OSPA Constituency Assignments Revised: 9/1/2026

RA Constituency Assignments for Grants and Other Awards (not contracts)

College or Other Unit	Department, Institute or Center (if applicable)	Responsible Unit	Pre-Award RA	Post-Award RA
Agriculture, Food & Environment		81000	Anna Jahn (81040, 81060, 81080, 81090) El Williams (all else)	Katelyn McClintock (81040, 81060, 81080, 81090) Catie Thompson (all else)
Arts & Sciences		8E000	Mary Otis	Shannon Gray
Business & Economics		8F000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Center for Interprofessional Health & Community Education		86300	David Durman	Kim Blair
Communication & Information		8M000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Dentistry		7A000	Alex Reyes Casas	Elysia Easton
Design		8N000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Education		8G000	Cindy Curvin	Christina Jones
Engineering		8H000	Amy Trostle	Honey Elder (KY EPSCoR, LSAMP) Cindy Curvin (8H755) Rhonda Hagan (8H060) Tania Vazquez (all else)
Facilities Shared Services		3CF00	Kim Blair	Kim Blair
Fine Arts		8X000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Graduate School		8W300	David Durman	Kim Blair
Health Sciences		7N000	Cindy Curvin	Elysia Easton
Law		8K000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Lewis Honors College		8C000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Library Administration		88000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Martin School of Public Policy		8W100	David Durman	Kim Blair
Medicine	See College of Medicine Assignment List for Departments, Divisions, Institutes, and Centers	7H000	Alex Reyes Casas Andrew Norman Renee O’Connor Mike Wolfe	Elysia Easton Clay LaBreche Lance Vera Phillip Deret Bretlyn Hinchliffe
Nursing		7E000	Renee O’Connor	Phillip Deret
Pharmacy		7K000	Kim Blair	Kim Blair
Physical Plant – Recycling Operations		3CP20	David Durman	Kim Blair
Provost		89000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Public Health		7P000	Mary Otis	Ariana Aguillon
Research	Vice President for Research	40100	John Blevins	Katie Palmer
Research	Technology Commercialization	40420	John Blevins	Katie Palmer
Research	Human Development Institute Computational Sciences KY Water Resources Institute Center for the Environment Center for Clinical & Translational Science	40526 40533 40543 40546 40610	Anna Jahn (HDI)	Ariana Aguillon
Research	KY Geological Survey Center for Applied Energy Research	40520 40550	John Blevins	Katie Palmer
Social Work		8T000	David Durman	Phillip Deret
Student Success Administration		1B000	David Durman	Kim Blair
Utilities & Energy Management		3CU00	David Durman	Kim Blair
UK Police		3HL00	David Durman	Kim Blair

RA Constituency Assignments for College of Medicine

Department, Division or Center	Responsible Unit	Pre-Award RA	Post-Award RA
Anesthesiology	7H130	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Anesthesiology – ICU	7H133	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Anesthesiology – Pain	7H128	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Anesthesiology – OR	7H135	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center	7H045	Andrew Norman	Cindy Curvin
Behavioral Science	7H150	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Biochemistry	7H180	Mike Wolfe	Lance Vera
Cancer Biostats	7H375	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
CE Central	7H250	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Center for Environmental Systems Biochemistry	7H026	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Center for Health Equity Transformation	7H075	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Center for Health Services Research	7H042	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Center for Research on Environmental Disease	7H041	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Center for Trauma & Children	7H801	Alex Reyes Casas	Cindy Curvin
Center on Drug & Alcohol Research	7H090	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Clinical Research	7H024	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Diagnostic Radiology	7H300	Mike Wolfe	Lance Vera
Emergency Medicine	7H140	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Family Practice & Community Medicine	7H460	Mike Wolfe	Pam Moore
Family Practice - Hazard	7H461	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret
Graduate Center for Toxicology	7H018	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Graduate Medical Education	7H001	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Internal Medicine	7H350-7H373	Mike Wolfe	Lance Vera
KY Community Cancer Program	7H023	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Markey Cancer Center - Core Support	7H025	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics	7H400	John Blevins	Clay LaBreche
Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics - AMR	7H083	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Molecular & Biomedical Pharmacology	7H700	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry - AMR	7H082	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Neurology	7H852	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Neuroscience	7H100	Mike Wolfe	Pam Moore
Neuroscience - AMR	7H081	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Neurosurgery	7H853	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Northfork Valley	7H461	Mike Wolfe	Honey Elder
Office of Medical Education	7H002	Renee O’Connor	Bretlyn Hinchcliffe
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences	7H854	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Obstetrics &Gynecology	7H500-7H508	Mike Wolfe	Pam Moore
Otolaryngology	7H860	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Pathology &Lab Medicine	7H600	Mike Wolfe	Pam Moore
Pediatrics	7H650-7H676	Mike Wolfe	Pam Moore
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	7H950	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Physiology	7H750	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Physiology – AMR	7H084	Alex Reyes Casas	Elysia Easton
PMR - Research Division	7H951	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Psychiatry	7H800	Alex Reyes Casas	Cindy Curvin
Radiation Medicine	7H900	Alex Reyes Casas	Clay LaBreche
Rural KY Health Care	7H060	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center	7H051	Andrew Norman	Cindy Curvin
Sanders Brown Center on Aging	7H030	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Spinal Cord& Brain InjuryResearch Center (SCOBIRC)	7H016	Renee O’Connor	Cindy Curvin
Stroke Center	7H035	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Surgery	7H850, 7H851 7H856 - 7H85V	Andrew Norman	Clay LaBreche
Toxicology – AMR	7H085	Andrew Norman	Elysia Easton
Urology	7H855	Andrew Norman	Clay LaBreche
UKHC Research	7H0R2	Mike Wolfe	Phillip Deret

NOTE: Responsible Unit refers to all subunits and departments in that college or other unit unless otherwise indicated.

Contracts Team Constituency Assignment

College or Other Unit	Responsible Unit	Sponsor Types	Sponsored Award Type	Post-Award RA
Markey – KY Community Cancer Program	7H023	Industry, Federal, Other	Clinical Trials	Suzanne Drummond
Markey – Clinical Research Organization	7H024	Industry, Federal, Other	Clinical Trials	Suzanne Drummond
Markey – Cancer Ctr Core Support	7H025	Industry, Federal, Other	Clinical Trials	Suzanne Drummond
All Responsible Units (except Markey)	All	Industry	Clinical Trials	Emily Beggs
All Responsible Units (except Markey)	All	Industry	SBIR/STTR	Carol Simpson
All Responsible Units (except Markey)	All	Federal or Flow-Thru Federal	Contracts	Carol Simpson
Public Health	7P000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Kaylene Way Hedgepeth
Medicine (except Markey)	7H000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Kaylene Way Hedgepeth
Library Administration	88000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Kaylene Way Hedgepeth
Business & Economics	8F000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Research	40000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Engineering	8H000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Nursing	7E000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Agriculture, Food & Environment	81000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Arts & Sciences	8E000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Pharmacy	7K000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox
Dentistry	7A000	Industry	Excludes Clinical Trials	Vanessa Knox

The Contracts Team constituency assignments also include the sponsors listed below:

ALS Association, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, American Chemical Society, Arthritis Foundation, Hometown Security, Morris Animal Foundation, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Research Triangle Institute (RTI), and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

NOTE: Outgoing subawards, which are assigned to Courtney Chafin, India Waller, and Shannon Drake, are not based on responsible unit.

OSPA Constituency Assignments Revised: 9/1/2026

RA Constituency Assignments for Grants and Other Awards (not contracts)

RA Constituency Assignments for College of Medicine

Contracts Team Constituency Assignment

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