Research Collaboration on a Shoe String Research Collaboration on a Shoe String Budget or None at All…a Dean’s Budget or None at All…a Dean’s
PerspectivePerspective
Thomas A. Cavalieri, DO, FACOI, FACPThomas A. Cavalieri, DO, FACOI, FACPInterim DeanInterim Dean
Professor of MedicineProfessor of MedicineEndowed Chair for Primary Care ResearchEndowed Chair for Primary Care Research
Director, New Jersey Institute for Successful AgingDirector, New Jersey Institute for Successful AgingUMDNJ – School of Osteopathic MedicineUMDNJ – School of Osteopathic Medicine
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale
Why do research?Why do research?
All truths are easy to understand once they All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei
Why do research?Why do research?
Advances our institutional missionsAdvances our institutional missions
Advances our professionAdvances our profession
Advances science Advances science
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in creative imagination and marks real advance in science.science.
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
Why collaborate on research?Why collaborate on research?
The scale and complexity of today’s biomedical The scale and complexity of today’s biomedical research problems increasingly demand that research problems increasingly demand that scientists move beyond the confines of their own scientists move beyond the confines of their own discipline and explore new organization models for discipline and explore new organization models for team science.team science.
Elias Zerhouni, MDElias Zerhouni, MD
……exciting basic science discoveries demand exciting basic science discoveries demand that clinical research continue and even expand…that clinical research continue and even expand…Clinical research needs to develop new partner-Clinical research needs to develop new partner-ships among organized patient communities, ships among organized patient communities, community-based physicians and academic community-based physicians and academic researchers.researchers.
Elias Zerhouni, MDElias Zerhouni, MD
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.that I can borrow.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson
Why collaborate on research?Why collaborate on research?
Pools resourcesPools resources
Creates synergyCreates synergy
Develops faculty’s research skillsDevelops faculty’s research skills
Builds a better productBuilds a better product
Makes us more competitiveMakes us more competitive
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh
Types of CollaborationsTypes of Collaborations
IntradepartmentalIntradepartmentalInterdepartmentalInterdepartmentalInterdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Inter-institutional Inter-institutional
Areas of FocusAreas of Focus
Primary carePrimary careOMM/OPPOMM/OPPHealth promotion/disease preventionHealth promotion/disease preventionPublic health/community medicinePublic health/community medicineHealth servicesHealth servicesHolistic medicineHolistic medicineComplementary and alternative medicineComplementary and alternative medicineTranslational researchTranslational research
Getting Started:Getting Started: Rules for Researchers Rules for Researchers
Start small but think bigStart small but think big
Be realisticBe realistic
Don’t put all your eggs in one Don’t put all your eggs in one basketbasket
Getting Started:Getting Started:Rules for DeansRules for Deans
Identify research as an institutional priorityIdentify research as an institutional priorityEncourage and support collaborationEncourage and support collaborationNurture an institutional mindsetNurture an institutional mindsetIdentify faculty with the requisite interest, Identify faculty with the requisite interest, energy, and acumen to achieve successenergy, and acumen to achieve successProvide release timeProvide release timeEnsure the necessary infrastructureEnsure the necessary infrastructureMake start-up funds availableMake start-up funds available
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.tried to succeed. Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt
Funding OpportunitiesFunding Opportunities
Institutional supportInstitutional support
PhilanthropyPhilanthropy
EndowmentsEndowments
FoundationsFoundations
Osteopathic Heritage Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Foundation
American Osteopathic American Osteopathic AssociationAssociation
Disease/cause-Disease/cause-specific organizationsspecific organizations
Pharma/corporationsPharma/corporations
State and local State and local government agenciesgovernment agencies
HRSAHRSA
AHRQAHRQ
NIHNIH
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.exhilaration of victory. General George PattonGeneral George Patton