In addition to serving as the chief of strategic operations for the University of Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute, where she is responsible for fiscal and administrative oversight, Elaine Van der Put, Ph.D., MSPH, is the chief strategy officer for the Miller School of Medicine. She has 17 years of experience at the executive level for multinational corporations operating in Latin America, having held positions with responsibility for strategic planning, marketing, planning, communications, financial planning, budget planning and control for companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola.