Workshops

This workshop examines key issues to budget development, review and monitoring and explores a research administrator's role in service to the sponsor, institution and investigator. Special attention will be paid to assessing project costs, including personnel, consultants, equipment, supplies, travel, subcontracts, total direct costs, income, facilities and administrative (F&A) costs vs. salary and wage base and cost sharing. In addition, sponsor guidelines, institutional polices and the financial precepts of 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 200 (Uniform Guidance) will be covered. "Why do we have to do this?" and "Where are the guidelines that say that?" are key questions that will be answered.

Content level: Basic

Learning objectives:

1. Identify core costs related compliance expectations associated with federal funding.
2. Support proposal and award management activities consistent with federal regulations.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Erin Bailey, Chief Financial Officer, CTSA, University of Buffalo; Timothy Schailey, MS, Director, Research Administration, Thomas Jefferson University

Clinical trials are a rapidly changing field in research administration. Many of the skills needed to administer more traditional investigator-initiated, grant-funded research projects can be adapted to managing clinical trials. This teaching workshop will examine the basics of clinical trial administration from recruiting projects to archiving records, explore the differences between industry and federally funded studies, highlight special concerns and discuss best practices for managing clinical trials. A CD of useful documents, links and tools will be provided.

Content level: Basic

Learning objectives:

1. Identify three milestones in the development of clinical research regulations and describe the importance of each.
2. Identify three important regulatory differences between clinical research conducted in the US and in non-US/International regions.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Bruce Steinert, PhD, CCRA, Independent Consultant

This workshop will use interactive exercises and a case study and will include high-level content for leadership development, research administration staffing and management, research and faculty development, innovation and economic development, and integrity and stewardship.

Content level: Intermediate

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the core tenets of supervision and organization of research activities from an organization management perspective.
2. Understand the importance of training and professional development is providing excellent research administration services.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Susan Sedwick, PhD, CRA, Senior Consulting Associate, Attain LLC; Marianne Woods, PhD, JD, Faculty and Program Director, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

Stress does not discriminate – research management professionals worldwide are feeling its effects. Do you ever feel that there are just not enough minutes in the day or days in the week? Is your work life integration in need of some adjustment or does it not exist at all? This interactive workshop will examine issues that adversely affect the stress level of research professionals, explore the core principles of anger management, and discover ways to de-stress daily - right from the comfort of your own home, office, or anywhere at all.

Content level: Basic

Learning objectives:

1. To recognize the situations that cause stress and the warning signs our bodies give us.
2. To explore and adapt proven methods of meditation and relaxation to ensure a healthier professional outlook to improve work life integration.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Debra Schaller-Demers, MSOM, Director, Research Outreach and Compliance Tri-I RCR Course Director Administrative Member, Tri-SCI ESCRO IACUC, IBC, and Export Control Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Research Administration is a fairly recent acknowledged profession. At the core of every research, enterprise is an organizational infrastructure that supports researchers in their endeavors to change the world by exploring new and novel ways to address today’s societal challenges. This workshop highlights the various ways to set up an efficient organization.

Content level: Advanced

Learning objectives:

• Analyze the various administrative functions in a successful strategic continuum.
• Recognize the impact of developing a strategic continuum approach to organizational structure.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Denise Clark, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Maryland; Ann Holmes, Assistant Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

This presentation is designed to explain the fundamental aspects of a contract and the specifics relating to clinical research agreements.

Content level: Basic

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the fundamental aspects of a contract.
2. Understand the considerations when negotiating an agreement that involves multiple parties (sponsor, collaborators).

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Carlos Braxton, JD, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins University; Gayle Walters, MS, MAS, Director, Consortia Services, Johns Hopkins University

This workshop is intended for individuals with three years or fewer in research administration or more experienced research administrators transitioning to roles in research development. Research development provides strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities that serve the research enterprise at large by supporting individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, fostering relationships, and developing and implementing strategies that increase institutional competitiveness and innovation. To give a big and broad picture of research development, topics will include the role of the research development professional, how research development complements and differs from research administration, developing individual and institutional grant capacity, understanding and applying institutional strategies to enhance the overall research portfolio, orienting investigators to the research environment and research development, an overview of proposal components and the agency review process and providing leadership and support for large-scale, collaborative proposals.

Content level: Intermediate

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the approach and components of research development for the institution.
2. Apply these strategies in the participant's home institution to increase grant capacity and proposal success.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Marjorie Piechowski, PhD, Emerita Director of Research Support, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

When clarifying career goals, it is important to start with a personal inventory, however, many are unsure of how to even begin. This half-day workshop will lead participants through the process of putting together a personal inventory and will provide tangible take-aways to help define and achieve their career goals.

Content level: Basic

Learning objectives:

1. Participants in the Workshop will learn the importance of taking a personal inventory to determine their true career goals, and will learn the difference between a dream and a goal.
2. Participants in the Workshop will perform a personal inventory using such tools as a personal SWOT analysis and a personal mission statement, and will learn how to analyze their results.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Tammy Good, MSM, CRA, CPRA, Consultant, Eli Lilly and Company; Sikirat Tijani, MRA, CRA, Associate Director, Grants and Contracts, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago