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Meet the faculty and staff

John N. Clore, M.D.
Associate Vice President for Clinical Research
Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research
Program Director, General Clinical Research Center
Phone: (804) 828-9228
E-mail: jclore@mcvh-vcu.edu

In January 2007, John N. Clore, M.D., M.S., was appointed the Associate Vice President for Clinical Research to direct the newly created Center for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Clore is the principal investigator for VCU’s National Institutes of Health Planning Grant for the Clinical and Translational Science Award. He is currently leading VCU’s efforts to submit a CTSA application in October 2007. Additionally, Dr. Clore is the Program Director for the General Clinical Research Center and a professor in VCU’s Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from VCU, where he also earned his M.D. in 1982. Dr. Clore completed his residency and fellowship training at the VCU Medical Center. His research expertise is with diabetes mellitus focusing on the regulation of glucose production by the liver in Type 2 diabetes, and the role of fatty acid composition in insulin sensitivity or responsiveness. His educational expertise includes pathogenesis and treatment of Type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus and hypoglycemia.

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Pamela Dillon, Pharm.D.
Research Liaison
Phone: (804) 827-1519
E-mail: pmdillon@vcu.edu

Pamela Dillon received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Butler University in 1992. She then earned her doctorate from the VCU School of Pharmacy in 1997. Dr. Dillon has more than 15 years of broad-based pharmaceutical industry experience in product development planning, clinical trials management, regulatory compliance, medical writing, therapeutic monitoring and data management.

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Chris Gennings, Ph.D.
Research Incubator Director
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Phone: (804) 828-9824
E-mail: gennings@vcu.edu

Chris Gennings received a bachelor’s in Mathematics from the University of Richmond in 1982. She then earned her Ph.D. at VCU in Biostatistics. She is now a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Director of the Research Incubator. Her research interests include the development of designs and statistical analysis methods for drug/chemical mixture studies. She is the director of the T32 training grant in biostatistics entitled “Integration of Mixture Toxicology, Toxicogenomics and Statistics.” Through her work at the General Clinical Research Center, she has collaborated with many investigators on their clinical studies. Dr. Gennings’ expertise includes nonlinear regression modeling, categorical data analysis, statistical issues in mixture toxicology and analysis of complex mixtures.

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Bonnie Quearry
Grant Writer
Phone: (804) 827-1527
E-mail: bjquearry@vcu.edu

Bonnie Quearry received a bachelor’s in Chemistry from Memphis State University in 1979. In 2003, she joined the staff of the VCU Massey Cancer Center as a laboratory specialist. Prior to her most recent position as a Program Administrator, Quearry worked at NIH laboratories in the National Institutes of Cancer and Mental Health for more than 15 years.

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Leroy Thacker, Ph.D.
Biostatistician
Phone: (804) 827-1525
E-mail: s2lrthac@vcu.edu

Leroy Thacker received a bachelor’s in Mathematics from Randolph-Macon College in 1980. In addition to completing graduate work in statistics at Virginia Tech, he earned a master’s in Mathematical Sciences/Statistics in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics in 2003 from VCU. He is now a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics where he supports the Center for Clinical and Translational Research by providing full-time biostatistical services for researches throughout the university. His research expertise includes the analysis of survival data, the identification of influential subject in the mixed linear model and mixed linear model methodology. Dr. Thacker’s interests include consulting on statistical issues related to grant applications and working with researchers in the design and analysis of experiments.

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Jacob (Jake) Wegelin, Ph.D.
Biostatistician
Phone:  (804) 828-9824
Email:  jwegelin@vcu.edu

Jacob Wegelin received a Bachelor of Arts classics and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics graduating summa cum laude. He also received a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in statistics. He served in the Clinical and Translational Science Center at the University of California, Davis Medical Center and is now assistant professor in VCU’s Department of Biostatistics. He is interested in the analysis of longitudinal data and in the application of regression techniques to research questions raised by clinical investigators. He enjoys the collaborative process, from interviews, where initial ideas are forged into precise questions, through the unglamorous but important tasks of defining the form the data should take and cleaning the data, the development of mathematical models, interim presentations for conferences, drafting and revising the paper, and responding to — and learning from — reviewer comments. He enjoys critiquing a draft for clarity and organization. He believes in summarizing data by graphical means when possible and has gotten at least one picture in print where a table was initially assumed. His work has appeared or is in press in Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Psychoneuroendocrinology, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, Ophthalmology, Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Journal of Virology, Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Journal of Phonetics.

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Cornelia A. Ramsey, Ph.D., MSPH
Phone: (804) 827-1513
E-mail: caramsey@vcu.edu

Cornelia Ramsey, a Richmond native, received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Roanoke College. She earned her MSPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and, later, a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. Dr. Ramsey has more than 15 years of community-based research and community-based public health practice experience. Her research interests are community-based participatory research methods, faith and health research, and qualitative research methods.  

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