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Administrative Core

Leadership, mentoring, and program coordination

The Administrative Core integrates all Center operations — fiscal administration, the External Advisory Committee and Mentoring Team, evaluation, the Pilot Projects Program, and the annual workshop series. It supports every project leader’s path toward research independence and coordinates the shared cores.

Services include mentoring and career-development planning, Pilot Projects Program administration and review, evaluation and NIH reporting support, and the annual workshops and seminars.

Core Directors

John A. Shepherd, PhD
John A. Shepherd, PhD
Contact PD/PI · Administrative Core Co-Director
 Youping Deng, PhD
Youping Deng, PhD
Multiple PD/PI · Administrative Core Co-Director

Staff & Trainees

Leila Kazemi, MS
Leila Kazemi, MS
Executive Program Manager
Clinical Research Program Manager, Epidemiology, UHCC

Coordinates all Center activities; annual reports and EAC meetings; compliance; supports the Pilot and resource cores. As Program Manager she keeps PAC-AID's day-to-day operations running across the cores and projects.

  • Huizhen Zhang, MS
    Fiscal Administrator · Research Program Manager, Population Sciences in the Pacific, UHCC

    Post-award fiscal and grant administration program-wide; effort and contract oversight; NIH and sponsored-research liaison.

  • Yonglu "Grace" Pan
    Evaluator · JABSOM

    RPPR filings; evaluation-metrics collection; supports fiscal reporting for JABSOM accounts.

  • Hua Yang, MBA
    Projects Coordinator · Program Coordinator, JABSOM

    Supports projects, workshops, lectures, site visits, and mentor/investigator meetings.

  • DevOps Engineer Position open

    Builds and maintains the COBRE website and GitHub, pilot-grant scoring pages, and workshop and EAC logistics.