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Meet our Faculty and Staff

Our faculty and staff are dedicated to the safe and ethical conduct of clinical trials.

Faculty

Our faculty members are experts in clinical research and their infectious disease areas of interest.  They are also vaccinologists, teachers, scientists and licensed health care professionals.  They use their expertise both individually and collaboratively to lead scientifically and ethically sound clinical research trials at the CIR. Visit their faculty pages to learn more about their work and areas of interest.

Anna Durbin
Professor
International Health

Anna Durbin, MD, studies experimental vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, dengue, West Nile, Zika, malaria, and more in human clinical trials and in controlled human infection studies.

David Sack
Professor
International Health

David Sack, MD ’68, is working to eliminate cholera and other enteric infections as public health problems in Africa and Asia using targeted and effective vaccines.

Subhra Chakraborty
Associate Professor
International Health

Subhra Chakraborty, PhD, MPH ’13, MSc, leads research to eliminate mortality and reduce morbidity due to infectious diseases by using improved diagnostics, epidemiology, and vaccines.

Staff

Each CIR staff member is dedicated to the safe and ethical conduct of our clinical research studies.

Rachel Adkinson

Research Associate

Cendy Alcantara

Sr. Research Specialist

Alfreda Anderson

Sr. Regulatory Compliance Monitoring Specialist

Madeleine Blunt

Research Nurse

Jakob Boeye

Research Program Coordinator

Lanisha Burke

Portfolio Manager

Bertha Carter

Adminstrative Secretary

Kathryn Chang

Sr. Research Nurse

Barbara DeNearing

Sr. Research Nurse Coordinator

Kamal Dhanjani

Physician Assistant Manager

Charisse Dorsey

Research Program Coordinator

Sabrina Drayton

Communications Associate

Xi (Jesse) Fang

Sr. Research Specialist II

Bridgett Finley

Sr. Research Nurse

Milena Gatto

Sr. Research Nurse

Tina Ghasri

Sr. Research Specialist

Rachel Hampton

Sr. Research Nurse

Huili (Helen) He

Sr. Research Specialist

Kristi Herbert

Sr. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Michaelina Holmes

Research Program Assistant II

Farah Jeong

Sr. Research Nurse

Maria Jordan

Sr. Research Nurse

Karen Loehr

Sr. Research Nurse

Lourdes Lopez Avelar

Research Program Assistant II

Megan McKnight

Physician Assistant

Jeffery Mayfield

Sr. Research Specialist

Jason Morsell

Research Program Coordinator

Lina Moscarella

Nurse Practitioner

Annie Na

Research Associate

Dilbur Nurmemet

Sr. Research Specialist

Jennifer Oliva

Sr. Research Specialist II

Beverly Plunkett

Sr. Research Specialist II

Ruby Pritchett

Research Program Coordinator

Sarah Sampson

Nurse Practitioner Manager

Jocelyn San Mateo

Sr. Family Nurse Practitioner

Shone Sterner

Research Program Assistant II

Courtney Swisher

Sr. Research Nurse

Rediet Tekalign

Research Associate

Jennifer Tucker

Research Nurse

Michael Turner

Sr. Research Specialist

Taoyang Wang

Research Associate

Cathleen Weadon

Clinical Nurse II

Paula Williams-Soro

Research Program Assistant

Suzanne Woods

Pediatric Clinical Research Nurse Manager

Aislinn Woody

Sr. Research Nurse