Acting Deputy Director, NINDS, Office Of The Director
Designated Federal Official for the Multi-Council Working Group

Dr. Willard served as the Deputy Director of the NINDS Extramural program, Chief of the Scientific Review Branch and the Referral Officer for NINDS. He was a tenured faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology and the Curriculum in Neurobiology, where his research interests were in the areas of developmental neurobiology and synaptic physiology.