Secretariat Team
Leadership
Teji Rakhra-Burris
Executive Director, GGMC
- Research Program Leader, Sr, Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
- Co-Founder, MeTree&You, Inc.
- Biography: Duke Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine
- USA, North Carolina
Scott Sundseth, Ph.D.
Program Director, IHCC
- Founder, Sundseth Consulting, LLC
- Member, G2MC
- USA, North Carolina
Ludy (Ludivine) de Menten, Ph.D.
Program Manager, IHCC
- Autoimmune & Nutrigenomics Health Coach
- CEO, Healthy with Ludy, LLC
- USA, North Carolina
Organizational Support
Ytina Mangum, M.S.
Finance Director, GGMC
- Director of Administration and Finance, General Internal Medicine,Duke University Medical Center
- USA, North Carolina
Sharelija Lawrence, M.B.A, M.S.W.
Bookkeeper, GGMC
- Permanency Planning Supervisor, Wake County Health and Human Services
- USA, North Carolina
Communications, Website, and IT
Meredith Towery, M.S., M.B.A.
Communications Director, GGMC
- Communications Manager, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University
- USA, North Carolina
Chris Nelson
Communications Specialist, GGMC
- Digital Marketer, Bright Eyed Media, Volt Labs
- Communications Specialist, Medical Minds Matter
- USA, Nebraska
Chip Burris
Technology Services Director, GGMC
- Principal and Co-founder, Knowledge Tier inc.
- Former Senior Principal Software Engineer, ShiftWizard
- USA, North Carolina
Working Group Project Managers
John Connolly, Ph.D.
Working Group Project Manager, IHCC
Science Strategy Working Group
- Scientist III, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
- Program Manager, Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network
- USA, Pennsylvania
Carles Garcia, Ph.D.
Working Group Project Manager, IHCC
Data Infrastructure Working Group
- Project Coordinator, “Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa” (CINECA) project
- Project Coordination Officer, EMBL-EBI
- United Kingdom
Latifa El Hadri, Ph.D.
Working Group Project Manager, IHCC
Training & Workforce Working Group
Policies & Systems Working Group
- Global Health System Strengthening, Consultant
- Former Visiting Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology in Duke University’s Medical Center
- Member, French Alliance and International Students Organizations
- Founder, Moroccan Association of NC
- USA, North Carolina
