About Us

The Office of Faculty Affairs is the administrative arm of Academic Affairs. It handles all process-oriented issues for the faculty, researchers, post-docs, and student officers. It is responsible for ensuring compliance with university statutes and with state and federal law.

Faculty Affairs provides support both for faculty and departmental administrators in administrative processes for faculty, officers of research and student officers.

Meet the Staff

Dionida X. Ryce
- Assistant Vice President of Academic Appointments and Professionalism
- dxr2101@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Continuous improvement and change management initiatives
- Support for complex transactions, exceptions, difficult separations
- Communications management
- Conflict resolutions
- Compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations of the University/affiliated organizations/external agencies
April Armstrong-Studivant
- Senior Director
- ama2223@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Tenure nominations, non-tenure review processes, and tenure clock issues
- CUIMC COAP point of contact
- Trains CUIMC employees on the appointment and promotions process and advising departments and their chairs as to promotion/tenure processes and possible review issues.
- Assists in overseeing compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations of the University/affiliated organizations/external agencies
- Manages approvals of OFA transactions
Gabriela Guzman
- Associate Director & Onboarding Specialist
- gg2703@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Management of the faculty onboarding process
- FOM COAP meetings
- NYPH appointments/RFAs
- Reciprocal Appointments with Weill Cornell
- Trains CUIMC employees on the RFA process and FOM appointment and promotion process.
- Joint/interdisciplinary appointments
Azeez Karim
- Senior Manager of Faculty Systems, Reporting and Operations
- ak2628@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Data integrity and verification
- Annual roster process
- Performs data analyses and report generation
- Postdoctoral Fellow Certificates of Training
- ASR Support
Daniel Shin
- Operations Manager
- 212-342-0240
- ds3675@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development, communication and implementation of policies and procedures necessary for the optimal performance of the Faculty Affairs operations
- Manage the registration process for Short-Term Visitors and Visiting Student Interns at CUIMC
- Manage the academic employment verification process for CUMC academic personnel
- Organize and coordinate quarterly OFA Forums
- Organize and manage OFA training sessions for departments
Evelyn Salvado
- Lead Senior FA Client Manager
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure faculty personnel transactions including new hires, title changes, pay adjustments, leaves of absence, and terminations are processed efficiently and accurately.
- Advisors to department FA administrators on CUIMC and University policies and processes related to faculty transactions
Departmental Assignments(link is external and opens in a new window)
Christopher Watson
- Senior FA Client Manager
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure faculty personnel transactions including new hires, title changes, pay adjustments, leaves of absence, and terminations are processed efficiently and accurately.
- Advisors to department FA administrators on CUIMC and University policies and processes related to faculty transactions
Departmental Assignments(link is external and opens in a new window)
Dominique Lochard
- Senior FA Client Manager
- dl3489@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure faculty personnel transactions including new hires, title changes, pay adjustments, leaves of absence, and terminations are processed efficiently and accurately.
- Advisors to department FA administrators on CUIMC and University policies and processes related to faculty transactions
Departmental Assignments(link is external and opens in a new window)
Nikolai De Vera
- Administrative Coordinator
- nd2874@cumc.columbia.edu(link sends e-mail)
Key Responsibilities:
- General information
- Short-Term Visitor Registrations (Clinical and Research)
- Performs academic personnel employment credentials verifications

Academic Affairs

About Us

Meet the Staff

Dionida X. Ryce

April Armstrong-Studivant

Gabriela Guzman

Azeez Karim

Daniel Shin

Evelyn Salvado

Christopher Watson

Dominique Lochard

Nikolai De Vera