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The Beyond Traditional Borders Leadership Team

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD

Principal Investigator
Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative

Chair and Stanley C. Moore Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Yvette Mirabal, MPH

Director
Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Lauren Vestewig, MA

Executive Director
Rice 360°: Technology Solutions for World Health

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Allison Lipper II

Allison Lipper

Program Associate
Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Janet Wheeler

Program Coordinator
Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Cheryl

Cheryl Morehead

Program Coordinator
Rice 360°: Technology Solutions for World Health

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

Grace Wichmann

Research Assistant
Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative

Department of Bioengineering
Rice University

The Beyond Traditional Borders Steering Committee

	George Bennett, PhD Faculty Committee Member Chair and Professor Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Rice University
	Maria Oden, PhD Faculty Committee Member Lecturer and Laboratory Coordinator Department of Bioengineering Rice University
	Jennifer West, PhD Faculty Committee Member Isabel C. Cameron Professor Department of Bioengineering Rice University
	Kyriacos Zygourakis, PhD Faculty Committee Member A.J. Hartsook Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Rice University

The Beyond Traditional Borders program integrates the efforts of people from multiple disciplines to participate in the educational component of the international health initiative. Below is a brief list of initiative institutional partners and participating faculty.

The Beyond Traditional Borders Educational Team

Rice University
	George Bennett, PhD	Biochemistry & Cell Biology
	Elias Bongmba, PhD	Religious Studies
	Baruch Brody, PhD	Philosophy
	Katharine Donato, PhD	Sociology
	Bridget Gorman, PhD	Sociology
	Rudy Guerra, PhD	Statistics
	Vivian Ho, PhD	James A. Baker III Institute
	Philip Kortum, PhD	Psychology
	Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD	Bioengineering
	Neal Lane, PhD	James A. Baker III Institute
	Maria Oden, PhD	Bioengineering
	Kirsten Ostherr, PhD	English
	Jennifer West, PhD	Bioengineering
	Kyriacos Zygourakis, PhD	Chemical Engineering
Baylor College of Medicine
	Mark Kline, MD	Pediatrics
	G. Robert Parkerson, MD, MPH	Family & Community Medicine
UT Medical Branch
	Janice Smith	Family Medicine, International Programs
	Clinton White, MD	Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division
UT Health Science Center Houston
	Ananth Annapragada	Bioinformatics
	Doreen Rosenstrauch, MD, PhD	Department of Cardiology
	Steve Tyring, MD, PhD, MBA	Dermatology
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Ann Gillenwater, MD	Head & Neck Surgery
UT School of Public Health
	Cynthia Chappell, PhD	Biological Sciences
	Nuria Homedes, MD, MPH	Management & Policy Sciences