Jeffrey Schouten
HANC Director
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Jeffrey Schouten, MD, AAHIVS, Attorney at Law is the HANC Director and provides leadership and strategic direction for all of the cross-network coordination activities that the HANC project encompasses. The Director works closely with the Network Leaders and DAIDS to develop and implement strategies to coordinate activities and optimize collaboration between the networks and DAIDS and other funding and operational partners.
Jeff has been the HANC Director since September 2008. He is a former general surgeon with a focus on surgical oncology. He has been involved in HIV clinical research and HIV primary care for more than a decade. He is also a clinical investigator at the University of Washington AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. Jeff is an attorney with a strong interest in HIV public policy.
Amy Ragsdale
HANC Special Projects Coordinator
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Amy Ragsdale is the HANC Special Projects Coordinator and the primary point of contact at HANC for Behavioral Science, Communications, Data Management, and Financial Disclosure matters. As Special Projects Coordinator, Amy provides administrative and project management support for many special projects across the areas of coordination including communications and strategic planning.
Amy brings extensive experience in marketing, communications, event production, and strategic planning. She spent many years in the field of arts management and physical theater performance. In 2001, Amy received her MA in Philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Christie Villa
HANC Training, Evaluation and Site Management and Clinical Trial Logistics Coordinator
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Christie Villa joined the HANC team in July of 2006 taking on the role of the HANC Training and Evaluation Project Coordinator. Recently, she has expanded her role into the area of site management and clinical trial logistics and has become certified in the Clinical Trials Program at the University of Washington. Across these 3 areas of coordination she provides administrative and project management support working very closely with various collaborative partners.
Christie gradated with a BA from Marquette University in 2000 completing a pre-med course of study and a major in history. Living abroad for a year in Rome, Italy sparked her interest in pursuing this major, additionally increasing her passion for travel. As a native to Seattle, she loves the outdoors and taking advantage of the various activities Washington State has to offer.
Paige Etter
HANC Laboratory Coordinator
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Paige Etter is the HANC Laboratory Project Coordinator and the primary point of contact at HANC for laboratory coordination activities. Paige has a background in laboratory management, math and science education and process improvement. If Paige isn’t at work she's probably at the dance studio.
As Laboratory Project Coordinator, Paige provides administrative and project management support for laboratory working groups. Paige coordinates and facilitates conference calls, meetings, HANC portal activity, and projects, ensuring that working group activities address the objectives and meet the milestones outlined in the Laboratory section of the HANC work plan.
Russell Campbell
HANC Community Partners Coordinator
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Russell Campbell joined HANC in early 2008 as the Community Partners Coordinator and serves as the primary point of contact at HANC for community coordination activities. Russell has a unique mix of skills and experience with public health, research and community involvement.
As Community Partners Coordinator, Russell provides administrative and project management support for Community Partners and related working groups. Russell moderates conference calls, and meetings and is a hub for communications within the CP membership as well as with staff across the Networks and the larger cross-Network community. Russell helps manage CP document development and implementation including work plans, operating procedures, communication plans, training manuals, and best practices guidelines. He facilitates conference calls, meetings and HANC portal activity, ensuring that Community Partners activities address the objectives and meet the milestones outlined in the Community section of the HANC work plan.
Borris Powell
HANC Legacy Project, Community Engagement Officer
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Borris was introduced to HIV vaccine research as a volunteer for the Vaccine Preparedness Study (VPS), in Chicago Illinois.
Shortly thereafter, he served as Recruitment & Retention Coordinator for the Department of Research at Howard Brown Health Center. In this role he created and implemented culturally appropriate strategies toward the education, recruitment, and enrollment of eligible participants into both behavioral and clinical research (Vaxgen). While living in New York NY, Borris managed Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) services for the Northeastern region of the United States. Those services targeted organizations servicing African American communities. Simultaneously, he partnered with The New York Blood Center and New York Academy of Medicine to create the “DISH Project” which combined nutritional education, cooking instructions and HIV prevention messages. Pilot data, suggested a positive impact which led to a large scale trial.
He recently relocated to Seattle and enjoys gazing at Mount Rainier.
Paris Mullen
HANC Legacy Project, Community Engagement Officer
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As a motivational speaker and organizational consultant, Paris has worked to build bridges of trust and unity in various communities. Regionally and around the world, he has been an ambassador for reconciliation and social justice. During his career on the front lines with today’s youth and their families as a youth director and family therapist, Paris acquired first-hand knowledge of the importance of collaborating with the entire community in order to help remedy social ills. Paris has facilitated diversity, inclusion, and performance excellence workshops for major corporations. He was also an ambassador to Europe and Asia with the Seafair Organization. He has been working with the HANC Legacy Project since early 2010.
Rich Shikiar
HANC Protocol Costing Project
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Immediately prior to taking this position with HANC, Dr. Shikiar was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). Rich and his team were largely responsible for developing methods for costing clinical trial protocols developed and implemented by the HVTN. Prior to joining the HVTN in 2006, he was a Senior Research Scientist and COO of the Health Care Analytics Group of the United BioSource Corporation (formerly known as MEDTAP). Rich helped found MEDTAP in 1995, and was its initial President. He was responsible for developing methods for costing research proposals – including clinical trial protocols.
Rich’s personal research has spanned many fields, linked together by research methodology and statistics, applied social and industrial psychology, and psychometrics. His research has covered such topics as assessment of the impacts of medical technologies on health related quality of life; assessment of patient satisfaction with medication; assessment of indirect costs associated with illness - especially productivity loss; program evaluation; and caregiver burden.
Prior to helping found MEDTAP, Rich was with the Battelle Memorial Institute from 1979-1995, working as Director of the Battelle Seattle Research Center (BSRC) and Director of Battelle's Human Affairs Research Centers (HARC).
Rich was a tenured Associate Professor in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Section at Colorado State University prior to joining Battelle. He taught graduate-level courses in psychometrics, research design, multivariate statistics, industrial/organizational psychology and social psychology.