Rishikesan (Rishi) Kamaleswaran is an Associate Professor at in the Department of Surgery and Department of Anesthesiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor at the Emory University in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. Prior to joining Duke, he was Co-Director of the Informatics Core at the Georgia CTSA.
Chahnaz A. Kbaisi
Ms. Chahnaz A. Kbaisi is from the South of Lebanon. She works for CTSI as a Research Technician II and works closely with analysts in the data group and project teams in Durham.
Deborah joined the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute in March 2022 as the Chief Administrative Officer and Assistant Dean for Translational Science. She brings her knowledge, expertise, and management skills to help lead the Duke CTSI team into the next phase of growth and prosperity.
Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Carla Kingsbury
Ms. Kingsbury came to Duke CTSI in July 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in human services and psychology from Wingate University. Her previous role was with a healthcare system, where she worked in research specializing in traumatic brain injury. Ms. Kingsbury enjoys working in research because it allows her to meet people in the community and see how the contribution of each individual serves a larger purpose to benefit the community as a whole.
David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD
Barbara Levine University Distinguished Professor
My clinical interests are the multi-modality care of patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas and developing new sarcoma therapies. My laboratory interests include utilizing mouse models of cancer to study cancer and radiation biology in order to develop new cancer therapies in the pre-clinical setting.
Dwight D. Koeberl, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
The focus of our research has been the development of gene therapy with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors, most recently by genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9. We have developed gene therapy for inherited disorders of metabolism, especially glycogen storage disease (GSD) and phenylketonuria (PKU).
Walter Kwiatek has served in several Duke enterprise-wide IT leaderships and will now focus his expertise on three key Duke Health strategic programs:
Dr. Lam provides programmatic, administrative, and operational leadership for the Child Health Core, and coordinates and supports efforts to achieve the goals and aims of the CTSA grant. She serves as a liaison with Duke investigators and staff involved in child health research, as well as other CTSI components and national CTSA consortium workgroups. Dr. Lam is also responsible for facilitating the development and implementation of new proposals and initiatives to support child health clinical and translational research.