LINCATS Operations Committee
The LINCATS Operations Committee consists of the Principal Investigator, Chief Operating Officer, and the institutionally supported LINCATS Associate Director of Finance and Administration, and Associate Director of Technology and Resources. They meet weekly to review operations, finance, human resources and infrastructure activities, across all Modules. The committee is structured to address questions or issues that require immediate oversight or action.
Dr. Anissa Abi-Dargham
LINCATS Principal Investigator
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Director, Multi-Modal Translational Imaging Lab
Associate Dean and Associate Vice President, Clinical and Translational Science
anissa.abi-dargham@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-1575
Dr. Rodrigo Valles
LINCATS Chief Operating Officer
rodrigo.valles@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-3158
Natalka Haubold
LINCATS Associate Director of Finance and Administration
natalka.haubold@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-2363
The LINCATS-K12 Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Career Development Program
LINCATS-K12 aims to mentor early-career investigators in Clinical and/or Translational Research, provide them with the necessary skills, and support their progression to independent careers, leading and serving the community regionally and nationwide.
Sandeep Mallipattu, MD, FASN, Lead
DCI-Liebowitz Professor of Medicine
Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
Staff Physician, Northport VA Medical Center
sandeep.mallipattu@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-2164
Stella Tsirka, PhD, Co-Lead
Miriam and David Donoho Distinguished Professor of Pharmacological Sciences
Director, Scholars in BioMedical Sciences Program
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
styliani-anna.tsirka@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 444-3859
Olga Aroniadis, MD, MSc, Associate Program Director
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Master’s Program in Epidemiology & Clinical Research
Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Services Module
Research Services aims to expand the programs, services and tools to increase the efficiency of clinical and translational science, and to expand education in clinical and translational science at all stages with a particular emphasis on diversity and health disparities.
Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH, Lead
Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Director for Population Sciences SBU Cancer Center
Sharon Nachman, MD, Co-Lead
Chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Office of Clinical Trials
Research Services Teams
Roman Kotov, PhD
Service Lead - Biobanking Tissue Acquisition and Analysis
Professor of Psychiatry; Head of Translational and Clinical Epidemiology (TrACE)
roman.kotov@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 632-7763
Jie Yang, PhD
Service Co-Lead - Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design
Associate Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine
Email: jie.yang@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 444-2191
Elinor Schoenfeld, PhD
Service Co-Lead - Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design
Research Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Research, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine
elinor.schoenfeld@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 444-2142
Clinton Rubin, PhD
Service Lead - Biotechnology Entrepreneurship
Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Director of the CfB and the Rubin Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory
clinton.rubin@stonybrook.edu
Phone: (631) 632-1188
Laura Lindenfeld, PhD
Service Lead - Community-Based Research Services
Dean, School of Journalism and Communication
Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Mary Saltz, MD
Service Lead - Health Informatics
Clinical Associate Professor and Chief of Data Department of Radiology, Biomedical Informatics
Sharon Nachman, MD
Service Lead - Proposal Audit and Review
Chief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Office of Clinical Trials
Rebecca Dahl, PhD, CIP
Service Lead - Regulatory Knowledge and Support
Assistant Vice President, Research Compliance
Phone: (631) 632-6541
Education & Training - Translational Workforce Development Module
Translational Workforce Development aims to enhance the conduct and quality of clinical and translational science by providing the clinical research workforce with the practical skills, support, knowledge, and collaboration tools to conduct high-impact, team-oriented translational science.
Scott J. Moeller, PhD, Lead
Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology
scott.moeller@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: 631-638-3223
Sandra Skinner, PhD, Evaluation Specialist
Clinical Research Associate, Department of Neurology
sandra.skinner@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: 631-444-7513
Community Engagement Network for Translational Science (CENTS)
We meet directly with the community across Long Island and NY to affect public health faster through research, communication, education and networking. CENTS’s focus is on tribal communities, low socio-economic status groups, under-represented groups, older populations and veterans through our NVAMC collaboration.
Laura Lindenfeld, PhD
Service Lead - Community-Based Research Services
Dean, School of Journalism and Communication
Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Health Informatics Module
We aim to enable data-driven knowledge discovery to educate the next generation in the value of electronic health data in research, to integrate with the CTSA national network and contribute data sources, open-source software, and analysis methods.
Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, Lead
Professor and Chair Biomedical Informatics
joel.saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-1420
LINCATS Pilot Program
We aim to serve as a catalyst for novel translational science investigations and the formation of new collaborative teams, particularly emphasizing under-presented groups and women.
Christine DeLorenzo, PhD, Lead
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Understanding Biology using Imaging Technology (CUBIT)
christine.delorenzo@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: (631) 638-1523
Francesca McKernon
Research Concierge
francesca.mckernon@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Phone: 631-216-9189
Administrative Lead