Leadership

Committed to expanding the scope and pace of collaborative clinical research opportunities across the University of Minnesota and to our hub partners.

CTSI Co-PIs

Daniel Weisdorf, MD

Deputy Director, and Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS) core Director

Executive Leadership Team

CTSI's Executive Leadership Team convenes weekly to collaborate on organizational strategic objectives, respond proactively to opportunities, and guide priorities across the Institute, including clinical and translational research support and collaboration, community-engaged research, research workforce development, and team science. Executive Leadership Team meetings are convened by Dr. Bruce Blazar, CTSI's director.

Bruce Blazar, MD

Director and PI

Constantin Aliferis, MD, MS, PhD, FACMI

Chief Research Informatics Officer

Michele Allen, MD, MS

Co-Director, Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) and Co-Lead, Community & Collaboration

Timothy Beebe, PhD

Senior Advisor, Community & Collaboration

Melena Bellin, MD

Medical Advisor, Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS)

Jerica M. Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE

Co-Director, Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) and Co-Lead, Community & Collaboration

John Bischof, PhD

Director, Office of Discovery and Translation

Jennifer Cieslak, EdM

Chief of Staff

Jayne Fulkerson, PhD

TRACT TL1 program PI and Director and Translational Research Development Program Director

Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD

Deputy Director, Rural Health Program

David Ingbar, MD

Director, Research Education, Training, and Career Development (CTSI-Ed)

Katy Kozhimannil, PhD

Director, Rural Health Program

Ana Núñez, MD, FACP

Integration Strategist and Co-Director, Pathways to Research Program (PReP) and Advanced Pathways to Research Program (A-PReP)

Beth Nunnally, CPA, MA

Chief Financial Officer

Byron Vaughn, MD, MS

Medical Advisor, Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS)

Boris Volkov, PhD

Monitoring & Evaluation Director, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

John E. Wagner, MD

Senior Advisor

Daniel Weisdorf, MD

Deputy Director, and Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS) core Director

Hub Leadership Team

CTSI’s Hub Leadership Team meets monthly. It brings together leadership from CTSI, hub partners, the community, University of Minnesota Duluth, and the Office of the Vice President for Research. The team focuses on collaboration to expand our CTSA hub’s research capacity, extending collaborative clinical and translational research opportunities, and strategies for harnessing our collective research capacity to address community and state-wide health needs. Hub Leadership Team meetings are convened by Dr. Blazar.