{"id":219,"date":"2025-10-08T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:48:31","slug":"ulpa-executive-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/ulpa-executive-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ULPA Executive Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Current Vacancies: VP Operations; VP External Affairs. If you are interested in volunteering on an interim basis for one of these positions, please reach out to the ULPA Exec. Formal elections for all positions will be held annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current ULPA Executive<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Melissa Chelak (she\/her)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • President<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Department: Biological Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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    Dr. Haben Gabir (she\/her)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Interim VP Internal Affairs (Dec 2025 – Present)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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      Dr. Paula Olivares Guzm\u00e1n (she\/her)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Interim VP Finance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Department: Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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        Dr. Shaylyn Kress (she\/her)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • Interim VP Communications<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Department: Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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          Former Executive Council Members<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          • Dr. Melissa Chelak (she\/her)<\/em>; Former President (March 2025 – March 2026); Biological Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Andreas N.M. Eriksson; Former VP Internal Affairs (Mar – May 2022, June 2024 – Dec 2025), Former President (May 2022 – Jan 2024), Former VP External Affairs (Jan – June 2024), Biological Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Michael Kyweriga; Former President (2016 – 2017); Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Senthilkumar Kailasam; Former VP Academic (2016 – 2017); ARRTI, Chemistry & Biochemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr.Samsoon Inayat; Former VP Operations (2016 – 2017); Chemistry & Biochemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Alia Hamieh; Former VP Social (2016 – 2017); Mathematics & Computer Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Rajasekar Kamalampeta; Former VP Finance (2016 – 2017); Mathematics & Computer Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Ayanda Ngwenya; Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (2015 – 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Laura Albrecht; Chemistry & Biochemistry (2015 – 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Binod Pageni; Chemistry & Biochemistry (2015 – 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Dr. Andy Hudson; Chemistry & Biochemistry (2015 – 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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            Current Vacancies: VP Operations; VP External Affairs. If you are interested in volunteering on an interim basis for one of these positions, please reach out to the ULPA Exec. Formal elections for all positions will be held annually. Current ULPA Executive Former Executive Council Members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ulpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}