Members of the CPI Executive Committee (EC) are selected each year by the CPI Chair and ratified by the full Council. The EC meets for a coordination meeting the first Wednesday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and invites research administrative representatives from Texas A&M, HSC, TEES, TTI, and AgriLife Research to attend.
The CPI EC also meets regularly with the Texas A&M President, Provost and Vice President for Research; Distinguished Professor’s Executive Committee; The Texas A&M University System Chancellor; and Congressman Bill Flores and other representatives or administrators upon request.
The CPI-EC can be contacted by sending an email to cpi-ec@listserv.tamu.edu.
2018-2019 CPI Officers (officers are standing members of the Executive Committee)

David Threadgill, Chair
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
dwthreadgill@tamu.edu
979.862.2569
CPI Membership Term: 2016 – 2019
External Committees: n/a

Darren DePoy, Vice Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
depoy@physics.tamu.edu
979.862.2082
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021 (2nd Term)
External Committees: Export Control Designated Liaisons Network; TAMU IT Committee

Penny Riggs, Immediate Past Chair
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
riggs@tamu.edu
979.862.7015
CPI Membership Term: 2015 – 2019 (2nd Term)
External Committees: Maestro Dashboard Researcher Working Group, Chair
2018-2019 Executive Committee (terms extend from September 1st through August 31st)

Vytas A. Bankaitis
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Nursing
vytas@tamhsc.edu
979.862.3188
CPI Membership Term: 2016-2019 (2nd term)
External Committees: Texas A&M Research Compliance Committee

Russell Cross
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
hrcross@tamu.edu
979.845.1543
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Nancy Downing
College of Nursing
downing@tamhsc.edu
979.436.0157
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021
External Committees: n/a

Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
mgrunlan@tamu.edu
979.845.2406
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Oi-Man Kwok
Department of Educational Psychology
College of Education and Human Development
omkwok@tamu.edu
979.458.1407
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021
External Committees: n/a

Stephen Maren
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
maren@tamu.edu
979.458.7960
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: Animal Research Advisory Committee; Attending Veterinarian Search Committee

Dennis Perkinson
Transportation Modeling Program
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
d-perkinson@tti.tamu.edu
979.862.4926
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Pierson
Department of Horticultural Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
eapierson@tamu.edu
979.845.1543
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: Council for the Built Environment (CBE)

Brendan Roark
Department of Geography
College of Geosciences
broark@geos.tamu.edu
979.862.1775
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021 (2nd Term)
External Committees: Mass Spectrometry Core Collabrative