Welcome to Student Affairs

As the interim Student Affairs Officer, Lisa Francini is responsible for creating, planning, and facilitating the activities and events that cross over to two or more of the schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine and the Graduate School. These activities and events are primarily non-academic, are more social in nature and occur outside the classroom. She functions as a student confidante, liaison, counselor, friend and advocate.

Lisa is directly involved with the planning and coordination of the Commencement ceremony. She serves as the point person for the all things related to Commencement, organizes the Commencement Committee, provides and supervises staff for the event, works with members of Facilities Management, as well as the various vendors, including the Connecticut Convention Center, who collaborate efforts in organizing the annual event.

Lisa has been employed by the University of Connecticut Health Center since 1989. Within that time she has held a variety of administrative positions in the General Medicine Clinics, the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Office of Clinical Affairs in the Dental School. Since 2002 she has worked as the School of Medicine’s Admissions Program Coordinator being very involved with the daily operations of the Medical Student Affairs Office and Student Services Center. She has successfully scheduled, coordinated and organized hundreds of interview days for the applicants to the School of Medicine. Working closely with many students over the years she has effectively planned and coordinated numerous large annual events such as the White Coat Ceremony, incoming student orientation sessions, the medical-dental student activities fair, and second-look recruitment weekend. Various other student related activities and functions such as the Winter Formal, Commencement Dinner Dance, the annual Gong Show and basketball ticket lottery registration have also been managed and handled by Lisa.

Additionally, as the interim Student Affairs Officer she works with and advises student organizations and interest groups by assisting with room scheduling for activities, meetings and fundraisers, plasma screen event announcements and promotions, calendar updates, and collection of fees for special events. Updates to the Student Affairs webpage are also her responsibility. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Roger Williams University.