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

  • Dr. Jean William Pape

    Principal Investigator, Founder & Executive Director GHESKIO, Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Dr. Marie Marcelle Deschamps

    Deputy Director GHESKIO

  • Dr. Vanessa Rouzier

    Co-Investigator, Chief of Research and Pediatrics GHESKIO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Dr. Margaret McNairy

    Principal Investigator, Professor of Medicine, Chief – Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, Hospital Medicine, WashU

  • Dr. Lily Yan 

    Co-Investigator, US Study Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

    PI, (K23HL177149) — Environmental Lead & CVD

Collaborators

  • Dr. Wheytnie Alexandre

    Instructor in Medicine, T32 Fellow, Weill Cornell

  • Dr. Jean Pierre Brisma

    Cardiologist, Port-au-Prince Haiti

  • Dr. Kelly Celestin

    Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince

  • Dr. Victor G. Davila-Roman

    Professor of Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Radiology, Director, Global Health Center WashU

  • Dr. Jessy Devieux 

    Associate Professor of Public Health in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, FIU

  • Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald

    Director, Center for Global Health Weill Cornell, Professor of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell

  • Dr. Charles Goss

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Medicine, and Public Health, WashU


  • Dr. George Howard

    Professor Emeritus , The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health

  • Dr. Mark D. Huffman

    Professor of Medicine,
    Co-Director Global Health Center, WashU

  • Dr. Lora Iannotti

    Lauren and Lee Fixel Distinguished Professor at WashU School of Public Health and founding director of the E3 Nutrition Lab

  • Dr. Kenneth Jamerson

    Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

  • Dr. Justin Kingery

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Louisville

  • Dr. Serena Koenig

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Myung-Hee Lee

    Associate Professor of Statistics, Weill Cornell

  • Dr. Kevin Jerry G. Williams Macajou

    Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince


  • Dr. Rodolphe Malebranche

    Cardiologist, Haitian College of Cardiology

  • Dr. Denis Nash

    Professor, Executive Director, Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, CUNY

  • Dr. Patrick J. Parsons

    Director, Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University at Albany

  • Dr. Rob N. Peck

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Weill Cornell

  • Dr. Samuel Pierre

    Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at Vanderbilt University

  • Dr. Lindsey Reif

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in Medicine, Weill Cornell (PI, (K01HL167654))

  • Dr. Monika Safford 

    Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell

  • Dr. Reichling St. Sauveur

    Research Physician, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince

  • Dr. Rodney Sufra

    Physician, CVD Clinic; Director, CVD Trials Unit, GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince

  • Dr. Michel Theard

    Cardiologist, Haitian College of Cardiology

  • Dr. Jay Turner

    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:

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