Jonathan Posner, MD, was one of four Duke faculty members selected to serve as Provost Faculty Fellows for 2025-26.
Now in its second year, the Provost Faculty Fellows program aims to introduce Duke faculty members to key leadership roles and responsibilities and areas of strategic focus of the university. Fellows are nominated by the deans of their respective schools or college and selected by Provost Alec D. Gallimore.
Over the course of an academic year, fellows work on a project that is either assigned to them by a sponsoring campus leader or one of their own choosing that is embraced by a campus leader. Fellows also attend meetings of Duke’s senior leadership and contribute to discussions of university issues.
“Congratulations to these four exceptional colleagues on being selected as Provost Faculty Fellows,” Gallimore said. “I am grateful for their interest in developing their understanding of and capacity for academic leadership and look forward to their engagement on important matters of university administration.
Posner is the J.P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and the vice chair for research in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. A child and adolescent psychiatrist by training, he focuses his research on neurodevelopment and the origins of mental illness, with an emphasis on MRI-based studies of brain development. He serves as principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies and directs two NIH training programs, a postdoctoral fellowship and a physician-scientist residency program. His work has been widely published in peer-reviewed psychiatric and neuroscience journals.
Posner’s project will explore potential opportunities to enhance Duke’s research funding resilience by cultivating strategic local partnerships and strengthening interdisciplinary capacity.
Posner joins the following faculty members as 2025-26 Provost Faculty Fellows:
- Professors Mark Borsuk, PhD (Pratt School of Engineering)
- Professor Jimmy Roberts, PhD (Economics)
- Associate Professor Aarthi Vadde, PhD (English)