Research and Division Support
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Angelina Cordaro, MS
Technical Project Manager
Research Interests:
Health Information Technology; Precision Medicine; Mental Health; OpenNotesEducation:
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English – Ashford University
Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI), National UniversityContact
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Dan Nguyen
Recruitment Manager
Research Interests:
Epidemiology; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Global HealthEducation:
Msc. Infectious Diseases - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (in progress)
B.S. in Health Science, Public Health Concentration - Stony Brook UniversityResearch Projects
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact
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Elizabeth Santillanez, MPA
Program Coordinator
Research Interests:
Higher education training, research and community outreach
Public health, global health and border health
Chronic and infectious diseases
Health DisparitiesEducation:
Masters in Public Administration (MPA), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Scripps College
Health Care Executive Leadership Program Certificate, UC San Diego ExtensionCurrent Projects:
National Library Medicine, Training Grant Fellowship Program
UC Hispanic Serving Institutions-Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI-DDI) Recruitment and Retention Doctoral Diversity ProjectContact:
Location: UC San Diego, ACTRI, 2W507
Phone: (858) 534-8469
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Erickson Wilson
Program Manager
Research Interests:
Precision MedicineEducation:
MD, Universidad Autonoma de Santo DomingoResearch Project:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact
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Jennifer Briscoe
Consortium Communications Manager
Research Interests:
Public Relations; Communication; Marketing; Strategic InitiativesEducation:
B.S. in Journalism - University of KansasExperience:
Media/Public Relations Manager - Sprint
Public Relations Manager & Marketing Consultant - Qualcomm
Public Relations Manager - Sempra Energy
Director of Public and Media Relations - Cricket Communications (AT&T)
Director of Public Relations - Allison+Partners
Communications Consultant - Robert Half InternationalResearch Project:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Jihoon Kim, MS
Principal Statistician
Research Interests:
Data Mining; Predictive Modeling; Bioinformatics; Statistical Learning
The overarching goal of my research is to discover clinically-actionable knowledge from (massive) data-sets.Education:
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California, San Diego (in progress)
MS in Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
BS in Statistics and MS in Medicine (Bioinformatics), Seoul National University, South KoreaContact:
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Kaci Marques
Financial Analyst
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Michele Day, PhD
Program Manager and Technical Writer
Education:
PhD, Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego
BA, Biochemistry, University of California BerkeleyCurrent Projects:
pSCANNER
iDASH
Clinical Data WarehousePublications:
Ohno-Machado L, Agha Z, Bell DS, Dahm L, Day ME, Doctor JN, Gabriel D, Kahlon MK, Kim KK, Hogarth M, Matheny ME, Meeker D, Nebeker JR, pSCANNER team. pSCANNER: patient-centered Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):621-6. PMID: 24780722 PMCID: PMC4078293Sastri M, Haushalter KJ, Panneerselvam M, Chang P, Fridolfsson H, Finley JC, Ng D, Schilling JM, Miyanohara A, Day ME, Hakozaki H, Petrosyan S, Koller A, King CC, Darshi M, Blumenthal DK, Ali SS, Roth DM, Patel HH, Taylor SS. A kinase interacting protein (AKIP1) is a key regulator of cardiac stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 29;110(5):E387-96. PMID: 23319652 PMCID: PMC3562788
Ohno-Machado L, Bafna C, Boxwala A, Chapman BE, Chapman WW, Chaudhuri K, Day ME, Farcas C, Heintzman N, Jiang X, Kim H, Kim J, Matheny M, Resnic F, Vinterbo S, iDASH. Integrating data for analysis, anonymization, and sharing. J Am Med Inf Assoc 2011;Mar-Apr;19(2):196-201. PMID: 22081224 PMCID: PMC3277627
Day ME, Gaietta GM, Sastri M, Koller A, Mackey MR, Scott JD, Perkins GA, Ellisman MH, Taylor SS. Isoform-specific targeting of PKA to multivesicular bodies. J Cell Biol. 2011 Apr 18;193(2):347-63. PMID: 21502359 PMCID: PMC3080257
Contact:
Location: UC San Diego BRF2, 5A17
Phone: 858-822-0931
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Morgan Von Ebke
Executive Assistant
Contact:
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Nancy Herbst, MBA
Director
Education:
MBA, National University
BA with a minor in legal studies, National University
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, UCSD and Rath & StrongPublications:
Contributing author and book editor for the College and School Law: Analysis, Prevention, and Forms published by the American Bar Association (978-1-61632-008-9).Service Work
Chair, Committee on the 2018 UCSD Women’s Conference (2017 – 2018)
Member, Supervising Committee, USE Credit Union (2016 – 2021)
Site Coordinator, WACUBO (Western Association of College and University Business Officers) (2015 – present)
Chair, Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, Grossmont Union High School District (2011 – 2017)
Board Member, San Diego Future’s Foundation (Chair of the Audit and Education Subcommittees) (2010 – 2013)Contact:
UC San Diego, BRFII, 5A19
858-822-2903
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Priyanka Puthra, MS
Technical Project Management Professional
Research Interests:
Health Information Technology; Quality and Process ImprovementEducation:
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Biomedical Engineering, University of Mumbai
Master of Science (MSc) in Bioengineering: Imaging and Sensing, University of Nottingham
Master of Science (MS) in Health Informatics, University of California Davis
Contact:
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Teresa Magdaleno Perez
All of Us Consortium Engagement Manager
Research Interests:
Community Relations; Marketing; Digital Communications; Precision Medicine; Mental Health; Health DisparitiesEducation:
Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA), School of Business, University of San DiegoResearch Project
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact
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Tracy Layton, MS
Consortium Project Manager
Research Interests/Expertise:
Health research, especially focused on screening, prevention and treatment
Patient/participant outreach and recruitment
Screening and prevention education
Implementation of clinical care improvement, including improving clinical decision making in the clinical setting
Integrations with electronic health record systems and research systemsEducation:
Master of Science, Biology - Northern Arizona University
Bachelor of Science, Microbiology - University of ArizonaResearch Project:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Victoria Patronilo
Research Assistant
Research Interests:
Psychology; NeurologyEducation:
B.A. in Psychology - California State University Los AngelesResearch Projects
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Vira Danak Bhatt
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Research Interests:
Health Information Exchange & Interoperability, Preventive Medicine, Data Science
Education:
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biochemistry, Gujarat University
Master of Science (MSc) in Bioinformatics, Gujarat University
Master of Science (MSc) in Health Informatics, University of California DavisContact:
vdanakbhatt@health.ucsd.edu
Programming & Information Systems
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Adrianne Agsolid
Applications Programmer
Contact:
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Edward O’Neill
Applications Programmer
Contact:
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Gary Kean
Bioinformatics Programmer
Research Interests:
Health Data Anonymization techniques; No SQL databases; Health care network adequacyEducation:
Masters of Science (MS): Health Informatics - University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Science (BS): Industrial Design - Illinois Institute of TechnologyContact:
gkean@health.ucsd.edu -
John William Claypool
Applications Programmer
Contact:
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Kai Post
Bioinformatics Programmer
Research Interests:
Bioinformatics; Electronic Medicine; Data Management and Analysis
Education:
MS in Biology, University of Virginia
Select Publications:
Pauthner M, Havenar-Daughton C, Sok D, Nkolola JP, Bastidas R, Boopathy AV, Carnathan DG, Chandrashekar A, Cirelli KM, Cottrell CA, Eroshkin AM, Guenaga J, Kaushik K, Kulp DW, Liu J, McCoy LE, Oom AL, Ozorowski G, Post KW, Sharma SK, Steichen JM, de Taeye SW, Tokatlian T, Torrents de la Peña A, Butera ST, LaBranche CC15, Montefiori DC, Silvestri G, Wilson IA, Irvine DJ, Sanders RW, Schief WR, Ward AB, Wyatt RT, Barouch DH, Crotty S, Burton DR Elicitation of Robust Tier 2 Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Nonhuman Primates by HIV Envelope Trimer Immunization Using Optimized Approaches. Immunity. 2017; 46(6):1073-1088.e6.
Eroshkin AM, LeBlanc A, Weekes D, Post K, Li Z, Rajput A, Butera ST, Burton DR and Godzik Al. bNAber: database of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014; 42(Database issue):D1133-9.
Mayya Sedova, Mallika Iyer, Zhanwen Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Kai W Post, Thomas Hrabe, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Adam Godzik; Cancer3D 2.0: interactive analysis of 3D patterns of cancer mutations in cancer subsets, Nucleic Acids Research. 2018; gky1098Contact
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Kevin Kunkel
Information Systems Analyst
Contact:
kkunkel@health.ucsd.edu -
Marco Gonzales
Bioinformatics Programmer
Contact:
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Patrick Mao
Applications Programmer
Contact:
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Paulina Paul
Database Administrator
Contact:
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Ravinder Atwal
Clinical Applications Professional
Contact:
ratwal@health.ucsd.edu -
Rob Anderson
Applications Programmer
Contact:
roanderson@health.ucsd.edu -
Supreeth Shashjumar
Informatics/Machine Learning Programmer
Contact:
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Tyler Bath
Programmer Analyst
Research Interests:
User Based Design; Biomechatronics; Brain-Computer InterfacingEducation:
BS in Computer Science, UC San DiegoPosters & Publications:
To view past posters, presentations and magazine publications, please visit Publications and Pubmed Profile.Projects:
MAGI, Web based microRNA sequence analysis
Flightdeck, VM launching webservice
iCONCUR
Strong Heart StudyContact:
tbath@health.ucsd.edu
Clinical Research
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Daisy Fierros Gonzalez
Clinical Research Coordinator – Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Precision Medicine, GeneticsResearch Projects:
All of Us Research ProgramContact:
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Daisy Villanueva
Clinical Research Coordinator – Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Mental Health Disorders; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Leukemia; Epilepsy
Research Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Denisse Graciano
Clinical Research Coordinator – Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Immunology, Autoimmune Disease Research, Precision MedicineResearch Projects:
All of Us Research ProgramContact:
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Gloree Miller
Clinical Research Coordinator
Research Interests:
Mental Health Disorders; Artificial Intelligence and its Clinical Applications; Genomics; ImmunologyResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Jovan Moreno
Clinical Research Coordinator – Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Diabetes; Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD); SchizophreniaResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Katherine Crouthamel
Clinical Research Coordinator – Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Precision Medicine; Clinical Trials; Public Health and Active TransportationEducation:
B.A. in Psychology - San Francisco State University
Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Health Professions - San Diego State University
Clinical Trials Design and Management Certificate - UCSD ExtensionExperience:
Research Coordinator - Moores Cancer Center Biorepository, UCSD
Study to Assess Hepatitis Risk (STAHR II) - School of Global Public Health, UCSDContact_
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Klarissa Covarrubias
Clinical Research Coordinator
Research Interests:
Mental Health Disorders; Artificial Intelligence and its Clinical Applications; Genomics; ImmunologyResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Maryam Akbar
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Contact:
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Mericar Domdom
Lead Clinical Research Coordinator
Research Interests:
Public Health, Precision MedicineEducation:
B.S. Health Science with emphasis in Public Health - San Diego State University
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, UC San DiegoResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Morgan Conrad
Clinical Research Coordinator
Research Interests:
Cancer; Genetics; Enzymatic Chemistry; Precision MedicineEducation:
B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - UC Santz CruzResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Oriana Aguilar
Clinical Research Coordinator - Phlebotomist
Research Interests:
Precision Medicine; GeneticsEducation:
Associate of Science, Biological Sciences
Certified Phlebotomy Technician
Certified Emergency Medical TechnicianResearch Projects:
All of Us Research Project (NIH)Contact:
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Ravinder Atwal
Clinical Applications Professional
Contact:
ratwal@health.ucsd.edu