Dr. Caleb C. McKinney is an associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Training & Development for Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE), and Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Master’s Program Administration and Development at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). As Associate Dean, his offices support all BGE graduate programs and provide marketing, outreach and recruitment, career development, and training grant support. Dr. McKinney is also a steadfast advocate for student and postdoc led initiatives, and his office provides administrative support to the Medical Center Graduate Student Organization and the Georgetown University Postdoctoral Association. As AVP, Dr. McKinney leads the BGE masters and certificate program portfolio, and has oversight across broad academic and operational graduate education functional areas that span the student life cycle from prospect to graduate.  Dr. McKinney serves on several advisory boards for workforce development training programs, and has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Postdoctoral Association.

Dr. McKinney’s research focuses on scientific workforce development and he has held leadership roles on a variety of externally funded programmatic projects that span career stages from K12 to junior faculty. He serves as co-investigator and Director of Mentoring for the Pipeline in Aging Career Training summer undergraduate research program. He is also a multiple principal investigator (MPI) and co-director of the NIH/NIGMS-funded Georgetown University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD), a predoctoral T32 training program that provides interprofessional and interdisciplinary training and student development activities focused on enhancing biomedical workforce development. Dr. McKinney also serves as MPI and Investigator Development Core Lead for Development of Investigators Supporting Community Outreach and Value of Engagement in health disparities Research (DISCOVER), a NIH/NIMHD P50 Center of Excellence in Investigator Development and Community Engagement to develop early career investigators to conduct community-engaged health disparities research to improve outcomes in cancer, stroke, and maternal health among residents in the Washington DC area. He was previously funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to design and implement the Academy for Transferable Management Skills program, an online training program in project management principles for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

 
Dr. McKinney graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in biology and a minor in applied economics and management. He then completed his doctorate degree in microbiology from New York University, a Master’s in Professional Studies in design management and communications at Georgetown University, and the Harvard Macy Program for Educators in the Health Professions.