Kyungsook G​artrell, Ph.D., R.N., is a program director in the Division for Research Capacity Building, where she manages grants for the IDeA Clinical and Translational Research Network (CTR-N)​Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH), the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE),​ and Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) programs.

Before joining NIGMS, she was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. 

Gartrell earned a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Maryland and conducted postdoctoral research in biomedical informatics at the National Library of Medicine.

To contact Gartrell, send email to kyungsook.gartrell@nih.gov.

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