Creating and Enhancing a Research Culture

1. March 14, 2007 NAPRAH Symposium St. Petersburg Beach, Florida Creating and Enhancing a Research Culture Richard Oliver Dean School of Health Professions University of Missouri

2. Changing the Culture - Supporting the Change • In 2000 the MU School of HealthRelated Professions Became the School of Health Professions • Change in Infrastructure • A Place at the Campus Table

3. Infrastructure • Dean and Associate Deans • Office of Research • Associate Dean for Research • HR Office • Business Office • Billing Office and Practice Plan

4. SHP Organization Chart

5. Org Chart for Office of Research

6. Institutional Infrastructure for Research Institutional and Divisional • Grant writing assistance • What a grant writer can do and can not do • Contract negotiations • Assurances • Tough love • Biostatistics • Space and Facilities • Equipment • Human and Animal Protections - IRB

7. Building Communication Networks

10. What Can a Grant Writer Do? Proposal Preparation Arrange calls with Program Officers Interpret guidelines and sponsor priorities Draft/edit/review narrative Assist with building budgets and writing justifications Create tables, organizational charts, illustrations and diagrams Connect faculty with campus resources

11. What Can a Grant Writer Do? Proposal Management • Facilitate collaboration • Coordinate proposal development • Organize tasks and timelines • Arrange meetings • Integrate the pieces into a cohesive document

12. What Can a Grant Writer Do? Other Services • Help navigate the proposal development & submission process • Identify funding sources • Provide model proposals • Serve as liaison with SHP Research Office, fiscal officers, OSPA, other grant writers • Help navigate COS

13. Specific Grant Writer Tasks May Include: • Arrange proposal development meetings • Arrange calls with Program Officers • Assist with internal forms • Assist with supporting documents Biographical sketches Current & Pending/ Current & Completed Financial Disclosures Others • Budget development • Budget justification • Create tables, timelines, figures, etc. • Draft/write • Editing/review of drafts • Facilitate “grant talking” before grant writing • Formatting and pagination • Funding searches • Gather letters of support & commitment • Link ideas with other campus projects • Proposal manager • Build proposal development timeline • Keeper of the parts • Problem solve glitches • Task manager/ time keeper/ “tactful nagger”

14. What Does the Faculty Member Do? • Project Ideas • Programmatic Writing • Literature Review • Project Aims/Objectives • Hypotheses • Methodology

19. Challenges • Space!! • Faculty Time & Allocation to be Successful • Start-up Dollars • Decreasing Federal Dollars • Funding for Tenure Track Slots • Faculty Development • Potential Tension Between Research, Clinical and Teaching Faculty

20. Key Issues • Communication, Celebration and Support • Pre and Post Grant Support • “Anchor Stores” • Senior Hires Versus Growing Your Own • Increase in Gross Dollar Submissions Yields Increase in Funded Projects -$27 million -$2.7 million

22. Everyone, Attached is the September Research Report - please join me in congratulating the new awardees and in wishing those who've submitted proposals well in their endeavors. Also attached for your information is a quick pictorialrecap of the grant funding the School of Health Professions faculty received during fiscal year.  The total reflects projects that were ACTIVE during the period 7/1-6/30 and includes both projects with SHP faculty as the PIs and those whose PIs were from other colleges/schools, but in which our faculty collaborated.   As you will see, we are spreading our grant request "network" further afield than just one or two sponsors; the more diversified our submissions, the more likely we are to receive funding these days.  Congratulations to all on a job VERY well done!  P. Kevin Rudeen Director of Research

23. September Research Report School of Health Professions AWARDS FINALIZED: Marybeth Brown, PI “Rehabilitation Intensification Post Hip Fracture” Washington University (Subcontract under NIH award) $19,337 for period 6/1/02-5/31/03 Schopp, Laura & Day, Linda “Enhanced Multimedia Telehealth for Hearing Disabilities”[PI is Y. Zhao, College of Egr] NIH $306,627 for period 8/1/02-7/31/03 (SHP share is approx. $26,088 [salary/fb’s/F&A]) Oliver, Richard, PI “South African Educational Program” UM South African Partnerships Program $6,395 in travel funds Minor, Marian, PI “Evaluation of PACE (People with Arthritis can Exercise)” CDC/AAMC $174,944 for period 10/1/02-9/30/03 (Yr 1 of a 3-year project) Prewitt, Michael, PI “Innovative Curriculum Design in Allied Health Care Education” DHHS/HRSA $129,517 for period 9/1/02-6/30/03 (Yr 1 of a 3-year project) Oliver, Richard, PI “Interactive Nutrition and Physical Activity Program” MO Dept of Health and Senior Services $30,000 for period 8/15/02-9/30/02 PROPOSALS SUBMITTED: Schopp, Laura “Rural Rehabilitation Research Institute” US Department of Education/NIDRR Requesting $3,000,000 for a 5-year project Farmer, Janet, Co-I / “Early Identification of Autism: A Prospective Study” Orme, Dan / Sloop, Angie NIH[PI is J. Iverson, Psychological Requesting $1,801,351 for a 5-year project Sciences] (SHP portion is $166,533 – s&w/benefits/F&A)

24. What Has Worked? • Hiring VERY carefully • Research Catalyst • Use of F&A – Research Incentive Fund • Promoting student research • Giving faculty time to be successful • 3-Year tenure track review • Course corrections if necessary

25. Questions? Richard Oliver, Dean School of Health Professions University of Missouri 573-884-6705 oliverr@health.missouri.edu