Bannan Executive Assistant	Helen Bullard Business Coordinator, Sr.
Lindsay Davis Administrative Manager	Sara Martin Executive Assistant

Provost Office Administration

Provost Office Business & Finance Operations
Ashley Wyers Business Manager	Crystal Baker Administrative Manager	Janie Garcia Sr. Business Operations Manager
Jennifer Anderson Program Manager	Kharla Lisano Financial Analyst II

UTMB Visiting Education

Rawan Harirah Director, Visiting Education
Christopher Gilbert Administrative Coordinator	Kasandra Barbalena Administrative Specialist	Tayja Lewis Administrative Specialist
Winshelle Green Administrative Specialist

Workforce Operations

Faculty Relations
Business and Academic Solutions (Power/myPower)
Mark Schultze Executive Director, Business and Academic Systems
Bhargav Patel Software Systems Program Manager	Erin Bannen IT Instructional Designer, Sr.	Kanimozhi Chinnapayah Data & Business Intelligence Manager
Kumudini Mandava Software Systems Specialist IV	Moeez Agha Software Systems Specialist IV	Praveen Kumar Sikhakolli Venkata Naga Software Systems Specialist IV
Sam Oommen Software Systems Specialist III	Surya Garimella Software Systems Program Manager	Sylvester Vredenburg Software Systems Specialist II
Uday Kiran Pachalla Senior Cloud Architect
Endowment/Compliance
Kristian Knowlton Endowment Program Manager
Faculty and Executive Recruitment
Erika Van Landingham Faculty Recruitment Associate	Esther Martinez Faculty Recruitment Associate
Tho Ayala Director, Faculty Relations and Performance
Cherra Wehe Faculty Recruitment Specialist	Colleen Suthon Manager, Faculty Relations	Dana Laviolette Executive Assistant
Deshanda Barrow Business Coordinator, Sr.	Josephine Hancock Business Coordinator, Sr.	Kristin Harris Faculty Recruitment Specialist
Sandra Prolic Program Manager	Terra Davis, MBA Business Coordinator, Sr.	Toya Stewart, MM Faculty Recruitment Specialist
Verlinda Collins Manager, Faculty Relations
Performance Services
Robert "Bobby" Moore Manager, Performance Services
Karen Loock Senior Management Analyst	Mason Schmalriede Senior Management Analyst