The Administrative Core will be the 'central nervous system' of the proposed OklahomaRheumatic Disease Research Core Center, functioning as the governing center, the feasibilityproject selection and project monitoring center, the mentoring center, the scientific core oversightcenter, the Enrichment series leadership and the checkpoint of the success of the Center as awhole. The Administrative Core will consist of the Director, Associate Director, the Senior AdvisoryCommittee, the External Advisory Committee and the Core Administrator. The Senior AdvisoryCommittee meetings will be held under the auspices of the Administrative Core, and the decisionsof the Senior Advisory Committee will be implemented by this Core. The Administrative Core willalso help facilitate interdisciplinary interactions between Core Investigators and assist withfeasibility project selection and mentoring. After submission by approved appropriate investigators,feasibility applications will be reviewed first by the Senior Advisory Committee and then selectprojects evaluated by an External Advisory Committee of Gary Gilkeson, MD, John Mulvihill MD,PhD, Jill Morris, MPH, PhD, Carl Langfeld, PhD, and Edward Wakeland, PhD. After provision ofNIH-style reviews, the Senior and External Advisory Committees will meet with applicants formentoring sessions. This Core will assist feasibility project by helping with the administrative dutiesassociated with research projects (i.e., grants management, human subject training, IRB applicationand patient sample compliance, IACUC application and compliance, grant and manuscriptpreparations, presentations, travel arrangements, budget management, and personnel recruitmentand retention). This revised core will provide financial oversight of the Cores and FeasibilityProjects. The Administrative Core will also coordinate and implement the Enrichment programconsisting of key meetings, seminars, important scientific visitors, and mentoring sessions. TheAdministrative Core will be instrumental in the Center's goal of interaction of multi-disciplinedinvestigators in the pursuit of understanding the etiology and pathogenesis of rheumatic diseasesand will also be responsible for the evaluation of the success of the Center.
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