2021-2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES & SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

The Intersections Science Fellows Symposium is structurally organized as a postdoc-driven, faculty-supported and -advised multi-institutional initiative.

Steering Committee

• Nii Addy, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

• Brionna Davis-Reyes, PhD, Postdoc, Yale School of Medicine

• Aileen Fernandez, PhD, Postdoc, Yale School of Medicine

• Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD, Director, Yale Ciencia Initiative, Yale School of Medicine *

• Erin Heckler, PhD, Associate Provost, Postdoctoral Affairs, Yale University *

• Anterton (AJ) Hinton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine 

• Anup Parchure, PhD,  Postdoc, Yale School of Medicine (Outreach co-chair)

• Rochelle D. Smith, MS, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, and Associate Chief Diversity Officer, Yale School of Medicine *

• Chrystal Starbird, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yale School of Medicine 

• Olga Buzovetsky, PhD, Postdoc, Rockefeller University (Professional Dev co-chair) sharing responsibility to attend steering committee with:

• Jennifer McKey, PhD, Postdoc, Duke University (Professional Dev co-chair)

• Beth Evans, PhD, Postdoc, University of California Irvine (Program Committee co-chair) sharing responsibility to attend steering committee with:

• Christina Cho, PhD, Postdoc, Yale School of Medicine, (Program Committee co-chair)

• Anil Kumar, PhD, Postdoc, Yale University, (Fellow Selection Committee co-chair)

• Preeti Thakur, PhD, Postdoc, University of Massachusetts Medical School, (Fellow Selection Committee co-chair)

• Piyush Kumar, PhD, Postdoc, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, (Outreach co-chair)

• Walter Fischler, PhD, Postdoc, Columbia (Mentoring co-chair)

• Danielle Tomasello, PhD, Postdoc, MIT (Mentoring co-chair)
  

Senior Advisors

• Antonio Giraldez, PhD, Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Genetics, Chair, Genetics Department, Yale School of Medicine

• Darin Latimore, MD, Chief Diversity Officer, Deputy Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine

Administrative Assistance

• Kelley James, Senior Administrative Assistant, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine

• Michele Carpenter, Program Manager, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine