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A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Frederick P. Ognibene fulfilled internship and residency requirements in internal medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. In 1982, Dr. Ognibene came to the National Institutes of Health as a clinical fellow; later becoming a senior investigator in the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department.
Dr. Ognibene served as director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training Program and co-chaired the NIH Graduate Medical Education Committee for clinical fellows in accredited training programs until May 2003. He was then appointed director of the newly established Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. Dr. Ognibene is responsible for all of the clinical research educational programs in the NIH Clinical Center. He leads the NIH Clinical Research Training Program for medical and dental students and is engaged in the development of new educational programs and partnerships with extramural investigators in the NCRR CTSA network and at other institutions. |
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Robert Lembo, MD, FAAP
Deputy Director
Dr. Lembo serves as both the Executive Director of Graduate Medical Education and as the Designated Institutional Official to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the NIH Clinical Center. In these roles, Dr. Lembo is responsible for administrative oversight of all ACGME accredited training programs at the Clinical Center, and for the maintenance of NIH institutional accreditation as a sponsor of graduate medical education specialty and subspecialty training programs nationally. He also serves as the director of the Clinical Electives Program, which provides senior year medical or dental students with an opportunity to gain firsthand experience working with patients enrolled in clinical or translational research protocols at the Clinical Center. Dr. Lembo is a graduate of Cornell University Medical College and completed his residency and fellowship training in Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has served as a faculty member at Case-Western Reserve University, Yale University and New York University. |
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Benita Bazemore
Program Specialist
Benita W. Bazemore has been with the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education since its inception in 2003. She currently coordinates the “Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research” course, which is broadcast across the United States and internationally. She also coordinates the online “Clinical Research Training” course and the NIH-Duke Training Program. Ms. Bazemore has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Winston-Salem State University. |
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Brian Bourne
Program Coordinator, Graduate Medical Education
Brian Bourne serves as the Graduate Medical Education Institutional Program Coordinator in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education He works collaboratively with the 17 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited specialty training program Directors and Coordinators to ensure their ongoing compliance with national standards. Mr. Bourne also provides administrative support to the NIH Graduate Medical Education Committee, a trans-NIH committee functioning to develop, implement, and monitor policies and procedures related to clinical training and education, and the quality of the work environment. He brings eight years of experience as a hospital administrator to the NIH, which he joined in August 2009. Mr. Bourne received a Bachelor of Arts from Western Maryland College and a Master of Health Administration from Cornell University. |
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Rhea Frazier
Program Support Assistant
Ms. Rhea Frazier provides essential administrative and program support services to allow the OCRTME to fulfill its mission within the NIH Clinical Center. She is also responsible for communicating with medical students, physicians, researchers and administrators within the NIH, and with extramural organizations, institutions of higher education, and training partners on behalf of the OCRTME. Before joining the office in 2009, Ms. Frazier was a Customer Service Representative at the Fannie Mae Corporation, where she served as the lead coordinator for training senior officers in an effort to affect change. Prior to that, she was an Executive Secretary at the IBM Corporation where she applied her organizational, office support and administration skills to develop and implement standardized internal procedures, and to plan and coordinate events. Ms. Frazier is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. |
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Virginia Hill
Special Assistant to the Director
A graduate of the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program, Virginia Hill joined the OCRTME in August 2009. As a PMF, Ms. Hill focused her attention on communications and public affairs to disseminate the important biomedical research of the NIH in new, creative ways. Ms. Hill is able to put her talents to work in the Clinical Center by working on intramural-extramural partnerships, implementation of social media tools, and strategic communications planning. Also, Ms. Hill coordinates the new Sabbatical program in Clinical Research Management. She earned her Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois in 2005. |
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Walter Jones, MHSA
Director for Diversity Management and Minority Outreach
As the Clinical Center Director of Diversity Management and Minority Outreach, Walter L. Jones devotes his time to increasing the diversity of clinical researchers in the biomedical research environment. In addition to managing the Clinical Center Summer Internship Program, Mr. Jones routinely interfaces with minority professional and academic programs to increase the awareness of training and career opportunities at the NIH Clinical Center. Mr. Jones has 30 years of professional experience in a variety of healthcare business environments, including several senior positions in the federal government. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Science from Binghamton University and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University. Mr. Jones also completed the Program for Senior Managers in Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. |
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Ione Lagasse
Program Analyst for Outreach & Recruitment
Ione Lagasse joined OCRTME in 2008 as a Program Analyst, focused on outreach and recruitment for the various educational programs offered by the Clinical Center. Prior to this position, Ms. Lagasse served as the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program Coordinator in the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) from 2000-2007. In this capacity, she established innovative mechanisms for providing informational disseminations and learning opportunities to agencies – internal and public. She also coordinated CME-certified educational activities through the NIH as an ACCCME-accredited provider to sustain NIH physician credentialing requirements and provided significant support to annual and re-accreditation requirements. She has made numerous contributions, including the Clinical Center survey project which resulted in the creation of the Clinical Center Grand Rounds Great Teachers Series. Ms. Lagasse also earned a 2002 Clinical Center Director’s Award. |
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Juan Lertora, MD, PhD
Director of Clinical Pharmacology
Since 2006, Dr. Lertora has managed the “Principles of Clinical Pharmacology” course offered to NIH trainees and staff scientists and a number of distance learning partners in the USA and abroad. Dr. Lertora oversees special training programs and elective rotations in clinical pharmacology for postdoctoral fellows, residents, and medical and pharmacy students. He also supervises the Clinical Research Curriculum Certificate Program. Dr. Lertora is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and faculty for the NIH-Duke Master’s Program in Clinical Research and the FAES Graduate School at NIH. Prior to joining the NIH, Dr. Lertora was Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology, and Head, Section of Clinical Pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Lertora is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, National University of the Northeast (Corrientes, Argentina), and the Tulane University Graduate School where he obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology. |
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Vicki Malick
Program Coordinator, Clinical Electives and Resident Electives
Vicki Malick is a Health Education Analyst in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education, Clinical Center. She currently handles four programs: the NIH Clinical Electives Program for Medical and Dental Students (CEP), NIH Resident Electives Program (REP), Intramural Program for Research on Women’s Health (IPRWH), and the Women’s Health Special Interest Group (WHSIG). Since 1976, she has devoted much of her career to medical education administration for students and physicians. She administered the NIH Clinical Research Training Program for its first four years from1997 to 2001. In 2001, she created the IPRWH and serves on its steering committee. She works closely with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health and Office of Intramural Research on these programs. Ms. Malick received her B.S. in Management Studies from the University of Maryland. |
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Donna Shields
Program Coordinator, Clinical Pharmacology
Donna Shields has served as the coordinator for the “Principles of Clinical Pharmacology” course since it began in 1998. Ms. Shields has also been the coordinator for the Clinical Research Curriculum Certificate Program since 2007. In these capacities, she also organizes the Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics Workshop held in October and sponsored by the Clinical Pharmacology Program at OCRTME and the NIH Center for Information Technology. Ms. Shields has been with OCRTME since it was established in the NIH Clinical Center in 2003. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland. |
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Sheila Stitt
Program Assistant
Sheila Stitt serves as Program Assistant to the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. She is responsible for scheduling the Clinical Center Grand Rounds lecture series and maintaining CME accreditation documentation for the course. Ms. Stitt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
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Kenny Williams
Education Program Coordinator, Clinical Research Training Program
Kenny J. Williams is the Education Program Coordinator in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. His primary role involves administrative responsibilities for the NIH’s Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) including recruitment, website development, advertisement, and direct communication with the CRTP participants, board of tutors, partners, and alumni. Mr. Williams has worked with the CRTP since the inception of the program in 1997 and has witnessed it grow from nine CRTP fellows to its current network of 280 fellows. He is one of the frontline points of contact at the NIH for medical and dental student training opportunities. |
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Linda Wisniewski, RN, MS, MBA
Nurse Consultant
Linda Wisniewski is a Nurse Consultant in the OCRTME and a 25 year critical care nurse who joined the OCRTME in 2007 after several years as a medication error safety evaluator in at the Food and Drug Administration. Ms. Wisniewski is the Project Officer for the NIH Continuing Medical Education (CME) contract, content manager for the OCRTME internet and intranet web pages, and is one of the Learning Management Systems (LMS) administrators for the Clinical Center.Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Maryland, a Master of Science in Health Care Administration from the University of Maryland University College, a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Innovation from Marymount University, and a Master of Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University. |
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