SPA Staff
Sponsored Project Administration staff is made up of diverse professionals dedicated to providing customer-focused expertise and professional guidance to research staff and faculty, while efficiently and effectively advancing sponsored research, instruction, and public service programs within the UTHealth Houston research community.
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Directors and Managers
- Kathleen Kreidler - Associate Vice President, SPA
- Carmen Martinez - Senior Director, Grants & Award Management
- Valerie Bomben - Senior Director, Strategic Operations, Data and Reporting
- Kristin Parks - Director, Clinical Research Finance
- Tiffany Sagers - Director, Training Program
- Loren Turner - Assistant Director, Post Award Finance
- Caroline Dietz - Assistant Director, Grants & Award Management
- Paige Glumac - Manager, Sponsored Contracts
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Grants and Award Management
Directors
- Carmen Martinez - Senior Director, Grants and Award Management
- Caroline Dietz - Assistant Director, Grants and Award Management
Proposals and Agreements
- Dana Avery - Senior Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Maria Aceves - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Justin Reefer - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Gerardo Montemayor - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Evelyn Pekkattil - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Shanna Bacica - Sponsored Projects Administrator
Award Processing
- Alexis Vara - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Rana Banton - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Kaitlyn McCoy - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Christopher Parker - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Natalie Vu - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Samantha Winkler - Sponsored Projects Administrator
Subawards
- Kimberly Lofton - Senior Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Robyn Tompkins - Sponsored Projects Administrator
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Training Team
- Tiffany Sagers - Director, Training Program
- Seemin Maredia - Training Coordinator
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Clinical Research Finance Team
- Kristin Parks - Director, Clinical Research Finance and Administration
- Daniel DeLeon - Senior Clinical Research Administrator
- John Nelson - Senior Clinical Research Administrator
- John Wheeler - Clinical Research Administrator
- Samara Merchant - Clinical Research Administrator
- Elhaym Mehdi - Clinical Research Administrator
- Roy Lee Campbell - Clinical Research Administrator
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Sponsored Contracts Team
- Paige Glumac - Manager, Sponsored Contracts
- Jessica Stephenson - Senior Sponsored Contracts Specialist
- Roopashri Holehonnur Sudarshanprasad - Sponsored Contracts Specialist
- Cindy Alvarado - Sponsored Contracts Specialist
- Makda Gebremichael - Sponsored Contracts Specialist
- Boomadevi Narendran - Sponsored Contracts Specialist
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Post Award Finance Team
- Loren Turner - Assistant Director, Post Award Finance
- LaTosha Crosby - Manager, Audits and Compliance Sponsored Projects
- John Tinsley - Administrative Manager
- Dimetra Wise - Institutional Wide Senior Financial Analyst
- Santos Perez - Institutional Wide Senior Financial Analyst
- Mary Shepherd - Institutional Wide Senior Financial Analyst
- Annie Lam - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Joseph Villarreal - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Liam O' Brien - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Gina Okada - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Asad Iqbal - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Alecia Mason - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
- Crosby Qui - Institutional Wide Financial Analyst
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Sponsored Projects Strategic Operations Data and Reporting
- Valerie Bomben - Sr. Director, Strategic Operations, Data and Reporting
- Frank La - Senior Business Systems Analyst
- Hung Huynh - Senior SPA Time & Effort Coordinator
- Shayla Nguyen - SPA Time & Effort Coordinator