Nola E. Juste, MPH

Nola E. Juste, MPH, is the Clinical Research Program Manager for the Suzi and Scott Lustgarten Center for GI Motility and the Division of Gastroenterology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

She has over 10 years of experience working in healthcare and clinical and biomedical research. She received her Bachelor and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Nola has experience with industry trials as well as NIH and IND investigator initiated studies. In 2007, Nola worked in the Department of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. During that time she worked on the Pennsylvania Adolescent Smoking Study (PASS) coordinating and scheduling study visits, assisting with recruitment and performing data collection and data entry. Her experience then brought her to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and back to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where she focused on hematology/oncology research and coordinated several studies as well as completing her own independent projects. Nola then joined the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania where she coordinated multiple phase I, II, and III oncology clinical trials and Cooperative Group studies.

Nola came to CHOP in 2015, where she worked with the GI Motility Team and the Division of Pulmonology. She joined the Division of Gastroenterology full time as a Program Manager to serve as a resource for research coordinators and to operationalize and develop processes and streamline procedures to improve research workflow. Nola is a certified clinical research professional and member of the Society of Clinical Research Associates. She is also an active member of the National Association of Healthcare Service Executives. Her passion for clinical research stems from her many memorable patient interactions and she looks forward to collaborations within the Motility Center as its clinical research portfolio continues to expand.