Director: Samuel Klein, MD
Associate Director: Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD
Associate Director: Brian Finck, PhD
Administrator: Stephanie Paton
Contact: Stephanie Paton
Phone: 314-362-2632
Email: spaton@wustl.edu
The Washington University NORC Administrative Core promotes collaboration, growth and success within the NORC membership. The NORC Director, Associate Directors, Administrator, and Core Directors/Associate Directors, with governance by the Executive Committee, are responsible for monitoring and documenting the use of each Core, preventing overlap of funding for services provided, managing the budget, and making certain compliance and appropriate guidelines are met. The Administrative Core oversees the Enrichment Program, manages the Pilot and Feasibility Program, coordinates the Executive Committee and External Advisory Committee meetings, tracks publications and grants that were facilitated by NORC funding, manages and oversees the fiscal aspects of the NORC and reports annually to the NIH/NIDDK.
Committees
| Name | Relevant Positions |
|---|---|
| Samuel Klein, MD | Committee Chair NORC Director |
| Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD | NORC Associate Director Clinical Science Research Core Director |
| Brian Finck, PhD | NORC Associate Director Animal Model Research Core Director |
| Nada Abumrad, PhD | Cellular and Molecular Biology Core Director |
| Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, RN | Dissemination and Implementation Science Core Director |
| Dominic Reeds, MD | Pilot and Feasibility Program Director |
| Brian DeBosch, MD, PhD | Enrichment Program Director |
| William Powderly, MD | Director, Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences |
| Name | Appointments | Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Naji Abumrad, MD | Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Obesity Bariatric Surgery Substrate and Energy Metabolism |
| Dennis Bier, MD | Professor of Pediatrics Director, USDA Nutrition Research Center Baylor College of Medicine | Pediatric Nutrition and Obesity Stable Isotope Tracers and Mass Spectrometry Intermediary Metabolism |
| Jay Horton, MD | Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Animal Models Molecular Biology Fatty Liver Lipoprotein Metabolism |
| Steven Zeisel, MD | Professor of Pediatrics Chair, Department of Nutrition University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | Micronutrients Genetics Public Health |