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Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos, PhD, is the Director of the Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program and the founding director of the Algorithm-Based Clinical Decision Support (ABCDS) Oversight initiative. In this capacity, she leads Duke Health’s efforts to evaluate and govern health AI technologies. Dr. Economou also serves on the Executive Committee of the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) Program and as a Scientific Advisor for the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), driving the development of guidelines for AI assurance in healthcare. 

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. Deborah manages financial portfolios for CTSI institutional programs ensuring compliance with university and accounting standards.

Emily Ford joined Duke CTSI in September 2014. As a communicator, she works with the community engagement and study teams based at Duke Kannapolis, the CTSI research site located on the North Carolina Research Campus. She also supports the CTSI Communications infrastructure. She has a background in journalism.

Stephanie Freel, PhD, PMP, is the Director of Clinical Research Operations, Education and Outreach in the Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) and Interim Director of Strategy and Innovation in the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).

Dr. Freel leads the Duke Workforce Engagement and Resilience (WE-R) Initiatives, which include: clinical research job classification; hiring optimization; standardized onboarding and continuing education; apprenticeship, internship, and career pathways development; and clinical research professionalism and engagement.