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The I3 Leadership Team
Micky is i-Cubed's first director. He is also the Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and is the Chief Medical Advisor for Lightship, a company providing clinical research services at sites, homes, remotely, and through mobile research units.
Micky has more than fifteen years of experience designing, planning, and conducting novel clinical trials in a variety of populations including healthy volunteers, children, adults, older adults, and pregnant women. Previously, he was a Scientific Advisor for the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics at the Food and Drug Administration, and has worked as a consultant for multiple pharmaceutical companies and startups.
Micky believes it is critically important to increase the representation of minority populations in clinical trials, and his work has made him aware of the many obstacles in the clinical research process that can be reduced or eliminated to benefit people everywhere.
He earned his medical degree at the Central University of Venezuela, completed his pediatric residency at Nickalus Children's Hospital, and a pediatric infectious disease fellowship at Duke University. He also has a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Micky loves to play tennis, read historical fiction novels, eat plantains, and visit art museums.