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Ryan Kellogg, President, rkellogg [at] andrew.cmu.edu
Responsible for completing the administrative duties of the organization; maintaining recognized status of the society by the Carnegie Mellon Office of Student Activities and the national Biomedical Engineering Society; attending mandatory training meetings established by Carnegie Mellon Office of Student Activities and the Joint Funding Council; acquiring funding; heading all general body and executive board meetings; approving all financial transactions, in addition to the treasurer; giving final approval of published materials and information; serving as the main representative of GBMES for guest speakers, companies and other outside organizations; maintaining regular correspondence with the BME department on student issues; maintaining correspondence with the national BMES faculty advisor on national BMES business at least once a semester; creating ad hoc committees and appointing chairs of ad hoc .committees with approval of a majority of the executive board; keeping hardcopies of all income checks and expense receipts, in addition to (but not in place of) the treasurer; and aiding board members as necessary
Daniel Delubac, Vice President, dd [at] cmu.edu
Responsible for assisting the president in conducting
the administrative duties of the organization. Duties will include approving
financial transactions, heading general body meetings in the absence of
the president, assisting the president with any other administrative responsibilities
as necessary, and reviewing website information. Other duties include administrating the annual anonymous departmental survey and spearheading abstract submissions and program development of the annual BEBRS. VP is also responsible for attending all meetings with the president and BME department and BMES faculty advisor.
Mary Beth Wilson, Secretary, mewilson [at] andrew. cmu.edu
Responsible for accurately recording the minutes of the
meeting; posting meeting minutes to AFS and announcing their posting within 48 hours of the meetings; maintaining contacts database of: current students, current faculty, current administrative staff, alumni, and previously/currently used vendors/sponsors of events; assisting the board members, primarily the president and vice president, with their duties as requested; assisting the webmaster in maintaining and administering mailman email lists; and recording any warnings given from the board toward particular exec members towards impeachment in meeting minutes.
OPEN, Treasurer, ? [at] andrew. cmu.edu
Responsible for handling all finances of the organization; checks and balances approval of budgetsin addition to the president; managing and maintaining GBMES’ agency account and student activities account; storing and providing hardcopies of income, expenses, and reimbursements for the organization; obtaining monthly statements of the organizations agency account; maintaining and keeping a readily accessible up-to-date database of the agency and student activities accounts; archiving accounts to PDF on AFS at the end of each semester and university fiscal period; collecting dues from membership; signing and providing receipts; and attending mandatory training meetings established by Carnegie Mellon Office of Student Activities and the Joint Funding Council.
OPEN, Public Relations & Fundraising Chair, ? [at] andrew. cmu.edu
Responsible researching prices for vendors and businesses used for professional development events, promoting and advertising GBMES professional development activities, heading and organizing publicity efforts of the organization, heading and organizing year-round corporate sponsorship campaign of the annual GBMES Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology Research Symposium (BEBRS)
OPEN, Newsletter Editor, ? [at] andrew. cmu.edu
Responsible for editing and constructing the newsletter; gathering and compiling all the information needed for the newsletter by contacting the appropriate staff, faculty, or students; heading and directing executive board review and editing process of the newsletter in preparation for print
Bur Chu, Social & Committees Chair bchu [at]
andrew. cmu.edu
Responsible for leading the executive board’s organization of regular social events by researching contacts, comparing prices for vendors and businesses used for GBMES social events, bringing event proposals to meetings, and soliciting executive board member volunteer hosts; promoting and advertising GBMES social activities; soliciting and organizing general body volunteers at large events or general body volunteers who host general-body-initiated events; chairing ad hoc committees unless otherwise appointed by the president; maintaining inventory list on AFS of GBMES supplies in GBMES closet
Lyndsey Schutte, Webmaster, ljs1 [at] cmu.edu
Repsonsible for keeping
the website updated after meetings with BME and GBMES announcements, news,
dates, and helpful information for BME graduate students. Also responsible for gbmes-exec and bme-grad-discuss email lists; and gbmes google calendar updates. Webmaster also
accepts the submission of photos from BME and GBMES events for the website.
Professor Todd Pryzbycien, BMES Faculty Adivsor, todd [at] andrew.cmu.edu
For the purposes of the national BMES Charter, GBMES shall have a faculty advisor who is a national BMES member, annually selected by the executive board before GBMES elections. The faculty advisor serves to advise GBMES administrative officers on how to assure chapter continuity through: adhesion to governing documents, record keeping, and transfer of office; advising on how to select, plan and conduct business and social meetings; and how to their administrative skills and efficiency. The faculty advisor does not replace the department head in terms of correspondences routinely held between GBMES and the BME department.
Prevous GBMES Executive Boards
2005-2006 GBMES Exec & Cofounders
President Sanna Gaspard, VP Amina Chebira, Secretary/Webmaster Rowena
Mittal, Public Relations Chair Elvira Garcia Osuna.
2006-2007 GBMES Exec
President Sanna Gaspard, VP Amina Chebira, Secretary Chris Highley, Public
Relations Chair Elvira Garcia Osuna, Treasurer Sasha Bakhru, Webmaster
Rowena Mittal, Committees Chair Jonathan Didier
2007-2008 GBMES Exec
President Sasha Bakhru, VP Rowena Mittal, Secretary Beautia Dew, Public
Relations Chair Luke Xie, Treasurer Davneet Minhas, Webmaster Chris
Highley, Newsletter Editor Justin Newberg, and Committees Chair Vamshi
Beeravelly. BMES faculty advisor: Professor Phil LeDuc.
2008-2009 GBMES Exec
President Rowena Mittal, VP Aditi Sharma, Secretary Usha Kuppuswamy,
Public Relations Chair & Newsletter Editor Sanna Gaspard, Treasurer Ryan
Kellogg, Webmaster Lyndsey Schutte, and Committees Chair Yajuan Wang. BMES faculty advisor: Professor Yu-li Wang.