Charity Ball, DNP, RN
Director of Clinical Research Education
Clinical Research Center
Contact
Building & Room:
NPI Suite 200S
Address:
912 S. Wood St.
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About
Charity Ball, DNP, RN serves as Director of Research Education and Co-Director of Research Operations in CCTS's Clinical Research Center. She provides strategic oversight of the research clinic program operations and designs and develops research staff educational programing.
Dr. Ball is passionate about ensuring the research workforce is prepared to support clinical research through training; she recently developed separate competency-based mentorship programs for research nurses and clinical research coordinators. For the past seven years, she has served on the advisory board for Enhancing Quality in the Translational Research Workforce Conference (EQuaTR), which offers the opportunity for clinical research staff to learn from leaders in the field, gaining practical knowledge on current trends and issues in clinical research.
Dr. Ball joined the CCTS in 2014. She is a 2022 recipient of the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE Award) and 2024 graduate of the Professional Staff Leadership Academy (PSLA). She holds a bachelor’s degree of Nursing Science from Prairie View A&M University, a master’s degree of Nursing Science from Saint Xavier University, and Doctor of Nursing Practice in Healthcare Systems Leadership from University of Illinois at Chicago.