Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education
Sherilynn Black is the associate vice provost for faculty advancement, providing leadership in many areas of faculty advancement including support for pretenure and midcareer faculty, professional development for nontenure system faculty, and mentoring. She also leads initiatives to increase diversity among the faculty ranks. Dr. Black is an assistant professor of the practice of medical education and engages in social neuroscience research on the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote diversity in academia.
Dr. Black previously served as the founding director of the Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity for the Duke University School of Medicine and was also a principal investigator of the NIH-funded Duke Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement (BioCoRE). Dr. Black holds several national appointments relating to faculty development and advancement with the NIH, HHMI, AAMC, The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the Society for Neuroscience. She has won a number of distinctions for her research and service, including the Samuel DuBois Cook Society award and the Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education. Dr. Black earned her B.S. in psychology and biology with highest honors at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in neurobiology at Duke University and completed additional studies in the School of Education at UNC–Chapel Hill.
Administrative Assistant: Jan Carico
Pronouns: she/her/hers