Leadership

Ruth O'Hara, PhD

Spectrum Director
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor,                                                              Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine Director, Sierra-Pacific MIRECC Translational Core              Stanford CTSA Principal Investigator

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Stanford CTSA Faculty and Staff Leads

Administration
Ruth O'Hara, PhD, CTSA Principal Investigator
Rajnesh Prasad, MBA, Spectrum Executive Director
& Director of Finance and Administration

Biomedical Ethics/Team Science
David Magnus, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead
Mildred Cho, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead

Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD)
Manisha Desai, PhD, Faculty Lead
Ying Lu, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead

Clinical Research Quality
Jennifer Swanton Brown, RN, CCRP, Assistant Dean, Director of Compliance, Regulatory and Quality

Clinical Research Units
Kenneth Mahaffey, MD, Faculty Lead
Peg Tsao, RN, CCRC, Manager

Clinical and Translational Research Unit
Mark Pegram, MD, Faculty Lead
Rebecca Osborne, Executive Director

Community Engagement
Lisa Goldman-Rosas, PhD, MPH, Faculty Lead
Wei-ting Chen, PhD, MA, Associate Director of Community Partnerships

Informatics
Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, Faculty Lead

Innovation Accelerator Pilot Program
Ruth O’Hara, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead
Harry B. Greenberg, MD, Faculty Co-Lead
Ellen Orasa, Program Manager

Integrating Special Populations
Karl Sylvester, MD, Faculty Lead
Mary M. Chen, MS, MBA, Executive Director, MCHRI

Participant Engagement and Recruitment
Lisa Goldman-Rosas, PhD, MPH, Faculty Co-Lead
Karl Sylvester, MD,  Faculty Co-Lead
Katherine Connors, MPH, CCRP, Manager, Research Participation

Population Health
David Rehkopf, Sc.D., MPH, Faculty Co-Lead
Lorene Nelson, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead

Rigor and Reproducibility
Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, Faculty Lead
Ashley Dunn, MPH, Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Workforce Development
Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, Faculty Lead
Peg Tsao, RN, CCRC, Manager, Workforce Development

KL2 Mentored Career Development Program
Steven Asch, MD, MPH, Faculty Lead
Dean Felsher, MD, PhD, Faculty Co-Lead
Ellen Orasa, Program Manager