Alexander Quarshie, M.D., M.Sc., is the Associate Director of the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) program, MSM. He serves as the Director of the Biostatistics and Data management Core of the Clinical Research Center (CRC) at MSM, and is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Quarshie directs the Laboratory Cores Rotation, Seminar and Mentored Research Project courses.   

Ahmad Al-Mahmoud, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine (CHPM), MSM. He has over 15 years of experience in teaching statistics, and currently teaches the Biostatistics and Analysis of Frequency Data courses that are also attended by MPH and PhD students. He has been a contributor to articles in the area of biostatistics, and his main research interest is in statistical modeling.

Jerome Carter, MD, is an adjunct Associate Professor in the department of CHPM. Dr. Carter directs the Introduction to Medical Informatics course, and is nationally recognized expert in this area. His research interests are in clinical database design/computer-based patient record and the immune system as a model for information processing.  He has published over thirty articles, books, and book chapters in these areas.

Eugene Z. Oddone, M.D., M.H.Sc., is Professor and Director of K30 program at Duke University Medical Center and Director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA.  Dr. Oddone has had a career long interest in conducting high quality health services research studies and mentoring future generations of clinical researchers.  He has written several fellowship training grants, and currently teaches our Health Services Research course.

Jose Binongo, PhD, is a lecturer, department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and directs our Clinical Trials course. His research interest is in linear modeling, and has published several articles on statistical approaches and linear models. 

Brenda Hayes, DSW, MPH, is the Director, Grant and Proposal Development, Office of Sponsored Research Administration (OSRA) and the Director, Community Partnership Development, COEHD. She is a co-Investigator on the NIH, EXPORT award to fund a Center of Excellence.  Dr. Hayes has taught several courses and presented several seminars and workshops on proposal development to graduate students, physicians and other faculty/staff since 1997, and currently teaches our Proposal Development course. 

Julian Menter, PhD, Research professor, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology is the instructor for Ethics in Vulnerable Populations course.  During his own research and as a member of the Institutitional Review Board he has a vast amount of experience in the area of ethics when dealing with clinical research.

Lee Caplan,MD, PhD is an Associate Professor, Department of CHPM, and Assistant Director of Research, Prevention Research Center, MSM.  He is an epidemiologist, and has published over thirty-five articles in the area of epidemiology and preventive medicine.  He is currently the PI, on a component of the NIH, Export Grant, involving administering a survey on smoking and other risky behaviors of students at the Atlanta University Center.  Dr. Caplan directs the Introduction to Epidemiology course for the MPH and MSCR programs.