Office of Research Affairs (ORA)

• Faith Hawkins, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation
• Miroslav Krstic, Ph.D., Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation

Scheduling for AVC Hawkins and SAVC Krstic: ora-support@ucsd.edu

• Lana Panetta, Administrative Assistant to the VCRI, lpanetta@ucsd.edu
• Ella Hogue, Administrative Assistant, ehogue@ucsd.edu
  
  
  

• Stacey McDermaid, Human Resources Director, smcdermaid@ucsd.edu  
• Ingrid Pyper, Human Resources Business Partner (OCGA, OIC), ipyper@ucsd.edu  
• Tawni Cavazos, Human Resources Generalist (RCI, ORA), tmgrant@ucsd.edu  
• Parisa Yazdani, Human Resources Generalist (ORUs), pyazdani@ucsd.edu  
• Rachel Sandecki, Human Resources Assistant, rsandecki@ucsd.edu

• Linda Bartolome, Academic Personnel Manager, ljbartolome@ucsd.edu 
• Catherine Schumacher, Academic Personnel Manager, cdschumacher@ucsd.edu
• Isabel Castaneda, Academic Personnel Assistant, icastaneda@ucsd.edu

For more information visit ORU Core Services Academic Personnel.

• Kyle Nakanishi, Director, Business Operations, knakanishi@ucsd.edu
• Jessica Sergi, Financial Manager, jsergi@ucsd.edu  
• Robert Clark, Financial Analyst, rmc010@ucsd.edu  
  
  
  

• Debra Bass, Director of Communications, dbass@ucsd.edu
• Belen Olascuaga Viera, Communications Assistant (student), 
  beolascuagaviera@ucsd.edu
  
  
  

• Meg Sparling, Assistant Director, Limited Submissions, msparling@ucsd.edu

• Kendra Mingo, Proposal Manager, kmingo@ucsd.edu  
• Brittney De Alicante, Proposal Manager, bdealicante@ucsd.edu  
  
• Karen Gutierrez, Project Coordinator, k7gutierrez@ucsd.edu  
• I-Hsun Wu, Graphic Designer, iwu@ucsd.edu

For more information visit Research Development.

• Jessica Boensch, VCRI Project and Policy Analyst, jboensch@ucsd.edu  
• Devon Tolliver, VCRI Events and EDI Program Director, dntolliver@ucsd.edu  
• Lisa Trahan, Research Growth Coordinator, ltrahan@ucsd.edu
  
  

• Anne O’Donnell, Senior Executive Director, odonnell@ucsd.edu  
• Aeron Sugui, Administrative Assistant, asugui@ucsd.edu
  
  
  
  

• Kellie Uyeda, Ph.D., Executive Director, kuyeda@ucsd.edu  
• Richard Norris, Ph.D., Faculty Director, rnorris@ucsd.edu  
• Isabelle Kay, Reserves Manager (retiring November), ikay@ucsd.edu  
• Sean Smith, Reserves Steward, ses015@ucsd.edu

For more information visit  UC San Diego Natural Reserve System.

• Camille Nebeker, Ed.D, MS, Director, nebeker@ucsd.edu
• Starr Culver, Program Manager, smculver@ucsd.edu

For more information visit Research Ethics Program.

• Linda Bartolome, Research Scholar Manager, ljbartolome@ucsd.edu