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Lisa Davis serves as Director of Operations of Duke-NCCU Bridge Office at the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute.  She is a health behaviorist and received a PhD in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MSPH from the University of South Carolina. 

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Dolor did her medical training and internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center. She completed the Ambulatory Care/Health Services Research fellowship at the Durham VA Medical Center (VAMC) in 1996 and obtained her Masters in Health Sciences degree in Biometry from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Dolor was a staff physician in the Ambulatory Care Service at the Durham VA Medical Center and Research Associate at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VAMC from 1995 to June 2012.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Ms. Eckstrand graduated from Ohio Northern University with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, and completed Pharmacy Residency at the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York. She conducted graduate work at the SUNY Buffalo School of Pharmacy where she was also a Clinical Instructor in Pharmacy Practice. She completed the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10 Program at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), and other graduate coursework in informatics at Stanford. She is a Six Sigma–Black Belt, and a TeamSTEPPS Certified Master Trainer.

Professor of Medicine

My general interests are in the improved quality of care for chronic illness, using diabetes as a model. While I have performed research on screening for, diagnosis of, and clinical severity of unrecognized diabetes in patient care settings, my current line of work is in using health system interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease and to improve outcomes from co-morbid diabetes and hypertension.

Salimah El-Amin, DrPH, serves as the assistant director of equity in research at the Center for Equity in Research. In this role, she provides support and direction for diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism efforts across the research process at the CTSI. Prior to this role she led DE&I initiatives across Strategic Education, Inc. She was previously employed with Duke University from 2015-2018 in the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity.

Taryn Cavanaugh Faulk joined CTSI in February 2022 and serves as the Senior Program Coordinator on the Workforce Development Core. In this role, Taryn develops and coordinates programmatic activities for the Community of Scholars and the Clinical Research Internship Program (CRISP). 

Deborah Fidelman, MBA, EdS, joined Duke CTSI in July 2020. She has worked for Duke School of Medicine for eight years in the Office of Biomedical Graduate Education, with a strong focus on finances, the Duke Scholars in Molecular Medicine (DSMM) program, the Chancellor’s Scholars program, and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) courses for Basic Sciences PhD students.