Administrative Core
Leadership
John Kirwan, PhD
LA CaTS Center Director
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
L. Lee Hamm, MD
LA CaTS Program Co-Director
Tulane University
Steve Nelson, MD
LA CaTS Program Co-Director
LSU Health New Orleans
Administrative Staff
Tiffany Prather, RN
LA CaTS Program Coordinator
Pennington Biomedical
tiffany.prather@pbrc.edu
(225) 763-2979
Kieu Pham
LA CaTS Administrative Coordinator
Pennington Biomedical
kieu.pham@pbrc.edu
(225) 763-3142
Bonnie Hymel Trentecoste
Inter-institutional Liaison
Pennington Biomedical
bonnie.hymel@pbrc.edu
(225) 763-2986
Carly Pigg, CRA
LA CaTS Administrator
LSU Health New Orleans
cgerva@lsuhsc.edu
(504) 568-4439
Andrew Barton, MS
LA CaTS Administrator
Tulane University
abarton1@tulane.edu
(504) 988-9038
Meaghan Donewar, MPH
LA CaTS Coordinator
Tulane University
mhendri@tulane.edu
Contact this core
Email: info@lacats.org
About This Core
The Administrative Core facilitates the business and management structure for bringing about the meaningful and inclusive collaborations that form the heart of the LA CaTS Center IDeA-CTR Network. The core sets the tone for a center culture devoted to integration and performance by coordinating and articulating the work conducted by the LA CaTS Center Cores. We help to ensure effective center services, facilitate implementing the strategic plan, convene the center-wide committes, and track the Center’s progress in achieving goals. Our objectives include providing center home offices, facilitating access and maintaining center resources, encouraging interaction, building collaborations, and providing consistent information. All of these things are vital for scientists and investigators who are interested in pursuing careers in clinical and translational (CT) research, particularly those involved with the current NIH COBRE and INBRE programs in Louisiana.
This core provides the infrastructure that enables cross-component and cross-institutional strategies, establishing the LA CaTS Center as the academic home for creating a community of scholarship and point of entry to clinical and translational research and resources.
The Center's Executive Council, leadership of the core and overall IDeA-CTR are:
- John Kirwan, PhD, LA CaTS Center & Administrative Core Director: Dr. Kirwan is the Executive Director of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
- Steve Nelson, MD LA CaTS Center Co-Program Director: Dr. Nelson is the Chancellor of LSU Health New Orleans, which is comprised of 6 schools - Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Public Health, Graduate Studies, and Dentistry.
- L. Lee Hamm, MD, LA CaTS Center Program Co-Director: Dr. Hamm is the Senior Vice President and Dean of the School of Medicine at Tulane University.
Center-Wide Committees
The EC provides the day-to-day leadership & high-level decision making to ensure a) that activities of all the Cores are coordinated to enable fluidity, integration and seamless delivery of services; and b) cross-institutional leadership and accountability for executing the Center’s strategic and management plans.
The OC is composed of the Director, Co-Program Directors, Core Leaders and administrative staff. Provides the day-to-day mechanism for implementation for all center activities and adherece to best practices for achieving center goals.
Administrative Core Staff. Each of the 3 Primary Collaborating Institutions has dedicated administrative staff who carry out the day to day operations of the LA CaTS Center and assist the Director, Program Co-Directors and cores. LA CaTS Administrative Staff also serve as the primary points of contact for the Center.
Specific Aims
1. Provide effective creative leadership, and an administrative and governance structure that ensures expansion, growth, coordination, and access of research resources and services across all partner Institutions and Cores.
2. Provide for and support an environment that fosters a culture of collaboration between investigators, key components, and institutions within and outside Louisiana.
3. Provide an interface for the effective interaction and communication of our unified research enterprise to the stakeholders and populations we serve.