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Contact/Staff Information Carle Tissue Procurement Services Updated January 16, 2012
Carle Tissue Procurement Services (217) 326-4513 FAX: (217) 326-4523
Director of Research Operations Dixie Heath, MS (217) 383-3889
Carle Tissue Procurement Services Supervisor Pam Woo (217) 326-4504
Carle Tissue Procurement Services Data Management Specialist Bre Stillwell (217) 326-4513
Pathologist/Medical Director Frank J. Bellafiore, MD CarleTissueRepository@Carle.com
Office Coordinator April Bailey (217) 326-0498
Staff Background Information
Dixie Heath, MS, Director of Research Operations Dixie has a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received a M.S. in Physical Education with a specialization in Cardiac Rehabilitation Therapy from Eastern Illinois University. She previously worked at the University of Illinois in the Department of Kinesiology as a Research Specialist and then as staff in the University Institutional Review Board Office. Dixie joined the research department at Carle Foundation Hospital in July of 2007 as the Residency Research Coordinator and was promoted to the Manager of Project Planning for Research in October of 2007 and to Director of Research Operations in June of 2009. In her current position Dixie is responsible for all daily operations of research at the Biomedical Research Center and the Carle Tissue Procurement Services. She provides leadership in strategic planning and project management within the organization as well as working with our collaborators at UIUC and other organizations.
She has co-authored the following manuscripts:
Pam Woo, Carle Tissue Procurement Services Supervisor
Pam has been employed at Carle since November 1994. She began her Carle career
in Pediatrics and then transferred to the Post Partum/Labor and Delivery
floor. While there, she helped implement several computer systems and
worked diligently to assist the management and leadership staff in their
movement towards opening the two new floors on NT 10 and NT11. She served
as a resource for continuing education, orientation and was also involved
with creating and maintaining of the OB partnership council. In May of
2002, Pam was nominated for a “Friend of Nursing Award”. In November 2007,
she transferred to the Research Institute. She currently serves as the
Carle Tissue Procurement Services Supervisor. Her duties include creation and
maintenance of the Honest Broker database as well as duly functioning as the
Honest Broker, planning and supervising daily activities of the
biorepository and cultivating opportunities for growth and collaborative
relationships.
She has co-authored the following manuscripts:
Bre Stillwell, Carle Tissue Procurement Services Data Management Specialist Bre earned a B.S. in Health Studies from Eastern Illinois University in May of 2009. Shortly after graduating she came to work at Carle as a phlebotomist, performing venipuncture and skin puncture on outpatients and inpatients to aid in the assessment of the patients’ medical conditions. In November of 2010 she transferred to the Carle Tissue Procurement Services. As Data Management Specialist, her duties include creating and maintaining a central database to allow retrieval of the information needed to determine the availability of appropriate specimens and data for proposed research on tissue bank resources, processing of requests and coordination of letters of intent, applications and shipments of specimens, tracking of availability and location of glass slides, specimen blocks, frozen materials, specimen microarrays, early identification of nearly depleted specimens, preparing and tracking invoices and payments, tracking study status and publications, and transcription of pathologist records.
Frank J. Bellafiore, MD, Pathologist/Medical Director After obtaining his undergraduate degree in 1986 from Creighton University in Omaha, Dr. Bellafiore obtained his MD degree in 1990 from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his pathology residency and fellowship training from 1990-1995 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has practiced pathology at Carle since 1995 and is currently the medical director of Carle Histology, Flow Cytometry, and Hematology as well as the Carle Tissue Procurement Services. In addition, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School Of Medicine and is actively involved in teaching medical students both in the classroom and individually. He has special interests in breast pathology, head and neck pathology, and hematopathology.
April Bailey, Office Coordinator
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