Officers
Current Officers
Co-Presidents: Maxwell Finkelstein, Emily Kounlavong, Benjamin Lau
Co-VPs of Student Research Day: Jordan Besh, J Hunt, Mary Kaufmann, Alex Weir
Co-VPs of Research Opportunities: Kane Cooper, Grace Anne Longfellow
Research Opportunities Team: Yang Lee, Tori McFarlane, Lana Prieur, Nina Westcott
VP of Advertising and Outreach: Nicole DiDonna
Treasurer/Secretary: Jimmy Tabet
Please reach out to the Research Opportunities Team as your first point of contact for any JBG- or Student Research Day-related questions!
Faculty Advisor & Liaison: Maria E. Díaz-González de Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD
Officer Responsibilities
The duties of the officers shall be:
- Co-Presidents:
- to call and preside over all meetings
- to be present in Chapel Hill during the week of Student Research Day
- to oversee the organization of Student Research Day and to work with School of Medicine administrators to this end
- to perform such other duties as custom and parliamentary usage may require
- to conduct the application process for and participate in new officer selection for the upcoming year
- to act as the official spokespersons for the John B. Graham Student Research Society
- to appoint an acting officer to fill a vacant elected office until such time that new officer applications can be held to fill the vacant office
- to recruit and communicate with faculty judges for SRD
- Co-Vice-Presidents of Student Research Day
- to oversee the responsibilities designated to the John B. Graham Student Research Society for Student Research Day
- to carry out the duties of the Co-Presidents if the Co-Presidents are out of town or otherwise unable to perform the duties of their office
- to be present during the day of Student Research Day
- Co-Vice-Presidents of Research Opportunities
- to oversee committees and/or projects designed to promote research awareness
- to investigate opportunities for student research and facilitate delivery of this information to the medical school classes
- to oversee the medical student travel grant application and selection process with the understanding that Co-VP’s of Research Opportunities are not elegible to apply for medical student travel grants
- to be present during the day of Student Research Day
- Secretary/Treasurer
- to take minutes at each meeting and email them to all officers and Student Affairs Liason
- to maintain the JBGRS website
- to be or become a UNC-certified treasurer
- to pursue areas for possible funding/grants for JBGRS projects
- to be present during the day of Student Research Day
- Class representatives and first-year class liaison
- to represent the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year medical school classes as members of the executive committee
- to convey information to the class represented regarding student research at UNC School of Medicine and to recruit student participants in Student Research Day
- to accomplish the above duty via distribution of flyers, information emails, forum postings, and/or other means of mass communication
- to be present during the day of Student Research Day