Pictured left to right: Joy Bailey, Val Ambrose, Krystyna Cukrowski, Melanie Sola, Dr. Lisa Mellman, Ana Martinez-Tuma, Brian Paquette, and DeLonzo Rhodes
Senior Associate Dean: Lisa A. Mellman, M.D. | mail: lam3@columbia.edu
Assistant Dean: Brian C. Paquette | mail: bp29@columbia.edu
Location: P&S 3-401
Phone: (212) 305-3806
Concerned with all aspects of students’ progress, academic and non-academic, throughout their four years at P&S, including:
- Academic accomplishments and/or problems
- Student counseling, personal/professional
- Planning student programs and schedules - Years 1 through 4
- Implementing on-line schedules and grading for clinical years
- Supervising programmatic development for five Advisory Deans
- Tracking of students on leave/in dual degree programs
- Ensuring compliance by students for HIPAA and evidence based medicine
- Overseeing logistics for students during clinical rotation at Stamford Hospital
- Coordinating fourth year exchange programs with Universities in Armenia, Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom and Venezuela.
- Advising students on career decisions and postgraduate education
- Preparing Dean’s letters for postgraduate education
- Coordinating the “Match” process for fourth year students
- Conducting evaluations of residency programs by P&S graduates
- Letters of Recommendation
Serves on committees dealing with student-related concerns such as housing, security, curriculum, academic programs, liability insurance, student services
- Resource center for information on:
- Electives at U.S. medical schools
- Overseas electives
- Residency program brochures
- Organizing key student programs, including
- Orientation
- White Coat Ceremony
- Faculty Advisor System
- Student Advisory Tutoring Program
- Women in Medicine Seminars
- AOA
- Residency Honors Day Awards
- Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician Ceremony
- Class Day
- Graduation
Liaison with National Board of Medical Examiners, National Residency Matching Program, American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Medical Society of the State of New York
Special Events
Program Coordinator: Krystyna Cukrowski
Email: kc17@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 305-4028
- Coordinates special events such as Orientation, Dean’s Day for Medical Student Research, Class Day and Graduation
- Provides administrative support for National Institutes of Health student research fellowships: Dean’s Summer Research Fellowships and fourth year research electives.
- Serves as resource center for awards, competitions, fellowships
- Coordinates Women in Medicine group
- Prepares special reports
- Staffs Faculty committees