Experience

University of Virginia Office of the VP for Research

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Development Specialist

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Provide pre-award services and support for large and complex institutional grant applications, such as investigator consultation, writing services, application management, application team coordination, tools for assembling grant-required documents, and submission timelines. Work closely with pre-award research administrators. Review and support investigator education and training in the context of submitting large and complex proposals. Provide pre-award services and support for large and complex institutional grant applications, such as investigator consultation, writing services, application management, application team coordination, tools for assembling grant-required documents, and submission timelines. Work closely with pre-award research administrators. Review and support investigator education and training in the context of submitting large and complex proposals.



Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• CDC CORD Project Manager & T32 Compliance Analyst

  • Jun 2019 - Jan 2023

  Established the collaboration structure for effective communication with external investigators on the grant comprising the weekly team meetings and meetings for various “working groups” within the team. Generate weekly agendas, review discussion notes, and follow up on decisions and actions mandated by the team. Responsible for ensuring the overall progress of the multi-project grant in collaboration with the PI and the site investigators. From the grant aims, developed working… Show more Established the collaboration structure for effective communication with external investigators on the grant comprising the weekly team meetings and meetings for various “working groups” within the team. Generate weekly agendas, review discussion notes, and follow up on decisions and actions mandated by the team. Responsible for ensuring the overall progress of the multi-project grant in collaboration with the PI and the site investigators. From the grant aims, developed working protocols in collaboration with the PI, site investigators and postdoctoral fellows to implement the individual initiatives needed to meet the grant objectives. Supervise the project coordinator who is responsible for technical and administrative tasks critical to the grant. nsured all aspects of the regulatory/ethical compliance for the project, as well as prepare and submit the grant’s annual reports as required. Program Administrator for a T32 training grant. Coordinating recruitment efforts, managing applications and communications with applicants, and interviewing applicants. Delivering orientation and training to trainees regarding their responsibilities as trainees. Ensure reporting compliance for the grant, resolving Public Access non-compliance of trainee publications appended to the program Director’s NCBI bibliography. Co-wrote the renewal application for the training grant partnering with our lab’s associate director. Provided professional and science writing services to the faculty in the Center for Healthy Weight and Wellness, including biosketch review, grant content, and budget justifications.

• ICTS Precision Medicine Navigator, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis

  • Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  Program operations implementation – Successfully implemented the Research Forum - Precision Medicine. https://icts.wustl.edu/research-services/research-development-program/research-forum-program/. This construct provides multidisciplinary research program/project development review to researchers preparing applications for grant funding for translational research projects. This effort also launched an additional, "on-demand" Research Forum – Precision Medicine service, which provides… Show more Program operations implementation – Successfully implemented the Research Forum - Precision Medicine. https://icts.wustl.edu/research-services/research-development-program/research-forum-program/. This construct provides multidisciplinary research program/project development review to researchers preparing applications for grant funding for translational research projects. This effort also launched an additional, "on-demand" Research Forum – Precision Medicine service, which provides targeted review and feedback for well-developed, pre-submission grant applications. Identified and mapped the pathway for the successful speaker series, Precision Medicine Thursdays at Venture Café, a business innovation organization. Responsible for inviting WashU faculty with research interests in genomics and precision medicine for the monthly event and coordinating the speakers’ deadlines and advertising the event. In collaboration with a web designer, wrote the content and launched the ICTS Precision Medicine website in 2018. I updated the content for our events calendar as well as the content about research development services. https://ictsprecisionmedicine.wustl.edu/

• Clinical Research Specialist Department of Anesthesiology Washington University School of Medicine

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2017

  Responsible for oversight of all aspects of human subjects research compliance for the department and within the Division of Clinical Translational Research, development of policy, work instructions, and white papers that supported the departmental research endeavor, and conduct of quality assurance review on all human subjects research in the department. Designed and implemented a streamlined program of scientific merit review and funding development for the department. A merit review… Show more Responsible for oversight of all aspects of human subjects research compliance for the department and within the Division of Clinical Translational Research, development of policy, work instructions, and white papers that supported the departmental research endeavor, and conduct of quality assurance review on all human subjects research in the department. Designed and implemented a streamlined program of scientific merit review and funding development for the department. A merit review process based on the NIH/CTSA model of “Studio” as implemented at several universities nationwide. Faculty presented to a small group of department colleagues with whom they would discuss their project in real time. The presenters received written evaluations following the NIH model.



University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Instructor

  • Aug 2012 - May 2014

  I was chosen to be a lecturer in the graduate-level class, “Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research,” working in collaboration with the course director. The course covered the history of human subjects’ ethics, current regulatory environment and the NIH Office of Research Integrity’s Responsible Conduct of Research principles. Case studies were also presented for open discussion among the students. My favorite teaching opportunity came when I was selected to be a co-leader for a… Show more I was chosen to be a lecturer in the graduate-level class, “Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research,” working in collaboration with the course director. The course covered the history of human subjects’ ethics, current regulatory environment and the NIH Office of Research Integrity’s Responsible Conduct of Research principles. Case studies were also presented for open discussion among the students. My favorite teaching opportunity came when I was selected to be a co-leader for a class in summer 2014 on the mechanics of designing and implementing a clinical study from a set of hypotheses and objectives. This graduate-level class required that I bring all my doctoral training into the didactic and educational components, as well as incorporating my experience as a manager in a pediatrics clinical trials unit. It was challenging and very rewarding for me to blend those two aptitudes into a cohesive teaching plan. Show less I was chosen to be a lecturer in the graduate-level class, “Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research,” working in collaboration with the course director. The course covered the history of human subjects’ ethics, current regulatory environment and the NIH Office of Research Integrity’s Responsible Conduct of Research principles. Case studies were also presented for open discussion among the students. My favorite teaching opportunity came when I was selected to be a co-leader for a… Show more I was chosen to be a lecturer in the graduate-level class, “Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research,” working in collaboration with the course director. The course covered the history of human subjects’ ethics, current regulatory environment and the NIH Office of Research Integrity’s Responsible Conduct of Research principles. Case studies were also presented for open discussion among the students. My favorite teaching opportunity came when I was selected to be a co-leader for a class in summer 2014 on the mechanics of designing and implementing a clinical study from a set of hypotheses and objectives. This graduate-level class required that I bring all my doctoral training into the didactic and educational components, as well as incorporating my experience as a manager in a pediatrics clinical trials unit. It was challenging and very rewarding for me to blend those two aptitudes into a cohesive teaching plan. Show less



Self employed - Medical Science Writer

• Owner

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2013

  I reviewed the literature and provided research article summaries for a science news section and the editor-in-chief’s blog in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Donald Leung, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief. Topics broadly covered the mechanistic research on atopic diseases as well as immunodeficiency disorders. I reviewed the literature and provided research article summaries for a science news section and the editor-in-chief’s blog in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Donald Leung, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief. Topics broadly covered the mechanistic research on atopic diseases as well as immunodeficiency disorders.



National Jewish Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical research compliance and quality assurance analyst

  • Mar 2006 - Jun 2012

  One project, of which I am very proud of the outcome, was the implementation an institutional honest broker service to facilitate HIPAA-compliant research on data and/or biorepository specimens. I was joined by a multidisciplinary team from IT, research and institutional leadership. The director of the research database at National Jewish was a co-leader with me in establishing the policies and procedures for working with the honest broker. My general responsibilities in this position… Show more One project, of which I am very proud of the outcome, was the implementation an institutional honest broker service to facilitate HIPAA-compliant research on data and/or biorepository specimens. I was joined by a multidisciplinary team from IT, research and institutional leadership. The director of the research database at National Jewish was a co-leader with me in establishing the policies and procedures for working with the honest broker. My general responsibilities in this position comprised routine and directed audits of the biomedical research projects at National Jewish. I conducted one directed audit on a 10-year federally funded project that had serious and continuing consent and HIPAA violations. The corrective action plan rescued all of the data collected by moving it to the oversight of a data analyst, who provided coded dataset access to the PI moving forward. The plan was approved by the Office of Human Research Protections, HHS. Show less One project, of which I am very proud of the outcome, was the implementation an institutional honest broker service to facilitate HIPAA-compliant research on data and/or biorepository specimens. I was joined by a multidisciplinary team from IT, research and institutional leadership. The director of the research database at National Jewish was a co-leader with me in establishing the policies and procedures for working with the honest broker. My general responsibilities in this position… Show more One project, of which I am very proud of the outcome, was the implementation an institutional honest broker service to facilitate HIPAA-compliant research on data and/or biorepository specimens. I was joined by a multidisciplinary team from IT, research and institutional leadership. The director of the research database at National Jewish was a co-leader with me in establishing the policies and procedures for working with the honest broker. My general responsibilities in this position comprised routine and directed audits of the biomedical research projects at National Jewish. I conducted one directed audit on a 10-year federally funded project that had serious and continuing consent and HIPAA violations. The corrective action plan rescued all of the data collected by moving it to the oversight of a data analyst, who provided coded dataset access to the PI moving forward. The plan was approved by the Office of Human Research Protections, HHS. Show less