Staff

Kevin J. Lyons, Ph.D., FASAHP

Dr. Kevin J. Lyons is Assistant Vice President, Program Evaluation and Student/Faculty Surveys and Director of the Center for Collaborative Research at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Lyons has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings and has been a frequent consultant to universities and government agencies on issues such as research development and program improvement.  He has also co-authored the book, Successful: Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Services Professionals, the third edition of which was recently published by Springer Publishing. Dr. Lyons has written chapters for the books Medicine and Health Care into the 21st Century, Leadership in Rural health: Interprofessional Eduation and Practice and Allied Education, Practice Issues and Trends into the 21st Millenium, and served as co-editer for the latter. He has served on the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Health Services Research: Training and Workforce Issues and written a white paper for the National Commission on Allied Health on Current Organizational Research Agendas Related to Allied Health Practices.  He also served as Editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, and has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award and been elected a Fellow in that organization.

Dr. Lyons is a funded investigator, having received three grants from the Bureau of Health Professions to conduct research institutes to advance the research mission of the allied health professions and four awards to conduct graduate programs to prepare health professionals to work in the homeless community.  Dr. Lyons has served on peer review panels for FIPSE, OSERS, NCAM and NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals.

Carolyn Giordano, MA

Carolyn Giordano joined the Center for Collaborative Research in 2008 as the Senior Research Analyst.  She holds a Masters degree in experimental psychology and is completing a PhD educational psychology this fall, with her dissertation in the area of interprofessional education.  She has completed research and evaluation of interprofessional education for the Jefferson InterProfessional Education Center and has made numerous presentations to national and international conferences. Her interests are in research design, evaluation and educational testing. Prior to coming to Thomas Jefferson she worked as an analyst for the National Board of Medical Examiners for 7 years.

Elissa Marzucco

Ms. Lisa Marzucco has been at Thomas Jefferson University for the past 37 years, 22 of which have been in the College of Health Professions and the Center for Collaborative Research.  She has served as project manager for the Longitudinal Study since 1996.  Her duties include coordinating the numerous mailings, working with the schools and academic departments in survey development, scheduling survey distributions, and supervising work-study students, conducting mailings, developing and implementing procedures to assure confidentiality of information and preparing reports.

She has served as proposal coordinator for the funded projects conducted by the Center over the years, including five contracts and nine grants from the Federal government and other agencies.  In this capacity, she oversees proposal development and submission, liaison with the funding agencies and budget manager.

Lisa serves as office manager in the Center where she trains and provides orientation for clerical personnel including secretaries and work-study students, and serves as the official timekeeper.  She also works with the Director to plan the operating budget, and provides editorial assistance to the preparation of abstracts, papers, posters, articles, books and other scholarly works.

Anyta Thomas

Ms. Anyta Thomas received the B.A. degree from University of Delaware in the Art and Sciences with a concentration in Visual Communications, and the A.S. degree from the Art Institute of Philadelphia in Graphic Design.  In 2003-2006 she was the Creative Art Director for Journey Home, a non-profit organization whose mission is to nurture the potential of marginalized individuals and communities.  Anyta has been an independent graphic designer and graphic design consultant for four years, and a professional metal sculptress for 11 years.

In 2005, Ms. Thomas worked with the Center for Collaborative Research Team during several grant projects, providing graphic design and web design services.  Some of the independent and student collaboration projects included helping design a poster for Bridging the Gaps interns; collaborating with an underserved population of women and a medical intern to design a breast cancer website; and developing a front page guide for a web business workshop for a group of medical students.  In 2006, Anyta joined the Center for Collaborative Research to assist with administrative duties, including survey design, data collection and analysis.