Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research (Kids First)
Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research (Kids First)
Get Program Updates
NIH Working Group
Co-Chairs:
Co-Chairs are Institute or Center (IC) directors or IC senior staff who lead the Working Group and have the authority to approve major activities and funding actions.
- Diana W. Bianchi, M.D.
Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Lawrence Brody, Ph.D.
Division Director
Division of Genomics and Society
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) - Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
Director
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Douglas Lowy, M.D.
Deputy Director
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Leadership Team & Points of Contact:
Coordinators, Program Leaders, and Project Team Leaders serve as the day to day leadership for the program and the Working Group. Also included here are points of contact for areas of program management.
Leadership Team:
- James N. Coulombe, Ph.D.
Working Group Coordinator
Chief, Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Emily Boja, Ph.D.
Brach Chief
Scientific Policy and Program Branch B
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Valerie Cotton
Deputy Director
Office of Data Science and Sharing
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Danielle Daee, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP)
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Marcia Fournier, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Jaime M. Guidry Auvil, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Data Sharing, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Huiqing Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Officer
Heart Development and Structural Diseases
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Malcolm A. Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Officer
Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Lu Wang, Ph.D.
Chief, Translational Genomics Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Common Fund leadership:
- Concepcion Nierras, Ph.D.
Program Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Point of Contact:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Jason Shockey, Ph.D.
Business Operations and Analysis Contact
Program/Management Analyst
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Members:
The Working Group Members are staff from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers who provide input from their Institute or Center’s perspective.
- Abee Boyles, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - Regina Bures,Ph.D.
Program Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Alison Cernich Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Ricardo R. Cibotti, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) - Anne Deslattes Mays Ph.D.
Data Scholar
Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) - William Dunty, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - Joseph Flores-Toro, Ph.D.
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Daniel Gossett, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - Kimberly A. Gray, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - Manjit Hanspal, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Deborah B. Henken, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Keith W. Hoots, M.D.
Division Director
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Mary Jenkins, Ph.D.
Health Scientist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Erika Kim, Ph.D.
Biomedical Informatics Program Manager
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Sheran Law, Ph.D.
Referral Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Sara Lin, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Amy C. Lossie, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Kimberly McAllister, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - Oleg Mirochnitchenko, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Office of the Director (OD)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Mahua Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Noffisat Oki, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - Afshin Parsa, M.D., M.P.H
Program Officer
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - Pankaj Qasba, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Robert Riddle, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - Charlene Schramm, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences/Heart Development and Structural Diseases Branch (HDSD)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Bryanna Schwartz, MD, MPH
Program Officer
Heart Development and Structural Diseases Branch
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Lillian Shum, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - Heidi J. Sofia, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) - Kathryn Stein, Ph.D.
Health Specialist
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - Reiko Toyama, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Tiina Urv, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) - Frosso Voulgaropoulou, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Cathy Wedeen J., Ph.D.
Scientific Review Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
