CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION: CORE CENTER FOR BALANCE AND HEARING RESEARCH

行政管理 行政管理结构 将开展平衡和听力研究核心中心的行政活动 主要由核心主管福尔曼博士主持。福尔曼博士，核心主任拥有广泛的行政管理 作为匹兹堡大学医学部平衡障碍科主任， 中心，我们现有核心中心的首席调查员，以及以前的 资助的NIDCD计划项目赠款。福尔曼博士和除了坎德勒博士之外的所有核心调查人员都有一个 合作历史悠久，并建立了牢固的工作关系。福尔曼博士和坎德勒博士 作为匹兹堡大学的同事认识了五年多，并 最近在这项提案的制定过程中共同努力。核心调查员将作为一个小组开会 每季度讨论资源分配和相互计算技术问题。此外，福尔曼博士 将每周与科学程序员克里斯托弗·布莱恩特会面，讨论优先顺序。这一过程具有 已经被证明是成功的，因为科比先生得到了现有核心中心的支持，并 根据需要向核心调查员提供计算机服务。福尔曼博士在与 核心调查员和布莱恩特先生已经成功地分配了这位科学程序员的时间。这个 将坎德勒博士的实验室加入我们的团队将增加布莱恩特先生的时间负担。然而，我们有 不要指望这个额外的负担会有问题。每个核心调查人员都认识到访问 科比先生是一个共享资源，旨在加强整个集团的研究活动。 对于核心中心的管理，一个明显的担忧来源是，福尔曼博士既 核心主管和核心调查员之一。因此，拟议核心的行政结构 该中心包括一个监督委员会，该委员会将由詹妮弗·格兰迪斯博士组成， 耳鼻咽喉科，儿科耳鼻咽喉科主任玛格丽塔·卡塞尔布伦特医生和马格丽塔·卡塞尔布伦特博士。 匹兹堡大学眼科系NEI资助的核心中心的罗伯特·亨德里克斯说。 监督委员会将审查核心中心的年度进展报告，并负责 协助福尔曼博士解决有关资源分配的问题。 计算核心的活动可能包括编写数据采集软件， 提供有关硬件接口和数据分析软件的建议和协助。我们预计 向一名调查员提供的服务很可能会引起其他几名核心调查员的兴趣。 为便利分享共同问题的技术解决方案并促进合作研究， 核心调查人员将每季度举行一次会议，讨论计算核心的活动。在这些会议上，刘易斯说。 科比将在与核心调查员的公开论坛上报告他之前三个月的工作，并 他们的工作人员和受训人员出席了会议。在这些会议之后，调查人员将立即私下 讨论前三个月和后三个月的资源分配问题。这些会议也将是 用于讨论鼓励核心研究人员之间和 匹兹堡的其他有共同研究兴趣的科学家。

Administration Administrative Structure The administrative activities of the Core Center for Balance and Hearing Research will be performed primarily by the Core Director, Dr. Furman. Dr. Furman, the Core Director has extensive administrative experience both as the Director of the Division of Balance Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Principal Investigator of our existing Core Center, and the Principal Investigator of a previously funded NIDCD Program Project Grant. Dr. Furman and all of the Core Investigators except Dr. Kandler have a history of collaboration and have established a strong working relationship. Dr. Furman and Dr. Kandler have known one another for more than five years as fellow faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh and have worked together recently in the development of this proposal. The Core investigators will meet as a group quarterly to discuss resource allocation and mutual computing technology concerns. In addition, Dr. Furman will meet with the scientific programmer, Christopher Bryant, weekly to discuss prioritization. This process has already been shown to be successful as Mr. Bryant has been supported by the existing Core Center and has provided computing services to the Core investigators on an as-needed basis. Dr. Furman, in discussion with the Core investigators and Mr. Bryant, has successfully allocated the scientific programmer's time. The addition of Dr. Kandler's laboratory to our group will increase the burden on Mr. Bryant's time. However, we do not expect this additional burden to be problematic. Each of the Core investigators recognizes that access to Mr. Bryant is a shared resource that is meant to enhance the research activities of the group overall. An obvious source of concern regarding the administration of the Core Center is that Dr. Furman is both the Core Director and one of the Core investigators. Thus, the Administrative Structure of the proposed Core Center includes an Oversight Committee that will consist of Dr. Jennifer Grandis, Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Otolaryngology, Dr. Margaretha Casselbrant, Chief, Divison of Pediatric Otolaryngology, and Dr. Robert Hendricks, PI of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Ophthalmology NEI-funded Core Center. The Oversight Committee will review the yearly progress reports of the Core Center and will be responsible for assisting Dr. Furman with issues concerning resource allocation. The activities of the Computing Core are likely to include the writing of software for data acquisition, the provision of advice and assistance regarding hardware interfacing, and software for data analysis. We expect that services provided to one investigator are very likely to be of interest to several other Core investigators. To facilitate the sharing of technological solutions to common problems and to foster collaborative research, the Core investigators will meet quarterly to discuss activities of the Computing Core. At these meetings, Mr. Bryant will report on his work for the preceding three months in an open forum with the Core investigators and their staff and trainees in attendance. Immediately following these meetings, the investigators will privately discuss issues of resource allocation for the prior and succeeding three months. These meetings will also be used to discuss possibilities for encouraging collaborative research among the Core investigators and among other scientists in Pittsburgh who have common research interests.