Our Team

Waridibo Allison MD, PhD, FACP, CPE, FIDSA

Program Director/Principal Investigator

Dr. Wari Allison is VP of Health Policy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, Executive Director of their Center for Health Policy and Professor in the College of Public Health. She attended Imperial College School of Medicine, London, completed internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and infectious disease fellowship at NYU. She holds a PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine from the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is elected to fellowship of both the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Allison is passionate about providing solutions to health care for disadvantaged and underserved populations. She has successfully secured continuous federal funding for her work which includes directing the national Rural Telementoring Training Center and a project to integrate the National HIV Curriculum e-Learning Platform into Health Care Professions Programs.

Crystal K Hodge, Pharm D, BCIDP, BCPS

Curriculum Integration Co-Investigator

Dr. Hodge is an Associate Professor with the University of North Texas Health Science Center System College of Pharmacy in Fort Worth and practices as an Infectious Diseases Clinical Specialist Pharmacist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She collaborates with Dr. Allison on the TAKE on HIV project, bringing curricular and implementation science expertise. Dr. Hodge’s passion for inter-professional practice aligns well with her role in curricular implementation to improve HIV education across healthcare professional curricula. Additionally, she is board certified in infectious diseases as well as pharmacotherapy. Her current practice interests include multi-drug resistant infections, infections in immunocompromised hosts, fungal infections, public health, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research is organized into Specific, Targeted, and Optimized Management of Pathogens using the research pillars of Outcomes, Utilization, and Therapeutics (STOMP OUT ID). Dr. Hodge’s life goal is to make her job obsolete indicating that humans won the war on infections thanks to key changes in patient care, practice patterns, and public messaging.

Charles Mathias, PhD

Policy and Dissemination Advisor

Dr. Mathias guides TAKE on HIV activities related to strategic communication and health policy. Dr. Mathias is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health San Antonio. His research focuses on improving health outcomes stemming from behavioral health risk and its interaction with community systems. His policy work applies a Culture of Health Framework in promoting solutions for population well-being through cross-sector collaboration. He is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship.

Ruth Serrano Pinilla, MD

UT Health San Antonio SC AETC Director

Dr. Serrano is the Clinical Director of the UT Health San Antonio South Central AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC), which partners with TAKE on HIV in the delivery of HIV training and curricula. She is an Assistant Professor in the Infectious Disease Division at the University of Texas Health at San Antonio and provides treatment for patients with complex infections requiring long term antibiotics in the Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Clinic (OPAT) in the University Hospital System. She also provides comprehensive medical care to patients living with HIV.

Sarah Lill, MA

UT Health San Antonio Site Lead

Ms. Lill is the UT Health San Antonio site-PI of the TAKE on HIV program, overseeing its partnerships, business, and administrative operations. She holds a BA in Communication Studies from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and an MA in Arts Management from George Mason University. Ms. Lill has provided overseen financial and administrative operations in the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) at UT Health San Antonio since 2016 and has over a decade of experience in financial and administrative management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and public relations in non-profit and higher education settings.

Raudel Bobadilla, MPH, CHW-I

UT Health San Antonio SC AETC Program Manager

Raudel Bobadilla serves as the Program Manager for the UT Health San Antonio South Central AIDS Education and Training Center (UTHSA-AETC), provides dissemination and programmatic support for the TAKE on HIV Program. As a Community Health Worker Instructor (CHW-I), he has built a robust skill set for engaging and partnering with communities, care providers, and clinics to improve the population’s health. He has collaborated with community members, leaders, and organizations in multiple projects to connect the public and organizations to services and research opportunities. Mr. Bobadilla brings considerable experience as a Program Manager for an HCV screening and linkage to treatment project. He helped create innovative treatment pathways in over 30 clinics across 46 counties in South Texas and Rio Grande Valley. Through close collaboration with each clinic, Mr. Bobadilla trains staff in program protocols, adapts the care model to the context of each site, and serves as lead contact between clinic partners and the research team.

Divya Chandramohan, MD

HIV Curriculum Integration Advisor and ECHO Specialist (SC-AETC)

Dr. Divya Chandramohan is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at UT Health San Antonio. She brings her perspective as a clinician to HIV curriculum development and assists with the planning, curriculum structure, outreach and implementation of TAKE on HIV.