C-TASC Board of Directors

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Officers

Bruce Thompson, PhD
Chairman
Dr. Thompson, the senior biostatistician at C-TASC, has over 20 years of experience with multicenter clinical trials and has co-authored more than 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for three NIH studies. He has developed the statistical analyses required to shape the clinical design of these studies and other large clinical trials coordinated by C-TASC.

Dr. Thompson has a BA in Microbiology from the University of Missouri and a PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University.

Chris Donhauser, MBA
Treasurer
Christopher G. Donhauser, M.B.A., the C-TASC Executive Director, is responsible for overseeing the administrative functions of C-TASC. Mr. Donhauser has worked on grant and contract administration related to clinical trials for over twenty years. He is very familiar with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Federal Grants Management policies. Mr. Donhauser has been responsible for numerous contract/grant business proposals, contract/grant negotiations, indirect cost proposals and audits of contract and grant budgets and proposals. He has an undergraduate degree in accounting and has a working knowledge of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars (A21, A110, A-122, and A-133) and FAR cost principles.

Mr. Donhauser is the current Treasurer of the Society for Clinical Trials and a member of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA).


Margaret Frederick, PhD
Dr. Frederick is a biostatistician and Vice-President of C-TASC. She has over 20 years experience in biomedical research and has co-authored more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is currently the PI for one NIH study and a Co-PI for two others.

Margaret received her BS in Chemistry (minor Mathematics) from Randolph-Macon College and her PhD in Biostatistics from the Medical College of Virginia/VCU. She currently resides in Ellicott City, Maryland with her children Michael and Stephen.

Joseph Valeri, MBA, MS, RD
Joe Valeri is the Vice President and CIO of C-TASC. He has over 15 years experience designing and managing robust software applications and data centers. In 2000 Mr. Valeri co-founded Lucernex Technologies and designed and built a market leading web-based application platform. He also spent over 10 years at Marriott in their Healthcare Management division (now part of Sodexho USA) and was Chief of Clinical Nutrition of two major New York Hospitals.

He received a BS from the University of Maryland in Dietetics, an RD after a clinical internship at Yale New Haven Hospital, an MBA in Finance from the Smith School of Business and an MS in Decision and Information Technologies from the University of Maryland.

Mr. Valeri resides in Ellicott City, MD with his wife Jill and three children Anthony, Malia and Angelina.

Independent Board Members

Gennell Knatterud, PhD - Chair Emerita

Mark Blum, Esq - Secretary

Mr. James B. Cash , Esq

Norma Lynn Fox, PhD

Mr. Joseph M. Winkler