Strategic Management

Contact Principal Investigator
Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Research
Baylor College of Medicine

Fasiha Kanwal, MD, MSHS is the contact principal investigator for the CTPH (CTSA UM1 grant) and associate dean for clinical and translational research at Baylor College of Medicine. She is the Nancy Chang Endowed Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Kanwal has been recognized with numerous awards for her research on risk and risk factors for hepatocellular cancer and quality of care delivered to patients with liver disease. She served as the Chief for the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Baylor College of Medicine (2007-2025) and as the first woman editor-in-chief of a major clinical journal in gastroenterology and hepatology (2007-2022). She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigators (ASCI) and the American Association of Physicians (AAP).

Multiple Principal Investigator
Chief of Population Health and Translational Science
University of Houston

Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH, FAHA is the multiple principal investigator for the CTPH (CTSA UM1 grant) and the chief of population health and translational science at the University of Houston. She is the founder of UH Population Health and a clinical professor in the department of clinical sciences in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. Dr. Beech is a population and public health scientist whose work spans clinical, population health, community-partnered, and health policy research to intervene on risk factors for cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases across the lifespan. This work has been continuously funded for over two decades and across nine NIH institutes. Dr. Beech was Founding Dean for the John D. Bower School of Population Health (third in the county at the time) at the University of Mississippi and the first African American woman dean to lead a school at this institution. She continues to be a thought leader in population health and has been recognized with several national board appointments including the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, an elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), and a recipient of the J. Michael McGinnis Leadership Excellence Award from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS).