Michela Gallagher

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Office of the Provost, 276 Garland Hall
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, Md. 21218
Phone: (410) 410-516-8993
Fax: (410) 516-8035
E-mail: michela@jhu.edu
Web page: www.psy.jhu.edu/fs/faculty/gallagher.htm and
www.jhu.edu/provost/people/gallagher.html

Michela Gallagher, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1994, was appointed vice provost for academic affairs of the university on March 1, 2008. She continues to spend a third of her time as the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology and in the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

As vice provost, Gallagher coordinates academic strategic planning and faculty affairs. In conjunction with Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost Paula Burger, she also oversees curricular matters and university accreditation.

Gallagher is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She chaired the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins from 2000-2007. She is director of the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center at Johns Hopkins and heads a multi-institutional research program funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Her work established a model for neurocognitive aging that shifted research from studies of neurodegeneration as a cause of memory loss to uncovering functional mechanisms. She also discovered a neural system for goal directed behavior that links circuits for emotion in the brain to decision making processes.

Gallagher received her B.A. from Colgate University in 1969 and Ph.D. from the University of Vermont in 1977. She served on the faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining Johns Hopkins.