Dr. Beninger joins Tufts CTSI as Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs. He is Associate Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he is the Director of the MD/MBA and MBS/MBA Programs. He has more than three decades of experience as a regulator and member of the Senior Executive … Continued
Dr. Chin is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, the Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at TUSM and the Research Director for the Tufts Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Tufts Medical Center, who still maintains an active clinical practice. In these roles he oversees the recruitment and education of MD-PhD candidates, … Continued
Dr. Gurinovich’s training is in bioinformatics with main expertise in analysis and integration of genetic and genomic data and genome-wide association studies. Her main research focus is on analysis of genotype and whole-genome sequencing data of centenarians in order to identify rare genetic variants that are associated with healthy aging. Additionally, she works on integrating … Continued
Patrick Catalano, MD is Chair emeritus, Department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center. Dr. Catalano is currently a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) of Tufts Medical Center. His research interests include obesity, diabetes, and metabolism in pregnancy. His research includes the longitudinal evaluation of … Continued
Dr. Trinquart is the Director of the Center for Clinical Trials at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and Tufts CTSI. He also is the Director of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board program. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and adjunct … Continued
Dr. Markman is a social scientist and educator with more than 25 years of experience in higher education, including teaching, program administration, and research. Her research expertise is on communication issues related to teaching, learning, and collaborating with and through technology. Recent projects include a study examining organizational, professional, and teaching identity among academic librarians … Continued
Dr. Sebastiani is a multidisciplinary biostatistician, with a long track record of developing new methodologies in Bayesian statistics, decision theory, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical experimental design, in addition to teaching, mentoring, and leading interdisciplinary research projects. She introduced innovative Bayesian techniques for the analysis of genomic and genetic data and was a pioneer … Continued
Dr. Andrew Williams is a Co-Leader of Tufts CTSI’s Informatics Core, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Professor of the Practice in NU’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Dr. Williams co-leads the Tools and Resources and Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OMOP2OBO) Domain Teams in the … Continued
Dr. Subbaraman’s field research in India focuses on identifying deficiencies across multiple points in the TB cascade of care to facilitate the development of patient-centered interventions. He is currently contributing to an evaluation of novel digital adherence technologies that have the potential to improve medication adherence in TB patients; this work is supported by the … Continued
Perrie O’Tierney-Ginn, PhD is a Principal Investigator in the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) at Tufts Medical Center. Her research interest is the effect of maternal nutrition on fetal cardiovascular development and fat deposition, focusing on the role of placental lipid management in this relationship. She received her PhD in cardiovascular molecular biology in 2006 … Continued
Madina Agénor, ScD, MPH is the inaugural Gerald R. Gill Assistant Professor of Race, Culture, and Society in the Department of Community Health at Tufts University. As a social epidemiologist and health services researcher, Dr. Agénor investigates health and health care inequities in relation to various dimensions of social inequality – especially sexual orientation, gender … Continued
Dr. Dad is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a member of the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience and Biology from Brandeis University and completed medical school at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Tufts Medical Center … Continued
Ndidiamaka N. Amutah-Onukagha received her PhD in Public Health with a focus on Maternal and Child Health at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health in 2010. She received her Master’s in Public Health from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Maternal and Child Health in … Continued
Dr. Jeanne Madden’s research primarily concerns access to health care, the burden of costs on patients, and the consequences of health system changes. She has directed several federally-funded studies examining the impact of changes in Medicare pharmacy benefits on access to treatments for chronic illness. Dr. Madden is leading a qualitative study to gather perspectives … Continued
Dr. Konry’s laboratory at Northeastern University is focused on developing novel Bio-MEMS approaches to advance point of care diagnostics, cell culture and drug screenings. She has developed Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) devices that integrate several laboratory functions such as real time monitoring of target clinically relevant analyte, proteomics, genomics, cell-cell interactions as well as cell secretion and … Continued
Stratis Ioannidis is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, where he also holds a courtesy appointment with the College of Computer and Information Science. He received his BSc (2002) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) in Computer … Continued
Since starting at Tufts CTSI in August 2017, Benjamin’s major research interests have involved the application of statistical methods to a variety of clinical and translational studies. As a biostatistician in the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Center at Tufts CTSI, he has collaborated with dozens of investigators at Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University, … Continued
Dr. Steindler previously was the Joseph J. Bagnor/Shands Professor of Medical Research in the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Florida College of Medicine and the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin Madison and received his doctorate in anatomy studying neurobiology from … Continued
Clifford J. Rosen, MD is the Director of Clinical and Translational Research and a Senior Scientist at Maine Medical Center’s Research Institute. He is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Rosen is the founder and Former Director of the Maine Center for Osteoporosis Research and Education. He was the first … Continued
Abby Fleisch, MD, MPH, is an environmental health researcher at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Maine Medical Center Research Institute and a pediatric endocrinologist at Maine Medical Center. Dr. Fleisch received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. She completed residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center and fellowship … Continued
Elazer R. Edelman, MIT Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, and Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine, is a cardiac care unit cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and director of MIT’s Biomedical Engineering Center. His research melds clinical and medical training, focusing on how tissue architecture and local biochemical regulation maintain homeostasis. Edelman … Continued
Robert Sege, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs a new Center for Community-engaged Medicine. Dr. Sege is nationally known for his research on effective health systems approaches that directly address the social determinants of health. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the … Continued
Peter D. Friedmann, MD, MPH, DFASAM, FACP is Chief Research Officer and Endowed Chair for Clinical Research, Baystate Health; Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, and Professor of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before coming to Baystate in 2015, he was Professor of Medicine and … Continued
Dr. Errol Norwitz is the Louis E. Phaneuf Professor and Chair of OB/GYN at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He completed his medical training at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), his PhD at Oxford University (England) on a Rhodes Scholarship, and his OB/GYN Residency and Maternal-Fetal Medicine … Continued
Edward J. Hackett is Vice Provost for Research and a professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He is responsible for the Office of Research Administration, the Office of Technology Licensing, the Foster Lab (which cares for animal subjects used in research), and Sponsored Program Accounting. From 1997-2015, he was a professor … Continued
Dr. Rodday has led or collaborated on research projects in a variety of different areas, including identifying pain trajectories in sickle cell disease, understanding treatment and outcomes among patients with hematological cancers, measuring cholesterol screening and treatment practices and preference among pediatricians, measuring and linking health-related quality of life to clinical outcomes, and evaluating care … Continued
Gigi Hirsch, MD has held the position of the Executive Director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) since 2007 where she focuses the majority of her efforts leading the flagship New Drug Development Paradigms (NEWDIGS) Initiative. This systems engineering design lab focuses on advancing the capacity of the global innovation ecosystem to more … Continued
Dr. May completed medical school at University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, followed by residency in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship at Maine Medical Center followed by Neurocritical Care Fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian/Cornell Hospital. She now works as a pulmonary/medical/neurocritical care attending at Maine Medical Center. Her current work is meant to explore … Continued
Professor Michaud recently joined the Department of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She obtained her ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health and has been prior faculty at Harvard, Imperial College London, and Brown University. Her areas of expertise include examining a wide range of risk factors for … Continued
Dr. Thomas Stopka is an associate professor with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). He has contributed to and led numerous mixed methods, multidisciplinary, and translational studies focused on the intersection of opioid use disorder (OUD), overdose, and … Continued
Mei Chung, PhD, MPH has a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and an MPH with dual concentrations on Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Social & Behaviroal Science from Boston University School of Public Health. She has extensive methodological expertise in conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and … Continued
Dr. Reagan joined Maine Medical Center Research Institute as a Faculty Scientist I (Assistant Professor equivalent) and the University of Maine as a Graduate Faculty member in 2015. She received her Tufts CTSI appointment in 2016. After obtaining her BS in general engineering in 2006 from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, Dr. Reagan pursued … Continued
Dr. Harvey is Co-Lead of the Tufts CTSI Informatics Program, a Vice President and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Tufts Medicine, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. In this role, Dr. Harvey advises on the strategic direction of our Informatics program including implementation of systems to integrate healthcare and research, … Continued
Dr. Marfeo is an Assistant Professor within the Tufts University Occupational Therapy Department. Dr. Marfeo’s research interests include measurement development, work disability and healthy aging across the adult lifespan. Specifically, Dr. Marfeo’s primary research goals are directed towards understanding the interactions between environmental demands, adaptations, and aging as it affects a person’s health-related quality of … Continued
Mr. Getz is an internationally recognized expert on R&D and clinical trial management practices and trends, the global investigative site landscape, site management and patient recruitment and retention practices, and the worldwide market for outsourcing clinical research functions. Mr. Getz’s research studies on protocol design complexity and clinical research efficiency and effectiveness, conducted over the … Continued
Dr. Leslie is Vice President of Research at the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Research, with responsibility for developing and leading all research programs for the ABP and the ABP Foundation. She is board certified in general pediatrics and developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Leslie … Continued
Dr. Alice H Lichtenstein is the Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy in the Friedman School, and Director and Senior Scientist of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), both at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments as an Associated Faculty member in … Continued
Dr. Garlick’s NIH-funded research laboratory has pioneered the use of stem cells for tissue engineering to develop new treatments for oral health, cancer, scleroderma, and complications of diabetes. As an educator, Jonathan teaches and trains students and citizens to explore the impact of science in their lives as a bridge towards accountability and social action. … Continued
Dr. Folta’s research interests focus on public health nutrition, or the utilization of community-based strategies for improving dietary intake, physical activity, and body composition. She has particular expertise in behavioral psychology, communications, and qualitative methods. A major line of Dr. Folta’s research involves community-based interventions to improve heart health among women. A second area of … Continued
Dr. Vlad is a rheumatologist in the Tufts Division of Rheumatology and an epidemiologist in the Tufts CTSI. He received his MD from the University of Iowa School of Medicine, his rheumatology training at Boston Medical Center, and his PhD in epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. His research interests include investigating the … Continued
Mr. Tighiouart is a statistical associate in the BERD Center at Tufts CTSI and has a faculty appointment at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been a member of the research group since 2000. Mr. Tighiouart provides statistical support for studies investigating associations of risk factors for chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular events. … Continued
Dr. Rushforth has nearly two decades of experience in industry and academia. Prior to joining Tufts CTSI in February 2014, she served as the Director of Biotechnology Education Programs at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation. She also consulted for, and managed, Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems at MIT, which focused on bringing engineers and … Continued
Dr. Terrin is a Senior Advisor at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Mathematics from Boston University and served on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she taught and conducted research in stochastic processes and … Continued
Dr. Welch is a sociologist with expertise in designing, implementing, and disseminating results from large and small research projects, including evaluation studies. Her methodological specialization is mixed method and qualitative research. As Evaluation Director, she develops and implements an overall evaluation program that addresses the process and outcomes of the CTSI’s work. Dr. Welch also … Continued
Dr. Lerner is Associate Director of Organizational Impact for Tufts CTSI, Director and Founder of the Program on Health, Work and Productivity, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, and Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry of Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. … Continued
Dr. Kaitin is a Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and is Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. Dr. Kaitin also holds appointments as Advisory Professor at Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University in Shanghai, China; and faculty of the European Center for Pharmaceutical Medicine at the University of … Continued
Dr. Freeman completed her DVM degree at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and, after completing a rotating small animal internship at North Carolina State University, received a PhD in Nutrition from Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition) and has … Continued
Dr. Must is the Morton A. Madoff Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine. Dr. Must is a nutritional epidemiologist who has worked in population-based obesity research since 1988. She focuses on the epidemiology of obesity across the lifespan with a particular interest … Continued
Dr. Perrone has had a long-standing and wide-ranging interest in ADPKD, including basic investigations addressing mechanisms of ion transport by cystic epithelia, clinical investigations describing causes of mortality in the ADPKD ESRD population, and participation and direction of clinical trials in ADPKD. He has had extensive experience in clinical trials including serving as the Boston … Continued
Dr. Wanke’s research interests are in the intersection of nutritional compromise and infectious diseases, particularly diarrheal disease and growth faltering in children in the resource limited world and in patients infected with HIV, whether in the US or in the resource limited world. In studies of growth faltering, her interests are in maternal as well … Continued
Dr. Snydman brings 35 years of experience in observational and interventional studies in translational research, including transplant recipients, hemodialysis patients, and other hospitalized patients. He has also successfully carried out a number of clinical trials in a variety of patient populations, one of which was developed fully by Dr. Snydman and led to the licensure … Continued
Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH is Dean of Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Executive Director of the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center. As Dean, he provides leadership for programs and infrastructure that support clinical and translational research at the Tufts University schools and affiliated hospitals, … Continued
Dr. Parsons is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and Founding Director of the Reid R. Sacco Adolescent and Young Adult Program for Cancer and Hereditary Blood Disorders at Tufts Medical Center. Her research program is dedicated to advancing the development and application of health-related quality of life (HRQL) assessment … Continued
Dr. Neumann is Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. His translational research focuses on the use of comparative effectiveness research and cost-effectiveness analysis in … Continued
Dr. Lindenauer is Director of the Center for Quality of Care Research at Baystate Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. His translational research focus is defining optimal clinical strategies through observational comparative effectiveness research, and improving healthcare delivery using implementation research methods to design, implement and evaluate strategies … Continued
Dr. Kent is a clinician-methodologist most interested in the problems of making inferences to individual patients based on effects measured in groups. He has a broad background in clinical epidemiology with a focus on predictive modeling in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease (CVD), as well as experience in meta-analytic approaches, particularly individual patient data meta-analysis as the … Continued
For Dr. Huggins, the primary goal of his laboratory is to make discoveries relevant to human diseases for the purpose of understanding the biology of human development and disease that, in addition to providing greater insight into mechanisms of disease, may also translate to biomarkers or therapies. To achieve this goal, whenever possible his laboratory … Continued
Dr. Hu is currently Vice Chairman for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine as well as Associate Chief for Research in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious disease. In both of these roles, he has been responsible for mentoring post-doctoral fellows and young faculty in their research careers. In addition, he has served … Continued
As Director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine as Past Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory and Lung Function Testing Laboratory, Dr. Hoffman has extensive experience, publications (~95), and four patents concerning novel methods of evaluation or therapies in spontaneous and experimental disease models in large animals. He … Continued
Dr. Clark has been working with intracellular nanosensors since she developed the concept of PEBBLE nanosensors in graduate school under Prof. Raoul Kopelman. She was then lucky to work as a postdoctoral fellow on an NIH Postdoc Fellowship under the mentorship of Les Loew. There, she learned much more about handling biological samples as well … Continued
Dr. Castellot is a Navigator at Tufts CTSI. His research focuses on translating an understanding of the mechanisms and molecules regulating smooth muscle proliferation into therapies for pathologic conditions such as restenosis, fibroids, and asthma. His earlier research led directly to the use of low-molecular weight heparins (e.g., Lovanox) in the treatment of deep vein … Continued
Dr. Anwer has been studying the mechanism of bile formation and cholestasis since 1969, starting from his graduate studies in Physiology. He has a broad background in hepatobiliary physiology and has contributed to the present understanding of bile formation and cholestasis through his studies on bile acid transport mechanisms and cellular mechanisms regulating hepatobiliary transporters … Continued
Dr. Freund is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and the KL2 Program Director and ADAPT Research Lead at Tufts CTSI. In these roles, she sits on a number of committees, including the Tufts University-Wide Committee on Training and Faculty Development (UCTFD), the Tufts Global Health Council, the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Research Committee, … Continued
Dr. Davis is Vice-Chair of Pediatrics and Chief of Newborn Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. His research has focused on neonatal drug development, including optimizing approaches to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome. He is currently funded by NIH and FDA to develop better biomarkers and outcome … Continued
Ms. Breeze is an Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, and provides teaching and mentorship to students enrolled in the Clinical and Translational Graduate Program. She has extensive design and analytic experience in biomedical research, particularly in conducting clinical trials and neuroimaging studies of children and adolescents with mental illness. In addition to … Continued
Ms. Daudelin, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Community Medicine and Director, Center for Research Process Improvement at Tufts CTSI is a research scientist with experience in using Improvement Science methods to improve research processes. She co-leads the Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Science Special Interest Group and provides D&I consultations through the D&I Core. … Continued
Dr. Concannon is a Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts CTSI’s Co-Director of Community and Stakeholder Engagement and Associate Director of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). His research is focused on patient care in emergency, acute and post-acute settings. Dr. Concannon’s work in healthcare … Continued
Director of Comparative Effectiveness Research at the Tufts CTSI, Dr. Wong is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Since 2013, Dr. Wong has provided research guidance and support to Tufts CTSI clinical researchers. As Interim Chief Scientific Officer and Chief of the Division of … Continued
Dr. Weiner is a Lead Navigator at Tufts CTSI, a nephrologist at Tufts Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Tufts University (LA94) and Tufts University School of Medicine (M98), before completing a Masters degree program in clinical care research at the Graduate School … Continued