About Our Staff

Sean Rinehart
Office of Research Information Management Director
Phone:  305-243-7035
E-mail:  srinehart@med.miami.edu
Holds a dual role as manager and member of the Office of Strategic Planning. Responsible for setting team priorities and making sure that our applications, processes, and support mechanisms allow us to meet the needs of our end-users in the research community.

L. Jared Abramson
Senior Systems Business Analyst
Phone:  305-243-9614
E-mail:  JAbramson@med.miami.edu
Responsible for supporting members of the University of Miami research community by providing information regarding sponsored programs activity, and designing and enhancing data systems to improve the quality of this information and make it more easily accessible to the various stakeholders.

Patricia Atkinson
eRA Project Manager
1. InfoEd Proposal Development/Proposal Tracking
2. InfoEd System Administrator
3. SpinPlus Administrator
Phone:  305-243-9245
E-mail:  PAtkinson@med.miami.edu
Responsible for project management for the InfoEd Proposal Tracking and Proposal Development modules, System Administration for the InfoEd Electronic Research Administration system and General oversight of the InfoEd SPIN/SMARTS/GENIUS modules.

Albert Labrada
eRA Project Manager
1.InfoEd Lab Animals Development and Management
2.Granite Enterprise and Web Animal Orders (WAO)
3.Topaz Enterprise
4.Mobile Census
Phone:  305-243-9260
E-mail:  ALabrada@med.miami.edu
Responsible for software infrastructure supporting  Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR) operations. Albert ensures that our lab animals modules in InfoEd supports our IACUC and PI needs for the development and management of protocols. In addition, Albert is responsible for the TOPAZ GRANITE Enterprise system supporting our DVR and PI needs in animal facility management and web animal orders.

Eric B. Ponce
Velos eResearch Senior Project Manager
1. Velos System Administrator
Phone:  305-243-1107
E-mail: EPonce@med.miami.edu
Oversees the implementation of Velos and works with departments and other administrative processes as they begin to use the new Clinical Trials Management System.

Kanchan Sakhrani
Velos eResearch Project Manager
1. Velos System Administrator
Phone:  305-243-3896
E-mail: ksakhrani@med.miami.edu
Oversees the implementation of Velos and works with departments and other administrative processes as they begin to use the new Clinical Trials Management System.

Stephen DeGennaro
Velos eResearch Senior Programmer Analyst
1. Velos System Administrator
Phone:  305-243-1334
E-mail:  SGennaro@med.miami.edu
Oversees the technical deployment of the Velos system, its integration with other UM infrastructures, and development of specialized functionality to support studies.

Jorge Jauregui
Intermediate Programmer
Phone:  305-243-9897
E-mail:  JJauregui@med.miami.edu
Assists our office with developing multi-tiered web applications and system to system queries for a variety of business processes to support all of our electronic research applications.   

Deborah M Duran
Assistant eRA Project Manager
Phone:  305-243-9248
E-mail:  dduran2@med.miami.edu
Responsible for InfoEd Proposal Development/Proposal Tracking system administration/coordination, administration of the legacy Office of Research websites and daily administration of the Research Reporting and Service Desk systems for the ORIM team.

Shawn Felix
Help Desk Technician
1. InfoEd System Support
2. Lab Animal Systems Support
3. Velos System Support
Phone:  305-243-2314
E-mail:  sfelix@med.miami.edu
Responsible for tier 1 support to all systems managed by the Office of Reseach Information Management.