Ms. Lauren Shepler is the Research Project Manager for the Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System. She received her bachelor’s degree in the Biological Sciences from North Carolina State University in 2012 and continued on to earn her Master in Public Health with a focus on Environmental and Occupational Health from the Drexel University School of Public Health in 2015. Ms. Shepler has several years of project management experience using both quantitative and qualitative research methods in academic and community settings. She is passionate about her work and strives to make a positive impact on all the communities she interacts with.

After studying Comparative Literature and Spanish at Smith College, Deborah Nadler joined BHBIMS as a Research Coordinator. She graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2018 and was an Internal Medicine Resident Physician at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital. She is currently a cardiology fellow at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Edward graduated from Lafayette College with a degree in Neuroscience and French. Alongside being a Research Coordinator, Edward is also a Burn Ambassador for the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC). He currently works in consenting and following up with participants in the Burn Model System longitudinal outcome study. He has become very familiar with REDCap for creating instruments and implementing surveys for our team! He is currently working on a future project aimed to help burn survivors develop tools/resources for managing their burns as a chronic condition. Edward also speaks Spanish!

Brian Kelter graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a degree in History. He is currently working on the LIBRE Journey study, a project aiming to better understand the social aspects of healing and recovery following burn injury, in coordination with physical and psychological factors. He previously worked as a Research Coordinator in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, assisting on multiple early childhood development studies.

Callie Abouzeid graduated from Bates College with a degree in gender and sexuality studies with a concentration in public health. She is currently working on a project in conjunction with three other model system sites funded by NIDILRR to contribute to a national repository of data that will improve care and quality of life for future burn survivors.

Khushbu recently completed a Masters in Psychology from Boston University and currently works as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator in Dr. Ryan’s burn recovery outcomes lab at Shriners Hospital for Children. Her previous work experience includes her work in children involving attitudes and stigma related to adult-minor sexual abuse, effects of perceptions of child physical abuse from personal experiences, and using imagery rescripting as an intervention for sub-clinical PTSD patients.

Kate Surette graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Political Science. Her previous work experience includes social justice youth education and development at RFK Human Rights in D.C. She is currently working as a Clinical Research Coordinator in Dr. Ryan’s burn recovery outcomes lab on the development of a parent reported computer-adaptive test to measure the physical, psychological, and social recovery of pediatric burn survivors.

Sarah Findeisen graduated from Boston College with a BA in Applied Psychology and Human Development. She currently works as a Clinical Research Coordinator in Dr. Ryan’s Burn Outcomes Lab at Shriners Hospital for Children which is focused on creating a metric system for burn victims. Her previous work experience includes disseminating research on post-consumer textile waste and its connections with environmental and social justice.

Cami Rencken received her BS in Global Disease Biology from the University of California, Davis, and her ScM in Global Public Health from Brown University. Cami previously worked at the UC Davis Medical Center where she was first introduced to the field of burn injuries. She continued her research with burns during graduate school where she studied barriers to continuation of care and patient-reported outcomes for burn survivors in South Africa. While part of the BHBIMS team, she worked as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator conducting research to develop and validate computer-adaptive parent-proxy outcome measures of health-related quality of life for pediatric patients with burn injuries.

Silvanys Rodriguez graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience. Silvanys previously led a research project focused on neurodevelopmental mutations observed in families of multiple ethnic backgrounds, including the Mennonite community in Lancaster, PA. While with the BHBIMS team, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator on the development and validation of a parent-reported computer-adaptive test to measure the physical, psychological, and social recovery of pediatric burn survivors.

Audrey Wolfe received her BS in Exercise Science from the University of South Carolina and her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University. She is the former Research Project Manager for the Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System. Audrey has several years of research experience within a number of settings including local and state health departments, hospitals, and the community. She currently is a Project Manager at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

Olivia Stockly joined BHBIMS as a research coordinator in 2018 after receiving a degree in Chinese from Bates College. She is currently receiving her MBS from Tufts University.

Gabrielle Grant graduated from Holy Cross in 2017 with a degree in Biology. She joined BHBIMS as a research coordinator in 2018. She is receiving her BSN/PhD from University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.

Emily Ohrtman joined BHBIMS as a research coordinator after graduating from Smith College with a degree in Anthropology and Neuroscience in 2016. She currently works as a research coordinator at the UCSF Memory and Aging Lab and is going back to school to become a nurse practitioner.

Laura Simko graduated from Boston College in 2015 with a degree in Physics. She joined BHBIMS as a Research Coordinator and, in 2016 took on the role of Research Project Manager. She currently attends Stanford Medical School.

Erin Kinney holds a B.A. in Biology from the College of the Holy Cross. Her medical research interests originate from her field research experience while studying abroad in Tanzania and working with the Biology department chair at Holy Cross in her laboratory. While interning with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she was exposed to the field of public health through her work in the Epidemiology Workforce Branch. She currently works as a Clinical Research Coordinator working to develop a parent-reported computer-adaptive test to measure the physical, psychological, and social recovery of pediatric burn survivors.

Leda Espinoza joined BHBIMS as a Research Coordinator after graduating from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a degree in Biology. She is currently attending University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Vivian Shie studied Biology and Health: Science, Society, and Policy at Brandeis University and joined BHBIMS as a Research Coordinator in 2014. She currently attends Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.