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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Leadership
- Kathleen Kreidler - Vice President, SPA
- Carmen Martinez - Senior Director, Grants & Award Management
- Valerie Bomben - Senior Director, Strategic Operations, Data, and Reporting
- Kristin Parks - Senior Director, Clinical Research Finance
- Tiffany Sagers - Senior Director, Training and Communications
- Loren Turner - Assistant Director, Post Award Finance
- Caroline Dietz - Assistant Director, Grants & Award Management
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Grants and Award Management
Directors
- Carmen Martinez - Senior Director, Grants & Award Management
- Caroline Dietz - Assistant Director, Grants & Award Management
Proposals and Agreements
- Maria Aceves - Supervisor, Grants & Award Management
- Dana Avery - Senior 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
- Rana Banton - Senior Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Alexis Vara - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Kaitlyn McCoy - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Christopher Parker - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Natalie Vu - Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Samantha Hernandez - Sponsored Projects Administrator
Subawards
- Kimberly Lofton - Senior Sponsored Projects Administrator
- Robyn Tompkins - Sponsored Projects Administrator
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Training and Communications
- Tiffany Sagers - Senior Director, Training and Communications, SPA
- Hanna Dion - Training and Communications Coordinator
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Clinical Research Finance Team
- Kristin Parks - Senior Director, Clinical Research Finance and Administration
- Daniel DeLeon - Senior Clinical Research Contract Administrator
- John Nelson - Senior Clinical Research Contract Administrator
- Samara Merchant - Senior Clinical Research Finance Administrator
- Denise Zuniga - Clinical Research Billing Administrator
- John Wheeler - Clinical Research Contract Administrator
- Roy Lee Campbell - Clinical Research Finance Administrator
- Madison Clay - Clinical Research Finance Administrator
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Sponsored Contracts Team
- Jessica Stephenson - Manager, Sponsored Contracts
- Cindy Alvarado - Sponsored Contracts Administrator
- Makda Gebremichael - Sponsored Contracts Administrator
- Boomadevi Narendran - Sponsored Contracts Administrator
- Ross Perez - Sponsored Contracts Administrator
- Geoffrey Herrmann - Sponsored Contracts Administrator
- Thao Nguyen - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Diksha Pagare - Graduate Research Assistant
- Mili Bharatbhai Patel - Graduate Research Assistant
- Swasti Shah - Graduate Research Assistant
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Post Award Finance Team
- Loren Turner - Assistant Director, Post Award Finance
- Dimetra Wise - Supervisor, Post Award Finance
- Mary Shepherd - Supervisor, Post Award Finance
- Joseph Villarreal - Supervisor, Post Award Finance
- Santos Perez - Senior Post Award Financial Analyst
- Annie Lam - Senior Post Award Financial Analyst
- Liam O' Brien - Senior Post Award Financial Analyst
- Gina Okada - Senior Post Award Financial Analyst
- Asad Iqbal - Post Award Financial Analyst
- John Jedlowski - Post Award Financial Analyst
- Crosby Qui - Post Award Financial Analyst
- Karem Court-Pinto - Post Award Financial Analyst
- Sajil Scaria - Post Award Audit & Compliance Administrator
- John Tinsley - Administrative Manager
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Sponsored Projects Strategic Operations Data and Reporting
- Valerie Bomben - Senior Director, Strategic Operations, Data, and Reporting
- Frank La - Senior Business Systems Analyst
- Hung Huynh - Manager, Strategic Operations, Data, and Reporting
- Shayla Nguyen - Sponsored Projects Time & Effort Coordinator