Rob Califf, MD, Director Donald F. Fortin, M.D. Professor of Cardiology, School of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research Dr. Califf performed his internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco and his fellowship in cardiology at Duke University. He is board-certified in internal medicine (1984) and cardiology (1986) and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (1988).

Dr. Califf is currently Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI), and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. For 10 years he was director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the premier academic research organization in the world. He is the editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s American Heart Journal, the oldest cardiovascular specialty journal. He has been an author or coauthor of more than 800 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a contributing editor for www.theheart.org, an online information resource for academic and practicing cardiologists. He was recently acknowledged as one of the 10 most cited authors in the field of medicine by ISI.

Danny Benjamin MD, PhD, MPH - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Pediatrics Core

Lori Bastian, MD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Training and Education Core (T32)

Laura Beskow, MPH, PhD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Ethics Core

Wesley Burks, Jr., MD - Duke Clinical Research Unit

Nelson Chao, MD, MBA - Duke Translational Research Institute, Cell and Tissue Therapies

Cecil Charles, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Imaging Core

Robert Cook-Deegan, MD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Ethics Core

Michael Cuffe, MD, FACC - Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO), Site-Based Research

Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Imaging Core

Pamela Douglas, MD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Imaging Core

Stephen George, PhD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Biostatistics Core

Catherine L. Gilliss DNSc, RN, FAAN - Nursing Core; Duke Community Clinical Research

Geoffrey S Ginsburg, MD, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Biorepository and Omics

Farshid Guilak, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Imaging Core

John Hamilton, MD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Education and Training Core, Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program (K12)

Robert Harrington, MD - Duke Clinical Research Institute

Michael Hauser, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Biorepository Core

Bart Haynes, MD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Vaccines

Diane Holditch-Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN - Nursing Core

Ranga Krishnan, MB ChB - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Biomedical Informatics Core

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Cell and Tissue Therapies

Jennifer Li, MD, MHS - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Pediatrics Core

Kim Lyerly, MD - Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

John McHutchison, MD - Duke Clinical Research Unit

Ross McKinney, MD - Director, Clinical and Translational Research Ethics, Law & Policy

Lloyd Michener, MD - Director, Duke Center for Community Research

Joseph Nevins, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Biorepository & '-Omics' Cores

Christopher Newgard, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, '-Omics' Core

Eugene Oddone, MD, MHSc - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Training and Education Core (K30)

Eric Peterson, MD, MPH - Duke Clinical Research Institute

Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PhD, MBA - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Biomedical Informatics Core

Kevin Schulman, MD - Fuqua School of Business, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Susan Schneider, PhD, RN, AOCN - Nursing Core

Joseph St. Geme III, MD - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Pediatrics Core

Bruce Sullenger, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute

Lynda Szczech, MD, MSCE - Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO), Site-Based Research

Eric Toone, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Chemistry and Molecular Therapies

Barbara Turner, RN, DNSc, FAAN - Nursing Core

Emmanuel Walter MD, MPH - Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Pediatrics Core

Kent Weinhold, PhD - Duke Translational Research Institute, Immune Monitoring and Vaccines

Hunt Willard, PhD - Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy

Susan Yaggy, MPA - Duke Center for Community Research

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