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For 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 a master's degree in social work summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2010.

Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Director, CTSI Clinical Research Unit (CRU)

Director, Primary Care Research Consortium (PCRC)

Co-Director, CTSA Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC)

Representative Publications

Mr. Chavis joined Duke CTSI to work on the Project Baseline Health Study. He is the lead clinical research coordinator for OneDukeGen study visits. Prior to joining CTSI, he worked at the Duke Eye Center for 22 years. As a certified ophthalmic assistant, he held several positions throughout his time at the Eye Center including visual fields technician, lead glaucoma clinic technician, lead ophthalmic ultrasound biometrist, and surgical coordinator. He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Ms. Clark is the grants and contracts manager for the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She joined CTSI in 2016 after 17 years of research administration experience, six years working with investigators in academic clinical research at Duke University, and 11 years working with computer scientists at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She manages the CTSI financial portfolio for federal, state, foundation, and internal Duke-funded sources.

Angela Cotton joined CTSI as Human Resources manager in 2022 after serving in the Duke Department of Radiology. She began her career at Duke in 2010 working as an administrative assistant with the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) Accreditation & Patient Safety Office and later as an HR generalist, with a focus on physician integration. In 2014, she transitioned to pediatrics HR, managing faculty affairs, including appointments, promotions, and tenure; credentialing; and clinical privileges. She also served in the Medical Education Office within the Department of Surgery.

Jonathon Cummings is a professor of management at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. After completing his dissertation and post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University, he spent three years at the MIT Sloan School of Management as an assistant professor, where he received an NSF Early Career Award for his research on innovation in geographically dispersed teams and networks.

As the associate director of the Duke Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRN) Program, Janis Curtis is responsible for establishing the operational policies and processes needed at Duke to respond to requests for clinical data and for co-investigators to support multi-site clinical research studies. In collaboration with ACE-Research in Duke Health Technology Services (DHTS), Janis oversees the maintenance of the technical infrastructure underpinning the Duke CDRN Program. 

As a clinical research coordinator, Arlene David works with the OneDukeGen team. David enrolls study participants for the OneDukeGen study, as well as collects and processes blood samples from research participants. She has been with Duke since 2014, having previously worked at the Duke Regional Hospital Laboratory and the MC3- Carolinas Cord Blood Bank. 

Lisa Davis serves as director of operations of Duke-NCCU Bridge Office at CTSI. She is a health behaviorist and received a PhD in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in public health from the University of South Carolina.