Amalia Turner, PhD
Dr. Turner is the Team Science Education and Training Coordinator in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) within the School of Medicine, where she designs workshops and trainings to support boundary-spanning teams across the institution. Additionally, as the lead campus-side Navigator for the myRESEARCH Navigators team in the Office of Research Initiatives, she routinely conducts tailored research onboarding sessions to connect faculty, staff, and fellows engaged in research across Duke to the resources they need to thrive.
Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Lorraine Vergara joined CTSI in January 2024 after working at the Duke Research @ Pickett Road site. Ms. Vergara recruits participants for the PREVENTABLE and PRECIDENTD studies and enjoys connecting with patients and their experiences.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Julius Wilder, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jennifer Wilson is part of the Duke Kannapolis group in Durham. Ms. Wilson joined Duke CTSI from the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. She has been at Duke for more than 20 years doing clinical research and has worked in the Heart Center, DOCR, and the Duke Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She works on the Project Baseline Health Study.
Doug Wixted (he/him/his) leads biorepository and data management for Duke Kannapolis, as well as research studies and strategic initiatives. His work centers around informatics, efficient and scalable infrastructure, and maximizing data quality and value. He has worked as part of Duke Kannapolis for more than 10 years, starting initially in 2011 and again in 2014 after a year at Quintiles (IQVIA), a global life science services firm headquartered in Research Triangle Park.
Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. Zimmerman is a professor in the Duke Department of Pediatrics, where she specializes in pediatric critical care medicine. She recently served as chair of the steering committee for the Pediatric Trials Network, a national pediatric clinical research program funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and currently helps to oversee the network. Dr. Zimmerman also serves as principal investigator for multiple research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S.