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
Office of Research Integrity & Compliance
Jessica H. Poppenk, JD, Senior Director Research Compliance Officer
Phone: 312.503.7120
Madelyn Matzuka, BS, Senior Administrative Assistant
Human Research Protection Program
For general IRB inquiries, contact irb@luriechildrens.org.
Tricia Eifler, MBA, CIP, Director, Human Research Protection Program
Phone: 312.227.2448
Gretchen Anding, MA, CIP, Assistant Director, Office of Research Integrity & Compliance
Allison Harris, MPP, CIP, Lead Research Compliance Coordinator – sIRB
Phone: 312.503.2657
Lorraine Rich, MA, Senior Research Compliance Coordinator III
Laura Smith, MBA, Research Compliance Coordinator III
Bisma Manzoor, MA, Research Compliance Coordinator I
IRB Chairs
- Jennifer Rubin, MD, IRB Chair
- Mark Fishbein, MD, IRB Chair
- Denise Rizzo, PharmD, IRB Vice Chair
- Sara Huston, MS, IRB Vice Chair
IBC Chair
- Tracy Gertler, MD,PhD, IBC Chair
Research Compliance
For Research Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment inquiries, contact researchCOI@luriechildrens.org.
For Export Control inquiries, contact exportcontrol@luriechildrens.org.
For general Research Compliance inquiries, contact researchcompliance@luriechildrens.org.
Aaron DeLee, MFA, Director, Research Compliance
Emilie Scheffer, Senior Compliance Analyst
Jeffrey Bearden, MS, CCRC, Research Compliance Coordinator II
Sanjana Nath, MS, Research Data Compliance Specialist
Regulatory & Quality Assurance
For clinicaltrials.gov inquiries, contact ctgov@luriechildrens.org.
For Regulatory & Quality Assurance inquiries, contact ResearchRegQA@luriechildrens.org.
Erica Dahlmeier, MPH, Director, Regulatory and Quality Assurance
Phone: 312.227.5720
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
Amanda Stevens, BS, CCRP, Clinical Research Quality Assurance and Improvement Specialist
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, PhD, 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
