David A. Stone, Ph.D. is Vice President for Research, Professor of Interdisciplinary Health and Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University.  As Vice President, Dr. Stone oversees all aspects of the Oakland University research enterprise, including all research development, administration, compliance, and research mobilization activities.

Dr. Stone holds two interdisciplinary degrees (a combined BA/MA and PhD) from the University Professors Program at Boston University.  The former explored issues at the intersection of law, psychiatry, and philosophy. The latter combined the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology, economics, sociology of work, organizational behavior, cognitive science, and expert systems to examine the nature, meaning, and limits of knowledge-intensive technologies like artificial intelligence.  He has taught and conducted research at Harvard’s Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Sheffield University (UK) and Northern Illinois University.  He served as director of Research at the Fenway Health Center, co-founded the Pediatric and Adolescent Research Center at Tufts University, and served as director of Harvard’s Boston Violence Prevention Project, where he founded BostonCares for Injured Youth and the Boston Colloquium for Qualitative Research in Health.  He also served as founding director of the South East European Research Center in Greece, which addressed the needs of the Balkan nations following cessation of the Balkan Wars and built a robust (36 student) multidisciplinary PhD program.  He has conducted research across 8 disciplines with more than $10 million in grant support from national, international, and foundation sources, raised more than $30 million in institutional support, provided research consulting services to several major U.S. universities, organized eight international conferences, authored more than 100 publications, conference papers, lectures and abstracts, and served as a Fellow for the American Council on Education.  In 2014, he served as president of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (and is a NORDP Fellow).

Over the past decade, through a series of articles and presentations, Dr. Stone has challenged the conventional wisdom concerning interdisciplinarity and has offered an alternative transdisciplinary approach.  That approach was recognized for its importance by its incorporation as an entry in the latest edition of Macmillan’s Global Resource Guide on Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering.  On the basis of this and related work in philosophy, Dr. Stone founded and serves as president of the Institute for Transformational Education and Responsive Action in a Technoscientific Age (ITERATA), which is a 501(c) (3) dedicated to advancing the long-term future of higher education.  He currently also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief for the journal Research Development Review and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.