Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD, is a social epidemiologist, health educator, and nationally recognized expert in community-engaged research. For the last ten years, she has helped lead the NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder...
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Emily Pfaff, PhD is Co-director of Informatics and Data Science at NC TraCS. She has a PhD in Health Informatics and a master's in Information Science, both from UNC. Her primary expertise and research interests are in...
Ashley Arrington is Program Manager at the NC TraCS Research Coordination & Management Unit (RCMU). She has clinical research experience in various disease states and patient populations. Her primary research interests...
Marie Rape, RN, BSN is Associate Director of the NC TraCS Regulatory Service, a post she has held since the CTSA grant was established at UNC in 2008. She plays a prominent role in several CTSA national collaborations,...
Loretta Fearrington is a Research Informatics Specialist with the NC TraCS Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) service, which supports investigator studies with innovative technology and advanced analytics. She oversees...
Kaitlin Zalcikova, PhD, is the Program Manager for the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Research Program and Team Science Program at NC TraCS, which she joined in 2021. Applying her evidence-based mindset to the...
Marcella Boynton, PhD, is an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine and a biostatistician at NC TraCS. In this role, she supports biomedical and behavioral researchers as they conduct studies focused on...
Susan Pusek, DRSc, has three decades of experience in clinical and translational research, training, and administration. As Director of Education at NC TraCS, she develops training programs, seminars, and workshops for...
Alicia Bilheimer, MPH is the director of Engaged Science at NC TraCS. In her role, she oversees the Patient and Community Engagement in Research (PaCER) program and provides strategic direction to various other NC TraCS...