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Sponsored Program Administration
Aleta Savage - Assistant Vice President, oversees all Sponsored Program Administration operations
Proposals & Award Management 
LaShonda Cooley - Senior Director oversees administrative processes
Denise Reid - Associate Director oversees GCO procedures
- Eddie Dickson - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Regina Irby - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Danetta Smith - Grant/Contract Officer IV
Andrea Hill - Associate Director oversees GCO procedures
- Hassan Hussein - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Sophia Johnson-Parks - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Tina Poole - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Rochelle Smith - Grant/Contract Officer IV
Tip: The SPA Pre and Post team handles proposal submission and award management for sponsored project awards and "funded" agreements. Grant/Contract Officer unit assignments
Sponsored Contracts and Subcontracts 
Patty Yuhas Kieleszewski - Associate Director oversees the Contracts area which includes sponsored contracts, clinical trials, subcontracts, and unfunded agreements
- Shaterra Childs - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Asa Mulligan - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Patrick Piszker - Grant/Contract Officer IV
- Karen Tomlinson - Grant/Contract Officer IV
Tip: The SPA Contracts Team supports faculty and researchers in negotiating and finalizing contracts with sponsors, including local, state, and federal government agencies as well as private organizations; and manages all aspects of subcontract processing for external entities involved in the substantive or programmatic components of sponsored projects.
Finance 
Marlene Erno - Senior Director oversees the Finance area which includes financial reporting, billing, and insitutional support
Jerry MacDonald - Associate Director, oversees financial grant reporting
- Shamim Bashar - Accountant III
- Steve Chatman - Accountant III
- Krisshawn Cherry - Accountant I
- Abdul Daudpota - Accountant III
- Lucy Liu - Accountant III
- Desiree Marks - Accountant I
- Larry Rivett - Accountant II
- Rick Stanley - Accountant I
- Mimi Sultana Majid - Accountant II
Steve Baggett - Associate Director, oversees grant billing and invoices
- Lawanna Dean - Accountant II
- Darryl Smith - Accountant I
- Tiana Smith - Accountant I
- Brian Weaver - Accountant III
Ben Phillips - Associate Director, oversees financial institutional support
- Niji Shah - Accountant III
- Jason Wagner - Accountant II
- Ying Yuan - Accountant III
- Taslima Zafrin - Accountant II
Tip: Institutional Support processes Change in Labor Distribution and Redistribution (CLDR)
Imaging/Support
Jody Cooper - Office Manager - oversees imaging of sponsored program related documents
- Jewell Hardin - Imaging Clerk I
- Dee Vernier - Office Service Clerk, Senior
Sponsored Program Administration Main Office Number: 313-577-3726