Vassia Roulia, Executive Director, leads BRF’s business development and research operations at Envision Research LLC.
Vassia has extensive experience in leadership and management positions in multi-facility health care organizations and academic medical centers, and is responsible for fostering community partnerships and interinstitutional collaborations, and supports clinical and translational research initiatives.
Vassia’s core competencies include successful management of Phase I through Phase IV clinical trials, administration of multi-institutional regional and national grants, excellence in physician relations, streamlining of processes for operational effectiveness and regulatory compliance, strategic planning and strategic decision making, and multi-million budget management.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she held positions at the University of Michigan’s departments of Dermatology and Neurology in Ann Arbor, the University of Florida’s Department of Neurology, and Neurology Service at Gainesville’s VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida. In Phoenix, Arizona, she directed the Clinical Neurobiology and Bioengineering Research Center at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, founded and directed Banner Health System’s Office of Grants Strategy Development and Administration, provided scientific and business leadership at Scottsdale Healthcare’s Clinical Research Institute, and served as the Business Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Moving to Louisiana, Ms. Roulia served as the Liaison for Clinical Partnerships at Louisiana Tech University. She joined the Foundation in 2015 as the Vice President for Research Development and Administration and served as the Chief Research Officer at the University Health System.
Vassia is a member of national research organizations such as ACRP, SOCRA, SCRS, PRIM&R, HCCA, MGMA, and has served on committees to support state-wide initiatives such as the ADCRC / FLINN Foundation’s Translational Research Project Advisory Committees for the Arizona Biosciences Roadmap, Arizona Proteomics Alliance Executive Committee, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) Biosafety Committee and the Advisory Board of the Health Care Innovation and Clinical Trials Center of the Arizona State University.
Vassia holds an executive MBA from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL., a MS in Pharmacology and BS in Chemistry with minor in Biochemistry, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
