Coffee Talks

Scrutiny of Research-Related Conflicts of Interest is on the rise and industry-funded research is increasing, resulting in the nature and complexity of relationships between sponsors and physician-researchers growing more intertwined. While these relationships can be beneficial to patients, physicians, industry and institutions, appropriate management is critical to ensure the credibility of research, the reputation of investigators and institutions and their ability to receive funding. Research administrators and leaders are challenged on a daily basis to maintain an up to date understanding of the dynamic and lucrative relationships between investigators, their staff and the sponsors of research while providing patients and institutions with comfort that these financial arrangements do not compromise the integrity of the research. Each environment has its own tolerance level and culture, but the scrutiny of these arrangements is increasing daily and every institution must have a process in place. Questions that will be examined include: how to maintain a current view of personal arrangements with sponsors; how to gain the trust and buy-in of investigators when you are seeking personal financial information; how to develop and maintain effective management plans; what are the advantages and disadvantages of the range of options to manage COIs- ranging from bans on personal services to industry sponsors, annual caps, public notifications, patient notification, staff notification, etc. In the post-Sloan Kettering environment, it is time to review your institutional process and determine what changes should be made.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify possible COIs in the research landscape
• Understand he risks of unmanaged COIs to investigators and institutions
• Understand the range of possible COI management options
• Learn to build trust with investigators around the COI management process

Content Level: All Levels

Discussion Leaders:

Genevieve deLemos Partner deLemos & Wever, LLC	Christina Jackson, MJ, BSN, RN, CHRC, CCRC Director, Office of Research Integrity AdventHealth

Moderator: Timothy L. Gehret, JD, Esq., Contracting Officer, GTRI Directorate, Office of Sponsored Programs, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Department administrators are on the front line for dealing with all sponsored project issues. Post-award may have more regulations to follow, but Departmental Administrators often feel more pressure from the pre-award side of their positions. The universal drive for more research grants means an emphasis on generating proposals. In addition, with average funding rates of under 20%, there will always be way more proposals than awards, which can disproportionately affect the Departmental Administrator. This coffee talk we will discuss strategies and approaches from several different administrators on addressing Pre-Award issues.

Content Level: All Levels

Discussion Leaders:

Tolise Dailey Training Manager Johns Hopkins University

Sean Scott, CRA Director of Research Operations College of Public Health University of Kentucky

Moderator: TBA!

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Department administrators are on the front line for dealing with all sponsored project issues. And while pre-award is just as important, it often doesn’t involve as many moving pieces, and offices, as post-award. Explaining to PIs the reasoning behind the rules and regulations that define how they can utilize “their” grant, falls to the DRA many times. This coffee talk will talk about strategies and approaches from several different administrators on efficient interactions with PI’s, central administration, other institutional offices, and sponsors.

Content Level: All Levels

Discussion Leaders:

Tolise Dailey Training Manager Johns Hopkins University	Tracy Reinke Executive Director, Finance and Operations Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies University of Oklahoma
Sean Scott, CRA Director of Research Operations College of Public Health University of Kentucky	Kevin Titus Business Director Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Moderator: TBA!

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