Staff and Chairs | Duke Health Institutional Review Board

This is the listing of our IRB Staff and Chairs. Find the IRB Specialist responsible for your particular CRU/Department below.

The main phone number for the IRB Office is (919) 668-5111.

IRB Staff

	CRU/Department Responsibility
Shani Bizzell Email: shani.bizzell@duke.edu Phone: (919) 613-4824 IRB Specialist	Dermatology/Pathology Family Medicine & Community Health Heart Center Ob/Gyn
Meredith Bond, MS Email: meredith.bond@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5117 Senior IRB Specialist	DOCR Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) Oncology (PI's L, M) Radiology
Karen Carter, CCRP, CIP Email: karen.carter@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0404 Senior IRB Specialist	DGHI Pediatrics (PI's A-M) Population Health
Angelyn Gravely, CIP Email: angelyn.gravely@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0405 Administrative Reviewer	Medicine (PI’s A-L)
Debbie Hickey Email: deborah.hickey@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0469 Senior IRB Specialist	Surgery Neurosurgery Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences Emergency Medicine Urology
Nancy Hight, ACRP-CP Email: nancy.hight@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-4664 Senior IRB Specialist	Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)
Conal Ho, PhD, CIP Email: conal.ho@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0465 Administrative Reviewer	Anesthesiology Campus Oversight Office of Curriculum Other (no CRU)
John Jernigan Email: john.jernigan1@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5118 IRB Specialist	Pediatrics (PI’s N-Z) Ophthalmology
Josh Leitner Email: joshua.leitner@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5112 IRB Specialist	CTSI Orthopedic Surgery Pharmacy School of Nursing
Jo Llewellyn Email: jo.llewellyn@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0467 Administrative Reviewer	Medicine (PI’s M-Z)
Noely Martinez Overby Email: noely.martinez-overby@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-7552 Senior IRB Specialist	Oncology (PI’s N-Z)
Debbie Reddoch, MA Email: deborah.reddoch@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-3364 IRB Compliance Specialist
Shaina Roth, MS Email: shaina.roth@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-3218 Senior IRB Specialist	DEPCRU Psychiatry Neurology
Sean Williams Email: sean.williams2@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-3147 Senior IRB Specialist/Medical Writer	Oncology (PI’s A-K)
Ronna Zimmer, MS, RD Email: ronna.zimmer@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5119 Director of Compliance
Sharon Ellison, PharmD Email: sharon.ellison@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5114 Executive Director of DUHS IRB
Joseph (SJ) Austin, JD, LLM Email: steven.austin@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-4384 Director of Research Review
Susan Conder Email: susan.conder@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-5663 Administrative Reviewer
Minna Pak Email: minna.pak@duke.edu Phone: (919) 668-0463 Director of Extramural IRB Programs

IRB Chairs

Patricia L. Ashley, MD, PhD
Email: patricia.ashley@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Dara Barnard, PharmD
Email: dara.barnard@duke.edu
Lead IRB Chair

Carlos De Castro, MD
Email: carlos.decastro@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Louis F. Diehl, MD
Email: louis.diehl@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Mark Donahue, MD, MHS
Email: mark.donahue@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Wanda Lakey, MD, MHS
Email: wanda.lakey@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Paul Lantos, MD
Email: paul.lantos@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Walter Lee, MD
Email: walter.lee@dm.duke.edu
IRB Chair

Richard Lee, MD, MPH
Email: r.lee@duke.edu
IRB Chair

David Ota, MD
Email: david.ota@duke.edu
IRB Chair

C. Egla Rabinovich, MD, MPH
Email: egla.rabinovich@dm.duke.edu
IRB Chair

Moria J. Smoski, PhD
Email: moria.smoski@duke.edu
IRB Chair

Cathy Vaughan, PharmD
Email: cathy.vaughan@duke.edu
IRB Chair