Meredith Hay
Executive Vice President and Provost
Dr. Meredith Hay is the Executive Vice President and Provost for the University of Arizona. She joined the UA from the University of Iowa where she served as Vice President for Research for three years.
As Executive Vice President and Provost, Dr. Hay is the UA's chief operating officer with responsibilities for the entire university budget including the Arizona Health Sciences Center. She has oversight of all academic, research and outreach programs with responsibility of ensuring excellence and coordination in all areas. Dr. Hay is leading the UA Transformation Plan which is designed to advance excellence in all areas of the university's missions of education, discovery and innovation as well as the UA land-grant mission of service to the State of Arizona. The goal is to advance the UA standing to one of the top research universities in the nation.
At the University of Iowa, Dr. Hay provided the central leadership for all of the university's research, scholarly, and creative programs, including the academic medical center. Dr. Hay served as an enthusiastic and vocal spokesperson for the university, working closely with state and federal government leaders, private sector representatives, and local community groups to broaden both private and public support for the university. She led a significant reorganization of the university's economic development efforts, with a focus on improving public access to the University, enhancing the University's technology licensing and commercialization activities, and creating better opportunities for new University-initiated small business start-ups.
Dr. Hay has continued to sustain a vigorous research program and leads an actively NIH-funded research laboratory in cardiovascular neurobiology. She is a Professor of Physiology in the UA College of Medicine and maintains active participation in the American Physiological Society, the Society for Neuroscience, AAAS, and serves on numerous editorial boards of prestigious scientific journals and grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National American Heart Association. She has served on advisory committees for NASA, NIH and the Federation of Associated Societies for Experimental Biology.
Dr. Hay, a Texas native, earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver, and her M.S. in neurobiology from the University Texas at San Antonio, and her Ph.D. in cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996, she was a faculty member in the Department of Physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio.
Phone: 621-1856
Email: mhay@email.arizona.edu
