Graduate Program Organization

The Neuroscience graduate program is organized and delivered by NMHI and supervised by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FoMD). Faculty members that teach and supervise students in the Neuroscience program belong to 5 different faculties which are part of two Colleges: College of Health Sciences (Faculty of Kinesiology, Sports and Recreation, FoMD, School of Public Health and Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine) and College of Natural + Applied Sciences (Faculty of Science). NMHI also houses faculty members from additional Colleges but in small numbers.

The ultimate authority for the program rests with the U of A’s Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (GPS). GPS is the authority delegated by the General Faculties Council (GFC) to set policy, standards and procedures laid out in the U of A Calendar. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FoMD) provides a second level of oversight of the Neuroscience graduate program setting further graduate program requirements through the leadership of the Associate Dean Research, Graduate Programs (currently Dr. Alan Underhill) and the FoMD Graduate Program Committee.

At the NMHI the Neuroscience graduate program is administered and monitored by the Associate Director, Education (currently Dr. Elena Posse de Chaves), the Director of Graduate Studies (currently Dr. Kelvin Jones), the Neuroscience Graduate Program Committee (NGPC) (currently formed by Drs. Jacqueline Cummine, Bradley Kerr, Nikolai Malykhin and Anna Taylor); and the Graduate Program Administrator (GPA) (currently Ms. Amber Lapointe).

See the NMHI Graduate Program contact list »

Neuroscience graduate program organization diagram