People and Partners
Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD: Co-Director for Community Engaged Research and Senior Epidemiologist; President/CEO, Clinical Directors Network
: Community Engagement Specialist
The Action Committee for Community Engaged Research (ACCER), a subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Clinical and Translational Research (ACCTS) – the RU-CCTS governing body – works strategically to align community priorities with scientific research at Rockefeller University to foster community-engaged research collaborations. ACCER designs capacity-building opportunities for partners inside and outside of the CCTS.
Rhonda G. Kost, MD – ACCER Co-Chair
Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD – President/CEO, ; ACCER Co-Chair
Barry Coller, MD – Principal Investigator, RU-CCTS
Anuradha Hashemi-Arend, MPH – Community Engagement Specialist
Maija Williams, MPH – Administrative Director, RU-CCTS
Dozene Guishard, EdD, CDP – Director, Health & Wellness Initiatives, Carter Burden Network
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science (RU-CCTS) builds on Rockefeller University Hospital’s history as the birthplace of American biomedical science and translational research. It is funded in part by an NIH Center for Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). The Center is designed to provide an optimal infrastructure to conduct clinical and translational research, and to educate the next generation of physician-scientists committed to patient-oriented research.
You can learn more about the RU-CCTS .
New York CTSA Community Engagement Consortium -NYCON: The six NYC area CTSA institutions have joined to form a city-wide consortium aimed at fostering collaboration and sharing of best practices in community engagement.
December 2019: Members of the Carter Burden Network /Clinical Directors Network/ Rockefeller University Collaboration during a Chef’s Appreciation Celebration
We are proud and grateful to have worked with community partners in developing, conducting, and disseminating Full Spectrum Translational and Community-Engaged Research projects. Partnerships between communities and academic scientists are critical to our work.
- For our projects addressing health concerns affecting seniors in NYC, we partnered with:
- For our MRSA projects, we collaborated with the following partners:
- Community Health Centers:
- Manhattan Physicians Group/
- Hospitals:
- Practice Based Research Networks:
- Other Academic Partners:
- Community Health Centers:
- For our project on Obesity & Adolescent Pregnancy, we partnered with the following community health centers:
- (a Gotham Health Center)
- /North Central Bronx Hospital
- For our project on Bariatric Metabolic Outcomes Project (BMOP), we partnered with Dr. William Pagano at and Dr. Rabih Nemr at
Read more about our projects.
