Jennifer Mahler-Krupp, MPA
Administrative Manager, DTMI

As Administrative Manager of DTMI, Jennifer Mahler-Krupp is responsible for providing overall grant administration support for the CTSA grant. She works closely with the Business Managers of the departments, centers and institutes involved in the grant to monitor expenditures and ensure correct salary distribution.

Mahler-Krupp is in charge of routine financial reporting and analysis for DTMI and provides assistance in developing DTMI’s financial systems, generating consolidated financial reports across the DTMI entities, and maintaining forecasting models.

She most recently served as a Financial Analyst at the DCRI. In this role, she was responsible for financial reporting and analysis for several research programs in addition to preparing the monthly financial statements for the DCRI. Prior to joining the DCRI, Mahler-Krupp was the Assistant Controller for Araccel Corporation.

Mahler-Krupp received her Masters in Public Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1999 and has a BS in Accountancy from Bentley College. Mahler-Krupp is certified in Research Costing Compliance by Duke University Financial Services.

Rebbecca Moen, MBA
CTSA Program Manager

In her role as CTSA Program Manager, Moen provides programmatic, administrative and operational leadership for Duke’s CTSA grant.

Moen provides programmatic guidance and support to the individual components of the CTSA grant based on the National Center for Research Resources’s goals for the CTSA program as well as approaches being implemented at other CTSA institutions. She facilitates and fosters collaboration and communication among the various CTSA components and with other research programs in the institution. She serves as an internal expert resource regarding the programmatic requirements of the CTSA grant and linked award mechanisms, and represents Duke on various National CTSA Consortium Workgroups. She oversees the preparation of the annual progress reports to the National Institutes of Health, the further development of our evaluation program, and the coordination of our External Advisory Committee meetings. Finally, she identifies, develops, and implements new programmatic, administrative and operational infrastructure functions to support the CTSA grant as well as other Duke programs in clinical and translational research.

Moen came back to Duke after having served as the Associate Director of the Office of Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center since 2005. In this role, she managed the integration of four previously decentralized units into one comprehensive, full-service clinical research infrastructure. She managed large-scale institutional grant submissions, including the CTSA grant, and served as the administrative director of the General Clinical Research Center on an interim basis.

Prior to her tenure at Minnesota, Moen worked in a variety of research capacities at Duke from 1997 – 2005. From 2004 – 2005, she served as the Administrative Manager of the Office of Grant Support in the School of Medicine and later as the Assistant Director of the Office of Research Administration. From 1997 – 2003, she worked at the DCRI in a number of roles, including Clinical Research Manager with the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics and Business Development Associate with the Business Development Group. Moen played an important role in helping to increase the DCRI’s federally-funded research portfolio.

Moen holds an M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a frequent lecturer on professional development topics for investigators, including the NIH review process, grant-writing, career development grants, and strategies for pursuing NIH funding.

Deborah Roth, MS
Associate Dean for Clinical Research Administration,
Duke University School of Medicine
Chief Operating Officer, DTMI

Deborah Roth has served in administrative and management roles in the health care and clinical research sectors for over 20 years.

Since 2006, she has served as Associate Dean for Clinical Research Administration at the Duke University School of Medicine and Chief Operating Officer of DTMI, with responsibility for administering Duke’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. From 1997 - 2006, she served as Chief Operating Officer of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

Prior to joining the DCRI, she worked in hospital administration at Duke from 1987-1997, where she completed an administrative fellowship and served as Administrative Director of the Duke Heart Center and subsequently, Assistant Chief Operating Officer of Duke University Hospital. Prior to her tenure at Duke, Roth held positions at the Hillhaven Corporation and the American Heart Association.

Roth received a Masters degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1986. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Clark University, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology.

Michael Sledge
Chief Financial Officer, DTMI

Mr. Sledge joined the Duke Clinical Research Institute in 2006 as Chief Financial Officer after 20 years of experience in financial management. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the DTMI in 2008 and now serves as the Chief Financial Officer for both organizations. He received his BS degree in accounting in 1987 and began his career as an accountant with Ernst & Young. He has held leadership positions in two leading CROs and also served as CFO of Strategic Technologies. Most recently, he served as Managing Partner of PivotBridge Partners, LLC, a telecommunications sales and consulting firm which he co-founded.

Ana Valverde, MBA, CFA
Director of Finance and Business Strategy, DTMI

As Director of Finance and Business Strategy for DTMI, Ana Valverde is responsible for providing a global view of the economics and financial performance of clinical and translational research across Duke Medicine.

Valverde develops and maintain a financial model for DTMI and provide an aggregated view of the finances of the various entities (DTRI, DCRI, DCCR, DCRU, etc.). Additionally, she provides analytical expertise and support to the DTMI leadership and its entities in the development of business strategies for new ventures and programmatic initiatives.

Ana Valverde served as the Lead Business Strategies Associate at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) from 2002 until the present. In this role, she led the DCRI Business Strategy group and developed business plans for new opportunities and ventures.

Prior to joining the DCRI, Valverde was an Equity Research Analyst at Santander Investment, where she was a member of Spain's Best Research Team as selected by Institutional Investors in 1999 and 2000. Valverde received her Masters in Business Administration, with a concentration in Health Sector Management from Duke University in 2002. She was a Fuqua Scholar and recipient of the Dean’s Recognition Award. Since 2006, Valverde has held the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Ana has a BS in Economics and Business Administration from CUNEF, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and was awarded a La Caixa Scholarship for Graduate Studies from a national pool of applicants. She is fluent in Spanish, and conversational in German and French.

Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Business Strategy, Special Projects

Dr. Udayakumar provides business strategy support for DTMI and is involved in a number of key initiatives, including Duke's role in the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, plans to develop a biorepository, and a number of special projects. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, with clinical duties in Hospital Medicine.

Udayakumar is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, having received his bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in 1999. He received both an MD from the Duke University School of Medicine and an MBA (with a concentration in Health Sector Management) from the Fuqua School of Business in 2004.

From 2004 - 2007 he completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke and served as Assistant Chief Resident at the Durham VA Medical Center. While at Fuqua, he led a consulting team for the Drug Safety Alliance, Inc., received the Sax/Baldridge Award for the best Small Business Consulting project, and served as a teaching assistant in microeconomics. He was also employed as an independent consultant with Campbell Alliance, Inc., a management consulting firm serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Steve Woody
Associate Chief Information Officer for Clinical and Translational Research, Duke Medicine

Steve Woody brings more than 25 years of experience in information science and technology to the DTMI. Prior to his appointment as ACIO for Clinical and Translational Research, he was the DCRI’s Chief Information Officer. He joined the Institute in 1998 as Manager of Applications for the Information Technology Department. Mr.

Before joining the DCRI, Woody was Manager of Development Technologies for IVIS Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has worked in software development, informatics, and IT strategy in a number of fields, including aviation, health and life insurance, inventory management, and finance.