TUFTS CTSI - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor / Maine Medical Center
Abby Fleisch, MD, MPH, is an environmental health researcher at MaineHealth Institute for Research, Attending Physician in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at Maine Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Fleisch completed residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center and fellowship in endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital. She participated in the Harvard-wide pediatric health services research fellowship and received a Masters of Public Health from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Fleisch's research is focused on the extent to which exposure to environmental toxicants prenatally and across the lifespan impact cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal health. Dr. Fleisch has demonstrated an impact of chemicals such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and phthalates on fat distribution and bone health. Her studies include careful attention to vulnerable exposure windows, dietary confounding, potential mitigating effects of diet/lifestyle, and the health impact of multi-chemical exposure. Dr. Fleisch leads or co-leads 2 R01 awards, including an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist R01, and an R21 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean, Programs and Partnerships
Dr. Rushforth has nearly two decades of experience in industry and academia. Prior to joining Tufts CTSI in February 2014, she served as the Director of Biotechnology Education Programs at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation. She also consulted for, and managed, Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems at MIT, which focused on bringing engineers and biologists together to build biological machines. In those roles, she managed a multi-institutional National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center, coordinated diverse teams, and led strategic planning efforts and day-to-day operations.
Alyssa Cabrera joined Tufts CTSI in April 2019 as a Project Manager for the Research Process Improvement team. She's a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Paraguay 2009-2011) with a background in public health and quality improvement. She completed her MPH in Global Health at Boston University's School of Public Health in 2013 and became a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) in 2018. Prior to joining Tufts CTSI, she worked as a Quality Improvement Specialist at T1D Exchange supporting their Quality Improvement Collaborative that convened 10 academic medical centers across the US to share best practices and improve outcomes in people with type 1 diabetes.
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- Director of Research Operations and Administration
Prior to joining Tufts CTSI in April 2020, Amanda was Chief Operations Officer for a multi-state science education non-profit providing enrichment services to K-12 students and professional development for classroom teachers. She earned her MS in Environmental Science from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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- Assistant Professor / Tufts Medical Center
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- Associate Professor / Tufts Medical Center
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- Assistant Professor
- Biostatistician
Dr. Gurinovich's training is in bioinformatics with main expertise in analysis and integration of genetic and genomic data and genome-wide association studies. Her main research focus is on analysis of genotype and whole-genome sequencing data of centenarians in order to identify rare genetic variants that are associated with healthy aging. Additionally, she works on integrating genetic data with various -omics datasets through quantitative trait loci and other analyses.
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- Research Administrator II
Andrea joined Tufts CTSI in November of 2019 as a Research Administrator II. She brings a background in administration and research from Massachusetts General Hospital as a Staff Assistant III, Clinical Research Coordinator II, and a Grant Coordinator. Andrea obtained a Bachelor's of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Tissue Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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- Associate
- Physician
- Director, Regulatory Affairs
In addition to his role at Tufts CTSI, Andreas Klein served as Chair of the Tufts Health Sciences Campus Institutional Review Board (IRB) from 2010 through 2019.
Dr. Klein is an attending physician and Associate Chief in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Tufts Medical Center. He is the Director of the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program and the Hematologic Malignancies Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is board certified in adult Hematology.
He serves on various institutional committees, including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Cancer and Antimicrobial Subcommittees, as well as Leadership for the Cancer Center and Pharmacy and Therapeutics for the Tufts Medicine network. He chairs the Value and Healthcare Economics Special Interest Group for the American Society of Transplant and Cellular Therapy.
Dr. Klein has extensive clinical, laboratory, and correlative science research experience. He has designed and conducted a number of innovative investigator-initiated and sponsor-investigator interventional clinical trials in the treatment of lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and stem cell transplantation. He has been a nationally invited presenter on various oncology topics for more than a decade.
Dr. Klein graduated from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, and completed his fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
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- Research Project Coordinator II, Collaboration for Research Equity, Sustainability, and Trust ( CREST )
Angelique holds an MS in Global Health Policy Management and an MA in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She also received a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Communication Arts and Sciences with a certificate in Engineering and Community Engagement from the Pennsylvania State University.
Her graduate research focused on understanding the lived experiences of both Afro-descended and Hispanic/Latinx individuals that interface with the U.S. Criminal Justice System through social identity theory. Specifically, she explored how their insight can inform changes to the U.S. healthcare system and health policy. Prior to Tufts CTSI, Angelique spent her free time exploring Reflective Structured Dialogue (RSD), Mediaiton, Circle keeping, and Narrative Medicine, all of which she is excited to apply to her role.
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- Associate Director, CTS Graduate Program Assistant Professor
Dr. Rodday has led or collaborated on research projects in a variety of different areas, including identifying pain trajectories in sickle cell disease, understanding treatment and outcomes among patients with hematological cancers, measuring cholesterol screening and treatment practices and preference among pediatricians, measuring and linking health-related quality of life to clinical outcomes, and evaluating care and outcomes for children with chronic respiratory failure. She is especially interested in research and methods that utilize observational datasets to understand access to treatment and care among patients with cancer. Dr. Rodday also enjoys teaching biostatistics within the CTS Graduate Program. She looks forward to expanding her network of collaborators at Tufts and beyond.
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- Assistant Professor / Tufts University
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- Research Project Coordinator II - RPI
Anna completed her M.Phil in International Community Health from the University of Oslo in Norway and has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Victoria in Canada. Her graduate research focused on the impacts of perinatal regionalization on mothers and healthcare providers living in rural communities in Southeast Alaska. Prior to joining Tufts CTSI, she worked at Tufts University as a Project Administrator setting up COVID-19 testing in the Medford and Somerville Public Schools and assisting on a study aimed at understanding parent/guardian perceptions of COVID-19 mitigation in three Massachusetts school districts.
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- Evaluation Research Associate
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- Research Project Coordinator II
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- Associate Professor / Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
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- Senior Vice Provost for Research / Northeastern University
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- Director, Small Grants to Advance Translational Science Program ( S - GATS )
Dr. Must is the Morton A. Madoff Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine. Dr. Must is a nutritional epidemiologist who has worked in population-based obesity research since 1988. She focuses on the epidemiology of obesity across the lifespan with a particular interest in physical and psychosocial health consequences during adolescence and in vulnerable populations. Additional research foci include the development of valid survey measures and surveillance systems for pediatric obesity and proximal modifiable behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behavior). Recent efforts have been directed towards developing the descriptive epidemiology and health promotion for children with developmental disabilities. Dr. Must directs the Clinical and Community Research Core of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center, a cross-institution NIH-funded Obesity Center and is co-director of the Healthy Weight Research Network for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HRSA, USDHHS.
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- Cardiologist
- Lead Navigator
Dr. Wessler is a cardiologist and clinical researcher at Tufts Medical Center. His research focuses on understanding individual therapeutic benefit of cardiovascular interventions and exploring risk prediction for patients with cardiovascular disease with specific attention to applying tools to individualize treatment strategies. He is a graduate of Tufts CTSI's Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program and the newest member of our Lead Navigator Team.
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- Senior Project Manager, Collaboration for Research Equity, Sustainability, and Trust ( CREST )
Binta Barry joined Tufts CTSI in November 2020. In her role as Senior Project Manager, Binta manages the Collaboration for Research Equity, Sustainability, and Trust (CREST). Binta previously worked for the Alzheimer's Association, MA/NH Chapter for almost 4 years, where she was responsible for coordinating and delivering education programs relevant to Alzheimer's disease and caregiving, focusing primarily on diverse audiences in the Greater Boston area. She is experienced in project management, and has worked in the Human Services field for over 7 years. Binta earned her MS in Global Studies and International Relations from Northeastern University, and a BA in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from LA Roche College in Pittsburgh.
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- Associate Director, T.5 Capacity in Medical Devices Medical Device Lead
The focus of Dr. Anthony's research is in computational instrumentation-the design of instruments and techniques to measure and control complex physical systems. His research includes the development of instrumentation and measurement solutions for manufacturing systems and medical diagnostics and imaging systems. In addition to his academic work, he has extensive experience in market-driven technology innovation, product realization, and business entrepreneurship and commercialization at the intersection between information technology and advanced manufacturing. His teaching interests include the modeling of large-scale systems in a wide variety of decision-making domains and the development of optimization algorithms and software for analyzing and designing such systems. He has extensive experience in market-driven technology innovation as well as business entrepreneurship.
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- Director, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Consulting Service
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- Director, One Health and Director, Research Collaborations
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- Clinical Research Nurse / Clinical and Translational Research Center
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- Senior Project Manager / Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
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- Special & Scientific Research Staff
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- Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Research Center Associate Medical Staff Louis Lasagna, M. D., Endowed Professor
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- CM, MSC, Director, Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program
- Director, Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program
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- Clinical Nurse Coordinator
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- Associate Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Director and Director of Organizational Impact
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- Director, Research Process Improvement
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- Professor
- Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy
Dr. Alice H Lichtenstein is the Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy in the Friedman School, and Director and Senior Scientist of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), both at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments as an Associated Faculty member in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. In 2005 Dr. Lichtenstein was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the medical faculty of the University of Kuopio in Finland. Dr. Lichtenstein completed her undergraduate work at Cornell University, holds a Master's degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. She received her post-doctoral training in the field of lipid metabolism at the Cardiovascular Institute at Boston University School of Medicine.
At the HNRCA Dr. Lichtenstein's research group focuses on assessing the interplay between diet and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Past and current work includes addressing issues related to trans fatty acids, soy protein and isoflavones, sterol/stanol esters, novel vegetable oils differing in fatty acid profile and glycemic index, in postmenopausal females and older males. Selected issues are investigated in animal models and cell systems with the aim of determining the mechanisms by which dietary factors alter cardiovascular disease risk. Additional work is focused on population-based studies to assess the relationship between nutrient biomarkers and cardiovascular disease risk, application of systematic review methodology to the field of nutrition and most recently the impact of taste perception on diet quality.
Dr. Lichtenstein has served on committees for the American Heart Association, National Academies of Sciences, Food and Drug Administration, and US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. She received the 2019 Conrad A. Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition, 2020 Mozaffarian Family Award for Public Impact from the Friedman School at Tufts University, 2022 Kritchevsky Lectureship from the American Heart Association Lifestyle Council, and the 2022 Atwater Lectureship from American Society for Nutrition. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research, and Executive Editor of the Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter.
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- Co - Leader of Tufts CTSI 's Informatics Core
- Informatics Co - Leader Faculty Assistant Professor / Tufts CTSI, ICRHPS Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Andrew Williams is a Co-Leader of Tufts CTSI's Informatics Core, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Professor of the Practice in NU's Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Dr. Williams co-leads the Tools and Resources and Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OMOP2OBO) Domain Teams in the National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C). He is a member of the OHDSI Steering Committee of the OHDSI community and co-leads several OHDSI working groups. Dr. Williams is a psychologist by training whose work in distributed research networks has included roles as Principal Investigator, biostatistician, and in informatics development.
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- Clinical Research Coordinator I / Clinical and Translational Research Center
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- Director, T.5 Capacity in Medical Devices
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- Research Project Coordinator
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- Senior Advisor to S - GATS Program
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Bioinformatics Researcher
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- Mentor Training Lead for K and T Programs Associate Professor
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- Program Administrative Director
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- Dean
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Principal Investigator
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- Software Developer Analyst II
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- Clinical Research Nurse / Clinical and Translational Research Center
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- Software Development Analyst II
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- Clinical Research Associate II
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- Research Project Coordinator
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- Director, Comparative Effectiveness Research
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- Director, Science Communications Professor Director, Tufts Initiative in Civic Science
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- Associate Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Director and Director of the Trial Innovation Liaison Team
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- Director, Advanced Systems Development
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- KL2 Program Director
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- Project Director, Qualitative and Mixed Methods
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- Director of Professional Education
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- Software Development Analyst II
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- Software Development Lead
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- Clinical Research Coordinator II
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- Training Director for K Program Professor of Medicine
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- Senior Manager, Research Administration
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- Director, Collaboration for Research Equity, Sustainability, and Trust ( CREST )
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- Associate Director, One Health
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- Director, Data Safety and Monitoring Boards ( DSMB ) and Director, Center for Clinical Trials
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- Associate Director of Organizational Impact
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- Workforce Development Director / Tufts Medical Center
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- Investigator
- Mentor Training Lead for K and T Programs Associate Professor
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- Manager, Communications and Media
Senior Advisor to S-GATS Program; Professor of Medicine; Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program; Research Director, Tufts Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center
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- Research Development Specialist
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- Project Manager, Community and Stakeholder Engagement
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- Senior Advisor, BERD Center
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- Clinical Research Associate I
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- Co - Director
- Director
- Professor
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- Research Participant Advocate
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- Project Manager, Instructional Design and Technology
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- Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs
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- Director, Dissemination and Implementation Core
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- Research Project Coordinator II
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- Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Science ( CTS ) Graduate Program
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- Co - Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement Lead Navigator
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- Clinical Research Coordinator I / Clinical and Translational Research Center
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- Project Director, Informed Consent
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- Senior Advisor, Community and Stakeholder Engagement
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- Project Manager, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
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- Project Manager, Instructional Design and Technology
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- Biospecimen and Clinical Data Liaison
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- Research Associate I - ECI
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- Program Administrative Director
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- Senior Statistician Associate
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- Co - Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement Associate Director, Comparative Effectiveness Research
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- Senior Advisor, Program Evaluation
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- Director, Clinical and Translational Research Center