National Institutes of Health Names Next Ombudsman

Following a national search, Victor Voloshin has been selected as the third permanent director of the NIH Center for Cooperative Resolution and NIH Ombudsman. He starts later this fall. Voloshin is an established expert in workplace conflict management and comes to the NIH after a decade as the Chief Mediation Officer at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Voloshin will lead an office that includes five Ombuds and serves 18,0000 employees of world’s largest biomedical research funding organization. 

He succeeds Julie Muroff, who has been the Acting Director of CCR and Ombudsman and since the retirement of J. Kathleen Moore last fall. He earned his JD and MBA from the College of William and Mary. (LinkedIn.)

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