RTRN Steering Committee

Name
Phone
Email
Organizational Affiliation
Valerie Montgomery-Rice 615-327-6337 Vmontgomery-rice@mmc.edu CHAIR
Dean, School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College
Gary Gibbons 404-752-1545 ggibbons@msm.edu CO-CHAIR
Director of Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine
Keith Norris
 323-249-5703 Keithnorris@cdrewu.edu
Keith.norris@rtrn.net		 RTRN Principal Investigator
VP of Research, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
David Easa 808-692-0887 easad@hawaii.edu
david.easa@rtrn.net		 Regulatory Compliance Oversight Director
James Perkins 601-979-0334 James.perkins@jsums.edu
James.perkins@rtrn.net		 RTRN DTCC Director
Associate Dean, Research & Corporate Relations
Jackson State University
Shelia McClure 301-451-6536 mcClursh@mail.nih.gov Director, RCMI Program
National Center for Research Resources, NIH
M. Edwina Barnett
 601-979-0335
 m.edwina.barnett@rtrn.net
 Program Director, RTRN DTCC
William Southerland 202-806-9711 wsoutherland@howard.edu Professor of Biochemistry, Howard University
RCMI Program Director
Carmen Zorrilla 787-766-0025 czorrilla@rcm.upr.edu Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Puerto Rico
Herman Taylor 601-979-8744 htaylor@medicine.umsmed.edu Shirley Professor for the Study of Health Disparities
Professor of Medicine
Principal Investigator,
Jackson Heart Study
Henry Lewis
 850-599-3301 Henry.lewis@famu.edu Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University
Jose Carlo 787-758-4417 jcarlo@rcm.upr.edu Chancellor and RCMI PI, University of Puerto Rico
Richard Yanagihara 808-692-1610 yanagiha@pbrc.hawaii.edu Director, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research & RCMI Program Director, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stephen Sodeke 334-724-4870 sodeke@tuskegee.edu Intermin Director, Center for Bioethics Tuskegee University
Loretta Jones 323-292-2002 ljonesHaaf@aol.com Executive Director, Health African-American Families