Office of the Dean

Catherine Durham
Dean
Professor
durhamc@musc.edu

Major Areas of Responsibility:
- Leadership
- Strategic and vision planning for advancing excellence and innovation to the college in education, research and practice
- Faculty affairs and appointments
- Academic programs and policies
- Research infrastructure and support
- Financial operations and institutional budget planning and administration
- Collaboration with faculty, staff, community partners and other stakeholders

Jo Smith
Executive Assistant to the Dean
smithjo@musc.edu
843-792-3941

Areas of Responsibility:
- Daily administrative operations of the dean’s office
- Dean's calendar
- Faculty affairs processes (appointments, promotions, tenure, search)

Rod Fuentes
Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration
fuentesr@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Principal business officer and Finance and Administration team leader
- Decision support for CON leaders
- Financial reporting to Dean, Controller, University leadership, and external parties
- University funds flow (RCM)
- New program support (feasibility, modeling, and analysis)
- Implements Finance and Administration components of strategic initiatives

Carlos Lopez
Grants Finance Business Manager
lopezc@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Grants management and reporting
- Research finance
- Annual budgeting (research lead)
- PI training (research administration)
- Research effort oversight (Costing Allocations/Payroll Accounting Adjustments/TAMS)
- TACHL account management

Lauryn Ward
HR Services Business Manager
usry@musc.edu
843-792-2653

Areas of Responsibility:
- HR Services Director
- Compensation management, analysis
- Compliance, policies, procedures
- Faculty contracts
- General operations
- OurDay timekeeping oversight
- Employee relations
- Pcard administrator / Purchase approver
- Surveys, data compilation, and reporting

Mary Catherine Williams
Finance Business Manager
williamsm1@musc.edu
843-792-8952

Areas of Responsibility:
- College budget manager (annual budgeting lead)
- Development of financial analysis and reporting tools
- Financial forecasting
- Practice contracts
- Financial reporting (non-research)
- Daily financial reviews and approvals
- Costing allocations and payroll accounting adjustments (non-research)
- Back-up to HR Service Director
- Year-end closeout

Latoya Riley
Accounting Operations Manager
rileyla@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Practice invoicing
- Unrestricted (non-research) accounting (fund balances, journal entries)
- Unrestricted (non-research) financial reporting
- Costing allocations and payroll accounting adjustments (non-research)
- Year-end closeout
- Scholarship award process (support)
- Accounts receivable (check deposits)
- Financial modeling and analysis
- Symplr contract management system oversight of non-research contracts

Kathy Franks
Fiscal Analyst, Grants Accounting and Foundation Funds
franksk@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Post award Grants accounting
- PI reports
- Foundation fund balances, reimbursements, check requests
- Symplr contract management system oversight of research contracts

Vacant
Fiscal Analyst, Payroll and General Accounting

Areas of Responsibility:
- OurDay timekeeping
- FE&D fund balance reporting
- Data tracking and validation
- Employee onboarding and offboarding support
- PCard liaison, training lead, and record keeper
- General administrative support

Meredith Kerr
Procurement Specialist (research and non-research)
vanruymm@musc.edu
843-792-4647

Areas of Responsibility:
- Reimbursements (travel/personal)
- Procurement (including MUSCP)

Leona Frazier
Procurement Specialist (research and non-research)
frazierl@musc.edu
843-792-4647

Areas of Responsibility:
- Reimbursements (travel/personal)
- Procurement

Rosalba Adrian
Faculty Compliance Manager
adrianr@musc.edu
843-792-3344

Areas of Responsibility:
- Faculty files (contracts, licensure, certifications, transcripts, CV’s)
- Administrative support
- Special events support
- Arrangements for visiting professors and other external guests

Julie Horton
Administrative Coordinator I
hortonju@musc.edu
843-792-9500

Areas of Responsibility:
- Administrative Coordinator providing support to the Assistant Dean of the PhD Program and the Associate Dean for Research & PhD Studies
- Facilities Coordinator for the College of Nursing
- Events Coordinator for the College of Nursing
- Special projects

Iris Majer
Administrative Coordinator I
majeri@musc.edu
843-792-5032

Areas of Responsibility:
- Administrative and Travel Support to the Associate Dean for Academics and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs
- Supplementary Administrative Support to the Dean of Nursing
- Travel and Purchasing Support for the Dean of Nursing
- Assist with Annual Report and Accreditation Reporting
- CON Facilities back up support
- CON Emergency Test Proctoring

Devin Brown
Director of Communications and Marketing
brdevin@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- External and internal communications
- Print and digital publications
- Media Relations
- Brand strategy and management
- Social media management and content creation
- Visual Communicatioions

Kaitlin Epperson
Director of Development
zobelka@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Philanthropy and institutional advancement
- Alumni and community engagement
- College of Nursing Board
- Major gifts

Isabelle Livoti
Development Coordinator
livoti@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Annual gifts
- Alumni and community engagement
- Donor stewardship and acknowledgment
- Fundraising events

Brian Getsinger
Technology Center Director
getsingb@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Technical support
- Website support
- IT project management
- Technology vendor management

Matthew Kirk
IT Business Analyst II
kirkma@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Technical Support
- Educational Technology Support
- Website Support

Josh Goodwin
Media Resources Consultant
goodwj@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Photography and video support
- Photo/video editing
- Social media visual content

Kristin Powers
Sr. Instructional Designer
powerskr@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Curriculum Management
- Manages Educational Technology Support
- Instructional Design Consulting
- Faculty Support for Best Practices in Pedagogy and Online Learning Accessibility

Alaina Saxon
Curriculum Coordinator II
saxonal@musc.edu

Areas of Responsibility:
- Educational technology management and support (BrightSpace)
- ExamSoft, Panopto, Poll Everywhere
- Instructional design consultations
- Training (pedagogy and technology)