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Our Team

The RESTORE Network is composed of a multidisciplinary team from five universities: NYU Grossman School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Wayne State University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Johns Hopkins University. NYU Grossman School of Medicine also houses the network's Coordinating Center.​

NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Coordinating Center

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Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH

Director 

Olugbenga.Ogedegbe@nyulangone.org

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Olubukunola Oydele, PhD

Program Manager

Olubukunola.Oyedele@nyulangone.org

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Tanya Spruill, PhD

Co-Director

Tanya.Spruill@nyulangone.org

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Jessie Zhu, MPA

Program Coordinator 

Jiachen.Zhu@nyulangone.org

NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Joseph Ravenell, MD

Principal Investigator

joseph.ravenell@nyulangone.org

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Nayelis Garcia

Program Assistant

nayelis.garcia@nyulangone.org

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Tanisha Green, MPH

Program Coordinator

tanisha.green@nyulangone.org

University of Alabama at Birmingham EPIPHANY

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Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator 

acherrington@uabmc.edu

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Sh’Nese R. Holmes, MHA

Program Director

sholmes@uabmc.edu

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Shakia T. Hardy, PhD, MPH

Principal Investigator

sthardy@email.unc.edu

Johns Hopkins University
LINKED-BP 

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Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN

Principal Investigator 

ycommod1@jhmi.edu

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Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH

Co-Investigator

lisa.cooper@jhmi.edu

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Chidinma A. Ibe, PhD, MPH

Co-Investigator

cibe2@jhmi.edu

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Sarah Slone, PhD, DNP

Co-Investigator

sslone1@jhu.edu

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Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, PhD, RN, ANP  

Principal Investigator

chimmelfarb@jhu.edu

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Seth Martin, MD, MHS

Co-Investigator

smart100@jhmi.edu

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Oluwabunmi Ogungbe, PhD, MPH, RN

Co-Investigator

oogungb3@jh.edu

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​Janice Dugbartey , MPH

Research Program Manager

jallote1@jh.edu

Wayne State University
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Phillip Levy, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator 

plevy@med.wayne.edu

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​Ijeoma Opara, MD

Co-Investigator

innodim@med.wayne.edu

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Michael Twiner, MD, PhD

Co-Investigator

mtwiner@med.wayne.edu

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Katee Dawood, MBA

Project Coordinator

kdawood@wayne.edu

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James Young, MPH

Retention Coordinator

jlyoung@wayne.edu

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Avery Jordan

Research Assistant

paj@wayne.edu

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Robert Brook, MD

Co-Investigator

brook@wayne.edu

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Aisha Langford, PhD, MPH

Co-Investigator

aisha.langford@wayne.edu

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Bethany Foster, MPH

Program Manager

bfoste@med.wayne.edu

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Paul Kurian

Lead Research Assistant

paul.kurian@wayne.edu

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Parada Jordan, MS

Director of Community Engaged Research

pjordan@med.wayne.edu

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