Nadine B.

Afari, MS

Program Associate, Research & Education

Children's Hospital of Orange County & UC Irvine

Passionate about connecting ideas, clinicians, engineers, technology and capital to improve healthcare and patient impact. 

Expert in strategic relationship building and stakeholder mapping. Ability to identify individuals, groups and organizations that share similar missions, visions and goals and develop research protocols & pilots and research partnerships. 

Driven by the desire to translate basic science research into new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that directly improve health.

Nadine has been with CTIP since 2011. She also served as faculty in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine from 2009 - 2020.