{"id":4934,"date":"2025-03-03T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/student-societies\/john-b-graham-medical-student-research-society\/officers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:48:18","slug":"officers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/student-societies\/john-b-graham-medical-student-research-society\/officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Current Officers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Co-Presidents<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:ricardo_crespo-regalado@med.unc.edu\">Maxwell Finkelstein<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:emily_kounlavong@med.unc.edu\">Emily Kounlavong, <\/a> <a href=\"mailto:ben_lau@med.unc.edu\">Benjamin Lau<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-VPs of Student Research Day<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:Jordan_Besh@med.unc.edu\">Jordan Besh<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:jocelyn_hunt@med.unc.edu\">J Hunt<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:mary_kaufmann@med.unc.edu\">Mary Kaufmann<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Alexandra_Weir@med.unc.edu\">Alex Weir<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-VPs of Research Opportunities<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:derrick_cooper@med.unc.edu\">Kane Cooper<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:graceanne_longfellow@med.unc.edu\">Grace Anne Longfellow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Opportunities Team:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:yang_lee@med.unc.edu\">Yang Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Tori_McFarlane@med.unc.edu\">Tori McFarlane<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:Lana_Prieur@med.unc.edu\">Lana Prieur,<\/a> <a href=\"mailto:Nina_Westcott@med.unc.edu\">Nina Westcott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VP of Advertising and Outreach<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:nicole_didonna@med.unc.edu\">Nicole DiDonna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer\/Secretary<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:jimmy_tabet@med.unc.edu\">Jimmy Tabet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Please reach out to the Research Opportunities Team as your first point of contact for any JBG- or Student Research Day-related questions!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty Advisor &amp; Liaison<\/strong>: Maria E. D\u00edaz-Gonz\u00e1lez de Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Officer Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<p>The duties of the officers shall be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Presidents:\n<ul>\n<li>to call and preside over all meetings<\/li>\n<li>to be present in Chapel Hill during the week of Student Research Day<\/li>\n<li>to oversee the organization of Student Research Day and to work with School of Medicine administrators to this end<\/li>\n<li>to perform such other duties as custom and parliamentary usage may require<\/li>\n<li>to conduct the application process for and participate in new officer selection for the upcoming year<\/li>\n<li>to act as the official spokespersons for the John B. Graham Student Research Society<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>to recruit and communicate with faculty judges for SRD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Vice-Presidents of Student Research Day\n<ul>\n<li>to oversee the responsibilities designated to the John B. Graham Student Research Society for Student Research Day<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>to be present during the day of Student Research Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Vice-Presidents of Research Opportunities\n<ul>\n<li>to oversee committees and\/or projects designed to promote research awareness<\/li>\n<li>to investigate opportunities for student research and facilitate delivery of this information to the medical school classes<\/li>\n<li>to oversee the medical student travel grant application and selection process with the understanding that Co-VP&#8217;s of Research Opportunities are not elegible to apply for medical student travel grants<\/li>\n<li>to be present during the day of Student Research Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Secretary\/Treasurer\n<ul>\n<li>to take minutes at each meeting and email them to all officers and Student Affairs Liason<\/li>\n<li>to maintain the JBGRS website<\/li>\n<li>to be or become a UNC-certified treasurer<\/li>\n<li>to pursue areas for possible funding\/grants for JBGRS projects<\/li>\n<li>to be present during the day of Student Research Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Class representatives and first-year class liaison\n<ul>\n<li>to represent the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year medical school classes as members of the executive committee<\/li>\n<li>to convey information to the class represented regarding student research at UNC School of Medicine and to recruit student participants in Student Research Day<\/li>\n<li>to accomplish the above duty via distribution of flyers, information emails, forum postings, and\/or other means of mass communication<\/li>\n<li>to be present during the day of Student Research Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/student-societies\/john-b-graham-medical-student-research-society\/officers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Officers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79967,"featured_media":0,"parent":4877,"menu_order":-2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4934\/revisions\/5335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/student-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}