LSU Health Shreveport has named Ashley Krukowski as the Executive Director of Sponsored Programs and will lead the newly established Office of Sponsored Programs, where she will play a critical role in supporting the research goals and ambitions for the institution and facilitate how the office manages grant awards funded by external sources.
Prior to coming to LSU Health Shreveport, Ashley served as the Associate Vice President for Research Administration at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She was previously a Grant and Contract Officer and Assistant Director of the Grants Team at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts in Leadership in the Public Sector from North Carolina State University and completed her Master of Public Administration degree at Valdosta State University in Georgia. She completed the New Leadership Development program at the University of Oklahoma in 2022 and is credentialed by the Research Administrators Certification Council as a Certified Research Administrator.
She participates in a variety of professional organizations, such as the Federal Demonstration Partnership and the Society for Research Administrators International.
Krista Queen, PhD, has been named as the Executive Director of Regulatory Affairs. The Office of Regulatory Affairs encompasses research compliance, research integrity, export controls and data sharing, post approval monitoring, and administrative oversight of the institutional assurance committees.
With this role, Dr. Queen also serves as the Responsible Official for the Federal Select Agent Program and the Research Integrity Officer for the institution.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from LSU Shreveport. She completed her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology and her Postdoctoral Fellowship at LSU Health Shreveport. Dr. Queen went on to be an ORISE Fellow for five years with the Pathogen Discovery and Detection Team in the Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Viruses Lab Branch of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)/Division of Viral Diseases (DVD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She then went on to be a Microbiologist with the Genomics and Discovery Team in the Respiratory Viruses Branch of DVD/NCIRD at the CDC before returning to LSUHS in 2021 to join the Center of Excellence for Emerging Viral Threats as the Director of Viral Genomics and Surveillance.