Research Administration Staff Directory
Support Staff Directory
Information Management
For IM support, call 312.227.3445
Office of the President and Chief Research Officer (OCRO)
- Patrick Seed, MD, PhD, FAAP, FIDSA, President and Chief Research Officer
- Rosalinda Lopez, Manager
Phone: 312.227.2594
Office of the Chief Operations Officer (OCOO)
- Brenda Paulsen, MEd, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer
- Briana Rodriguez, Operations Manager
- Norma Amparo Melgoza, MPA, FACHE, Director, Research Business Operations and Analytics
Phone: 312.227.7026
Email: OCOO@luriechildrens.org
- Ashley Hoambrecker, Director
Phone: 312.503.7122 - Alison Bender, Executive Assistant
Phone: 312.503.7095 - Eric Gasber, Clinical Research Operations Manager
Phone: 312.503.7011 - Kathryn Sparks, Associate Director, Clinical Research Serivces
- Theresa Oswald, Clinical Research Operations Manager
Phone: 312.503.1854 - Ruth Payne, Research Charge Anaylst
Phone: 312.503.0457 - Anna De Sonia, Research Technology Administrator
Phone: 312.503.6238 - Polyxeni Kapsalis, Clinical Research Synchronization Analyst
- Jessica Mandela-Lyons, Clinical Trial Budget and Contract Manager
- Anthony Campbell, Clinical Trial Financial Manager
- Zia Pickney, Clinical Research Budget Feasibility Specialist
- Talia Canter, Research Billing and Operations Auditor
Phone: 312.503.7059 - Kristen Dean, Clinical Trial Budget and Contract Manager
Phone: 312.503.7122 - Elisha Butts, Research Charge Analyst
Phone: 312.503.0639 - Kris Ramsay, Research Billing Manager
- Michelle Corbett, MS, Director
- Beatrice Apikos-Bennett, Program Coordinator
- Lucia De Almeida, PhD, Research Scientist Navigator, Basic and Preclinical Science
- Samantha Engel, PhD, Research Scientist Navigator, Clinical and Community Trials
- Melissa Gesbeck, PhD, Research Scientist Navigator, Community, Population Health, and Outcomes
- Jonathan (Jack) Hoover, MS, Research Educator
- Erin Lynch, Assistant Director, Research Education
- Eric Goodwin, Associate Director, Research Communications
- Karen Nachay, MS, MA, Science Writer
- Malavika (Mala) Radhakrishnan, MS, Communications Specialist
- Lauren Spirov, MS, Research Educator
- Jessica Huening Poppenk, JD, Director
Phone: 312.503.7120 - Tricia Eifler, MBA, CIP, Associate Director
Phone: 312.503.7077 - Carol Macpherson, CCRC, Clinical Research Quality Assurance and Improvement Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7028 - Ben Lee, Clinical Research Quality Assurance and Improvement Specialist
- Allison Harris, MPP, CIP, Senior Research Compliance Coordinator (Single IRB Coordinator)
Phone: 312.503.2657 - Kristen Brown, MS, Research Compliance Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7641 - Khrystyna Helner, MA, LPC, Research Compliance Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7663 - Amber Kofman, MS, MPH, Research Compliance Coordinator, IRB/IBC
Phone: 312.503.7016
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
For general and Cayuse-related IRB inquiries, contact irb@luriechildrens.org.
- Jennifer Rubin, MD, IRB Chair
- Denise Rizzo, PharmD, IRB Vice Chair
Phone: 312.503.7088 - Rachel G Robison, MD, IRB Vice Chair
- Sara Katsanis, MS, IRB Vice Chair
Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)
General IBC inquiries: IBC@luriechildrens.org
- Vamshi Rao, MD, IBC Chair
The fax number for any member within the Office of Sponsored Programs is 312.503.7059.
- Robin Lewis, MPA, CPRA, CRA, Director
Phone: 312.503.7063 - Diana Favela, Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 312.503.7117 - Kris Martens-Ackeret, JD, Associate Director
Phone: 312.503.7079 - Kai Jackson, MS, Assistant Director
Phone: 312.503.7047 - Catherine Lee, Senior Contracts Associate
Phone: 312.503.7038 - Karen Dziedzic, BS, CRA, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
Phone: 312.503.7046 - Sharon Feldman, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
Phone: 312.503.7085 - Kaiji Evans, Sponsored Programs Administrator
Phone: 312.503.7023 - Jessica Cowin, Sponsored Programs Administrator
- Melissa Gentile, Senior Director
Phone: 312.503.7062 - Diana Favela, Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 312.503.7117
- Colleen Garbe, Senior Project Manager
Phone: 312.503.7033 - Wiley Shapiro, Senior Financial Analyst
Phone: 312.503.1423 - Diana Abdi, Senior Financial Analyst
- Amanda Schall, Assistant Director
Phone: 312.503.7004 - Harsimran Kaur, Research Administrative Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7682 - Denise Lilly, Research Administrative Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7656 - Gary Mayberry, Research Administrative Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7599 - Victoria Ramos, Research Administrative Coordinator
Phone: 312.503.7602 - Maria Price, Research Grants Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7092 - Suswara Rayabandla, Research Grants Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7045
- Diana Favela, Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 312.503.7117 - Cristina Goldsmith, Assistant Director
Phone: 312.503.7005 - Dongyan (Katherine) Chen, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
Phone: 312.503.7017 - Christianne Montgomery, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
Phone: 312.503.7006 - Rashad White, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
Phone: 312.503.7008 - Ruben Galvez, Accounts Receivable Manager
Phone: 312.503.7037 - Gabriel Lammers, Financial Specialist
- Benetta Thomas, Financial Specialist
Phone: 312.503.1422 - Alexander Oehmke, Research Accountant
Phone: 312.503.7021 - Sarry Chavannes, Research Accountant
Phone: 312.503.7033 - Ceclia Nguyen, Grant Staff Accountant
Phone: 312.503.7035 - Julia Zhu, Quality Assurance Compliance Manager
Phone: 312.503.7034 - Virginia Lu, Data Analyst, Quality Assurance & Compliance
Phone: 312.503.7021
- Kosh Ghosh, MS, MBA, Director
- Kelley Elahi, MSE, BSN, RN, CPN, Manager, Innovation Portfolio
- Emily Golbeck, MBA, Interim Director of Operations
Phone: 312.227.6176 - Roman Gomez, Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 312.227.6699
- Michele L. Whitney, Director
Phone: 312.503.7540 - Catherine M. Durkiewicz, Operations Manager
Phone: 312.503.7603 - Maurice Tut, Informatics Manager
- Diana Bahena, Research Project Manager
Phone: 312.503.7304
- Greg Taborn, Assistant Director, Basic and Preclinical Sciences
Phone: 312.503.7096
