Diana Truran-Sarcey

Executive Director
Finance Manager at Brain Health Registry University of California, San Francisco

Diana Truran-Sacrey is the Brain Health Registry’s Executive Director and Finance Manager. She manages the study staff and operations on all Brain Health Registry projects. She also serves as the Director of Research Operations of the VA Advanced Imaging Research Center (VAARC) at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and as the Grants Administrator for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). She oversees operations for 60+ staff, faculty and an administrative core, who are in turn responsible for more than $150 million in over 50 different research projects and funds. Diana attended the University of California, Berkeley, and began her career at VAARC as a research assistant on an early HIV imaging grant. She quickly built a small imaging group into a large, multidisciplinary imaging core with up to 26 MRI imaging technicians, and 30+ grants, clinical trials and projects before expanding her role to also include administration, financial management and research operations.