About Us

Meet the MRCT Center Team

Leadership

Barbara E Bierer

Faculty Director

Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Mark Barnes

Faculty Co-Director

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School

Sarah White

Executive Director

Member of the Faculty (Harvard Medical School)

Carolyn Chapman

Lead Investigator

MRCT Center Team

Hayat Ahmed

Program Manager

Carmen Aldinger

Director of Administration

Sylvia Baedorf Kassis

Program Director

Trevor Baker

Program Manager

Kristin Bartlett

Program Coordinator

Emina Berbic

Program Manager

Nannie Clough

Senior Communications and Website Specialist

Willyanne DeCormier Plosky

Program Director

Julia Etkin

Research Assistant II

Ava Glazier

Research Assistant

Kaitlin Hersey

Project Coordinator

Elisa Koppelman

Program and Team Director

Lauren Otterman

Project Manager

Kayleigh To

Project Manager

Emad Salman Shaikh

Program Manager

Chloe deCampos

Student Researcher, Creative Design

Lindsey Henriques

Student Researcher, Creative Design

Mena Shaikh

Student Researcher

Senior Advisors

Elizabeth Cahn

Senior Advisor

Research Advocate, DF/HCC Breast Cancer Advocacy Group

Luke Gelinas

Senior Advisor

Chairperson at Advarra IRB

Rebecca Li

Senior Advisor

Executive Director, Vivli

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

David Peloquin

Senior Advisor

Partner, Ropes & Gray

David Strauss

Senior Advisor

Special Lecturer, Columbia University