Who We Are

Research and Administration Team

Amy Kind

Credentials: MD, PhD

Position title: Director, Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

Andrea Gilmore Bykovskyi

Credentials: PhD, RN

Position title: Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

Barbara Bendlin

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

Ann Sheehy

Credentials: MD, MS

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Health Policy Research

Tobey Betthauser

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Director of Neuroimaging Analytics

Donna Cole

Credentials: BS

Position title: Administrative Director

Carol Hermann

Credentials: MA, MLIS

Position title: Administrative Manager

Christine Stephenson

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Outreach Program Manager: Communications, Education, and Outreach

Will Buckingham

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Director of Geospatial Operations

Ryan Powell

Credentials: PhD, MA

Position title: Director of Data Science

Amanda DeWitt

Credentials: BS, MLIS

Position title: Research CI Manager

Meghan Talukdar

Credentials: BS

Position title: Program Manager: ADRC Dementia Care Research Core

Colleen Baldwin

Credentials: MA, MLIS

Position title: Research Specialist: Residential History Team

Natalie Kozitzky

Credentials: BS

Position title: Project Manager

Jessica Sharrow

Credentials: MSN, RN, CPHQ

Position title: Project Manager

Brittney Lyons Boone

Credentials: MSBA

Position title: DataOps Project Manager

Shenell Edwards

Credentials: BS, MPH

Position title: Project Manager

Joe Kramer

Credentials: MA

Position title: Data Engineer

Yixuan Cheng

Credentials: MA, MPH

Position title: Data Scientist

Angel Hammond

Credentials: BS

Position title: Health Research Analyst

Dave Lyons

Credentials: BS, MBA

Position title: DevOps Engineer

Sarah Lim

Credentials: BS

Position title: Research Specialist: Residential History Team

Hana Masri

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Outreach Specialist

Rachel Otte

Credentials: BS, MPH

Position title: Research Analyst

Kristjan Gudjonsson

Position title: DevOps Engineer

Ruvini Navaratna

Credentials: MS

Position title: Data Scientist

Maxwell Qian

Credentials: BA

Position title: Research Analyst

John Shadle

Credentials: MSPH

Position title: Research Data Analyst

Elliot Surovell

Credentials: BA

Position title: Research Analyst

Deanna R Duerst

Credentials: BS

Position title: Pre-Awards Grants Administrator

Julia Olson

Credentials: MS

Position title: Research Analyst

Adrienne Sulma

Credentials: MSEd

Position title: Research Specialist

Kellia (KJ) Hansmann

Credentials: MD, MPH

Position title: Primary Care Research Fellow & Clinical Physician

Sarah Keller

Credentials: PhD Student

Position title: Research Trainee: Health Services Research

Aly Pfaff

Credentials: BS

Position title: Research Assistant: Residential History Team

Leigha Vilen

Credentials: BSPH

Position title: Research Assistant: Neighborhoods Study

Audra Koscik

Credentials: BS

Position title: Communications Specialist

Executive Committee

Amy Kind

Credentials: MD, PhD

Position title: Director, Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

Andrea Gilmore Bykovskyi

Credentials: PhD, RN

Position title: Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

Barbara Bendlin

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)

JP Yu

Credentials: MD, PhD

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Basic and Translational Science

Manish Shah

Credentials: MD, MPH

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Faculty Development

Corrine Voils

Credentials: PhD

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Patient-Centered Research

Menggang Yu

Credentials: PhD

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Biostatistics and Informatics

Ann Sheehy

Credentials: MD, MS

Position title: CHDR Associate Director: Health Policy Research