Children’s Mercy Research Institute Leadership

Three groups are involved with leading the research enterprise of the Children's Mercy Research Institute.

Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer,
Executive Director, CMRI

Meet Dr. Leeder

Vice President, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Clinical & Research Integration

Deputy Director, CMRI
Director, Developmental Biology
Co-Director, Research Learning Center

Associate Director, CMRI
Clinician Scientist Career Development

Associate Director, CMRI
Academic Career Development

Chief Research Information Officer

Meet Dr. Hoffman

Aswini Betham PhD, CLP, Senior Director, Technology Transfer & Commercialization
Lori Erickson, PhD, MSN, RN, MSHCM, NEA-BC, CPNP-PC, Sr. Director, Remote Health Solutions
Daniel Heruth, PhD, Sr. Director, CMRI Laboratory Operations
Mark Hoffman, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer
Tony Jenkins, Chief Research Administration Officer
Dolores Lamb, PhD, Deputy Director, CMRI
Saskia Miller, CIP, Director, Office of Research Integrity
Diana Schwien, Director, Research Institute Accounting
Jaylene Weigel, MSN, MBA-HCM, CCRC, CPN, Chief Clinical Research Operations Officer

Andrea Bradley-Ewing, MPA, MA, Senior Director, Community Engaged Research
Jake Dahl, MD, PhD, Director of Research, Department of Surgery
Brooke Fridley, PhD, Center Director, Population Health and Outcomes Research
Elin Grundberg, PhD, Center Director, Genomic Medicine
Yong Li, PhD, Center Director, Molecular Oncology and Cellular Therapeutics
JD Nolen, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Tomi Pastinen, MD, PhD, Vice President, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Clinical and Research Integration
Mary Ann Queen, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Rangaraj Selvarangan, BVSc, PhD, Center Director, Emerging Infections
Shawn St. Peter, MD, Chair, Department of Surgery

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute Leadership