Alison K. Hall, Ph.D. is Associate Dean for Graduate Education at the School of Medicine, and an active Professor of Neurosciences. She has extensive experience mentoring high school, undergraduate and graduate students as well as teachers in laboratory research, and she has been active nationally in fostering graduate education through service in the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs. She has served as a member of review panels of the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and currently serves as a panel member of NIGMS and NINDS study sections. She is the recipient of several teaching awards including the Kaiser Permanente Teaching Award (the highest teaching award offered at the SOM) and the Gender Equity Award from the American Medical Women's Association. Dr. Hall has a long-standing commitment to research training at all stages of a scientific career.

Martin Snider, Ph.D. is Director of the Case Biomedical Sciences Training Program (BSTP) and Associate Professor of Biochemistry. He has almost five years directing the BSTP and oversees the graduate admissions committee. Since 2000, Dr. Snider has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the HCEM at Case Medical School.

Michael Harris, Ph.D. is he Student Affairs Director for the BSTP and Associate Professor of Biochemistry.  Dr. Harris works closely with Dr. Snider to provide academic orientation, matriculation and advising support for first year BSTP students.  His research on enzyme mechanism is funded by NIH and NSF and his lab has trained more than fifteen graduate students and postdocs.  Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program for graduate students involved in basic science research.  He teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate Biochemistry curriculum and his lab participates in summer undergraduate research training programs for underrepresented minorities as well as the senior Biochemistry honors research training program.

Debbie Noureddine is Administrative Coordinator for the BSTP program. She has been with BSTP for 9 years and with Case for 24 years. Her previous experience in Graduate Studies at Case has proved an enormous asset in working with students at the SOM. She looks forward to helping trainees who come to Case.

Joseph T. Williams, M.P.A. is the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the SOM and has a long-standing commitment to the development of underrepresented minority students in biomedical sciences. He leads our Health Careers Enhancement Program for Medicine, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that attracts some 100 mostly minority undergraduate students to the campus for an intensive 6 week summer program directed toward careers in medicine. Mr. Williams also works closely with Dr. Hall in minority program development and recruiting efforts for graduate programs. Mr. Williams serves as advisor and counselor to medical students and graduate students, and cosponsors with Dr. Hall the Minority Graduate Student Organization (MGSO).

Carole M. Liedtke, Ph.D., M.B.A. is Director of the Postdoctoral Mentoring Program under the Office of Graduate Education at the School of Medicine. She is a Professor of Pediatrics with a dual appointment in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics. Her research focuses on the signal transduction in the regulation of chloride transport proteins in epithelia. She received her postdoctoral training in the Department of Pediatrics as a Pulmonary Fellow and was promoted to a faculty-level position upon award of her first NIH grant. She has mentored fellows, graduate and undergraduate students and staff on laboratory skills and professional development. As chair of the Women in Physiology Committee of the American Physiological Society, she developed a series of mentoring workshops at national meetings and assisted with a Professional Skills document published by the American Physiological Society in collaboration with the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology. She has served on NIH study sections, American Heart Association review committees and the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Committee and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology, Cell Physiology. Dr. Liedtke is committed to mentoring of young scientists and acquisition of professional skills for career scientists.

Malana Bey is the Department Administrator for the Graduate Education Office.

Shilpa Casula is the Technology Specialist for the Graduate Education Office.