Administrative offices
Claudia R. Adkison, J.D., Ph.D.
Executive
Associate Dean / Administration & Faculty Affairs
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
413 School of Medicine Building
Executive Administrative Assistant: Faith Lyles
404-727-5673, FAX 404-727-0473
E-Mail: cadkison@emory.edu or
flyles@emory.edu
Dr. Adkison rejoined Emory’s School of Medicine as Executive Associate Dean / Administration and Faculty Affairs in 1995. She functions both as “Chief Operating Officer” and faculty affairs dean in the medical school. Reporting to the Dean, she has day-to-day oversight responsibility for administration in the medical school; faculty affairs (appointments, promotions, development, and problems); legal and many regulatory matters for the medical school; conflict of interest and academic misconduct; and a wide variety of “special projects” for the Dean involving both academic and clinical areas in the medical school, other parts of the university, and the school’s clinical affiliates. She regularly assists Chairs, University Administrators and faculty on the academic, administrative, and personnel aspects of programs and projects. She also developed and conducts a “Chair School” for all new medical school department chairs at Emory.
Prior to her present position, Dr. Adkison was a faculty member in Emory School of Medicine for twenty years. Near the end of that period, she acquired a law degree (at night) that led her to leave Emory for a few years to practice intellectual property law as a biotech patent attorney with numerous medical school and biotech clients; as a copyright litigator; and also as a health care lawyer, in the international law firm Kilpatrick & Stockton. Her J.D. degree is from Georgia State University College of Law, where she served on law review while she carried out her full duties as a professor, educator, and scientist in Emory Medical School’s Department of Cell Biology, chaired the University Senate and Research Committee, and served on numerous School and University committees. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Bar, in addition to numerous medical school, university, and AAMC committees. Dr. Adkison received her Ph.D. degree from Tulane University and completed postdoctoral fellowship training in cell biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine.
Administration and Faculty Affairs
The Office
of Administration and Faculty Affairs, located on the third floor of
the Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building, oversees administrative
and faculty matters for the Emory School of Medicine. This office works very closely
with the Dean, Department Chairs and administrators, faculty, hospital and practice
plan heads, University officials, the Office of the General
Counsel, and other Deans to fulfill the academic mission of the medical
school and serve its faculty and staff. It oversees all faculty matters including faculty development, and serves as a contact for
faculty and administrators seeking information on policies and procedures
not readily available through the departmental chair's office. The University
Environmental Health and Safety Office, the Health Sciences Center Library,
and the Office of Postdoctoral Education report to this office.
Administration & Faculty Affairs
