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ACTRI Executive Committee

The ACTRI Executive Committee (EC), chaired by Dr. Davey Smith, serves as the central governing body for strategic planning and decision-making, ensuring alignment with the institute's goals. It oversees policy, budget, partnerships, and resource allocation.

  • David (Davey) M. Smith, MD, MAS, FACP, FIDSA, Director of ACTRI

    David (Davey) M. Smith, MD, MAS, FACP, FIDSA, Director of ACTRI

    Assistant Vice Chancellor | Clinical and Translational Research Professor | Department of Medicine
    Co-Director | San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
    Director | PREPARE Center
    Florence Seeley Riford Chair I AIDS Research University of California San Diego
    Pronouns: He/His/Him

    Davey Smith, MD, MAS, is an infectious disease specialist and prolific translational researcher with a focus of turning lab discoveries into better health. He has published over 360 scientific publications. In 2022 and 2023, Dr. Smith was recognized by Clarivate as being in the top 1% of researchers in the world by scientific citations. Since the pandemic started in 2019, Dr. Smith has been engaged in the international effort to find safe and effective treatments, including being the international protocol co-chair for the ACTIV-2 treatment study, which is a part of the US government’s response to COVID-19. In 2023, Dr. Smith became the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Clinical and Translational Research where he leads a team of scientists to tackle difficult biomedical challenges. Having his breadth of expertise allows him to better understand and overcome scientific and medical roadblocks. A good example of this is his recent work that showed how ChatGPT was better and more empathetic at answering patient queries than physicians (JAMA IM 2023) and how these new AI tools need to improve how a patient feels, functions or survives to be most useful (JAMA 2023).

     Bio

    • Joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2003
    • Awarded HIV Researcher of the Year by the HIV Medical Association in 2010
    • Promoted to full professor in 2012
    • Became the co-director and principal investigator of the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) in 2016
    • Promoted to Head of Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health in 2017
    • Became international protocol co-chair for the ACTIV-2 treatment study, part of the US government’s response to COVID-19 to find therapies for persons with early COVID-19 in 2020
    • Appointed the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research at UC San Diego in 2020
    • UCSD School of Medicine Mentoring Award in 2021
    • Published >350 scientific publications and recognized by Clarivate as being in the top 1% of researchers in the world by scientific citations in 2022 and 2023
    • Appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor of Clinical and Translational Research in 2023
  • Michael Hogarth, MD

    Michael Hogarth, MD

    Assistant Vice Chancellor
    Clinical Research Information Officer (CRIO)
    Director of ACTRI Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Data Science

    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    mihogarth@ucsd.edu


    Michael Hogarth, MD, joined the ACTRI Executive Committee in 2017. Dr. Hogarth is an Internist and UCSD faculty in the Division of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and currently serves as UCSD’s inaugural Clinical Research Information Officer (CRIO). As CRIO, Dr. Hogarth leads efforts to align and integrate resources in Information Services with clinical research informatics, including ACTRI services. He also develops and optimizes strategies to use our current technology and systems to support the integration of research with patient care, including the use of the electronic health record (EHR) for clinical research. Dr. Hogarth graduated from the biomedical engineering program at Texas A&M University and received his medical degree from the University of Texas-Southwestern. Dr. Hogarth completed Internal Medicine training and a medical informatics fellowship at UC Davis. He subsequently joined the faculty at UC Davis where he practiced as an Internist in the Division of General Medicine and served as Vice Chair of Informatics in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine with primary responsibility over the laboratory information system.  Dr. Hogarth has taught and conducted research in medical informatics in the University of California for over two decades and currently teaches in the UCSD informatics curriculum, the ACGME-accredited clinical informatics fellowship, and the DBMI internship program for undergraduate and high school students. His current research interests include the use of clinical natural language processing,  large language models, and knowledge representation with biomedical ontologies. He has won the prestigious UC Sutter award for innovations in information technology and has been a primary contributor on several informatics endeavors including UC-Research eXchange (UC-ReX), pSCANNER, the I-SPY2 adaptive breast cancer trial, the WISDOM breast cancer screening trial, the California Integrated Vital Records System (Cal-IVRS), and CTSA’s ENACT (Evolve to Next Generation Accrual to Clinical Trials).

  • Elizabeth (Liz) Johnson

    Elizabeth (Liz) Johnson

    Administrative Director
    Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute | PREPARE Center | The HIV Institute | San Diego Center for AIDS Research
    liz@health.ucsd.edu 


    Liz Johnson joined the ACTRI as their Administrative Director in August 2024. In this role, she oversees administrative and financial operations as well as contributes to the overall short- and long-term strategic planning of the ACTRI. With 25 years of leadership experience across healthcare, social services, and research administration, Liz brings a wealth of expertise in organizational development, strategic visioning, and operational excellence. Her expertise includes management, compliance, strategic planning, grant writing, and fundraising. Liz’s track record of success is demonstrated by her ability to drive organizational growth and impact.

    Since joining UC San Diego Health Sciences in 2016, Liz has played a pivotal role in advancing key institutional programs. She served as the Administrative Director for the UC San Diego HIV Institute, the San Diego Center for AIDS Research, and the PREPARE Center. In each of these roles, she was instrumental in shaping strategic goals, initiatives, and innovative programming.

    Before joining UC San Diego, Liz served as the Executive Director of Christie’s Place for 14 years, where she transformed the organization into a nationally recognized human services agency for individuals and their families impacted by HIV.

  • Colin Depp, PhD

    Colin Depp, PhD

    Co-Director of ACTRI Workforce Development
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    cdepp@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 822-4251


    Colin Depp, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, a faculty member at the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UC San Diego and a staff psychologist in the VA San Diego. He became director of ACTRI's Education, Training and Career Development Unit in 2014, after serving as associate director of the unit from 2011 to 2014. He has spearheaded multiple ACTRI initiatives, including the Mentoring Core, research published on training methods, the Clinical Research Enhancement through Supplemental Training-Master of Advanced Studies (CREST-MAS) behavioral science curricula and the Day of Translational Science symposium. Dr. Depp has extensive experience in collaborative interventional research in the area of mental health and wireless technology, receiving continuous funding from NIH, VA, foundation and other sources for 10 years. He leads a multidisciplinary research group comprised of clinicians, clinical trialists, behavioral scientists, community health workers, biostatisticians, software engineers and patient stakeholders. An accomplished translational researcher, teacher and clinician, Dr. Depp has mentored more than 40 trainees through epidemiologic, translational, randomized, interventional and implementation science studies. Dr. Depp has served on multiple editorial boards, NIH and international review panels and collaborative networks, and has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and commentaries.

    Dr. Depp received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Louisville. He then completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Palo Alto Veteran's Administration and a National Research Service Award post-doctoral fellowship in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at UC San Diego.

  • Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH

    Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH

    Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Director of Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    chchambers@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 246-1704


    Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, joined the ACTRI Executive Committee in 2012. Dr. Chambers is a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego and director of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD). She has been instrumental in smoothing the interactions between researchers at UC San Diego and Rady Children's researchers, working closely with ACTRI's Mark Wallace, and in establishing a research-only breast milk biorepository at UCSD/Rady Children's, along with ACTRI's David Boyle.

    Dr. Chambers is a perinatal epidemiologist whose research is focused on environmental exposures and pregnancy and child health outcomes. She co-directs the UC San Diego Center for the Promotion of Maternal Health and Infant Development, and leads a number of national and international clinical research projects addressing medication and vaccine safety in pregnancy. She has conducted extensive research on improved diagnosis, prevention and treatment for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Chambers received a PhD in public health/epidemiology in 2002 from the joint doctoral program at UC San Diego and San Diego State University. She is the author of more than 100 research publications and has served as president of the US Teratology Society, as well as president of the North American Organization of Teratology Information Services.

  • David Boyle

    David Boyle

    Co-Director of ACTRI Translational Research Technology (TRT) Division
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    dboyle@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 822-0784


    Since joining the ACTRI leadership team in 2010, David Boyle, along with Translational Research Technology (TRT) co-director Paul Mills, has guided the TRT Division and transformed it into a one-stop shop of flexible laboratory-based services for translational studies. Under his leadership, the TRT laboratories have provided services for 99 biomarker projects, performed more than 18,000 biomarker assays, and processed more than 19,000 biosamples. In the past two years, Boyle has been instrumental in creating novel programs that integrate services to support molecular methods in clinical trials. He also oversaw the creation of the ACTRI-Cancer Center Biorepository, which is among seven individual biorepositories for UC San Diego investigators hosted by TRT, and the Rady-UC San Diego breast milk research repository. He collaborates with our partners on campus and beyond, including the Moores Cancer Center, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, and the San Diego Blood Bank. He is key personnel at UC San Diego on the UC San Francisco subaward for biorepositories, "Engaging University of California Stakeholders for Biorespository Research." A major focus is applying rigorous criteria for assay development and validation to small solid tissue samples in a clinical trial setting.

    David Boyle is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at UC San Diego. His research has focused on inflammation of joint tissue, the role of the fibroblast-like synoviocyte and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the development and application of biomarker analysis to clinical research, in particular, synovial pathology in rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Kathryn A. Gold, MD

    Kathryn A. Gold, MD

    Co-Director of ACTRI Human Centered Research

    kagold@ucsd.edu


    Dr. Gold co-leads the CRS with Mark S. Wallace, MD, who has served as director of the division since 2010. Dr. Gold joined ACTRI as associate director of CRS in July 2017. Dr. Gold co-directs the day-to-day functions of the unit, which manages a dedicated research clinic, voucher applications and the Scientific Review Committee. The research clinic includes 18,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities to support all phases of clinical research and presently supports nearly 300 clinical research projects each year.

    Dr. Gold is an associate professor at UC San Diego Department of Medicine and board-certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. Her clinical and translational research interests include lung and head and neck cancer, with a focus on target therapies and immunotherapies. Prior to joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Gold was an assistant professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Gold completed a fellowship in medical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she was selected for her clinical and leadership abilities to serve as chief fellow. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Gold received her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Gold has presented her work at both national and international medical conferences. She has coauthored many articles, and her research has appeared in The Lancet Oncology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and The New England Journal of Medicine, among others. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association of Cancer Research and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

  • Eric Mah, EdD

    Eric Mah, EdD

    Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research 
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    emah@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 822-4700


    Eric Mah joined the ACTRI Executive Committee in 2015. He is the Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at UC San Diego. Mah is responsible for clinical research administration across Health Sciences and has administrative oversight of the clinical research administrative core units, including the ACTRI, the Office of Clinical Trials Administration (OCTA), the Office of Coverage Analysis Administration (OCAA), and the Human Research Protections Program (HRPP). He is also responsible for ACTRI affiliations and strategic and operational management. Mah has extensive experience in research administration and compliance. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he served as senior director of research compliance at UC San Francisco and program director of regulatory, knowledge and support for UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute. In these positions, including regulatory director for UC BRAID (a consortium of the five UC academic medical centers), Mah provided guidance and direction to address research compliance regulations and policies in clinical research. He was responsible for identifying emerging issues, leading projects and process efficiency redesigns, coordinating internal and external communications, and ensuring that regulatory matters were managed in a timely and appropriate way.

  • Murray Stein, MD, MPH

    Murray Stein, MD, MPH

    Director of Clinical and Translational Science Pilots
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    mstein@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 534-6451


    Murray Stein, MD, MPH, joined the ACTRI Executive Committee in 2016. Dr. Stein is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego. He has successfully led the ACTRI Pilot Project Program since 2012 and has demonstrated remarkable strength in helping ACTRI create infrastructures that facilitate collaboration and actively bring various groups together. He continues to have oversight of the pilot program. In addition, he serves as the faculty lead for the UC Cures for Alzheimer’s Initiative RFA launched in early 2016 by the University of California.

    Dr. Stein is also a staff psychiatrist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. He graduated from the University of Manitoba and completed his residency and post-residency fellowship at the University of Manitoba, the University of Toronto and at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He subsequently completed a master of public health degree at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

    Dr. Stein’s research interests include the epidemiology, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and trauma-related disorders, especially social phobia, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has written or co-written over 550 peer-reviewed scientific articles on these topics, including in journals such as Journal of the American Medical AssociationNew England Journal of MedicineThe LancetAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, and JAMA Psychiatry. His federally funded research has included studies of interventions for anxiety disorders in primary care, pharmacological approaches to treatment-resistant anxiety and stress-related disorders, and functional neuroimaging research in anxiety and trauma-related disorders. Dr. Stein is Co-Editor-in-Chief for UpToDate in Psychiatry, and Deputy Editor for the journal Biological Psychiatry. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF), and a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).

  • Mark Wallace, MD

    Mark Wallace, MD

    Co-Director of ACTRI Human Centered Research
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    mswallace@ucsd.edu
    Phone: (858) 822-0776


    Mark Wallace, MD, joined the leadership team at ACTRI in 2010 and has overseen the establishment of the ACTRI Center for Clinical Research (CCR), including the opening of a Phase I clinical trials unit with an investigational pharmacy. Dr. Wallace has been responsible for extensive growth in the CCR, which provides assistance with study design and biostatistics analysis, nursing and clinical coordinator services, and regulatory and pharmacy services. With the help of Christina Chambers, he also has been instrumental in establishing a larger ACTRI presence at Rady Children's Hospital and is currently on a steering committee to streamline the clinical trials application process.

    Dr. Wallace is the Chair, Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology of University of California at San Diego, which is actively involved in clinical care, teaching, and research. A nationally recognized lecturer on pain medicine, he has extensive experience in all aspects of pain management and is involved in numerous ongoing clinical trials for the management of pain, including acute, chronic, and cancer related pain. Under his direction the UCSD Center for Pain Medicine has received the American Pain Society Center of Excellence Award in 2010 and 2014. His research interests include human experimental pain, spinal drug delivery, and the use of the cannabinoids in pain management. Dr. Wallace earned his medical degree at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He then completed an internship in general surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Maryland, and a Fellowship in Pain Medicine at UCSD Medical Center. He has authored and coauthored more than 180 articles, abstracts, books, and book chapters concerning pain research and management. Dr. Wallace is an associate editor of The Clinical Journal of Pain and sits on numerous other editorial boards.

  • Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD

    Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD

    Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & Radiology
    Affiliate Professor of Bioengineering
    Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine
    Vice Chair of Research and Innovation- Orthopaedic Surgery
    Director, Device Acceleration Center, ACTRI

    s1ward@health.ucsd.edu

    Phone: (858)534-4918

    View Dr. Ward's Bio Page


    Samuel R. Ward, P.T., Ph.D. is a Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Radiology, and Bioengineering at UC San Diego. He is the Director of Translational Research in the School of Medicine, the Vice-Chair of Research and Innovation in Orthopaedic Surgery, Director of the Device Acceleration Center, and Director of the Muscle Physiology Laboratory.

    Dr. Ward received his PhD from USC (1999-2003) and moved to UC San Diego for a post-doctoral fellowship (2003-2006). He is a clinician-scientist and his research program focuses on musculoskeletal design and plasticity. He has published 175 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been continuously funded by the NIH, DoD, and other agencies since he started his faculty appointment in 2006. His scientific accomplishments include defining the structural features of human skeletal muscle that predict function in the extremities and spine. This work has been extended to understand normal and pathological muscle biology and physiology in the presence of joint disease. His current focus is on understanding chronic muscle atrophy and cell death in mature adults, with an emphasis on the use of stem cells and regenerative medicine approaches to treat these disease processes. His work has led to career achievement awards including the Kappa Delta Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Marion Williams Award from the American Physical Therapy Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Orthopaedic Research Society, American Physical Therapy Association, and a Distinguished Alumn at the University of Southern California and California State University Long Beach.

    Dr. Ward is also an avid craftsman, photographer, and outdoorsman. His artistic work has been featured and won awards at several local and state competitions.

  • John Ayers, PhD, MA

    John Ayers, PhD, MA

    Associate Adjunct Professor, Medicine
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    jwayers@ucsd.edu


    Dr. Ayers is committed to getting the public back in public health, by harnessing big media data (including Internet search queries, news media, social media, and online networks) to listen to the public voicing their health needs in near real time. Beginning in 2011 he showed electronic cigarettes were the most popular smoking alternative on the market, being the first to predict their rise. This study has been followed by several examples of unique discoveries making public health science more responsive to the public and more effective in the process. For instance, his recent JAMA Internal Medicine report describing how Charlie Sheen’s HIV-positive disclosure prompted record-levels of public engagement with condoms, HIV symptoms, and HIV testing was covered in more than 6,000 news outlets and trended on both Facebook and Twitter. The publication of this report was later linked to a significant increase in HIV testing and made more impactful by partnering with several medical device makers to implement follow-up campaigns encouraging at-home HIV testing and condom use. His work has also been trans-disciplinary (e.g., he has published with more than 60 different collaborators, from more than 50 different research institutes representing many fields, such as applied mathematics, climatology, communications, computer science, economics, engineering, political science, sociology, and more). Dr. Ayers has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and several commentaries/op-eds, many of which rank in the very top of Altmetric’s research rankings (including one study that ranked among the top 1,000 most circulated articles of all time). He has an h-index of 26 (26 publications with 26 or more citations). Dr. Ayers is a frequently featured expert in the international media, including coverage in traditional news (e.g., ABC, BBC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, NPR, etc.), tech or business focused news (e.g., Bloomberg, Forbes, Popular Science, Scientific American, Wired, etc.), and entertainment news (e.g., Dr. Drew, Dr. Oz, Perez Hilton, Rolling Stone, Saturday Night Live, etc.). Dr. Ayers is committed to promoting rapid improvements in public health science and leveraging public health science to save lives.

  • Adriana Tremoulet, MD, MAS

    Adriana Tremoulet, MD, MAS

    Professor of Clinical, Pediatrics
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member
    atremoulet@ucsd.edu


    Dr. Adriana (Adri) Tremoulet is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego, specializing in pediatric infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology. She serves as the Associate Director of the Kawasaki Disease (KD) Research Center at UC San Diego, caring for nearly 2000 children with KD in San Diego County and an additional 100 children annually hospitalized at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego with KD. The primary focus of her research is repurposing therapeutics in Phase I through III clinical trials for inflammatory and infectious disorders. She has a passion for pediatric pharmacology and serves as the co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded UC San Diego MPRINT Center of Excellence as well as co-Director of the UC San Diego Department of Pediatric T32 Clinical Pharmacology Training Program and Altman Clinical Trials Research Institute KL2 program. She is the former Chair of the American Heart Association’s Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis and Kawasaki Disease Committee, responsible for co-authoring the 2024 AHA Scientific Statement for Kawasaki disease. In 2022, Dr. Tremoulet was appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. In this role, she has made great strides in developing effective strategies, programs and initiatives to enhance success of all faculty as well as improving strategies for effective recruitment, retention and development of faculty.

  • Daniel Bouland, MD, FACP

    Daniel Bouland, MD, FACP

    Hospitalist
    Professor of Medicine
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    dbouland@ucsd.edu


    Daniel Bouland, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician who specializes in caring for hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Bouland is assigned to patients at the time of admission and provides care only during their hospital stay. He does not see patients at outpatient clinics and is not available for appointments. Upon a patient's discharge, Dr. Bouland communicates with their regular physician to ensure quality care.

    Dr. Bouland serves as chief of Hospital Medicine, vice chair for clinical operations in the Department of Medicine and vice chair for Clinical Quality Improvement and Patient Experience. He also works as a director of evaluations at UC San Diego Health Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute.

    As a professor in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Bouland instructs medical students, residents and fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

    Before joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Bouland served as chief of the Department of Medicine at Riverside County Regional Medical Center. At Loma Linda University, he served as the vice chair of the Department of Medicine and the co-director of Internal Medicine Residency Program. In addition, Dr. Bouland was the acting medical director for California Medical Review Inc. and the CEO/President of the Mission Medical Group of the Inland Empire. While with VA Pacific Islands Health Care System in Honolulu, Dr. Bouland served first as the associate chief of staff for primary care and then as director of the Office of Referral and Management Services, where he provided oversight for all clinical care in the Pacific domain.

    Dr. Bouland completed an internal medicine residency at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. He holds a master's degree in health care management from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Bouland is board certified in internal medicine.

    He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

    Dr. Bouland has lectured and provided medical care in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, Guam, and Palau. He established a western-style international medicine residency training program in Hangzhou, China, which continues in operation.

  • Paul L. Watson, Jr., MSHS

    Paul L. Watson, Jr., MSHS

    President/CEO, The Global Action Research Center (Global ARC)
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member

    The Global ARC Website


    Formerly Executive Director of the Training and Research Institute for Residential Youth Centers in New Haven, CT; San Diego Youth and Community Services; and Watson and Associates International. Paul began his career as a youth organizer at the age of 17. He has a Master's degree from Springfield College. He began a consultant organization in 1998 and specialized in Community Development, Youth Development, Child Welfare, and Organizational Development. He successfully completed International projects in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), The Netherlands, Brazil, Jamaica, and Egypt. He is a national trainer in Youth Development and a member of the Community Youth Development Design Team. He was trained as an ICA Participatory Facilitator. Paul has also served as faculty at Springfield College, New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego City College, and UC San Diego. Paul has won numerous awards and has published both books and articles.

  • Stephanie Warner Farrell , MBA, RN, CCRC, CPHQ

    Stephanie Warner Farrell , MBA, RN, CCRC, CPHQ

    Director of Research Administration, Eisenhower Health
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member


    Stephanie Warner Farrell has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Stephanie started their career in 1993 at Eisenhower Medical Center, where they worked as a Human Resources Generalist and later as a Systems Analyst, responsible for managing various systems. In 1998, they joined Accelerated Technology Solutions, Inc. as a Senior Project Manager, leading a PeopleSoft implementation. In 2000, Stephanie joined Commerce One as a Services Manager. Since 2003, Stephanie has been working at Eisenhower Medical Center in various roles, including Director of Quality/Risk Management/Infection Control, Coordinator of Clinical Cancer Research, and Director of Research Administration. Their work at Eisenhower Medical Center involved managing lung screening programs, coordinating clinical trials, ensuring regulatory compliance, and overseeing quality and risk management.

    Stephanie Farrell earned a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from California State University-San Bernardino from 2011 to 2014. Stephanie also obtained an MBA in Information Systems from the same university from 1996 to 1998. Before that, Stephanie achieved a BA in Business Administration and Management, General from California State University-San Bernardino from 1989 to 1993. In addition to their degrees, they hold various certifications including Registered Nurse (RN) from the Board of Registered Nurses - California (obtained in 2014), Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC) from the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (obtained in 2007), and Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) from the National Association of Healthcare Quality (obtained in 2006).

  • Jamison Langguth, MPH, MSED

    Jamison Langguth, MPH, MSED

    Director of Clinical Research, Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center CIRM Alpha Clinic
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member
    858-951-8349
    j1langguth@health.ucsd.edu


    Jamison has spent his career working with scientific innovations to find their first practical application. He started out in clinical research analyzing EEG waveforms and has since worked his way up through clinical operations into management. He is currently Director of Clinical Research at Stanford University’s Center for Clinical Research. In his role at Stanford, he works toward creating funds, programs, and supporting team science on the ground to ensure that health innovations become new standards of care. His clinical trials experience spans working with child and adult populations across a variety of disciplines including space and sleep medicine, digital health, cardiology, neurology, addiction, oncology, regenerative medicine, and infectious disease. His commercialization experience mainly involves creating and launching therapeutic, medical device, and digital health companies.

    Jamison serves on two boards and volunteers separately as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) for two programs. He is a board member and co-founder of Aero Therapeutics, which helps physicians treat respiratory issues in low-resource settings with the company’s sustainable, rugged, and affordable medical devices. He recently joined the board of Terra Firma International, which strives to break intergenerational poverty. He volunteers as an EIR and Silliman College Fellow for Yale University and as an EIR Mentor with OneRise’s WEF Global Shapers Initiative. OneRise is a non-profit initiative that aims to level the playing field by connecting immigrant founders to the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to succeed.

    Jamison earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at Drexel University. He earned his first master’s degree in education policy from the University of Pennsylvania where he focused his coursework on within-school and between-school segregation. He earned his second master’s degree in health management from Harvard University where he focused his coursework on management of large healthcare institutions and their endowments. He then completed his fellowship in life science entrepreneurship at Yale University.

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    Raul A. Lizarraga Jr

    El Centro Regional Medical Center
    ACTRI Executive Committee Member