FasterCures

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Aidan Suski

Associate, FasterCures
Aidan Suski is an Associate on the FasterCures team at the Milken Institute, where he supports initiatives focused on patient engagement, capacity building, and biomedical research and development.
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Ainslie Tisdale

Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Ainslie Tisdale is an associate director with the FasterCures team of Milken Institute Health. She currently supports FasterCures’ nonprofit capacity-building portfolio, which includes the Research Acceleration and Innovation Network, LeadersLink, and the Rare As One Mentorship Program, as well as FasterCures’ patient engagement work.
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Lisa Lewis

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Lisa Lewis has built her career over twenty-five years in biomedical research, from bench to bedside and from academia to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Sruthi Meka

Senior Associate, FasterCures
Sruthi Meka is a senior associate on the FasterCures team at the Milken Institute. Meka has experience in program evaluation, data analysis, and qualitative research across several academic and nonprofit research settings in public health and health services research.
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June Cha, PhD

Policy Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
June Cha, PhD, is policy director at FasterCures, Milken Institute Health. She brings two decades of leadership experience spanning infectious disease research, non-profit and multilateral organizations, the US government, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Brenda Huneycutt

Senior Director, International, Milken Institute Health
Brenda Huneycutt, PhD, is a senior director at the Milken Institute, where she oversees Milken Institute Health work internationally across all four Milken Institute Health portfolios – FasterCures, the Future of Aging, Feeding Change, and Public Health.
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Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health
Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.
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Mark Williams

Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Mark Williams is an associate director with the FasterCures team of the Milken Institute. He manages a number of projects aimed at creating a high-functioning biomedical system, including countering antimicrobial resistance, engaging patients within health systems, and fostering innovation and collaboration in medical research.
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Raymond Puerini

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Raymond Puerini is a director wtih the FasterCures team of Milken Institute Health. He currently leads FasterCures’ nonprofit capacity-building portfolio, which includes The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN), LeadersLink, and the Rare As One Mentorship Program, as well as FasterCures’ patient engagement work.
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Amanda Wagner Gee

Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Amanda Wagner Gee is an associate director at FasterCures, working on issues related to infrastructure and workforce to support clinical research closer to communities and co-leading the ENRICH-CT coalition.