Vanessa Rook is a Post Award Research Administrator on the ORA Research Administration Support Services team. She rotates among HMS departments to provide post award management assistance, including monitoring award expenses, re-budgeting, effort reporting, among other duties. She assists assigned faculty, researchers, and staff in the financial and general administration of sponsored awards, with a focus on customer service and adherence to University and School policies and procedures. Vanessa has a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Communications, and a certificate in Science Communications with a focus on academic writing and disseminating science for the public. She has more than 10 years of financial and research administrative experience. Prior to joining HMS, Vanessa worked as a Research Administrator for the Shock Trauma Anesthesiology Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and as a Senior Research Service Analyst for the Department of Radiology/Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
