Panel: Supporting The Mission
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
- Implementing improvements to the Faculty Appointments and Promotions process.
- Formalizing the critical role of MCL faculty in the supervision of graduate students.
- Formalizing the critical roles of Instructors as PIs on extramural awards.
- Updating (and creating a process for the continuous updating of) the Faculty Handbook for changes in A&P processes and criteria.
LEADERSHIP AND DIVERSITY
- Closing the gap between what we say and what we do.
- "Owning" accountability for change.
- Making the case for faculty diversity.
INFORMATION RESSOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY
- Developing a sustainable and dependable funding model that allows IR to deliver effective, efficient and secure IT and informatics (including research data management) services to the entire School.
- Creating an academic model that ensures a critical mass of faculty participation in the development of innovative applied informatics solutions for SUMC.
- Continuing to build effective working relationships with LPCH and SHC in IT and clinical informatics.
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
- Implementing an administrative structure and funds flow model for the institutes and centers that supports and encourages interdisciplinary activities as well as balances the needs of the academic departments
- Supporting faculty and maintaining the financial strength of the School and the departments through this cycle of decreased NIH funding
- Expanding and adapting our facilities and technology infrastructure to support the vision of "translating discoveries" and interdisciplinary activities
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
- Overcoming/Accommodating to NIH funding challenges.
- Preparing for the implications of the NIH Reauthorization.
- Overcoming/Accommodating to challenges to peer review.
- Overcoming/Accommodating to Stem cell research.
COMMUNICATIONS
- Communicating effectively in an ever-changing world of communications.
- Engaging the scientific and medical communities to respond to attacks on science.