Investigator Manual
III.
Personnel
Vikas P. Sukhatme, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, is an extraordinarily accomplished physician-scientist widely respected for his research in the areas of vascular biology, cancer and kidney disease, Dr. Sukhatme is a long-standing member of the BIDMC faculty. Over the past 15 years, beginning with his appointment as Chief of the Renal Division in 1992, he has held numerous key leadership positions in scientific and clinical arenas throughout the Department of Medicine, including Vice Chair for Interdepartmental and Translational Programs, Chief of the Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, and Associate Program Director of the BIDMC
CRC.
Dr. Sukhatme holds a doctorate in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the Harvard MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology before graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1979. Following clinical training in internal medicine and nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was awarded an immunology fellowship at Stanford University and was a Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Chicago before joining BIDMC in 1992. He is currently the Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Program Director, Professor of Neurology, has overall administrative and scientific responsibility for the operation of the Beth Israel Deaconess
CRC. He also serves as a resource for investigators seeking to do research in the CRC. Dr. Pascual-Leone holds appointments as a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Boston University, and in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University. He is a member of the Division of Behavioral Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition to his role in the
CRC, Dr. Pascual-Leone is Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. His clinical research interest is in understanding neural plasticity at a systems level as the reason for development and learning, the cause of disease, and as a mechanism of functional recovery of the nervous system. Dr. Pascual-Leone’s work explores the possibility of using non invasive modulation methods such as TMS and tDCS for clinically relevant therapeutic effects in neuropsychiatry and neurorehabilitation.
He is assisted in his role by an Associate Program Director, Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, and by
two Assistant Program Directors, Janet Mullington, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, and Christos Mantzoros, MD,
Associate Professor of Medicine.
Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD is the Distinguished Institute Scholar in Residence at the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Chair of the
CRC Scientific Advisory Committee. In addition, the SAC has two Vice Chairs: Lachlan Forrow, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Murray Mittleman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine.
Shiva Gautam, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, the CRC Biostatistician (617-667-0453), provides assistance with experimental design, data analysis and interpretation. All
CRC applications are reviewed for appropriateness of study design and sample size by the biostatistician.
Michelle Beck, Administrative Manager (617-667-4269), is responsible for administrative aspects of the CRC. She advises and supports staff and investigators regarding conduct of clinical research in the
CRC. She provides and maintains grant and budget information, manages the resources of the Center and maintains liaison with NIH, while providing the record keeping mandated by NIH.
Linda Godfrey-Bailey, MSN, APRN, BC, Nurse Manager (617-667-3354), oversees patient activity in the CRC and provides direction to the
CRC nursing staff. She provides assistance to investigators in all aspects of study conduct on the patient unit.
Joanna Radziejowska, MS, RD, LDN, Chief Bionutritionist (617-667-3586), actively participates in the planning, development, conduct and analyses of the nutrition aspects of research protocols. She reviews and assists investigators with all nutrition and dietary aspects of protocols submitted to the
CRC. Her staff is trained in the production and service of metabolic balanced diets, calculated, constant, therapeutic, controlled nutrient and test diets.
Steven Schachter, MD, Director of the Research Subject Safety Office, (617-667-4460) and Nancy Brown, RN, BSN (617-667-0332) Research Subject Advocate Nurse are responsible for working with GCRC staff and investigators to ensure that patient safety is given the utmost priority on the unit. The Research Subject Safety office works with investigators in developing data safety monitoring plans for their study protocols, auditing ongoing studies, and monitoring the informed consent and research process for study participants.
Michael Menconi, PhD, Core Laboratory Director (617-667-1824). The core laboratory provides immunoassays and non-routine laboratory tests required for protocols using the
CRC. The director assures quality control of assays and assists in the development and implementation of new assays.
Phillip Dickerson, BSEE, Informatics Core Director (617-667-4194), is responsible for the overall operation of the computer systems which consist of a variety of local area networks, work stations, microcomputers, and software systems available to
CRC and other researchers throughout the Beth Israel Deaconess community. In addition, he works with investigators to review their data management needs and works with them in development of data storage options and database building for their
CRC protocols.
Claire Migliero, Unit Coordinator (617-667-3351), acts as receptionist and schedules inpatient and outpatient appointments. She assists in the coordination of study related activities and assures smooth functioning for study participants, investigators and staff.
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