Leadership
Randolph Hall
Randolph Hall is the Vice President of Research
rwhall@usc.edu
Hall is responsible for leading research initiatives across the university, overseeing research advancement, administration and ethics activities. Hall’s experience includes serving as the founder/principal investigator for two national research centers, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), and the National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research (METRANS). He also served as senior associate dean for research in the Viterbi School of Engineering for four years. Hall was chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering during a period when the faculty size grew by 50%, and when it became the first named academic department at the University of Southern California, upon receipt of a $10 million gift from Daniel J. Epstein.
Hall is the author of Queueing Methods for Services and Manufacturing (Prentice Hall, 1997) and the editor of Handbook of Transportation Science (Springer, 2003), Patient Flow, Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery (Springer, 2006) and Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling (Springer, 2012). He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and L.A. Care. Dr. Hall has numerous publications in the areas of transportation, logistics, system engineering, and queueing. Hall received his Ph.D. (1982) and M.S. (1980) in civil engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He received his B.S. in industrial engineering and operations research from U.C. Berkeley in 1979.
Krisztina ‘Z’ Holly
Krisztina Holly is the Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation z@usc.edu.
Krisztina “Z” Holly is an innovation expert who lives, works, and plays at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, design, and academia. As vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California and founding executive director for the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, she leads a team of over 30 to help faculty and students across USC’s 17 professional schools and the College to make maximum impact with their ideas — whether as startups, nonprofits, new products, or licenses — and to develop skills for lifelong innovation.
Holly previously served as the founding executive director of MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, which has since spawned twenty startup companies that have raised over $180M in venture capital and has served as a model for dozens of similar program across the country. Holly earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT and worked on the MIT Media Lab team that developed the world’s first computer-generated, full-color reflection hologram.
Steven Moldin
Steven Moldin is Executive Director of the USC Washington, DC Office of Research Advancement
moldin@usc.edu
Moldin directs USC’s research advancement efforts in Washington, D.C. He has conducted research at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University and was a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1995, Moldin joined the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of the National Institutes of Health, to manage an extramural research portfolio. He left in 2006, having led the Office of Human Genetics & Genomic Resources and having served as Associate Director of the Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science. Moldin was responsible for the fiscal and scientific management of a $200 million grants and contracts portfolio, and increased the yearly funding of NIMH’s human genetics research portfolio by 56% over two years.
Moldin is an associate editor of Genes, Brain, and Behavior and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Moldin has published over 50 papers and book chapters in the areas of psychiatric genetics, schizophrenia, autism and neuroscience. He is co-editor of Methods in Genomic Neuroscience and Understanding Autism: From Basic Neuroscience to Treatment.
Moldin received his B.A. magna cum laude with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa in psychology from Boston University (1983), his M.A. in psychology from Yeshiva University (1985), and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University (1988). He completed an internship at Hillside Hospital – Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1988) and received postdoctoral training in genetics at Washington University School of Medicine (1988-1991).
Jeri L. Muniz
Jeri Muniz is the Executive Director of the Department of Contracts and Grants
jeri.muniz@usc.edu
Jeri began working in the field of research administration as a student at the University of California, Irvine. After graduating with a B.A. in Psychology, she began her career in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, but soon found her way back to research administration. During her fourteen year tenure at UCI, Jeri assumed a number of roles in research administration: Grants Officer, Contracts Officer, Trainer, Conflict of Interest Administrator, Assistant Director and Director, Sponsored Projects. Jeri joined the Trojan Family as the Executive Director for the Department of Contracts and Grants in March, 2008. As Executive Director, she is responsible for the overall management and administration of pre- and post-award non-financial services related to extramural proposals and awards.
Jeri is also an active member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) and is currently Chair-Elect for Region VI. Jeri is frequent presenter on such topics as subrecipient monitoring, working with industry, and strategies for successful negotiations.
Susan Rose
Susan Rose is the Executive Director of the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects
susanros@usc.edu
Dr. Susan L. Rose serves as the Executive Director in the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects at the University of Southern California. She was hired to achieve AAHRPP accreditation for USC, which entailed developing a unified Human Subjects Protection Program for both campuses, developing policies, establishing best practices, and fostering research ethics education. The accreditation goal was met in 2007 and since then, efforts are directed to making the program continuously better and addressing researcher and regulatory needs.
Formerly, Dr. Rose was the Human Subjects Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy, a program she created in the early 1980’s. Her emphasis there included extensive education and communication, a philosophy Dr. Rose has nurtured at USC. She has produced for DOE, and currently for USC, widely disseminated publications, newsletters, and booklets. She is very active in national human subjects policy and educational forums. Dr. Rose taught biology before she entered government service and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the USC School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Rose serves or has served on several international and national human subjects research groups including: the CITI (online Human Subjects Education) developers group, the faculty of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research); the planning committee and a speaker for the annual AAHRPP (national accrediting body) conference, and maintains membership in the US Dept of Energy Human Subjects working group. Dr. Rose is currently a member of an advisory group to OHRP, the federal office in HHS that oversees human subjects protections.
Donald Casebolt
Donald Casebolt is Director of the Department of Animal Resources
casebolt@usc.edu
He received his B.S. in Animal Science, Masters in Preventive Veterinary Medicine, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California, Davis. He completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in laboratory animal medicine and comparative medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is board certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
Casebolt has research interests and publications in the fields of comparative virology, molecular-based diagnostic tests for viral diseases, preventive medicine of laboratory animal populations, and animal research facility design. He has served as a consultant to the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International and to the Canadian Council on Animal Care. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science and Comparative Medicine and is a member of the Board of Directors of the California Society for Biomedical Research.
Christine Lavoie
Christine Lavoie is the Director of Research Administration
clavoie@usc.edu
Christine has oversight over internal competitions. She leads the creation of business requirements for the implementation of research administration software. Serving in the capacity of deputy for Vice President for Research, overseeing the coordination and trouble-shooting for all aspects of research administration in the university.
She received her BS in Business Administration from the USC Marshall School of Business in ’92 and her Masters in Leadership from the USC School of Policy Planning and Development in 2010. She has extensive experience in research administration, financial administration, leadership and management. Past positions include Managing Director for the USC Epigenome Center, Keck School of Medicine, Department Business Manager for the Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering and Administrator for the METRANS Center.