The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Office of Executive Administration

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer

Ed Jones, MBA
Chief Operating Officer

Dee Fegans 
Senior Executive Secretary to Mauro Ferrari

Hanh Hoang, Ph.D.
Grant Writer

Jennifer Leyendecker
Project Specialist

Tricia Lydick 
Senior Executive Secretary to Ed Jones

C. Kyle Roth
Director, Building Operations

Tong Sun, MBA
Director, Central Operations

Homer Quintana
Project Specialist to Mauro Ferrari

Office of External Relations

Rebecca M. Hall, Ph.D. 
Manager

Michelle Shemon 
Web Content Administrator

Kari Stein  
Assistant Events Manager 

Office of Governance and Faculty Affairs

Mariana Pope, J.D., MPH
Director

Luanne Novak
Project Specialist
Faculty Affairs Liaison

Tiffany Polk, MBA
Project Specialist

Kim Song
Project Specialist
Credentialing

Sawana Tillett
Special Projects Coordinator

Dory Vasquez 
Project Specialist
Human Resources

Office of Grants & Contracts

Gary Lingle, CPA
Director

Kendra Bernal
Manager, Research Contracts

Quan Nguyen
Finance Manager

Krystle Bell 
Contract Analyst

Valerie Romero
Senior Contract Analyst

Janelle Howell 
Grants & Contracts Specialist

Shaun Stephenson
Grants & Contracts Specialist

Maria Morales 
Grants & Contracts Specialist

Choon Meng (Joanne) Nixon 
Grants & Contracts Specialist

Hong Loan Tran
Grants & Contracts Specialist

Suzanne Stroud
Sr. Grants & Contracts Specialist

Office of Laboratory Operations

Brenda Hartman
Director

Roy Meszlenyi 
Manager

Julie Williams O'Sullivan
Project Specialist

The Methodist Academy

Amy Wright, MBA
Program Project Manager

Dawn Dalcour
Project Coordinator

Office of Radiation Safety

Warren Snell
Director

Eloy Trevino
Academic Health Physicist 

Office of Research Billing 

Bridget Johnson 
Manager

Office of Research Protections

Mary Clancy, MSN, CCRC, CIP
Director

Maya Justilian 
Manager
IACUC/IBC/HSC

Patricia Mendoza
Quality Assurance Manager

Alicia Brown
Research Protections Analyst

Rebecca De La Garza
Research Protections Analyst
IRB1

Nadia Nassaj
Quality Assurance Analyst

Stephanie Thomas
Research Protections Analyst
IRB2

Office of Research Technology

Holly Newman
Director

Ginny Torno 
Manager 

Richard Cole
Senior Applications Analyst 

Tom Davila
Senior Applications Analyst

Sunita Dilwali 
Business Intelligence Analyst III

Jennifer Kim 
Project Specialist

Eric Loew
Senior Applications Analyst

Kristen Simmons 
Applications Analyst II

Jonathan Woods 
Senior Applications Analyst

Office of Technology Transfer

Joanne Mitchell, Ph.D.
Director

Sharon Ngwenya 
Senior Licensing Associate