Welcome to the UTHSC Office of Research Administration (ORA) Staff Page!
Research Grants and Contracts:
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research - Deborah L. Smith, Ed.D. (901) 448-4823 - dsmith@utmem.edu - Please contact Debbie if you have questions about UT research policy, negotiating a research contract or MTA, or if other ORA staff are not available (see below) for assistance with other issues.
Program Administrator - Virginia Geer - (901) 448-1668 - vgeer@utmem.edu - Please contact Ginny for assistance with grant budgets, locating forms, electronic submission, establishing e-Commons accounts, transferring grants, or preparing grants or subcontracts under UTHSC grants. Ginny can also provide assistance with contract budgets and subcontracts under federal grants. Please contact Ginny for ORA personnel matters.
Coordinator II - Connie Bozant - (901) 448-4188 - cbozant@utmem.edu - Please contact Connie for assistance with grant budgets, locating forms, electronic submission, establishing e-Commons accounts, or preparing grants or subcontracts under UTHSC grants. Connie can also provide assistance with contract budgets and subcontracts under federal grants. Please call Connie with HRSA questions.
Data Control Specialist - Carlissa Jackson (901) 448-5532 - cjacks21@utmem.edu - Please contact Carlissa if you need information from the Research data base or reports of sponsored activity.
Grants and Contracts Specialist - Rosa Wilson (901) 448-5587 - rmwilson@utmem.edu - Please call Rosa to follow up on a non-clinical contract or MTA that's awaiting signature or for invention disclosure forms, other grant forms and information about completing routing forms, or other questions on documents awaiting processing.
Grants and Contracts Clerk - Nona Simard (901) 448-5985 - nsimard@utmem.edu - You may receive calls from Nona regarding the status of MTAs, close-out documents, invention disclosures, routing documents, or other issues.
Melanie Luchs
(901) 448-3303
(901) 448-3943 (fax)
mluchs@utmem.edu
Clinical Trials Unit:
Associate Director -Melanie Luchs (901) 448-3303, (901) 448-3943 (fax)- mluchs@utmem.edu - Please contact Melanie to negotiate a confidentiality or clinical trial agreement. Melanie is also the administrator for the clinicaltrials.gov website.
Administrative Assistant - Ruthie Ruston (901) 448-3126 - rruston@utmem.edu - Please call Ruthie to follow-up on a clinical trial agreement that is awaiting signature or for forms needed to process clinical trial agreements. Ruthie is responsible for processing clinical trial agreements and for data entry in the contract databases.
Part-time Employees:
Carol Baumgartner (ORA) (901) 448-3046 - cbaumgartner@utmem.edu - You may receive calls from Carol regarding close-out documents, invention disclosures, or other similar documents.
Wanda Donato (ORA) (901) 448-2037 - wdonato@utmem.edu - You may receive calls from Wanda regarding grant budgets, cost-share forms, other documents needed for approval of grants, or similar information.
Search UTHSC Research
Research Quick Links
Research Partners
Contact Us
Deborah L. Smith, Ed.D.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
910 Madison
Suite 823
Memphis, TN 38163
Phone: (901) 448-4823
Fax: (901) 448-7600
Email: dsmith@uthsc.edu
