Scientific & Administrative Core

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The Treatment Research Center (TRC) Scientific and Administrative Core provides intellectual and administrative support for the five scientific components. The specific aims of the Scientific and Administrative Core are: (1) to provide scientific and administrative leadership for the federation of TRC investigators; (2) to ensure uniform assessment procedures across components to encourage cross component collaboration; (3) to collaborate with the Quantitative Core to provide cost-based economic analyses, data management and statistical support for TRC investigators; (4) to provide training support for drug abuse treatment and services research, including support for NIDA funded institutional postdoctoral trainees, fellows supported by individual NRSA fellowships, and trainees from other University of California San Francisco (UCSF) programs conducting drug abuse research; (5) to provide support to develop the scientific skills of junior faculty members in drug abuse treatment and services research and; (6) to disseminate results from TRC studies and studies from other sites to the clinical and scientific community, and, through dissemination, contribute to the advancement of the clinical community and stimulate scientific discourse. The Scientific and Administrative Core includes seven elements: These are: (1) a core battery which measures important constructs across components and developmental studies; (2) a series of cross-component integrative studies; (3) training enrichment activities, including the Writer's Task Force (WTF), implementation of mechanisms to better integrate TRC trainees into Department of Psychiatry faculty development activities, as well as leadership in a Departmental Research Retreat focused on the addictions;(4) dissemination of scientific knowledge to the field via forums, through structured interchanges with community providers and researchers, and through intervention manuals based on TRC component research; (5) monthly meetings to provide ongoing education into drug abuse research and to assist component investigators in their formulation and resolution of research issues; (6) grant, manuscript, and manual review committees; (7) fiscal and administrative support to TRC investigators, as well as investigators leading affiliated studies, especially junior faculty.