Senior Associate Provost for Administration and Academic Affairs

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Katie Cardarelli as Senior Associate Provost for Administration and Academic Affairs.

Dr. Cardarelli’s appointment takes effect October 11, 2021.

I am appointing Dr. Cardarelli to this critical post after a thorough national search process, which included work of a search committee chaired by Jennifer Greer and George Wright. I thank the committee for their vital contributions to this search process.

Dr. Cardarelli has been a University of Kentucky faculty member since 2013. She has served in numerous administrative leadership roles during this time period, including Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Public Health and Interim Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. Dr. Cardarelli continues to teach and conduct research, which is focused on chronic disease prevention in vulnerable populations in underserved areas. Her work focusing on community-based approaches to reducing health inequities has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In addition, she has been a crucial member of the Office for Faculty Advancement, serving as Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs from 2017 to 2019 and Senior Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs from 2019 to the present. Prior to her time at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Cardarelli was a faculty member at the University of North Texas Health Science Center and the Director of the Center for Community Health at the Texas Prevention Institute.

I greatly appreciate Dr. Cardarelli’s willingness to serve as Senior Associate Provost for Administration and Academic Affairs. Please join me in congratulating her and thanking her.

Robert S. DiPaola, MD

Acting Provost