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A nationally recognized expert on matters of research integrity, whistleblowing, ethics, and professionalism in academia, C. K. (Tina) Gunsalus serves as Special Counsel in the Office of University Counsel and Adjunct Professor in the Colleges of Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. At the law school, she teaches courses in negotiation and client interviewing/counseling; in the College of Medicine, she is a member of the faculty of the Medical Humanities/Social Sciences program and teaches communication, conflict resolution skills and ethics.

Previously, she served for many years as an Associate Provost, where she was responsible for a range of academic policy and administrative duties, including department head training/support and academic policy interpretations and revision. During that time, she was known as the "department of yucky problems," with duties encompassing oversight of the discrimination and harassment grievance procedure, problem personnel cases and membership on the workplace violence team. Before that, her experience at the University included technology transfer, management of conflicts of interest, human subject protection, and long-term service as the campus Research Standards Officer with responsibility for responding to allegations of professional misconduct by faculty and students.

A licensed attorney, Ms. Gunsalus graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois College of Law and has an AB with Distinction in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She served on the Committee on Research Integrity of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Government–University–Industry Research Roundtable Ad Hoc Group on Conflict of Interest. She was a member of the United States Commission on Research Integrity and served for four years as chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in recognition of her "sustained contributions to the national debate over improving the practical handling of ethical, legal, professional and administrative issues as they affect scientific research." In 2005, she was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism. She recently accepted a position on the editorial board of the Journal for Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. In her spare time, Ms. Gunsalus also served 12 years on the Urbana Board of Education (school board), eight of those years as its President.

Her recent book explores her extensive experience both "in the trenches" and in her numerous speaking engagements and workshops. Tina has authored the book THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR'S SURVIVAL GUIDE, coming in the fall of 2006 from the Harvard University Press. This book can be ordered from Amazon.com.