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行政核心的设计和结构，以支持南方大学的活动 加州（USC）烟草监管科学中心（TCORS）。它将确保南加州大学 TCORS以跨学科的方式有效运作，以确保其研究， 培训和传播目标得到实现。行政核心将积极主动地工作，以确保完成 围绕“弱势群体”这一主题， USC TCORS的焦点。行政核心将由TCORS联合项目主任玛丽博士领导 安彭茨和乔纳森萨米特，共同提供广泛的行政，多学科， 研究和翻译经验，以确保南加州大学TCORS的成功。他们将 建立在南加州大学战术协同作战研究系统内进行有效通信和协作所需的基础设施 团队和其他TCORS。它将为TCORS提供所需的行政支持， 的财务管理活动。行政核心还将组织和召开一次外部会议， 科学咨询委员会和社区咨询委员会，以及维持一个内部小组， 关键顾问将成立一个执行委员会，其中包括项目和核心负责人 Investigators.行政核心还将监督TCORS的质量保证和质量控制， 项目，维护TCORS网站和管理其他通信活动，包括研讨会和 研究进展会议。彭茨博士和沙美博士将是与以下人员互动的第一个接触点： 其他的TCORS，FDA和NIH

The Administrative Core is designed and structured to support the activities of the University of Southern California (USC) Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS). It will function to assure that the USC TCORS operates effectively and in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to meet to assure that its research, training, and dissemination goals are met. The Administrative Core will work pro-actively to assure complete integration across the Research Projects and Cores around the theme of "vulnerable populations" that is the focus of the USC TCORS. The Administrative Core will be led by TCORS Co-Program Directors, Drs. Mary Ann Pentz and Jonathan Samet, together offering the broad range of administrative, multidisciplinary research, and translational experience needed to assure the success of the USC TCORS. They will establish the infrastructure needed for effective communications and collaboration across the USC TCORS team and with the other TCORS. It will provide needed administrative support to the TCORS and also carry out financial management activities. The Administrative Core will also organize and convene an external Scientific Advisory Committee and a Community Advisory Board, as well as maintaining an internal group of key advisors. An Executive Committee will be constituted that includes the Project and Core Principal Investigators. The Administrative Core will also oversee quality assurance and quality control for TCORS' projects, maintain the TCORS website and manage other communications activities, including seminars and research-in-progress sessions. Drs. Pentz and Samet will be the first point of contact for interactions with the other TCORS, the FDA, and the NIH.