IntroductionSection 6 describes in detail the tasks of the Administrative Core, the plan to carry out these tasks, and metricsused to evaluate the success of the implemented plans. Also described are membership requirements andprocedures for the addition or removal of a member, changes in the structure of the CEG that have takenplace, including changes in investigator membership, replacement of Research Cores with Focus Groups, andchanges in Facilities Cores, which are more specifically detailed in Section 7 (page 667). Detailedimplementation of the Career Development Program will be discussed in Section 4 (page 624). Report of thePilot Projects Program and description of changes instituted in the program are detailed in Section 8, page754. Discontinuation of the Outreach portion of the CEG is described below.The overarching objectives of the Center for Environmental Genetics are to improve human healththrough the integration of basic, genetic, clinical and epidemiological research into clinical practiceand public health initiatives. Implementation of these objectives thus constitutes the primary objective of theAdministrative Core, which will effectively manage the Center so that these goals can be achieved, creating aneighborhood of residents and facilities that will have an impact on Fig. 1The Administrative Core will do this not only by overseeing the organizational, budgeting andreporting aspects of the grant, but also, and most importantly, by providing the leadership for thescientific and programmatic activities of the Center as a whole.The Director (Ho), Deputy Director (Puga) and Associate Directors (Lanphear and Nebert) have the responsibilityfor overall coordination and oversight of Center activities. They provide both scientific leadership and fiscalmanagement for the Center.To carry out these responsibilities,they are assisted by the Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) composedof Focus Group Point Investigators (see Fig. 3 below), Facilities Cores Heads (Fig 1 with *), chosen CEG members, and other University faculty or staff who provide links with allied programs within the University. TheDirectors and chosen members of the IAC comprise a subcommittee which will be referred as the ExecutiveCommittee. It meets on a monthly basis and will assist the directors to oversee the day to day running of the CEG. The advise base is broaden by the inclusion of a Elite Council ofUC/CCHMC Experts, comprised of a distinguished panel of UC/CCHMC research and administrative experts(Bishop, Broderick, Khurana-Hershey, and Stambrook), and an External Advisory Committee (EAC),made-up of a distinguished group of outstanding non-UC scientists who provide a strong advisory role focusedon human genetics and environmental health as well as substantial experience in administration of largemultidisciplinary programs. The Program Manager assists with the day-to-day management of the Center,fiscal monitoring, reporting, organization of group meetings, record keeping, and organization and planningCenter activities, workshops and symposia. The Program Manager is assisted by a part-time (30% effort)Grant Administrator (also referred to as Financial Administrator) who oversees all grant related fiscal andcompliance issues related to Center activities within and outside the University. The Program Manager is incharge of the semi-annual production of the CEG's Interface newsletter and the routine update of the CEGWebsite content, under the oversight of the Associate Director, Dr. Daniel Nebert.The Core provides administrative support for the Career Development Program (CDP) headed by Drs. GraceLeMasters and Daniel Woo (see Section 4, page 624) and the Pilot Project Program (PPP) coordinated bythe Associate Director of the PPP, Dr. Daniel Nebert, and the Associate Director of Integrative Health, Dr.Bruce Lanphear. Three Facilities and Services (F&S) Cores have been proposed in this resubmission andthey all report back to and will be evaluated on performance by the Administrative Core, with informal andformal input and advice from the Executive Committee, the Elite Council of the IAC and the EAC, which meetat different frequencies (detailed below) . The three F&S Cores are the Integrative Technologies SupportCore (ITS, Section 7.1, page 667), the Integrative Health Services Core (Section 7.1, page 694) and theBioinformatics Core (Section 7.3, page 721). Center research is supported by the F&A cores and the PPPawards, as well as training and educational enhancement programs organized by the Administrative Core.Career development, a high priority of the CEG, will be led by seasoned CEG investigators, with a separatebudget but support from the Administrative Core. The key role played by the PPP, which is to promote highgain-high reward projects and align award mechanisms to CEG missions, has a separate budget andleadership oversight, but will also be supported by the Administrative Core.
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