Research Administration Staff Directory
Support Staff Directory
Office of the President and Chief Research Officer (OCRO)
- Patrick Seed, MD, PhD, FAAP, FIDSA, President and Chief Research Officer
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
Office of the Chief Research Informatics Officer (OCRIO)
- Juan Carlos Espinoza Salomon, MD, Chief Research Informatics Officer
Communications and Education Support for Research Administration Teams
Please complete a request form.
Information Management
For IM support, call 312.227.3445
- Ashley Hoambrecker, Senior Director, Chief Clinical and Behavioral Research Operations Officer
- Alison Bender, Executive Assistant
Clinical Research Services (CRS)
- Kathryn Sparks, Director, Clinical Research Services
- Adelaide "Dhey" McClure, Associate Director Clinical Research Support Service Operations, Clinical Research Unit
Clinical Research Finance (CRF)
- Gabrielle Cavaliere, Clinical Trial Financial Manager
- Anthony Campbell, Clinical Trial Financial Manager
- Kristen Dean, Clinical Trial Budget & Contract Manager
- Vatonna Dunn, Clinical Trial Financial Manager
- Margaret Kovuk, Clinical Trial Amendment Manager
- Jessica Mandela-Lyons, Clinical Trial Budget & Contract Manager
Research Operations and Conduct (ROC)
- Theresa Oswald, Director, Research Operations & Conduct
- Elisha Butts, Research Charge Analyst
- Talia Canter, Research Billing and Operations Auditor
- Polyxeni Kapsalis, Clinical Research Synchronization Analyst
- Ruth Payne, Research Charge Analyst
- Kris Ramsay, Research Billing Manager
- Michelle Corbett, MS, Director
- Beatrice Apikos-Bennett, Program Coordinator
- Destiny Basham, Administrative Assistant Senior
- Lucia De Almeida, PhD, Research Scientist Navigator, Basic and Preclinical Science
- Samantha Engel, PhD, Research Scientist Navigator, Clinical and Community Trials
- Eric Goodwin, Associate Director, Research Communications
- Jonathan (Jack) Hoover, MS, Research Educator
- Erin Lynch, Assistant Director, Research Education
- Lori McGee Koch, PhD, Research Navigator, Community, Population Health, and Outcomes
- Karen Nachay, MS, MA, Science Writer
- Malavika (Mala) Radhakrishnan, MS, Communications Specialist
- Neshwa Rajeh, MPH, Research Educator
- Lauren Spirov, MS, Research Educator
- Jessica Poppenk, JD, Senior Director Research Compliance Officer
Phone: 312.503.7120 - Tricia Eifler, MBA, CIP, Director, Human Research Protection Program
Phone: 312.503.7077 - Madelyn Matzuka, BS, Senior Administrative Assistant
- Carol Macpherson, CCRC, Clinical Research Quality Assurance and Improvement Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7028 - Benjamin I Lee, MPH, Clinical Research Quality Assurance and Improvement Specialist
- Allison Harris, MPP, CIP, Senior Research Compliance Coordinator (Single IRB Coordinator)
Phone: 312.503.2657 - Lorraine Rich, MA, Senior Research Compliance Coordinator
- Elizabeth Rhodes, MA, Research Compliance Coordinator
- Rochelle Siapno, MS, Research Compliance Coordinator
- Thanh Vu, BS, Research Compliance Coordinator
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
- Sara Huston, MS, IRB Vice Chair
- Mark Fishbein, MD, 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.
- Charles Maris, Director
- Kris Martens-Ackeret, JD, Associate Director
Phone: 312.503.7079 - Karen Dziedzic, BS, CRA, Lead Sponsored Program Administrator, Senior
Phone: 312.503.7046 - Jenn Black, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
- Felicia Breedy, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
- Janetta Burch, Contract Manager
- Jessica Cowin, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
- Mike DiBiccaro, Manager, Award Support
- Den Gonzales, Manager, Proposal Support
- Regina Kinyui Rampersad, Sponsored Program Administrator
- Suswara Mandala Rayabandla, Sponsored Program Administrator
- Kenya Satchell, Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator
- Melissa Gentile, Senior Director
Phone: 312.503.7062 - Melissa Gesbeck, PhD, MBA, Improvement Consultant, Senior
- Lesly Ramos, Senior Administrative Assistant
- Thomas (TJ) Laesch, Director
- Diana Favela, Research Administration System Analyst
- Colleen Garbe, Director, Research Business Operations and Analytics
Phone: 312.503.7033 - Wiley Shapiro, Senior Financial Analyst
Phone: 312.503.1423 - Diana Abdi, Senior Financial Analyst
- Nicolas Gonzalez, Senior Financial Analyst
- Amanda Schall, Assistant Director
Phone: 312.503.7004 - Stephany Barth, Research Grant Specialist
- Dongyan (Katherine) Chen, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Kate Jones, Research Grants Specialist
- Harsimran Kaur, Research Administrative Manager
Phone: 312.503.7682 - Denise Lilly, Research Administrative Coordinator, Senior
Phone: 312.503.7656 - Eric Magiera, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Gary Mayberry, Research Administrative Manager
Phone: 312.503.7599 - Chistianne Montgomery, Clinical Post Award Support Manager
- Adam Ng, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Bevin O'Donnell, Manager, Proposal Services
- Alexander Oehmke, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Nicole Pelc, Research Grants Specialist
- Maria Price, Research Grants Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7092 - Victoria Ramos, Research Administrative Manager
Phone: 312.503.7602 - Kyle Rodriguez, Research Adminstrative Manager
- Jessica Salgado, Research Grants Specialist
- Christina Sanchez, Research Grants Specialist
- Darielle Sherrod, Research Grant Specialist
- Benetta Thomas, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Rashad White, Research Financial Portfolio Manager
- Emily Cheng, Director Sponsored Research Finance Office
- Julia Zhu, Associate Director Post-Award Accounting
- Catriece Banks, Accounts Receivable Specialist
- Carlos Del Toro, Grants Staff Acountant
- Stephanie Diaz, Financial Specialist
- Ruben Galvez, Accounts Receivable Manager
Phone: 312.503.7037 - Brenna Hyde, Financial Specialist
- Gabriel Lammers, Research Accountant
- Virginia Lu, Data Analyst, Quality Assurance & Compliance
Phone: 312.503.7021 - Ceclia Nguyen, Financial Specialist
Phone: 312.503.7035 - Jacqueline Pineda Orejel, Accounts Receivable Specialist
- Ivonne Garzon Reymatias, Research Accountant
- Anthony Turner, Research Accountant
- Kosh Ghosh, MS, MBA, Executive Director
- Kelley Elahi, MSE, BSN, RN, CPN, Manager, Innovation Portfolio
- Katherine Maskel, MBA, Industry Engagement Manager
- Amanda Christine Maldonado, PhD, Manager, Innovation Portfolio
- Emily Golbeck, MBA, Director of Operations
Phone: 312.227.6176 - Roman Gomez, Program Coordinator
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, Director Research Support, Basic and Preclinical Sciences
Phone: 312.503.7096
