Directory

Bryan Batch, MD, joined Duke CTSI in 2023 as faculty director of the Duke-NCCU Bridge Office. In this role, Dr. Batch works closely with Duke and NCCU leadership to create opportunities for multidisciplinary collaborations and ensure that faculty, investigators, and trainees at all career levels have access to core resources and services to do innovative research.

Community Engaged Research Initiative

Kenisha Bethea joined Duke CTSI in June 2017 as a Research Program Lead. She focuses on projects related to improving population health through community engagement with Duke and the Durham community to foster understanding and trust to ensure all members of the community are served.

CTSI Accelerator

Anita Brantley brings 20 years of experience in clinical research study management in both industry and NIH trials with an emphasis on study startup, contract and budget negotiation, regulatory oversight; as well as operational and personnel management.

For the CTSI, Rebecca Brouwer serves as the senior staff member for the Navigation and Team Science Community.  In addition, she provides strategic and operational leadership of engagement activities for Duke researchers across campus. In her role, she interacts campus-wide with researchers and administrators to ensure coordination and synergy of efforts between various offices, programs, tools, and initiatives.

Cindy Canty-Dumas is a highly motivated professional with more than 25 years of administrative experience. She worked as a training coordinator for Pfizer for 15 years prior to relocating to North Carolina in March 2010. She has been employed at Duke since March 2014, serving first as an office manager for International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), prior to joining the Chancellor’s office in May 2015 to serve as an Administrative Specialist. She received her master's of social work summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2010.

Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Co-Director, Primary Care Research Consortium

Director, CTSI Clinical Research Unit (CRU)

Co-Director, CTSA Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC)

Representative Publications

Chatterjee R, Slentz C, Davenport C et al: Effects of potassium supplements on glucose metabolism in African Americans with prediabetes: a pilot trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Dec;106(6):. PMID: 29092881; PMCID: PMC5698842.