Jill Griffin, RN, MSN

Jill is a native of the Birmingham, Alabama area. She is a registered nurse with over 28 years of nursing experience. A 1993 graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a bachelor of science in nursing and a 2004 graduate of the University of Alabama with a master of science in nursing.

Her experience includes providing medical care for pediatric medical-surgical patients at The Children's Health Systems of Alabama. Her responsibilities included bedside nursing, quality improvement, staff training, unit preceptor, and charge nurse. She also has experience in development of a community-based health improvement and disease prevention program at the Florida Department of Health. Upon her return to Birmingham, Al she broaden her nursing experience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to include medical research overseeing 100 clinical research centers based in the US, Canada, UK, and Sweden. During her career in research, she had multiple job responsibilities including program administration, budget development, regulatory reporting, data management, data collection, form development, electronic data entry system development, protocol/manual development, site training and site support. Jill is co-author of several medical research articles. She has worked as a living donor coordinator, where her job responsibilities include management and oversight of a group of living donors from the point of screening for donor candidacy to follow up of the donor’s medical health two years following donation.

She currently works as a research nurse manager in the Department of Pediatrics Coordinating Center where she is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation and reporting of critical research for children with infectious diseases.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends at the beach. She also enjoys volunteering with her church and in the community. She is married to Michael, and they have two children, Kayla, Jordan and a fur baby, Shadow.

Shalabi M, Abughali N, Abzug M, Bradley J, Cloud G, Englund J, Griffin J, Guzman-Cottrill J, Jacobs R, Jester P, Lang D, Leach C, Ramilo O, Robinson J, Romero J, Shelton M, Storch G, Wade K, Whitley R, and Kimberlin D, for the NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG). Safety of Oseltamivir vs. Amantadine or Rimantadine in Children Under 1 Year of Age. 45th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), San Diego, California, October 7, 2007; Abstract # 1225.

Kimberlin D, Acosta E, Sánchez P, Ampofo K, Vanchiere J, Englund J, Sood S, Lang D, Caserta M, Abzug M, Abughali N, Michaels M, Spigarelli M, Wan W, Jester P, Griffin J, Whitley R, for NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG). Oseltamivir (OST) and OST Carboxylate (CBX) Pharmacokinetics (PK) in Infants: Interim Results from a Multicenter Trial. 47th Annual Meeting of The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 31, 2009; Abstract #1041.

Jester PM, Griffin J, Bowers MW, Branscum S, Gnann J, Kimberlin D, Whitley R. The Need for Universal Institutional Review Boards (IRB) for Emergent Infections. 47th Annual Meeting of The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 31, 2009; Abstract #1225.

Kimberlin DW, Whitley RJ, Wan W, Powell DA; Storch G, Ahmed A, Palmer A, Sánchez PJ, Jacobs RJ, Bradley JS, Robinson JL, Shelton M, Dennehy PH, Leach C, Rathore M, Abughali N, Wright P, Frenkel LM, Brady RC, Van Dyke R, Weiner LB, Guzman-Cottrill J, McCarthy CA, Griffin J, Jester P, Parker M, Lakeman FD, Kuo H, Lee CH, Cloud GA, for the NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group. Impact of oral acyclovir suppression on neurodevelopmental outcomes and skin recurrences following neonatal herpes simplex virus disease. 48th Annual Meeting of The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Vancouver, British Columbia, October 22, 2010; Abstract #2977.

Jester PM, Griffin J, Branscum S, Acosta A, Kimberlin D, Whitley R. Meeting regulatory hurdles for emergent infections – Lessons from 2009 H1N1 influenza. Infectious Diseases Society of America Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Meeting 2011, Arlington Virginia, January 27-28, 2011.