Scientific Advisory Board | MedStar Health Research Institute | MedStar Health

The Georgetown University-MedStar Health Scientific Council serves as a forum to bridge the research communities of the University and MedStar, so that leaders from each organization can understand the other organization’s research programs and priorities and maximize research collaboration, integration, and support across the two organizations.

Co-Chairs

Anna Riegel, PhD
Senior Associate Dean, BGE
Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology
President, MedStar Health Research Institute
Chief Scientific Officer, MedStar Health
Professor of Medicine, GUMC
Affiliate Faculty, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, GUMC


Ex-Officio


Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., MD, MHS Co-Chair, Georgetown-MedStar Education Council
Executive Vice President for Health Sciences, GUMC
Executive Dean, GUSOM

Elliott Crooke, PhD Professor & Sr. Associate Dean Faculty Affairs, GUMC

Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE Dean, School of Health, GUMC
Jamie S. Padmore, DM Co-Chair, Georgetown University-MedStar Health Education Council
Vice President Academic Affairs, MedStar Health
Professor & Associate Dean GME, GUMC

Raj Ratwani, PhD

Vice President of Scientific Affairs, MHRI
Director, MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Associate Professor Emergency Medicine, GUMC

Joseph Verbalis, MD Professor & Co-Director, Georgetown-Howard Universities CTSA

Roberta Waite, EdD, RN, PMHCNS, ANEF, FAAN Dean, School of Nursing, GUMC
Lou Weiner, MD Director, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director, MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute
Francis L. and Charlotte G. Gragnani Chair Professor and Chair,
Department of Oncology, Georgetown University

Appointed Members (Term Limited)

Hannah Arem, PhD Scientific Director, Implementation Science
Associate Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University
MedStar Health Research Institute

Federico Asch, MD

Director, Cardiovascular Core Labs & Cardiac Imaging Research Professor & Academic Chair Rehabilitation Medicine, GUMC

Michelle Deville, RN Associate Director Clinical Trials, Cardiology, MHRI & MWHC
Mary Ann Dutton, PhD Professor & Vice Chair Research, Department of Psychiatry, GUMC
Patrick Forcelli, PhD Associate Professor & Vice-Chair, Dept of Pharmacology & Physiology
Vice-Chair, GUMC Research Committee

Aviram M. Giladi, MD, MS

Research Director, Hand Surgery and Plastic Surgery
The Curtis National Hand Center
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

Munish Goyal, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University
Director of Faculty Education & Research Director, MedStar Emergency Physicians
Director, Section of Critical Care, MedStar Emergency Physicians
Chair, MHRI Institutional Review Board

Suzanne Groah, MD, MSPH Director, Spinal Cord Injury Research, MNRH
Director, Spinal Cord injury Rehabilitation & Recovery Program, MNRH
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, MGUH

Hunter Groninger, MD Associate Chair for Research, Department of Medicine
Scientific Director, MedStar Palliative Care
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University

Brent T. Harris, MD, PhD, FCAP Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology
Director of Neuropathology
Director, Georgetown Brain Bank
Director, POND Brain Bank
Co-Director, Histopathology and Tissue Shared Resource
MedStar Health/Georgetown University Medical Center

Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD Professor, Department of Oncology
Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH Professor & Director, Center for Global Health Science and Security
Georgetown University

Alex Kroemer, MD Assistant Professor Surgery, GUMC
Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS Scientific Director, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MHRI
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, GUSOM

Rachel K. Scott MD, MPH, FACOG Scientific Director of Women's Health Research, MHRI
Associate Chair for Research & Director, Washington Women's Center for Positive Living
Department of Women’s & Infants’ Services, MWHC
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University

Nawar Shara, PhD Chief, Research Data Science, MHRI
Co-Director, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core
GHUCCTS, MedStar Health Research Institute
Chief of AI Applications in Health Data Science, AI CoLab
Associate Professor Medicine, GUMC

Jeffrey Shupp, MD, FACS Director, Burn Center
Chief of Burn Surgery
Medical Director, Wound Center and WOCN, MWHC
Professor, Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Biochemistry & Molecular & Cellular Biology, GUSOM

Ken Tercyak, PhD Professor, Oncology & Pediatrics
Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Programs
Lombardi Comprehensive Care Center, GUMC

Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Jeff Urbach, PhD Vice Provost for Research
Professor, Department of Physics & Interdisciplinary Chair in Science
Georgetown University