Creating and Enhancing a

Research Culture

Richard OliverDeanSchool of Health ProfessionsUniversity of Missouri

March 14, 2007NAPRAH SymposiumSt. Petersburg Beach, Florida

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

Infrastructure

• Dean and Associate Deans• Office of Research• Associate Dean for Research

• HR Office• Business Office• Billing Office and Practice Plan

SHP Organization Chart

Org Chart for Office of Research

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

Building Communication Networks

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

Proposal Management

• Facilitate collaboration• Coordinate proposal development• Organize tasks and timelines• Arrange meetings• Integrate the pieces into a cohesive document

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

What Can a Grant Writer Do?

• 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”

Specific Grant Writer Tasks May Include:

What Does the Faculty Member Do?

• Project Ideas• Programmatic Writing• Literature Review• Project Aims/Objectives• Hypotheses• Methodology

SHP Awards Received FY 06

25%

3%

20%12%

4%

16%

20%

NIH HRSA US ED MO STATE FDNs FOR PROFIT ALL OTHER

SHP Awards Received Jul 06 - Feb 07

21%

4%

14%50%

11%

NIH HRSA MO STATE FDNs ALL OTHER

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

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

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 pictorial recap 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 RudeenDirector of Research

September Research ReportSchool 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/NIDRRRequesting $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)

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

Questions?

Richard Oliver, DeanSchool of Health ProfessionsUniversity of Missouri573-884-6705oliverr@health.missouri.edu