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Operational Board

The Operational Board is comprised of chairs/leaders of the core units and affiliates to include UMMC’s Departments of Neurology, Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, and Psychiatry and Human Behavior; and Methodist Rehabilitation Center. The Operational Board will also include a representative from the Vice Chancellor's Office and the UMMC’s Adult Hospital. Additional members may be appointed representing a strong interest in neuroscience. They will:

Be responsible for the development and oversite of the Institute’s strategic and operating agenda and budget; 

Focus on health care, education and research initiatives that cross over traditional  departmental boundaries and benefit from multi-departmental and multi-institutional collaboration and support; and

Set the budget annually including identification and securing of needed funding commitments.

Operational Board Members
	Michael Lehman, PhD Chairman of the Board, UMMC Neuro Institute Professor and Chair, Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences
	Mark Adams CEO, Methodist Rehabilitation Center
	Kevin Cook CEO, University Hospitals and Health Systems
	Louis Harkey, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
	Scott Rodgers, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
	Scott Stringer, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences
	Richard Summers, MD Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
	Christy Wilson, CPA Executive Director, Neuro Institute