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boards and committees, including as president of a national professional association. Transitioning to the non-profit sector, Franklin successfully managed a multi-year, multi-site, John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) grant that began as a $2 million award and over 10 years grew to $26 million in funding. After completing her doctoral degree Franklin joined the University of Maryland School of Nursing faculty where she taught health policy, health systems, and leadership in graduate programs. In addition, she served as director of the Office of Professional Education (OPE), developing professional continuing education (CE) programs as well as launching and chairing an interprofessional CE consortium with colleagues from the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work and Law. As PI on a $2.5 million, 5-year state awarded grant to build nurse leadership capacity in Maryland, Franklin designed and ran the School's first Leadership Institute. She retired in 2019 and continues to work as a consultant.

Dr. Chamindi Seneviratne is a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Seneviratne holds an MD degree and completed post-doctoral research training in neurobiology and molecular genomics at the Universities of Texas and Virginia prior to joining the faculty, first at the University of Virginia and then at UMSOM. Over the past 15 years, she has conducted extensive research in molecular genetics in substance abuse with a primary focus on alcohol use disorders (AUD), with over ten years of experience in serving as a principal investigator or co-investigator on several NIH-funded pharmacogenomic trials. Her current research is focused on developing biomarkers of (1) heavy alcohol use, (2) response to treatment of alcohol and other substance use disorders (SUD) with various pharmacologic agents, and (3) placebo response. To achieve these goals, her lab uses an integrative approach of combining various clinical trial methodologies, genomic and invitro techniques to screen and validate novel biomarkers for objective, and personalized and pathophysiology-based diagnosis and treatment of AUD/SUD.