Our CTSI Team

Erin Bailey, MSM

Chief Financial Officer

eedb@buffalo.edu

Christopher Barrick, PhD

Workforce Development Team member

cbarrick@buffalo.edu

Ralph Benedict, PhD

Core Operations Special Populations

benedict@buffalo.edu

Elizabeth Bengert

Education Workforce Specialist

ebengert@buffalo.edu

Jonathan Blaisure, MS

Chief Research Information Officer University at Buffalo

jcblaisu@buffalo.edu

Marchelle Brooks, MPH

Clinical Research Facilitator

mbrooks9@buffalo.edu

Renee Cadzow, PhD

Co-Director, Special Populations Core

cadzowr@dyc.edu

Marissa Camacho

Research Assistant, Primary Care Research Institute

mlcamach@buffalo.edu

John M. Canty, Jr. MD

Co-Director, K Scholar Program

canty@buffalo.edu

Erin Carnes, MBA

Senior Research Administrator, Pilot Studies Coordinator

erinobyr@buffalo.edu

Werner Ceusters, MD

Biomedical Ontology, Informatics Core

ceusters@buffalo.edu

Saptarshi Chakraborty, PhD

Head of BERD Professional Advancement

chakrab2@buffalo.edu

Praveen Chandrasekharan, MD, MS

Associate Director, K12

pkchandr@buffalo.edu

Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, RN

Core Operations Special Populations

yc73@buffalo.edu

R. Lorraine Collins, PhD

Workforce Development Team member

lcollins@buffalo.edu

Christopher Daly, PharmD, MBA

MPI, CTS Project 2025-2027

cjdaly@buffalo.edu

Patricia I. Diaz, DDS, PhD

Pilot Studies Leadership Team

pidiazmo@buffalo.edu

Alexander Diehl, PhD

Clinical Informatics Lead, Informatics Core

addiehl@buffalo.edu

Leonard Epstein, PhD

Faculty

uj@buffalo.edu

Zackary M. Falls, PhD

Clinical Informatics Lead, Informatics Core

zmfalls@buffalo.edu

Gillian Franklin, MD, PhD, MPH, MS

Faculty, Emerging Leader, Informatics

gfrankli@buffalo.edu

Elizabeth Gage-Bouchard, PhD

Associate Director Community Engagement

Elizabeth.Bouchard@RoswellPark.org

Mingchen Gao, PhD

Faculty

mgao8@buffalo.edu

Elizabeth Griffiths, MD

Director, Translational and Clinical Pilot Studies

Elizabeth.Griffiths@RoswellPark.org

Marc Halterman, MD, PhD

Co-Lead, Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Program

mwh22@buffalo.edu

Urmo Jaanimägi, MA, MS

Quality Assurance Specialist

uj@buffalo.edu

David Jacobs, PharmD, PhD

MPI, CTS Project 2025-2027

dmjacobs@buffalo.edu

Lynn Jagodzinski

Clinical Research Regulatory Administrator 

lynnjago@buffalo.edu

Ryan James

Community Engagement Specialist

rjames5@buffalo.edu

Jill Kramer, DDS, PhD

Workforce Development Team member

jkramer@buffalo.edu

Aaron Krawczyk

Research MRI Technologist, Center for Biomedical Imaging

adk2@buffalo.edu

Viraj Kothari

Data Steward

virajkot@buffalo.edu

Jeffrey Lackner, PsyD

Co-Director, Workforce Development

lackner@buffalo.edu

Michael LaMonte, PhD, MPH

BERD Co-Director of Research Strategy

mlamonte@buffalo.edu

Hyunah Lee

Graduate Assistant, BERD

hyunahle@buffalo.edu

Denise Lillvis, PhD

Faculty, Emerging Leader, Workforce Development

dlillvis@buffalo.edu

Brenda Williams McDuffie, MS

Pilot Studies Leadership Team member

Grace McKenzie, MEd

Community Engagement Coordinator

gracemck@buffalo.edu

Jeffrey Miecznnikowski, PhD

BERD Co-Director of Educational Outreach Initiatives

jcm38@buffalo.edu

Austin Miller, PhD

Core Operations BERD

Austin.Miller@RoswellPark.org

Gene Morse, PharmD

Co-Director Workforce Development

emorse@buffalo.edu

Sarah Mullin, PhD

Faculty

Sarah.Mullin@RoswellPark.org

Norma Nowak, PhD

Senior Advisor, Life Sciences

njnowak@buffalo.edu

Ekaterina Noyes, PhD, MPH

Director, Workforce Development Core
Co-Director, K Scholar Program

enoyes@buffalo.edu

Alexis O'Brien

Clinical Research Facilitator

ahazard@buffalo.edu

Jacob Olivieri

Administrative Assistant

jacoboli@buffalo.edu

Suyog Pol, PhD

Director of MRI Integration, Center for Biomedical Imaging

suyogpol@buffalo.edu

Gabriela Popescu, PhD

Faculty, Workforce Development

popescu@buffalo.edu

Teresa Quattrin, MD

Co-Director, Special Populations Core

quattrin@buffalo.edu

Ashley Regling, MA

Clinical Recruitment Coordinator

amrupp@buffalo.edu

Thomas Russo, MD

Faculty, Responding to Public Health Emergencies

trusso@buffalo.edu

Ram Samudrala, PhD

Co-Director, Informatics Core

rams@buffalo.edu

Christopher Schobert, MA

Communications Director

schobert@buffalo.edu

Ferdinand Schweser, PhD

Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging

schweser@buffalo.edu

Catherine Sedota, MS

Scientific Workforce Specialist

cmp9@buffalo.edu

Sanjay Sethi, MD

CTSI Director

ssethi@buffalo.edu

Naveed Shah

IT Business Analyst

nshah26@buffalo.edu

Mary Sienkiewicz, MBA

Chief Operating Officer

mjs35@buffalo.edu

Ranjit Singh, MBBChir, MBA

Director, D&I Science Core

rs10@buffalo.edu

Barry Smith, PhD

Co-Director, Informatics Core

phismith@buffalo.edu

Andrew Strohmeier, MEd

Special Populations Coordinator

awstrohm@buffalo.edu

Jennifer Surtees, PhD

Faculty, Responding to Public Health Emergencies

jsurtees@buffalo.edu

Kinga Szigeti, MD, PhD

Core Operations Special Populations

szigeti@buffalo.edu

Albert Titus, PhD

Pilot Studies Leadership Team

ahtitus@buffalo.edu

Kathleen Tornatore-Morse, PharmD

Associate Director Community Engagement

tornator@buffalo.edu

Brian Tsuji, PharmD

Pilot Studies Leadership Team

btsuji@buffalo.edu

Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter, PhD

Director, Community Engagement Core

tumiel@buffalo.edu

Carol Van Zile-Tamsen, PhD

Director of Evaluation, K12

cmv3@buffalo.edu

Bonnie Vest, PhD

Associate Director, D&I Science Core

bvest@buffalo.edu

Gregory Wilding, PhD

Director, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Core

gwilding@buffalo.edu

Jamal Williams, PhD

Faculty, Emerging Leader, Community Engagement

jbwillia@buffalo.edu

Peter Winkelstein, MD, MS, MBA

Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Informatics

pwink@buffalo.edu

Daniel Woo MD, MS

CTSI Associate Director

cmv3@buffalo.edu

Jinjun Xiong, PhD

Director, Institute for AI and Data Science

jinjun@buffalo.edu

Zhaoqi Zhang

Graduate Assistant, BERD

zhaoqizh@buffalo.edu

Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging

rzivadinov@bnac.net

Zaroslaw Zola, PhD

Faculty, AI

jzola@buffalo.edu