HRS Contacts
Health Research Services (HRS) Staff Directory
| Tracy Arabski
Director |
Oversees Health Research Services (HRS), which provides value-added service to the Faculty of Health Sciences community through provision of professional and timely research administrative and core facility services. Support ranges from guiding researchers through the research funding application process to effectively bringing awarded projects into operation. |
| Michelle Czerwinski
Associate Director, Research Administration & Infrastructure |
Manages HRS resources, budget, and Institutional Initiatives for FHS through:
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| Julie Croskill
Research Grants Manager |
Primary Contact for: Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
Program support for: All internal and external funding opportunities. Provides pre award assistance, helps identify research funding opportunities and assists in the development of grant application, budgets, and knowledge translation strategies. Ensures that proposals, commitments, and acquired signatures comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Augusta Beck
Research Information Systems Coordinator |
Provides research funding and performance data for FHS while also providing guidance to all HRS staff regarding data integrity and data compliance. |
| Rebecca Leone
Administration and Compliance Coordinator |
Provides administrative, contracts and agreements support and helps manage compliance with Clinical Trials, McMaster auspices, CTO, CITI-CGP training, N2, Clinical Trials.gov and Health Canada audits for FHS. |
| Alla Panasyuk
Core Facilities Financial Coordinator |
Provides administrative and financial support to core facilities based in the Faculty of Health Sciences. |
Contract and Agreements
| Caroline Woods
Senior Agreements Officer |
Primary contact for: Contracts and Agreements for Anesthesia, Medicine, Oncology, Pathology, Radiology and Surgery.
Negotiates research agreements with funding agencies and collaborators for the Faculty of Health Sciences grant funded projects. |
| Rubi James
Agreements Officer |
Primary contact for: Biochemistry, Family Medicine, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, Nursing, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Rehabilitation Science.
Negotiates research agreements with funding agencies and collaborators for the Faculty of Health Sciences grant funded projects. |
| Vera Andrews Agreements Officer |
Primary contact for: TBD
Negotiates research agreements with funding agencies and collaborators for the Faculty of Health Sciences grant funded projects. |
HRS Grants Team
| Catherine Gill Pottruff
Senior Grants Advisor |
Primary contact for: Medicine A-L, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Surgery
Program support for: PSI Research Trainee Award Assists researchers with proposal development by reviewing applications, providing advice, and drafting institutional elements of proposals, as applicable. Ensures that proposals, commitments, and acquired signatures comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Sarah McNiven-Scott
Senior Grants Advisor, Institutional Initiatives |
Primary contact for: Institutional Initiatives, Oncology and Anesthesia
Program support for CFI, CRC, ERA, Genome Canada and NFRF Transformation. Assists researchers with proposal development by reviewing applications, providing advice, and drafting institutional elements of proposals, as applicable. Ensures that proposals, commitments, and acquired signatures comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Maryam Shirinzadeh
Senior Grants Advisor |
Primary contact for: Medicine M-Z, Psychiatry and Biochemistry
Program support for: PSI Research Trainee Award Assists researchers with proposal development by reviewing applications, providing advice, and drafting institutional elements of proposals, as applicable. Ensures that proposals, commitments, and acquired signatures comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Caitlin Siu
Senior Grants Advisor, Institutional Initiatives |
Primary contact for: Institutional Initiatives ,Radiology and Family Medicine
Assists researchers with proposal development by reviewing applications, providing advice, and drafting institutional elements of proposals, as applicable. Ensures that proposals, commitments, and acquired signatures comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Heather Travis
Senior Grants Advisor |
Primary contact for: Nursing, Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact and Pathology
Assists researchers with proposal development by reviewing applications, providing advice, and drafting institutional elements of proposals, as applicable. Ensures that proposals and funding agreements comply with University policies, and conform to the criteria and guidelines of the program sponsor. |
| Jennifer Raymond
Grants Specialist |
Provides administrative support to HRS staff. Prepares and updates documentation and database entries related to FHS faculty research projects. |
| Ayesha Waheed
Grants Specialist |
Provides administrative support to HRS staff. Prepares and updates documentation and database entries related to FHS faculty research projects. |
| Franca Mazur
Grants Specialist |
Provides administrative support to HRS staff. Prepares and updates documentation and database entries related to FHS faculty research projects. |