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Program Personnel

​​​The UC San Diego RAPID program is comprised of faculty directors, an evaluation team, and a program manager, and is housed in the UC San Diego Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs. If you have any questions regarding the program, please email us at hsfacaffairs@ucsd.edu.

Principal Investigators

  • JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA

    JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA

    Senior Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs
    Professor, Pharmacology
    Tel: 858-246-0150
  • Vivian Reznik, MD, MPH

    Vivian Reznik, MD, MPH

    Professor, Pediatrics
    Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science​
    Faculty Director, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs
    Tel: 858-534-2952
  • ​Victor Nizet, MD

    ​Victor Nizet, MD

    Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Research, Pediatrics
    Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics
    Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Tel: 858-534-7408
  • Davey Smith, MD, MAS

    Davey Smith, MD, MAS

    Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Medicine
    Assistant Vice Chancellor, Clinical and Translational Research​
    Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
    Tel: 858-642-1620
  • Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD

    Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD

    Professor of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Pediatrics
    Associate Dean for Research and Innovations, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences​
    Tel: 858-822-3339

Evaluation Team

  • Deborah Wingard, PhD

    Deborah Wingard, PhD

    Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
    Faculty Director, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs
  • Danielle Fettes, PhD

    Danielle Fettes, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry​
    Faculty Director, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs

Program Manager

  • Yelda Serin, PhD, MA

    Yelda Serin, PhD, MA

    Summer Institutes Lead and RAPID Program Manager, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs