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The prestigious program sponsors a small group of distinguished scientists
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, is proud to announce three new 2023 RTI Fellow Program appointments and promotions. The program sponsors a small group of distinguished scientists striving to build a better future by conducting high-impact research, mentoring the next generation of scientific leaders and fostering a culture of inclusive and innovative science.
• James Harrington, Ph.D., has been named an RTI Fellow
• Antonio Morgan-Lopez, Ph.D., has been promoted to Senior Fellow
• Grier Page, PhD., has been promoted to Distinguished Fellow
RTI President and CEO Tim Gabel recognized the Fellows at a recent induction ceremony: "As Fellows, your commitment to rigorously applied science and finding science-based solutions sets the standard for the institute. Our staff look at your work and your approach and follow your lead.”
James Harrington, research chemist
Dr. Harrington contributes to the development of environmental justice research and other strategic areas of interest to RTI’s Analytical Science Division, particularly related to clean drinking water availability. He has also led bioanalytical research projects for the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the area of metallomics and inorganic speciation, as well as development of the pharmaceutical heavy metals testing program at RTI. His research focuses on analysis of lead in drinking water, the impact of toxic metals on human health, food and drug safety and community-focused research including citizen science.
Dr. Harrington holds a postdoctoral appointment at North Carolina State University. He earned a doctorate from Duke University and a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Antonio Morgan-Lopez, senior research quantitative psychologist
Dr. Morgan-Lopez’s work focuses on advanced psychometric scaling methods to capture differences in the relative weighting of symptoms in the measurement of psychiatric disorders (e.g., PTSD, anxiety, depression, suicidality); this work has implications for increasing the accuracy and precision of measuring a) changes in disorder severity in individual patients, b) variation in intervention efficacy in RCTs and quasi-experiments, and c) cross-study evidence syntheses. He currently serves as a standing member of NIMH’s Evaluation of Mental Health Interventions (EMHI) Study Section, Associate Editor of Prevention Science, and Editor-at-Large (Methodology & Statistics) for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Morgan-Lopez holds both a doctorate in quantitative psychology and a master’s in clinical psychology from Arizona State University. He earned a bachelor’s in psychology from Morgan State University.
Grier Page, senior director, statistical genetics and artificial intelligence
Dr. Page’s research delves into the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to address data handling and the statistical analysis of genomic data. He leads the data coordinating center for the Hemophilia A Research Program and the National Science Foundation grant “Application of Sequential Inductive Transfer Learning for Experimental Metadata Normalization to Enable Rapid Integrative Analysis.” In addition, Dr. Page’s genetic applied work focuses on diverse populations. He has significant roles in several large multi-center studies that developed and implemented protocols, analyzed and disseminated data from multicenter studies like the Stillbirth Network, EarlyCheck, Clonal Hematopoiesis in Sickle Cell Disease, Neonatal Research Network, LungMap, REDS-III and Environmental Children’s Health Outcome.
Dr. Page holds both a doctorate and master’s in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology and molecular biology from the University of Texas at Austin.
About the RTI Fellow Program
The RTI Fellow Program was established in 2001 to provide professional opportunities for exceptionally talented staff committed to science, technology, research and policy analysis in support of RTI's mission to improve the human condition. The program has three levels: Fellow, Senior Fellow and Distinguished Fellow.
