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Health Director, Granville Vance Public Health

Consulting Associate, Duke School of Nursing

Molly Matlock is a Senior Program Coordinator with Duke CTSI. Molly works primarily with the Duke Scholars in Molecular Medicine (DSMM) program and the Bridging the Gap to Enhance Clinical Research (BIGGER) program. Before joining the Duke community, she worked two decades in non-profit management and arts administration. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and English from College of Charleston and studied Folklife and American Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Joe McClernon, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Founder/Director of the Center for Addiction Science and Technology (CfAST), and Associate Director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

Dr. McClernon earned a PhD in clinical psychology in 2001 from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke in 2002. He served as Director of the Addiction Division in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 2012-2020.

In her role as Co-Director of Workforce Development for the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Amanda endeavors to equip faculty, staff, and trainees at Duke with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the realm of health-related science, while also strategizing on how to broaden pathways into this professional domain.

Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience

My research interests focus on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis, the process by which a normal brain becomes epileptic.  The epilepsies constitute a group of common, serious neurological disorders, among which temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most prevalent and devastating.

Scholars@Duke Profile

Andrea Mendoza brings to the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) years of experience in community-engaged research and as an accomplished public health practitioner committed to catalyzing positive changes in community health and outreach, especially in underrepresented communities. She graduated with a Master of Public Health in global health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2021 and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Duke University in 2015.

Debbie Meylor joined the Duke CTSI in February 2012. She supports several cohort studies. Ms. Meylor also brings skills in phlebotomy and sample collection, as well as bilingual abilities allowing her to work both with Spanish-speaking and English-speaking participants.

A native of Puerto Rico, she relocated to New York at an early age. After graduation, she had the opportunity to work as a specimen technician and soon became interested in medicine and helping others. She returned to school, trained in phlebotomy, and then learned about Duke’s work in Kannapolis.

John Mitchell, PhD, is the faculty director of the Duke CTSI Community-Partnered Research Network (CPRN). In this role, Mitchell collaborates closely with Duke faculty and community organizations to develop, implement, and provide oversight of the CPRN.

Rebecca is a recent PhD graduate from the Cell Biology and Dermatology Departments at Duke University, where she studied skin development. As a graduate student, she began exploring career paths and took an interest in project management. Becca interned with the Duke Project Management Community of Practice (Duke PMCoP), serving as a Project Coordinator for the Steering Committee.