David Gift
David Gift is vice provost for libraries, computing and technology, and adjunct assistant professor of radiology, at Michigan State University.
An alumnus of MSU, with degrees in physics and computer science, Dave also is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has served MSU most recently as assistant vice president for integrative management, and prior to that as assistant chairperson of radiology, and interim director of strategy and implementation for MSU’s Faculty Group Practice.
Dave has taught and contributed to curriculum development in MSU’s Colleges of Human Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, has performed research in clinical decision-making, patient management and healthcare economics, and has designed and facilitated curriculum-related regional professional focus group events for the MSU College of Law.
He has served as a founder and member of the board of directors of four University medical joint venture corporations, and is currently a member and chair of the board of directors of Merit Network, the multi-university consortium for Michigan educational and research data networking services. Dave also serves as an Extended Board member of the community-source Kuali Financial Systems and Kuali Research Administration Systems projects (www.kuali.org), as a member of the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Group, as chair of the CIC Chief Information Officers Group (Big Ten universities and University of Chicago), and member of the CIC Shared Digital Repository Steering Committee, and the (Lansing, MI) Capital Area Regional Health Information Organization steering committee.