Advisory Council

The Integrating Special Populations Core Advisory Council helps identify relevant resources and opportunities including registries and databases, clinical trial networks, research tools, educational offerings, and best practices to share with our local research community. This advisory council also provides guidance in identifying the needs of health disparities and special populations researchers and developing plans to address those gaps.

Additional members were selected for the CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program to ensure specific stakeholder experience in child health equity. These members will provide input in the development of this pilot program RFA and will continue to guide the pilot program. All Advisory Council members are invited to participate in special interest initiatives, such as the CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program. 

Advisory Council Members

Integrating Special Populations Core, Internal/External Advisory Council Members 

• Deborah Allen, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP-BC, AOCNP
  Hutch.allen@duke.edu
  Director of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice, Duke University Health System

• Nadine J. Barrett, PhD
  Nadine.barrett@duke.edu
  Duke Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health; Duke CTSI Co-director for Equity and Stakeholder Strategy; Duke CTSI Inaugural Director of the Center for Equity in Research; Associate Director for Equity and Stakeholder Strategy, Duke Cancer Institute

• Bryan C. Batch, MD 
  Bryan.batch@duke.edu
  Duke Associate Professor of Medicine 

• Tyson Brown, PhD
  Tyson.brown@duke.edu
  Duke Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Center on Health & Society

• Faye Calhoun, PhD
  Fcalhoun@nccu.edu
  Special Assistant Chancellor for Partnerships and Cooperative Agreements, NCCU

• Brigit Carter, PhD MSN RN CCRN
  Brigit.carter@duke.edu
  Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Duke University School of Nursing

• Shauna Guthrie, MPH, MD, FAAFP
  dr.s.guthrie@gmail.com
  Granville Vance Public Health Medical Director and Family Physician

• Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD MPH RN CPH FAAN
  Rosa.gonzalez-guarda@duke.edu
  Associate Professor in School of Nursing; Duke CTSI Co-Director Community Engagement Core

• Jennifer Li, MD
  Li000001@mc.duke.edu
  Duke Professor of Pediatric Cardiology

• Kimberly Monroe, MPA
  Monro008@mc.duke.edu
  Program Manager, Office of Community Health

• Devon Noonan, PhD
  Devon.noonan@duke.edu
  Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair of Nursing; Duke Associate Professor in the School of Nursing

• Joanne Pierce, MPH
  Jpierce@dconc.gov
  Deputy Public Health Director Durham County

• Vandana Shashi, MBBS MD
  Vandana.shashi@duke.edu
  Duke Professor of Pediatrics

• Heather Whitson, MD MHS
  Heather.whitson@duke.edu
  Duke Professor of Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences; Director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development

CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program, Advisory Council Members

• Irene Doherty, PhD
  idoherty@nccu.edu
  Research Scientist, NCCU

• Naomi Duke, MD PhD MPH
  naomi.duke@edu
  Duke Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Program Director for Duke NCSP, Duke School of Medicine; Associate Director for Duke PCLT, Duke School of Medicine

• Cheslie Johnson, BA
  chesliej@gmail.com
  Stakeholder Leadership Team Patient Representative 

• Rebby Kern
  rebby@equalitync.org
  Director of Education Policy, NC Equality 

• Kelley Massengale, PhD MPH
  research@ncdiaperbank.org
  Director of Research and Evaluation, NC Diaper Bank 

• Dane Whicker, PhD
  dane.whicker@duke.edu
  Duke Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Duke CTSI Co-Director Equity in Research

Integrating Special Populations Core, Team Members

• Keisha Bentley-Edwards, PhD
  Keisha.bentley.edwards@duke.edu
  Duke Associate Professor of Internal Medicine; Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Duke CTSI Co-Director Equity in Research; Duke CTSI Co-Director Integrating Special Populations Core

• Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD
  Dwight.koeberl@duke.edu
  Duke Professor of Pediatrics; Duke Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Duke CTSI Co-Director Integrating Special Populations Core

• Jillian Hurst, PhD
  Jillian.hurst@duke.edu
  Duke Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; CHDI Director; CHDI-CTSI Child Health Equity Program, Lead

• K.K. Lam, PhD
  Kk.lam@duke.edu
  Clinical Trials Project Leader III; Program Director, Newborn Screening Evidence Review Group; Duke CTSI Director of Operations for Integrating Special Populations Core

• Sydney Sullivan, MPH
  Sydney.sullivan@duke.edu
  HRSA/Integrating Special Populations Research Analyst II/ Program Coordinator