Grace serves as the Communications and Digital Marketing Lead at Vivli. She develops Vivli’s organizational communication strategy in collaboration with senior leadership. She also manages the day-to-day implementation of that strategy, including creating website content, drafting marketing materials, and managing communications campaigns. She also assists with planning the Vivli Annual Meeting.
Prior to joining the Vivli team, Grace worked at the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program where she contributed to the program’s communication strategy for scientific audiences. She also has experience working for non-profits and mission-focused organizations, including the National Communication Association. She earned a PhD in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.
Lydia is a Clinical Trial Disclosure Associate for Vivli where she supports global data sharing efforts by managing research data access requests and ensuring alignment with contributor requirements.
Prior to this role, Lydia was a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), completing rotations across several institutes. Following her fellowship, she transitioned to a permanent role at the Fogarty International Center at NIH as a Health Science Policy Analyst, where she led strategic initiatives to advance global health research. Lydia holds a Master of Public Health in Global Health Epidemiology and Disease Control from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Health Science in Public Health from the University of Missouri.
Lori is a Clinical Trial Disclosure Specialist for Vivli.
She has 10 years of experience working in medicine and biotech supporting data management workflows, clinical trial data sharing strategies, and global privacy initiatives.
Lori holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Political Science with a Public Policy emphasis.
Prior to joining the Vivli team, she served as a Data Sharing Consultant and Operations Lead in the gRED Computational Sciences group at Genentech where she managed exploratory biomarker collaborations with global partners, consulted on sharing and privacy processes, and led the biomarker sharing program for scientific publications.
Before joining Vivli, Swapna was the Staff QA automation Engineer at Ripple Science, where she led the automation of Quality proofing the developed/enhanced code resulting in saving of hours of testing. Before Ripple science, Swapna was with NDS (now Cisco) and Tata Elxsi systems in the area of software development.
Swapna holds a Masters degree in computer science from Bellevue University Nebraska.
Amanda Skarlupka is a Senior Program Manager for Vivli. She brings over 12 years of experience in pre-clinical and translational research, data management, and program management including providing strategic input and grants management for the National Institutes of Health. Amanda earned her Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases and her M.S. In Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Georgia.
Prior to this role, Amanda was a Health Scientist Administrator and Presidential Management Fellow at the National Cancer Institute within the Division of Cancer Prevention. She oversaw the division’s initiation, development, and close-out of programs designed to build trans-disciplinary bridges between data scientists, oncologists, and federal agencies.
Prior to joining Vivli, Elizabeth was an Architect at Insight, Inc., a Vivli development partner. At Insight, Elizabeth was one of the first developers for the Vivli platform, joining the project at its kickoff in 2017 and continuing to work on Vivli for much of the next 7 years. She played a key role in translating complex business requirements into an effective implementation, and became known as the development team’s domain expert. Her other Insight experience included a number of Azure-based projects in the healthcare and life sciences vertical, working as a full stack developer with design responsibility for numerous Web APIs. Prior to Insight, Elizabeth worked in the medical device industry, building native applications for computer-assisted medical devices, with responsibility for all application development, maintenance, and software-related regulatory support.
Zeina Attar is a Senior Program Manager at Vivli, where she leads strategic alignment and governance efforts to support operational excellence and sustainable growth. She brings over 15 years of experience driving complex, cross-functional initiatives across health, research, and regulatory domains.
Before joining Vivli, Zeina held program leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health, where she managed high-impact initiatives for the All of Us Research Program—advancing precision medicine through improved data transparency and delivery. Prior to that, she spent a decade at 3E, managing regulatory SaaS implementations and global compliance projects for organizations such as the European Chemicals Agency.
Zeina is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She is passionate about building high-performing teams, strengthening program delivery frameworks, and driving mission-aligned impact through data and collaboration.
Rylie Garrison, MEd is the Grants and Finance Administrator of Vivli. She also serves as Senior Grants Administrator in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In this position, she oversees finance and compliance for approximately 150 research grants from a variety of federal and philanthropic sponsors. She received her MEd in Higher Education Administration in 2019.
Alex joined the Vivli team in 2024 as an Executive Assistant where she provides support to our team.
Prior to joining Vivli, Alex worked with a boutique immigration law firm as a Law Clerk, supporting the partners and preparing substantive legal documents. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Studies.
Vivli will host a workshop at the 2023 Cochrane Colloquium in London on September 4. The Cochrane Colloquium is an annual event for Cochrane in support of its mission to promote evidence-informed health decision-making.
Vivli’s workshop will focus on “Practical advice for accessing patient-level data from a data sharing platform for evidence synthesis.” This session will provide:
- an introduction to the Vivli platform, including an overview of data available and hands-on group work on how to submit a request for data
- an overview of first-hand experience of using patient level data using Vivli’s data sharing platform as a case study
- a discussion session focusing on some of the opportunities and challenges associated with using patient level data (for example: what to do when data needed to answer the hypothesis is not available via a single data sharing platform?)
This session will be a mixture of hands-on practice and opportunities to hear from researchers who have used the platform, patient advocates, and data providers. There will also be time for participants to ask questions about the data access process.
Vivli Senior Director Julie Wood will be joined by Alan Chant, the patient representative on the Independent Review Panel; Catrin Tudur Smith from the University of Liverpool; and Rebecca Sudlow from Roche to facilitate this workshop.
For more information on the 2023 Cochrane Colloquium and to register for this session, please see the event schedule. Please note that participation in this session is open only to registered Colloquium attendees.
