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 Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Professor, Pharmacology Email: joanntrejo@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-246-0150
​Vivian Reznik, MD, MPH Professor, Pediatrics Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health Faculty Director, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs Email: vreznik@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-534-2952
​Victor Nizet, MD Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Research, Pediatrics Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Email: vnizet@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-534-7408	​
Davey Smith, MD, MAS Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Medicine Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health Email: d13smith@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-642-1620	​
​Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD Professor of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Pediatrics Email: ewinzeler@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-822-3339

​Evaluation Team	​
​Deborah Wingard, PhD Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health Faculty Director, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs Email: dwingard@ucsd.edu
​Samantha Hurst, PhD Project Scientist, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health Email: shurst@ucsd.edu

​Program Manager	​
​Yelda Serin, PhD, MA Data Analyst and Program Manager, Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs Email: yserin@ucsd.edu