SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Dr. Peter J. Snyder, former senior vice president and chief research officer at Lifespan, was named vice president of research and economic development at the University of Rhode Island in early February.
Dr. Snyder, who served at Lifespan since 2008, was responsible for the health care organization’s $84 million biomedical research organization, which employed 650 full-time workers and nearly 350 researchers, as well as the academic mission of the state’s five teaching hospitals as aligned with Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School.
As vice president, Dr. Snyder is responsible for managing the ethical conduct of research as well as overseeing intellectual property, technology transfer and economic development.
He will serve as chief research officer, chair of the board of the URI Research Foundation, a professor and a graduate faculty member of URI’s George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and its Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program.
In prepared remarks, Dr. Snyder said he is “honored to have been chosen for this important post” and is “impressed by the talented scholars, bright students and innovative research that permeates the URI system.”
Dr. Snyder is also an adjunct professor of neurology at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and a scholar-in-residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Dr. Snyder, who began his post in March, will report to President Dooley. He succeeds Gerald Sonnenfeld who retired from the school in December 2017.
Earning a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan, Dr. Snyder went on to attain a master’s degree in psychology from Michigan State. He was a clinical neuropsychology resident in the neurology and psychiatry departments at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he completed the Wilder Penfield Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the school’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
He is also a licensed clinical neuropsychologist in New York.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is a staff writer for PBN. You can follow her on Twitter @FlashGowdey or contact her via email, gowdey-backus@pbn.com.
