

Meet our research team
We are only able to achieve our mission, vision, and values through the work of our outstanding faculty, collaborators and staff.

CATALYST leadership
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Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS Executive Director of CATALYST
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Alice Gaughan, MS Assistant Director
CATALYST Core leaders
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Laura Rush, DVM, PhD Director, Learning Health Systems Core
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Jennifer Eramo, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, CPHQ Assistant Director, Experience Core
CATALYST faculty
Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Courtney Hebert, MD, MS Assistant Professor
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Saurabh Rahurkar, DrPH, BDS Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
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Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
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Timothy Huerta, PhD, MS Professor
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Daniel Walker, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
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Willi (Will) Tarver, DrPH, MLIS Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine – Division of General Internal Medicine
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Janet Childerhose, PhD Research Assistant Professor
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Robert Cronin, MD Associate Professor
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Bryan Garner, PhD Professor
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Dan Jonas, MD, MPH Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Endowed Professor of Health Services Research
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Natalie S. Lee, MD, MPH, MSHP Assistant Professor
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Sarah MacEwan, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Hematology
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Samantha Jaglowski, MD, MPH Medical Director of Clinical Informatics-Hematology
Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Palliative Medicine
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Julia Agne, MD Assistant Professor
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Todd Barrett, MD Assistant Professor
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Jillian Gustin, MD Director of the Division of Palliative Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor
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Sachin Kale, MD Associate Professor
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Bethany Lockwood, MD Clinical Assistant Professor
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Erin Stevens, DO Clinical Assistant Professor
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Brittany Waterman, MD Clinical Assistant Professor
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Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedics
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Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Department of Pediatrics
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Jennifer Lee, MD Clinical Informatics Fellow
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Rajitha Venkatesh, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Surgery
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Aslam Ejaz, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology
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Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology
Department of Urology
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John Oliver DeLancey, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Urology
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Catherine Quatman-Yates, PT, DPT, PhD Assistant Professor of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
CATALYST affiliated faculty
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Eliza Beal, MD, MS Clinical Fellow
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Megan Gregory, PhD Assistant Professor
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Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor
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C. Tory Hogan, PhD Assistant Professor
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Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD, MBA CEO of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
CATALYST research staff
Post-doctoral researchers
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Gennaro Di Tosto, PhD
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Pallavi Jonnalagadda, MBBS, DrPH
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Karen Shiu-Yee, PhD, MPH
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Priti Singh, PhD, MS
Senior research staff
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Alison Aldrich, MSI, MPH
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Sadie Chen, MLIS
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Cortney Forward, PhD, MPH, MBA
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Leanna Perez Eiterman, PhD, CCRP
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Lindsey Sova, MPH
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Christine Swoboda, PhD, MS
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Jamie Turner, MPH
Research data analyst
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Seth Scarborough, MAS
Clinical research assistant
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Mireille Bitangacha
Administrative team
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Tyler Griesenbrock
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Pam Thompson