Speaker Bios: 2026 ARIO National Conference

Full Name	Job Title	Organization
Leslie Albers	Deputy Research Integrity Officer	Indiana University
Alison Antes	Associate Professor	Washington University School of Medicine
John Baumann	AVC Research Compliance & Integrity	University of CA San Diego
Jesus Bautista-Garrido	RCR Analyst	Houston Methodist Research Institute
Michelle Benson	Research Compliance Officer	Hackensack Meridian Health
Deepika Bhatia	Assoc VP, RIO	Emory
Charlotte Brocklesby	Research Integrity Manager	Springer Nature
Minal Caron	(not set)	Ropes & Gray LLP
Dr. Bridget Carruthers	Senior Director & Senior RIO Research Compliance	The Ohio State University
Moderator: Michael Centola	Associate Vice President for Research Integrity and Compliance	University of Connecticut
Sonia Chawla	Assistant Vice President for Research Integrity	Wayne State University
Jin-Yu Chen	Lead Research Compliance	Baylor College of Medicine
Maria Davila	Director, Research Integrity Deputy RIO	Emory University
Moderator: Mary Duarte Millsaps	Director, Research Compliance	North Carolina State University
James DuBois	Professor & Director of the Bioethics Research Center	Washington University in St. Louis
Jake Earl	Director of Research, Innovation, & Data Ethics	Georgetown University
Cassandra Farley	Senior Director and Research Integrity Officer	University of Florida
Kate Gallin	Member & Director	Epstein Becker Green
Rick Gemeinhart	Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research	University of Illinois Chicago
Phillip Harman	Director	University of California System

Profile Picture	Full Name	Job Title	Organization
	Valerie Hilgren	Assistant Director for Research Integrity	University of Illinois Chicago
	Sheryl Johnson	Director of Research Compliance Services & Research Integrity Officer	University of Oregon
	Courtney Karmelita, ARIO Assistant Secretary	Executive Director of Ethical Research and Outreach	The Pennsylvania State University
	Kaley Klanica	Senior Associate General Counsel	University of Minnesota
	Christopher Lehmann	Research Integrity Officer & RCR Coordinator	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
	Moderator: Janet Leppala	Director of Research Compliance	Eastern Michigan University
	Brooke Mangiarelli	Associate Attorney	Epstein Becker Green
	Mariette Marsh	Executive Director, Research Integrity & Compliance	University of Arizona
	Heather McFadden	Compliance Manager	University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Ryan Meade	Professor of Law	University of Oxford
	Ms Mary Millsaps	Director, Research Integrity and Compliance	North Carolina State University
	Jamie Mohler, ARIO Vice President	Associate Vice President of Research Integrity, Compliance and Care and Research Integrity Officer	Purdue University
	Moderator: Maria Palazuelos Jorganes	Assistant VP, Research Compliance	Temple University
	Andrew Paskevich	Director, Office of Academic Integrity & Professional Standards	Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania
	Kimberly Petrosky	Senior Research Integrity Analyst	The Pennsylvania State University
(not set)	Lauran Qualkenbush	Senior Director, Research Integrity and Training	Northwestern University
	Moderator: Saiqa Anne Qureshi	Assistant Director Research Ethics Education	University of California Berkeley
	Andrew Read	Senior Vice President for Research	Penn State
	Moderator: Danielle Rintala	Research Integrity & Compliance Director	University of Minnesota
(not set)	Ms. Naomi Schrag	Vice President for Research Compliance, Training and Policy	Columbia University in the City of New York

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