THE CENTER OF URBAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN DIABETES AND METABOLISM-ADMIN CORE

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The Administrative and Development Core provides coordination and integration of the center components, faculty, resources and projects. It ensures that the objectives of this competitive renewal application for the Drew ¿Center of Urban Research and Education in Diabetes and Metabolism¿ (CURE-DM) are achieved in a timely manner, that scientific productivity is maximized, and that center resources are optimally utilized. It is responsible for monitoring of research and training, and the progress of community activities. This core is responsible for the day-to-day operations and provides oversight and implementation of key activities such as procurement, finances, personnel, fiscal planning, budgeting, strategic planning, faculty recruitment, scientific direction, evaluation, and program planning. It also provides mentoring, financial, and scientific support for the three research projects of the junior faculty. An additional responsibility is the recruitment of a new recruited investigator and initial support of his/her project. The development component consists of five major activities: mentorship, a training program, a development plan, project financial support, and scientific guidance. The specific aims of the Administrative and Development Core are to: 1. Enhance institutional clinical research capabilities by recruiting an emerging and highly productive junior investigator positioned to build an academic career; 2. Provide support for developmental projects to stimulate and better prepare promising junior investigators with a strong commitment to issues affecting disadvantaged populations for clinical research careers; 3. Promote faculty development through the support of mentored-research projects by pairing dedicated senior investigators with promising junior faculty and by providing an infrastructure for formal mentoring via an advisory committee for the junior faculty members; 4. Promote faculty development through access to training programs to strengthen and increase the research productivity and scientific communication skills of promising junior faculty; and 5. Continuously evaluate CURE-DM¿s processes and objectives and utilize these assessments to make ongoing programmatic improvements in consultation with NCRR program officials. In addition to providing ongoing administrative support for CURE-DM personnel and their research activities, the following training activities were carried out: Because of the difficulty in recruiting faculty to the Los Angeles area due to our very high housing costs, efforts at recruitment of new faculty were limited to those already living in Los Angeles. Other personnel changes that have occurred in the Administrative and Development Core is the hiring of a Nurse Manager (Blanca Navarro, RN), a Research Coordinator (Boma Briggs),a Full time Administrative Secretary (Beverly Jackson) and replacing the psychiatrist Karen Johnson, MD, PhD (who left the institution) with ,Curley Bonds, MD to help mentor Dr. Echeverry in her research project. Dr. Bond¿s salary component has been moved to the budget of the research project.