5 Questions: Meet Our Research Staff

Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) has a collaborative and innovative team with experts in a wide array of fields to make research happen. Each month, we ask one of our CMRI team members five questions to learn more about their role in research and what motivates them.

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Meet Amanda Matthews, Senior Manager of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Reliance Manager, IRB Member, Research and Sponsored Projects Administration (RaSPA).

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Meet David Williams, MPH, Lead Biostatistician, Health Services and Outcomes Research

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Meet Wendy Wang, ASCP-MLS, ASCP-MB, Pharmacogenetic Research Lab Supervisor, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Meet Pete Muenks, MA, ACRP-CP, Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles and Nutrition

Meet Rose Reynolds, PhD, Data Science Research Associate, Research Informatics, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC)

Meet Xiomara Aguilera, JD, Senior Manager of Research Contracting, Research and Sponsored Projects Administration

Meet Debarpan Dhar, PhD, MSc, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Meet Lynette Lartey, MPH, MCHES, Research Associate, Health Services and Outcomes Research

5 Questions: Meet Our Research Staff

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