Mary Ann Sprinkle

Vice President, Advancement, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Mary Ann Sprinkle

Biography

Mary Ann Sprinkle serves as the Vice President for Advancement at Emory University. In this role, Sprinkle provides leadership and strategic direction to Advancement and Alumni Engagement, developing and implementing strategies to identify, cultivate, and successfully solicit individuals, corporations and foundations for major gifts in support of Emory University schools, units, clinical, and grateful patient programs.

Prior to the appointment at Emory University, Sprinkle served as the Associate Vice President for Advancement/Chief Development Officer at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida for more than a decade. In that role, she oversaw the comprehensive teams responsible for fundraising, alumni/ae relations, grateful patient initiatives, and special events for the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine. The Miller School of Medicine raised more than $1 billion for Momentum2: The Breakthrough Campaign for the University of Miami. This campaign successfully finished with a total of $1.6 billion in support for the University of Miami and, combined with the initial Momentum Campaign, raised a total of $3 billion during the tenure of President Donna E. Shalala. Additionally, Sprinkle served as Assistant Vice President for Medical Development and Alumni Relations for the Miller School of Medicine, Director of Development for the National Parkinson Foundation, and Managing Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera. Prior to her fourteen years in Florida, Sprinkle's fundraising career was largely in the Pacific Northwest.

Among her professional affiliations, Sprinkle has been active with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), serving in several regional and national leadership roles; the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), where she has served as speaker and facilitator at national conferences. In addition to graduating summa cum laude from Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri, with a BA in Psychology, Sprinkle holds an MS in Counseling from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.