Ed serves as the Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Before he arrived at Sloan-Kettering six years ago, he was Director of Research Administration, Department of Medicine, Indiana University Medical Center for 16 years. Ed was at Purdue University for 10 years before joining Indiana University Medical Center. Ed has had extensive pre and post award experience. Ed has actively served NCURA at both the regional and national level in variety of volunteer positions, including regional officer, national board and national treasurer.

Ed has presented at the regional level on contract negotiation and how to appropriately budget for a clinical trial at many NCURA regional and annual meetings. Also, he has presented numerous times at the Annual Meeting and other NCURA conferences on such topics as Managing Stem Cell Research; Bridge Research – Translational Research; Data Sharing and PubMed; Administrative Impact of Multiple PI's; and Growth of International Research. Ed also has presented on Departmental Budget Models, was a panelist on several Cancer Center Forums and was involved in developing and writing the Clinical Trials online tutorial. He also has served as a faculty member on four NCURA live video workshops on topics ranging from pre and post award essentials, departmental research administration to current post award issues, and effective proposal development.