Five Women Scholars Appointed to New Faculty Positions at Universities

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the departments of public health and community medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston. She is the founder and director of the Center of Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice and leads the Maternal Outcomes of Translational Health Equity Research Lab.

Dr. Amutah-Onukagha is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey. She holds a master of public health degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Christina Henson has been named assistant dean for program assessment and compliance for the graduate medical education program in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She is an associate professor of radiation oncology and has led the department’s residency program for the past five years.

Dr. Henson earned her bachelor’s degree and medical degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Christine Richardson has been appointed director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She currently serves as a professor and chair of the university’s department of biological sciences. Earlier in her career, she was an assistant professor with the Institute for Cancer Genetics and the department of pathology at Columbia University.

Dr. Richardson holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in genetics and development from Columbia University Medical Sciences Center.

Kristin Arola has been promoted from interim director to permanent director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program at Michigan State University. She is the inaugural Karen L. Gilmor Endowed Professor in Professional and Public Writing in the university’s department of writing, rhetoric, and cultures. Previously, she was director of the digital technology and culture undergraduate program and director of graduate studies for the department of English at Washington State University.

Dr. Arola is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree and doctorate in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University.

Katherine-Marie Conover has joined the faculty of the School of Nursing at Simmons University in Boston as an associate professor and clinical simulation educator. Her work focuses on the power of nursing assessment to gather data and the effects of resiliency on lifelong wellbeing. She previously taught at the Curry College School of Nursing in Milton, Massachusetts.

Dr. Conover holds a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.