Research & Grants Administration
The Department of Research and Grants Administration provides support and services to those pursuing and conducting sponsored research activities on the Johns Hopkins All Children's campus. These services include:
Pre-Award Services
- Identification and communication of funding opportunities
- Grantsmanship assistance
- Budget development
- Proposal development assistance and submission
Post-Award Services
- Contract negotiation
- Financial and non-financial management and reporting
Research and Grants Administration Contacts
Charnel Bohn – Director
Phone: 727-767-4857
Email: [email protected]
Charnel joined JHACH RGA in November 2021. Prior academic institutions include the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Rutgers University. Her 20+ years in research administration have been spent in various roles at both the department and central office levels, the last 12 being in leadership roles. She has an MBA from University of Maryland, University College (now UMGC) and is a Certified Research Administrator (through RACC).
- Proposal systems access (Grants.gov, HRSA, eRACommons, etc.)
- JHACF Restricted funds applications
- Expense reviews/approvals (SAP, Concur)
- Payroll reviews/allocation management
- All other research related urgent items, questions or concerns
Richard Parry – Sr. Grant & Contract Analyst
Phone: 727-767-4057
Email: [email protected]
Richard has been with JHACH RGA since 2019. Prior to his work with JHACH RGA, Richard worked for several Pharmaceutical companies in the Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD area. His background includes high level financial reconciliation and reporting work with both operational and research funds.
- Reconciliation of EPIC hospital and professional billings with clinical study budgets
- Invoicing to external sponsors
- SAP journal entries
- ClinCard (Greenphire) allocations to study specific cost centers/IO’s for study participant payments
- Clinical revenue reconciliation (forecast vs actual)
- Biorepository bill processing
Jocelyn Klucar – Sr. Grant & Contract Analyst
Phone: tel:4437644965
Email: [email protected]
Jocelyn joined JHACH RGA in April 2024. She has 30+ years in research administration experience from various academic institutions including Rutgers University, The Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Florida. Jocelyn has a master’s certificate in government contracting from George Washington University.
- External grant proposal submissions, award management and reporting
- Execution of incoming funded research agreements (through collaboration with Study Start-Up Manager, Kylie Baggett and JHU ORA)
- In collaboration with JHU ORA, initiating outgoing subcontract/subaward to collaborators from sponsored awards.
Nadia Riaz – Sr. Grant & Contract Analyst
Phone: tel:6678029007
Email: [email protected]
Nadia joined JHACH RGA in January 2024. She comes to us with prior research administration experience from Wayne State University in Michigan, as well as financial accounting experience at the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto. Nadia’s most recent venture was as a financial consultant in Baltimore, MD. She has a master's degree in healthcare economics from Wayne State University.
- COG study management and reporting
- Reconciliation of EPIC hospital and professional billings with clinical study budgets
- External grant reporting to ACRI PI’s
- Shared Services and Tissue Core bill processing
Jerrita Smith – Grant & Contract Analyst
Phone: 727-767-4139
Email: [email protected]
Jerrita joined JHACH RGA in October 2022. Previously located in Indianapolis, IN where she worked for the South Bend Community School Corporation in various financial management roles.
- All things Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Foundation, Institutional Research Awards Program (IRAP) and other JHACF awards (Dept Pilots, CTRT, etc.)
- Management and execution of all unfunded agreements (CDA’s, DUA’s, etc.) for potential studies (through collaboration with Study Start-Up Manager, Kylie Baggett and JHU ORA/JHACH Legal Team)
- RGA procurement contact