Executive Placements
Michael Kenney
Assistant Dean and Deputy Director of Administration, Stanford Cancer Institute
Michael brings more than 18 years of experience in academic medical center administration. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Research Administration at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he led research operations and played a key role in two successful NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (P30) renewals. Read More
Earlier in his career, Michael spent over seven years as a consultant with Huron Consulting Group, advising leading research institutions on strategic, financial, and operational matters. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Business from Colorado College and is actively engaged in national organizations such as COGR, FDP, and AIRI, where he currently serves as a board member.
Yasmeen Majoka
Director of Finance and Administration, Neurology
Yasmeen brings a wealth of experience to this position, having served as the Executive Director of Finance & Operations for the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. In this role, she managed the department's administrative, financial, research, and clinical operations. Read More
Yasmeen also served as the Senior Finance Director at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and held other leadership roles at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
With 15 years of experience in academic administration and clinical finance, Yasmeen will be a tremendous asset to the Department of Neurology.
She holds a Bachelor of Biology degree from Boston University and an MBA in Finance & Sustainable Business from Baruch College Zicklin School of Business.
Bart Sapeta
Assistant Dean, Facilities Planning and Management
Bart will join the School of Medicine in as the new Assistant Dean for Facilities Planning and Management. In this role, Bart will lead the operations of the School of Medicine's buildings and facilities, emergency response procedures, planning and execution of new projects and will work in close partnership with our colleagues in LBRE, SHC and SMCH. Read More
In his most recent role as the Assistant Vice President of Campus Planning and Design at Chapman University, Bart led strategic planning and operational activities for their buildings and facilities. Before Chapman, he had a similar position in the Office of the President for the UC system and was a tenured faculty member for over a decade in the University of New Hampshire system, where he focused on sustainable design and preservation, leveraging his degrees in Architecture and Engineering.
Kerry Makielski
Vice Chair and Director of Finance and Administration, Department of Medicine
With 20 years of experience in academic medicine administration, Kerry will bring a wealth of expertise to Stanford’s Department of Medicine. She will lead the department’s operations, shape the administrative structure and environment, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure operational excellence. Read More
Previously, Kerry served as the Vice Chair of Clinical and Academic Administration for the Department of Medicine at Indiana University for the past several years. In this role, she oversees and manages the department's administrative, financial, research, educational, and clinical operations. She also served as Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Operations within Indiana University’s Department of Medicine and held other leadership roles at Indiana University and Northwestern University.
Kerry holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from Radford University in Virginia.
Joe Gayk
Executive Director of Medical Education Innovation
Joe brings over 10 years of success leading strategic planning lifecycles, implementing continuous quality improvements, and ensuring operational excellence at the intersection of higher education and healthcare. As a trusted executive advisor and consultant, he prides himself on his ability to champion strategic initiatives and culture changes to bring organizational visions, missions, and values to life.
In this role, Joe will work alongside the Office of the Senior Associate Dean and with colleagues across Stanford Medicine and the University, including Educational Programs and Services (EPS), to explore how AI and emerging technologies can drive innovation in medical education and healthcare. Together, they'll develop a new medical education strategic plan, grow collaborations within and beyond Stanford, and support the next generation of leaders shaping the future of medicine.
Elsie Wang
Director of Finance & Administration, Structural Biology
Elsie brings a wealth of experience from her time at the School of Medicine, where she has served since 2014 in increasingly responsible roles in finance, operations, and administration.
Most recently, she served as the Administrative Division Director in Hospital Medicine. Since joining the Department of Medicine in 2015, Elsie has led staff administration, Read More finance, and operations for research and clinical divisions. She has also partnered effectively with leadership in the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Division of Primary Care & Population Health to strengthen their communities and advance their missions.
While not at Stanford, Elsie enjoys being outdoors, traveling, and spending time with family.
Charlotte Pera
Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
With decades of experience in nonprofits and large philanthropies focused on climate solutions, Pera is well-positioned to co-lead the Accelerator’s efforts to speed the translation of Stanford research into technology and policies that help improve the quality of human life on our planet. Pera comes to Stanford from the Bezos Earth Fund, where she served as vice president and deputy CEO. Read More
In that role, Pera and colleagues worked closely with the fund’s founders, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, to disburse the fund’s entire $10 billion endowment by the year 2030 with a focus on fighting the climate crisis and protecting and restoring nature, with attention to global equity.
Before her time at the Bezos Earth Fund, Pera served for nearly a decade as president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit working globally to maximize philanthropy’s impact on climate change through strategic advisory services, convening, and grantmaking. In 2023, she was named one of the 50 most powerful women in U.S. philanthropy.
Pera holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford. She serves on the advisory board of the 100x Impact Accelerator at the London School of Economics, the governing board of the International Council for Clean Transportation, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Philanthropy for Climate and Nature. She is a senior fellow with the Bezos Earth Fund and with the Mission Possible Partnership.
John Dalton
Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Stanford Law School
As the Associate Dean of Student Affairs, John supervises the Registrar’s Office and the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), oversees the programming put on by OSA, and engages in support and advising for students navigating a range of personal, academic, and health challenges. Prior to his appointment as Associate Dean, John served as the inaugural Director of Academic Success at Stanford Law School, where he helped to provide academic and bar Read More advising, as well as academic support programming and counseling.
Before returning to Stanford Law, he spent over ten years working as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), where he worked primarily as a capital litigator and on EJI’s racial justice and education projects. Before working at EJI, he spent 15 months working as a corporate transactional associate at Davis Polk in their Menlo Park office. Prior to practicing, he clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, JD ‘64, of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California.