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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Director, CTSI Community and Stakeholder Research Engagement Program

Dr. Callie Brown is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Prevention and a board-certified general pediatrician. An NIH-funded clinical researcher, she studies how parent feeding practices and food insecurity influence child stress, growth, and obesity risk. Her work focuses on family-based strategies to promote healthy growth, nutrition, and activity in early childhood through primary care approaches.

Enterprise REDCap Manager 

Bas de Veer is a medical informatician with over fifteen years of experience in software implementation, training, user experience, and research consulting. He manages REDCap for the Clinical Translation Science Institute at Wake Forest School of Medicine, overseeing administrators, developing policies, creating training, and handling daily operations. Bas holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Medical Informatics from the University of Amsterdam.

Associate Professor, Wake Forest University Department of Communication

Mollie V. Rose is an Associate Professor in the Wake Forest University Department of Communication. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFSM) and is a member of the Cancer Prevention & Control Program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center (AHWFBCCC). Dr. Rose conducts interdisciplinary, narrative-based, mixed-method, and community engaged research to investigate how communication among patients, providers, and family/close relational partners is tied to health promotion, medical decision-making, and stress and coping.

Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Implementation Science and Program Leader, Dissemination, Implementation, and Continuous Quality Improvement, CTSI

Dr. Moore is a Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Implementation Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, with secondary appointments in Family & Community Medicine and Epidemiology & Prevention. He leads the Dissemination, Implementation, & Continuous Quality Improvement program within the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. His research focuses on implementing evidence-based strategies to promote healthy behaviors in underserved populations and examining determinants of health behaviors across the lifespan. Dr. Moore serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and sits on multiple editorial boards. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and received funding from NIH, CDC, and major foundations. A graduate of Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, University of Mississippi, and University of Texas at Austin, he is also a fellow of the NCI-supported Mentored Training for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer program.

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Assistant Director, CTSI Community and Stakeholder Research Engagement Program

Dr. Ballard is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in Social Sciences and Health Policy. Her research focuses on youth engagement in communities and its impact on community efforts and healthy development. Two of her current projects include one funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse to enhance youth involvement in substance use prevention, and another funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, co-leading a study on the effects of a school-based action civics intervention.  

Dr. Ballard’s impressive credentials and her commitment to building trust between academic institutions, healthcare providers, and marginalized communities make her an invaluable addition to our team.

Toby R. Alligood, MD Endowed Professor in Geroscience

An internationally known expert on nutritional influences that affect trajectories of health and disability in older adults, including vitamins, protein, energy balance, exercise and obesity, Dr. Kritchevsky has more than 450 peer-reviewed publications, lead Wake Forest Baptist’s NIA-funded Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC), and co-direct the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention. He has participated in some of the most important aging-related multicenter studies in the past 20 years, including the Health ABC study and the Life Style Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) Trial, and he is the past editor-in-chief of the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. Dr. Kritchevsky leads the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) with the American Federation for Aging Research. The RCCN’s goal is to build research collaborations among the six NIA Center’s programs through workshops, pilot awards, and educational activities. Through service on the National Advisory Council on Aging, he helps shape national research priorities for aging research. His recent work focuses on translating the new discoveries in the biology aging to prevent age-related diseases and extend health span in older adults.

Director of Research Informatics

For over 16 years at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Brian Ostasiewski has been providing data solutions and leading informatics initiatives that bridge data, technology, and clinical research. As a leader of the Data, Integration, Visualization, and Evaluation (DIVE) team, Brian manages teams that collect, prepare, and provision data for researchers, the CTSI, the National Center for Clinical Trials (NCCT), and Academic operations.