Leadership
Committed to expanding the scope and pace of collaborative clinical research opportunities across the University of Minnesota and to our hub partners.
CTSI Multi-PIs

Bruce Blazar, MD
Director and Contact PI

Peter Crawford, MD, PhD
Multi-PI, Deputy Director, and Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS) core Director

Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD
Multi-PI, Deputy 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 Contact PI

Constantin Aliferis, MD, MS, PhD, FACMI
Chief Research Informatics Officer

Michele Allen, MD, MS
Director, Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) and Lead, Community & Collaboration

Timothy Beebe, PhD
Senior Advisor, Community & Collaboration

Melena Bellin, MD
Co-Medical Director, Clinical Translational Research Services

Joanne Billings, MD, MPH
Co-Medical Director, Clinical Translational Research Services

John Bischof, PhD
OACA Sr. Research Advisor for ODAT Grant Programs

Jennifer Cieslak, EdM
Chief of Staff

Peter Crawford, MD, PhD
Multi-PI, Deputy Director, and Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS) core Director

Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD
Multi-PI, Deputy Director

Jayne Fulkerson, PhD
Co-Director, Research Education, Training, and Career Development (CTSI-Ed)

Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD
Co-Director, Rural Health Program

David Ingbar, MD
Co-Director, Research Education, Training, and Career Development (CTSI-Ed)

Katy Kozhimannil, PhD
Co-Director, Rural Health Program

Hubert Lim, PhD
ODAT Senior Advisor

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

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

John E. Wagner, MD
Senior Advisor

Sandra Wells, PhD
Director, Office of Discovery and Translation
Hub Leadership Team
CTSI’s Hub Leadership Team meets monthly. It brings together leadership from CTSI, hub partners and collaborators, the community, University of Minnesota Duluth, and the Research and Innovation Office. 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.

Roli Dwivedi, MD
Hub Leadership Team member—Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC)

Steven Fu, MD, MSCE
Hub Leadership Team member—Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Kristen Jacklin, PhD
Hub Leadership Team member—University of Minnesota Duluth

Kirsten Johansen, MD
Hub Leadership Team member—Hennepin Healthcare

Mark Schleiss, MD
Child Health Champion

Tyler Winkelman, MD, MSc
Hub Leadership Team member—Hennepin Healthcare

Stuart Winter, MD
Hub Leadership Team member—Children's Minnesota
Contact
To learn more about CTSI's leadership team, contact:
Rachel Matthes
Administrative Core Program Manager
[email protected]
(612) 626-6032