Meet Our Leadership & Administration Teams h1 >
The GLIA-CTN is led by multiple investigators with decades of clinical research expertise and extensive leadership experience.
Executive Committee h2 >
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Adeline L. Vanderver, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Attending Physician
Program Director of the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence
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Florian Eichler, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Director of the Leukodystrophy Service and the Center for Rare Neurological Diseases
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S. Ali Fatemi, MD, MBA
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD
Chief Medical Officer
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Clinical Liaison
Joshua L. Bonkowsky, MD, PhD
University of Utah Health
Salt Lake City, UT
Division Chief of Pediatric Neurology
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Program Manager
Omar S. Sherbini, MPH
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Program Manager for GLIA-CTN
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Advocacy Committee
Erica Barnes, MHA
Co-Founder, Chloe’s Fight Rare Disease Foundation
Co-Chair, GLIA-CTN Advocacy Committee
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Kristie DeMarco, BS
President and Founder, Global DARE Foundation
Co-Chair, GLIA-CTN Advocacy Committee
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Data Integration Core
Richard Aplenc, MD, PhD, MSCE
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Alex Felmeister, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi)
Philadelphia, PA
Data Integration Supervisor
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Robert Grundmeier, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE)
Philadelphia, PA
Core Faculty Member
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Abbas F. Jawad, PhD, MSC
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Director of Biostatistics Core in the Center for Human Phenomic Science (CHPS)
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Justine Shults, PhD, MS
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Faculty director of the Biostatistics and Data Management Core (BDMC)