Meet The Team

D. Kane Gillespie, DMA
Director

D. Kane Gillespie, DMA, is Director of Evaluation, Outcomes Assessment, and Accreditation at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. Kane works in collaboration with the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs to manage Middle States accreditation efforts as well as support long range academic program planning, design, and assessment. Before his role at Downstate, Kane served for 20 years in academic affairs, assessment, and program planning at Stony Brook University.

Dr. Gillespie received his Bachelor of Music with distinction from the Eastman School of Music, a Master of Music from Southern Methodist University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. He also completed post-graduate work in music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany, and began a career as a performer and teacher of French Horn, playing with professional orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Germany and the USA. A graduate fellowship at Stony Brook University led fortuitously to increasingly responsible professional appointments in higher education administration encompassing all aspects of academic affairs and influencing the success of over 80,000 students.

 

Tina Adjei-Bosompem, MPH
Assistant Director

Tina Adjei-Bosompem joined the Academic Affairs team in August 2022. In her role she assists the director in providing on-going guidance for program evaluation and outcomes assessment as well as activities and evaluation processes for Middle States and other accreditation. Ms. Adjei-Bosompem was previously the Senior Coordinator for Student Education and Research for the Office of Diversity Education and Research (ODER) in the College of Medicine. She coordinated the Early Medical Education Program and the Summer Program in Translational Disparities and Community Engaged Research. Along with coordination and student mentorship, Tina led evaluation of all programs for ODER. She has also served as statistical consultant for the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, revamping their Research Skills curriculum for instruction to the Health Science Academy. Ms. Adjei-Bosompem obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology at the State University at Albany. She later earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Biostatistics from SUNY Downstate where she was awarded The William Kuchler Award for Excellence in Biostatistics.