Raynard S. Kington

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Raynard Stuart Kington
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Official portrait, 2008
16th Head of School of Phillips Academy
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2020
Thesis The effects of liability on the practice patterns of obstetricians and gynecologists  (1991)

Raynard Stuart Kington [1] is an American academic administrator, currently serving as the 16th head of school of Phillips Academy Andover since July 2020.

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He served as the 13th president of Grinnell College in Iowa from August 2010 to June 2020 and as principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health from February 2003 to October 2010.

Early life and education

Kington was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dr. Garfield Kington, an internist, and Mildred Kington, a school teacher and community leader.

At age 16, Kington became a student at the University of Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Science degree at age 19 and a Doctor of Medicine degree at age 21. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago. He was then appointed as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he received a Master of Business Administration degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in health policy and economics from the Wharton School. [2] [3]

Career

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Following appointments on the UCLA medical school faculty and as a senior scientist at RAND, Kington was director of the Division of Health Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics of the CDC where he also served as director of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1998 to 2000.

National Institutes of Health

Kington served in several leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health beginning in 2000, including principal deputy from 2003 to 2008. He led the agency as acting director from October 2008 until August 2009, when Francis Collins was appointed director. He continued to serve as principal deputy director until August 2010. [4] [5] Speaking of Kington's tenure at the agency, Senator Tom Harkin praised his leadership for judiciously allocating $10 billion in congressionally-approved funds, implementing then president Obama's Executive Order on human embryonic stem cell research, and strengthening conflict of interest regulations. [6] As Deputy Director, he co-authored a study which found that Black scientists were less likely than White scientists to win approval of research grants, exposing racial discrimination in academia. [7]

Grinnell College

On February 17, 2010, the Board of Trustees of Grinnell College announced that Kington had been appointed as the incoming 13th president of Grinnell College, effective August 1, 2010. [8]

Kington led an effort to invest $140 million in renewing the campus. [9] During his presidency, he created a $300,000 annual prize to honor three persons throughout the world who have advanced the cause of social justice; the Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize has attracted substantial interest since its inception in 2010, [10] and it has been cited as being the largest award of its kind by The Nation . [11] In addition, Kington established a fund to spur innovation, oversaw the allocation of $140 million for campus buildings, and promoted ties to the city of Grinnell through investment programs. [12] He faced criticism for his handling of an effort to expand the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers. [13] In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, there were no cases at Grinnell, but Kington and the administration asked students to go home and continue their learning online, as a general safety precaution. [14]

Kington officially ended his presidency at Grinnell College on June 30, 2020. [15]

Phillips Academy Andover

In December 2019, Kington was appointed by the Board of Trustees as the 16th Head of School of Phillips Academy in Andover. [16] [17] [18] He took over the role on July 1, 2020, [19] succeeding John Palfrey. [18] Kington is the first African-American and openly gay head of school since the academy was founded in 1778. [16]

Kington has served on the governing council of the National Academy of Medicine and on the boards of the American Council on Education and the Des Moines Arts Center. He currently serves on the boards of RAND, Beth Israel Lahey Health, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

Personal life

Kington is married to Peter T. Daniolos, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Iowa. They have two sons.

References

  1. ↑ "The effects of liability on the practice patterns of obstetricians and gynecologists - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. ProQuest   303971332 . Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Grinnell Announces 13th President". The Grinnell Magazine. February 17, 2010. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  4. ↑ Kaiser, Jocelyn (February 17, 2010). "NIH Deputy Director Kington Leaving for Grinnell". Science. Archived from the original on February 12, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  5. ↑ Gardiner Harris (April 17, 2009). "Some Stem Cell Research Limits Lifted". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  6. ↑ Harkin, Tom (June 18, 2010). "Tribute to Dr. Raynard S. Kington". US Congress. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  7. ↑ Kenneth Chang (August 18, 2011). "Black Scientists Less Likely to Win Federal Research Grants, Study Reports". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Presidential Announcement". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on November 8, 2025. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Grinnell College's president to depart, will head prestigious Phillips Academy". Des Moines Business Record. December 5, 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  10. ↑ "4 Under 40 Making a Difference for Social Justice". May 5, 2011. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved March 22, 2024.
  11. ↑ Miller, Anna Lekas (September 13, 2011). "Grinnell College Announces $300,000 Social Justice Prize". The Nation. Archived from the original on August 20, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Presidential Transition Announcement". Grinnell College. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Are Universities Political?". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
  14. ↑ Sarah Beckman, Eva Andersen (March 10, 2020). "Grinnell College telling students to leave campus due to COVID-19 concerns: Students are being asked to continue their learning online". We Are Iowa (TV news). Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Thank You and Farewell from President Kington". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on November 8, 2025. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  16. 1 2 ALEXANDRA PECCI (October 28, 2021). "Dr. Raynard S. Kington Strives For Diversity and Social Justice at Phillips Academy". Northshore magazine. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  17. ↑ Kim Norvell (December 5, 2019). "Grinnell College president stepping down to lead historic East Coast boarding school". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  18. 1 2 Mike LaBella Staff Writer (December 12, 2019). "Phillips Academy names new leader: Dr. Raynard Kington to become Head of School". Andover Townsman. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Andover – The Magazine of the Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy Community – Fall/Winter 2020" (PDF). Phillips Academy. March 9, 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 8, 2025. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
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