About
Team
At Care Access, our mission is our business.
We chose healthcare because we want to help people. We chose clinical research because we want to affect healthcare on a large scale. We chose Care Access because we want to bring new therapies to patients faster and increase access to clinical trials for under-represented communities.
This is our mission, and we do it day in, day out.
Our Principles
Carrying out our mission means committing ourselves to a set of principles that guide our work and propel us forward. We keep these principles visible in our daily lives to ensure we never lose sight of them.
We are here to build the future of medicine, healthcare, and research, for Everyone—we are just getting started.
Stay humble.
No matter what we achieve, it is not enough. There is always much more we still need to do. And we can always do better.
Be the best.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we try to elevate those standards to higher levels.
Always seek to contribute.
We consider ourselves responsible for building the best outcome. This means not just doing our jobs, but always asking what more we can be doing.
Be part of the team.
Success in clinical trials and engaging under-represented communities does not come from individual achievement. It comes from teamwork.
Treat any mistake as big, no matter how small.
We take our errors seriously, even if small — this means that we work hard to identify mistakes, fix them, learn from them, and work hard to prevent them from happening again.
Build for the future.
Mind the details, keep your rhythm, and focus on the goal, no matter how big or small.
Leadership Team
Dr. Sinikka Green, MD
Medical Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Velocity Clinical Research, Emory University School of Medicine
Irving Loh, MD
Scientific Advisor, Cardiology
Notable Experience: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at NIH
Dr. Christine Thai, MD
Medical Advisor, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Dr. Peta-Gay Jackson Booth, MD
Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Howard University
Dr. Anthony Eaton, MD
Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Saint Louis University
Dr. Chandar Abboy, MD
Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: VitaLink Research, Winthrop University Hospital
Dr. Luis Russo, MD
CEO, Care Access Brasil
Notable Experience: IBPClin - Instituto Brasil de Perquisa Clinica
Dr. Gigi Lefebvre, MD
Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Meridien Research
Dr. Ali Bajwa, MD
Director, Principal Investigator
Notable Experience: Tulane School of Medicine
Rupi Bancil
Senior Vice President, Global Study Operations & Expansion
Notable Experience: Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (PPD)
Mary Lyda
Quality Assurance & Compliance Officer
Notable Experience: US Food and Drug Administration, Novartis
Don Harder
Head of Trial Solution Design
Notable Experience: Eli Lilly & Company
Rachel Damrow
Vice President, Innovation and Growth
Notable Experience: IQVIA, ThreeWire
Gustavo Kesselring, MD
Head of Clinical Operations, South America
Notable Experience: King's College London
Justin Deck
Senior Director, Decentralized Clinical Operations
Notable Experience: Alliance Research Centers, USC
Melissa Kerr
Director, SOP Management
Notable Experience: NHS, Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (PPD)
Nichole Cope
Senior Director, Global Feasiblity & Site Innovation
Notable Experience: University of Minnesota
Marjorie Rivera
Director, Trial Solution Design
Notable Experience: Mannkind Corporation
Nicolas Collia
Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance
Notable Experience: Quality Assurance Manager at Clinical Research Site Network across US and LATAM
Fadi Ibrahim
Senior Vice President, Global Decentralized Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics
Notable Experience: Amazon, Schlumberger, MIT
Kristyna Finikiotis
Director of Planning & Analytics
Notable Experience: UCHealth, Walt Disney, Walmart
Ryan Wilson
VP of Supply Chain & Infrastructure
Notable Experience: Amazon, Union Pacific Railroad
Steve Ramirez
Director, Field Operations
Notable Experience: Walmart, Amazon
Joel Guerra
Director, Enterprise Intelligence
Notable Experience: GT Nexus, Copa Airlines, Deloitte
Khiem Lam
Vice President, Technology
Notable Experience: Cisco Systems
Brooks Noble
Director of Engineering
Notable Experience: UNC
Tyler Miller, MD, PhD
Medical and Scientific Advisor
Notable Experience: MGH, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio State
Joseph Small
Community Partnership Manager
Notable Experience: Pearson Education, Rotary Club
DeShawn Hickman, MD, PhD
Advisor, Community Healthcare Partnerships
Notable Experience: Yale-New Haven Hospital, Case Western
Joe Oh
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Notable Experience: Intel, Verizon, Oakland Raiders, One Medical
Glenn Schatz
Vice President, Community Partnerships
Notable Experience: U.S. Navy, BlocPower
Rana Mukaled
Vice President, Marketing
Notable Experience: Stanford Health Care
Calvin Thompson
Senior Manager, Community Partnerships
Notable Experience: Brown, Duke, MIT CoLab, BlocPower
Ricky Kalia, DO
Manager, Community Partnerships
Notable Experience: Ohio State, LMU
Ankur Kalra, MD
Advisor, Community Healthcare Partnerships
Notable Experience: Cleveland Clinic
Ahmad Namvargolian
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Notable Experience: UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael Lin
Chief Partnerships Officer & Co-Founder
Notable Experience: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ralph Passarella
Co-Founder
Notable Experience: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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Accelerating the Future of Medicine for Everyone
We’re not just providing more patients with access to innovative research studies, we’re making the future of health better for all.
With the support of 14 of the top 15 pharmaceutical and biotech partners, we are helping people learn more about their health, access health resources they need, and participate in research to help find new medicines and cures.
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