Vaccine Testing Center Team

We are a team of clinicians, study coordinators, scientists, and laboratory personnel.

VTC Leadership

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Mary Claire Walsh, PA-C

Director, Vaccine Testing Center

mary-claire.walsh@med.uvm.edu
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Kristen Pierce

Professor of Medicine • Co-Director, Vaccine Testing Center

kristen.pierce@med.uvm.edu
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Beth Kirkpatrick, MD

Department Chair • Professor

beth.kirkpatrick@med.uvm.edu

VTC Faculty

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Benjamin Lee, MD

Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician • Associate Professor

Benjamin.Lee.1@med.uvm.edu (802) 847-8200
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Sean A Diehl, PhD

Associate Professor • Human Immune Responses to Infection and Vaccination

sean.diehl@med.uvm.edu (802) 656-9860
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Jessica "Jess" Crothers, MD

Assistant Professor

VTC Staff

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Members of the Vaccine Testing Center stand for a group photo in a field at dusk

The UVM Vaccine Testing Center functions with the support of many wonderful staff members, including our clinical team composed of clinical coordinators Patti Lutton (second from left, green dress), Masud Alam (not pictured),  Lisa Kromer (not pictured),  Rebecca Hibbard (center, orange dress and white cardigan), and Lily Kjendal (center, green dress and red cardigan); our lab team including lab technicians Marya Carmolli (right of center, black dress and red scarf), Cassandra Ventrone (not pictured), Forida Nazib (not pictured), Anna Curtin (not pictured), Ben McElvaney (not pictured), Nancy Graham (not pictured); our statistician, Dorothy Dickson (center, long blue dress); our recruiter, Sunday Whipkey (not pictured); and our administrators Megan Bartlett (seventh from left, blue dress) and Cameron Ishee (not pictured, photographer).