Our Team
The HAITI CVD Research Collaboratory comprises three major site teams: GHESKIO in Haiti, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Washington University in St. Louis, with growing global collaborations. Together, our teams include principal investigators, physicians, nurses, research faculty, community health workers, data analysts, research coordinators, and trainees.
Leaders
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Principal Investigator, Founder & Executive Director GHESKIO, Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Deputy Director GHESKIO
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Co-Investigator, Chief of Research and Pediatrics GHESKIO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Principal Investigator, Professor of Medicine, Chief – Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, Hospital Medicine, WashU
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Co-Investigator, US Study Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
PI, (K23HL177149) — Environmental Lead & CVD
Collaborators
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Instructor in Medicine, T32 Fellow, Weill Cornell
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Cardiologist, Port-au-Prince Haiti
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Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
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Professor of Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Radiology, Director, Global Health Center WashU
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Associate Professor of Public Health in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, FIU
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Director, Center for Global Health Weill Cornell, Professor of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell
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Professor Emeritus , The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health
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Professor of Medicine,
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Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor at WashU School of Public Health and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab
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Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Louisville
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Associate Professor of Statistics, Weill Cornell
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Dr. Kevin Jerry G. Williams Macajou
Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
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Cardiologist, Haitian College of Cardiology
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Professor, Executive Director, Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, CUNY
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Director, Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University at Albany
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Weill Cornell
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Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in Medicine, Weill Cornell (PI, (K01HL167654))
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Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell
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Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
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Physician, CVD Clinic; Director, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
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Dr. Michel Theard
Cardiologist, Haitian College of Cardiology
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Head of the Division of Engineering Education, Vice Dean for Education James McKelvey, Professor of Engineering Education, WashU
Trainees
HAITI CVD Research Collaboratory is committed to supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees:
Catherine Bennett: Research Assistant, Weill Cornell, Center for Global Health
Dr. Adrienne Clermont: Global Emergency Medicine & Public Health Fellow, George Washington University Hospital
Dr. Eliezer Dade: Research Physician, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
Dr. Marie Christine Jean-Pierre: Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince
Dr. Joanna Lin: Medical Student, Weill Cornell
Dr. Jean Lookens Pierre: PhD Candidate, McGill University
Dr. Darby Marx: Research, Weill Cornell
Miranda Metz: Research Assistant and Medical Student, Weill Cornell
Nour Mourra: Research Assistant, Weill Cornell, Center for Global Health
Anju Ogyu: Research Associate, Weill Cornell, Center for Global Health
Daniella Pierre: MPH Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Rehana Rasul: PhD Candidate, Epidemiology, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Dr. Kristen Riley: Resident, Weill Cornell
Vanessa Rivera: Medical Student, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Dr. Nicholas Roberts: Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Shalom Sabwa: PhD Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Emma Seibert: Medical Student, Weill Cornell
Grace Seo: Resident Physician, Emory Healthcare
Dr. Olga Tymejczyk: Investigator, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health
Andromede Uwase: Research Coordinator, WashU
Ashley Zhu: Medical Student, Weill Cornell
Our Partners and Funders
This work is made possible with long-term partnerships with the following major partners:
Haitian Ministry of Health and Population
Haitian Global Health Alliance
Pan American Health Organization