Gerald Kayingo is the inaugural Leslie S. Robinson, MD Endowed Professor and Chair of Health Professions Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s School of Graduate Studies.
A faculty member since 2020, Dr. Kayingo currently serves as assistant dean for research in the School of Graduate Studies and executive director of the Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy. He also practices at the University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology. As a scholar, he researches health professions education, healthcare delivery science, and the intersection of infectious diseases and substance use disorders.
A native of Uganda, Dr. Kayingo holds a bachelor’s degree in botany and zoology from Makerere University, a master’s degree in biotechnology from the University of Zimbabwe, a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of the Free State in South Africa, a master of medical science degree from Yale University, and an MBA in strategic leadership and management from the University of Illinois.
Riché Barnes is the new director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida, where she has taught since the Spring 2022 semester.
As a sociocultural anthropologist, Dr. Barnes specializes in the intersection of Black feminist theories, work and family policy, and African Diasporic raced, gendered, and classed identity formation. She is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood and Community (Rutgers University Press, 2015), which won the 2017 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Before joining the University of Florida faculty, she taught at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Endicott College, and Smith College. She also had a stint as president of the Association of Black Anthropologists.
Dr. Barnes is a magna cum laude graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she majored in political science. She holds a master’s degree in urban studies from Georgia State University, as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Emory University in Atlanta.
