ADMINISTRATIVE CORE

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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPONENT: Director - M. Lazar The Administrative Component of the Penn DERC is led by Center Director, Dr. Mitchell A. Lazar. Dr. Morris J. Birnbaum serves as Associate Director and designated interim replacement DERC director, and Dr. Karen Teff is Assistant Director for Translational Research. This component bears the responsibility for organizing, carefully overseeing, and continuously evaluating the quality of the scientific cores for the benefit of the Center investigators in strict observance of the Guidelines issued by the NIDDK for the operation of Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Centers. The Administrative Component also oversees a highly successful Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program as well as an Academic Enrichment Program whose activities include a weekly research lecture series, several monthly workgroup meetings highlighting interactive and translational research focused on obesity, cardiovascular complications, and patient-oriented research, and an annual Spring Diabetes Symposium featuring an expansive poster session, lectures by selected Penn DERC faculty, and the Kroc Lecture. The Director and Associate Director are aided in their task by several standing advisory and oversight groups. These include the Executive Committee, which at present consists of Drs. Kaestner, Matschinsky, Stanley, Wolf, and Naji in addition to Drs. Lazar, Birnbaum, and Teff; the Committee of Core Directors; an External Advisory Board, consisting of leaders in the field of Diabetes and Metabolism; and an Internal Advisory Board, consisting of key scientific leaders at Penn who are not in administrative positions in the DERC but function as Department Chairs, Center Directors, and Core Directors. The activities of the DERC are also thoroughly reviewed periodically by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and have strong institutional support. By coordinating and integrating all diabetes related activities of the Center and its investigators, the Administrative Component plays an indispensable role in facilitating inter-disciplinary Diabetes-related research and research training.