Administrative Core

堪萨斯社区癌症差异网络（KCCDN）将由堪萨斯大学医学中心管理，并将在区域Al/拉丁裔社区执行中心指导委员会的指导下进行行政管理。Greiner博士作为整个中心的PI，在平衡KUMC作为一个机构的需求和关注以及保持诚信和对当地社区的忠诚方面拥有丰富的经验。 需要的他有经验指导重大干预项目与社区为基础的参与式研究（CBPR）的方法和县医疗官员在堪萨斯'最贫穷的县（怀恩多特），他是在平衡紧急社区卫生和医疗保健需求和学术问题精通。Greiner博士最近被邀请领导KUMC中心地区的社区健康合作伙伴关系（CPH）计划 临床和转化研究所（CTTR）是两年前获得KUMC临床和转化科学奖（CTSA）规划拨款的实体，Greiner博士今年夏天与KUMC的六名高级研究人员一起撰写了完整的CTSA提案并启动了机构CTTR活动。因此，Greiner博士将领导所有机构的努力，通过CPH计划协调转化研究社区参与活动。Greiner博士在KUMC不断扩大的作用只会加强KCCDN的地位，同时确保该中心满足其所服务的农村Al和拉丁裔社区的需求。

The Kansas Communities Cancer Disparities Network (KCCDN) will be run out of the University of Kansas Medical Center and will be administratively under the direction of a regional Al/Latino Community Executive Center Steering Committee. Dr. Greiner, as PI for the overall Center, has extensive experience balancing the needs and concerns of KUMC as an institution and maintaining integrity and allegiance to local communities of need. He has experience directing major intervention projects with community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodologies and as the county Medical Officer in Kansas' poorest county (Wyandotte), he is well versed in balancing urgent community health and health care needs and academic concerns. Dr. Greiner was recently asked to head the Community Partnership for Health (CPH) program within the KUMC Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (HICTR), an entity tjuilt out of a KUMC Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) planning grant received two years ago, Dr. Greiner worked this summer with a group of six senior researchers at KUMC to write a full CTSA proposal and launch institutional HICTR activities. Thus, Dr. Greiner will be leading all institutional efforts to coordinate translational research community engagement activities through the CPH program. Dr. Greiner's expanding role at KUMC will only strengthen the position of the KCCDN while assuring the Center meets the needs of the rural Al and Latino communities that it serves.