Faculty Honorifics Committee

Charge of faculty honorifics committee

• The charge of the faculty honorifics Committee is to provide recognition for deserving faculty by seeking award opportunities and coordinating nominations for institutional, national, and international awards utilizing the assistance of other college faculty or faculty from other institutions, as appropriate.
• The committee shall work with the university honorifics coordinator to identify faculty that may be eligible for national and international awards. The university honorifics coordinator will help the committee by identifying faculty that are eligible for various awards. The committee members may then work with the university honorifics coordinator to shepherd the award nomination through.
• The committee will elect 2 co-chairs (each co-chair must come from different geographical locations, and one must be from clinical and the other must be from non-clinical areas).
• The duties of the co-chairs of the faculty honorifics committee shall include (1) acting on behalf of the committee and together with the members in scheduling committee meetings, (2) developing agenda for committee meetings, (3) conducting the business of the committee, and (4) reporting to the CAC.
• The committee shall report to CAC no less than once a year and shall meet at least twice a year.

Meetings

Scheduled as needed. 

Elected Members	Department	Campus	Term Expires	Term
Bin Chen, PhD	Pediatrics & Human Development		Grand Rapids	8/15/2025
Eric Finegood, PhD	C.S. Mott Department of Public Health	Flint	8/15/2025	1st term
Joan Ilardo, PhD	Family Medicine	East Lansing	8/15/2025	1st term
Nicole Jones, PhD, MS	C.S. Mott Department of Public Health	Flint	8/15/2025	1st term
Malik Khan, MD	Medicine	Grand Rapids	8/15/2025	1st term
Heather Laird-Fick, MD, MPH	Medicine	East Lansing	8/15/2025	1st term
Appointed Members	Department	Campus	Term Expires	Term
VACANT			8/15/2025	1st term

Staff Representatives
Narayanan Parameswaran, PhD	Senior Associate Dean for Research
Faith Peterson	Faculty Honorifics Coordinator

Notes

• The term of office for members will be two years.
• Members may not serve on a standing committee for more than six consecutive years.

Faculty Honorifics Committee

• Members will serve a 2-year term.
• Need to elect 10 members (at least 2 from East Lansing, 2 from Grand Rapids and 2 from Flint; also, at least 3 clinical and 3 non-clinical)
• Meets at least twice a year via Zoom.