ICRHPS Researchers + Staff

The faculty of the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) is deeply committed to mentoring, teaching and supporting the research community of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University. The ICRHPS staff is comprised of talented and dedicated post-doctoral researchers, fellows, research associates, project managers and colleagues who provide administrative support.

Faculty — primary appointments

David A. Adler, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine

Dina Burstein, MD, MPH
Project Director and Associate Professor of Medicine

James Chambers, PhD, MPharm, MSc
Professor of Medicine

MyDzung Chu, PhD, MSPH
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Joshua T. Cohen, PhD
Deputy Director and Professor of Medicine

Denise Hartnett Daudelin, RN, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Karen M. Freund, MD, MPH
Director and Professor of Medicine

Anastasia Gurinovich, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Gigi Hirsch, MD
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

David M. Kent, MD, CM, MSc
Director and Professor of Medicine

Benjamin Koethe, MPH
Instructor of Medicine

Karin Knudson, PhD
Instructor and Data Scientist

Manlik Kwong, BSEE, BSCS
Instructor of Medicine

Tara Lavelle, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Debra Lerner, PhD, MS
Director and Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry

Meng Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Pei-Jung Lin, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Peter Neumann, ScD
Director and Professor of Medicine

Nanguneri Nirmala, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Natalia Olchanski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dan Ollendorf, PhD
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Marisha Palm, PhD
Project Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Susan K. Parsons, MD, MRP
Director and Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

Angie Mae Rodday, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Alice Rushforth, PhD
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Paola Sebastiani, PhD
Director and Professor of Medicine

Robert Sege, MD, PhD
Director and Professor of Medicine

Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH
Director and Professor of Medicine

Meghan Short, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Allison Stephens, PhD, MEd
Senior Program Manager and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Norma C. Terrin, PhD
Professor of Medicine

Hocine Tighiouart, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Ludovic Trinquart, PhD
Director and Associate Professor of Medicine

Lisa Welch, PhD
Assistant Professor

Benjamin S. Wessler, MD
Staff Cardiologist and Assistant Professor

Andrew Williams, PhD
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

John B. Wong, MD
Professor of Medicine

Colin Young, PhD
Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine

Faculty — secondary appointments

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine

Peter A. L. Bonis, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Evan Benjamin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Mei Chung, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Olaf Dammann, MD
Research Professor of Medicine

Jonathan Davis, MD
Professor of Pediatrics

Roger Fielding, MD
Professor of Nutrition

Frederick Frankhauser, JD, RPh
Instructor

Ivan D. Frantz, III, MD
Professor of Pediatrics

Jonathan Garlick, DDS
Professor of Dental Medicine

Seyyed Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry

Robert J. Goldberg, PhD
Clinical Instructor

William Gouveia, MS, FASHP
Associate Professor of Medicine

David J. Greenblatt, MD
Professor of Pharmacology

Catherine Hayes, DMD
Professor

Judith Hinchey
Assistant Clinical Professor

Gordon Huggins, MD
Assistant Professor

Bertrand Jaber, MD
Associate Professor

Georgios Kitsios, MD, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor

Richard I. Kopelman, MD
Professor of Medicine

Jeffrey I. Lasker, MD, MMM, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mary Y. Lee, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Andrew S. Levey, MD
Professor of Medicine

Alice Lichenstein, DSc
Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy

Peter Lindenauer, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Timothy E. McAlindon, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine

Mkaya Mwamburi, MD, PhD, MA
Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine

Brian J Pereira, MD
Professor of Medicine

Rosalie R. Phillips, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health

Douglas Reichgott, MS
Instructor

Michael Rothberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Mark Sarnak, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine

David R. Snydman, MD
Professor of Medicine

Paul C. Stark, ScD, MS
Associate Professor

Gary Strauss, MD
Professor of Medicine

James E. Udelson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Chenchen Wang, MD
Research Associate Professor

Faculty — adjunct

Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

Mohan Bala, PhD, MBA, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sanofi

Marie Benham-Hutchins RN, PhD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northeastern University

Kathleen M. Bungay, PharmD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northeastern University

Jonathan Campbell, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review

Joseph C. Cappelleri
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Pfizer, Inc.

Peter Castaldi, MD, MS
Lecturer, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Thomas W. Concannon, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, RAND Corporation

Ralph B. D´Agostino, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Boston University

Issa J. Dahabreh, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Gary Freeman
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Zoll Medical

Barbara L. Gandek, MS
Adjunct Instructor in Medicine, UMass Medical Center

Alexandra Glazier, JD, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Elizabeth Goodman, MD
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Eric Gordon, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Emerson College

John P. A. Ioannidis, MD
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Ioannina (Greece)

Jeroen Jansen, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine (Public Health & Community Medicine), Mapi Values

David D. Kim, PhD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

Anita Kumar, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

Joseph Lau, MD
Adjunct Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown University

John H. Mason, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Kimberley McGuigan, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pfizer, Inc.

Vandana Menon, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Outcome Sciences

Denish Moorthy, MBBS, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jessica Paulus, ScD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

Inga Peter, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Thomas Pfeiffer, DNS
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Robin Ruthazer, MPH
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dana Safran, ScD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine

Christopher H. Schmid, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University

Carolyn E. Schwartz, ScD
Adjunct Research Professor of Medicine, DeltaQuest Foundation, Inc.

Teruhiko Terasawa, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine

Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University

John E. Ware, PhD
Adjunct Research Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Elias Zintzaras, MSc, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine

Deborah R. Zucker, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital

Fellows

Ekwu Ohcigbo, RPh, MA, MPhil, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Ellen Qian, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Staff

Marta Alvarez
Project Director

Azrina Azhar
Project Director

June Baglione
Research Administrator

Cory Barrera
Research Operations Manager

Molly Beinfeld, MPH
Project Director

Oral Benjamin
Research Administrator

Mabel Celestino
Research Project Coordinator

Daniel Choi
Communications Manager

Katherine Clifford
Research Assistant

Karen Coughlan-Floyd
Research Administrator

Elliott Crummer
Research Associate

Emma van Duijnhoven
Database Coordinator

Dan Enright
Clinical Data Manager

Laura Gallant, MSW
Research Associate

Fatima Geeston
Research Administrator

Kelsey Hannan
Research Assistant

Keileen Hopps, MPA
Program Manager

Cathy Ide
Research Administrator

Tanya Karagiannis, PhD
Senior Statistician Associate

Kristen LaMarque
Program Manager

Fariel LaMountain
Research Assistant

Alex Levine
Senior Research Associate

Lichen Liang, PhD
Statistician Associate

Ching-Hsuan Lin, MPH
Research Associate

Jennifer Lutz, MA
Project Manager

Tsega Meshesha, MS
Program Manager

Sarah Mullin
Research Project Coordinator

Rachel Murphy-Banks, MA
Program Manager

Isabella Pagnozzi, MS
Research Project Coordinator

Jinny Park, MPH
Research Project Coordinator

Divya Patil
Research Assistant

Marie Phillips
Research Assistant

Loren Purdue
Research Assistant

Meera Rangarajan
Research Administrator

Myrlande Remy, MS
Executive Assistant

Abigail Riley
Clinical Data Manager

Julia Rucker
Research Assistant

Carol Seidel
Director, Research Administration and Finance

Alissah Sillah
Research Project Coordinator

Eric Small
Program Manager

Valery Sukovatitsyn
Research Administrator

Patricia Synnott, MS
Project Director

Feng Wang
Patient Navigator

Cortney Wieber, MS
Senior Project Manager

Amanda Winn, MSW
Project Director

Sam Yang, MS
Special and Scientific Staff

Yolanda Zhu, PhD
Research Associate