The Administrative Component oversees the DRTC's missions of excellence in interdisciplinary research, thetraining and development of new diabetes investigators, and enrichment of the diabetes researchenvironment at Vanderbilt and nationally. The DRTC leadership consists of: Director (Alvin Powers); twoAssociate Directors (Alan Cherrington and Stephen Davis); and an Executive Committee (Naji Abumrad,Matthew Breyer, Thomas Elasy, David Piston, Roland Stein, David Wasserman, Christopher Wright). Allmembers of the DRTC leadership have made important contributions to diabetes-related research and bringconsiderable research and administrative expertise and perspective. This senior leadership also has a longhistory of productive collaborations and interactions among themselves and with other centers at Vanderbilt.The DRTC leadership is responsible for determining the membership of the DRTC, allocating DRTC supportof research cores, overseeing the Pilot and Feasibility Program and DRTC training efforts, and developinglong-term DRTC strategy (requests for institutional support, recruiting, relationships with other centers).Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) continues to make a sustained and substantial commitment ofspace and resources to the DRTC, and the Administrative Component is responsible for integrating this withsupport provided by the NIH. The Administrative Component also is responsible for the planning andorganization of research symposia, lectureship schedules, and the annual Diabetes Center Research Day.In these efforts, the Director and the Administrative Component of the DRTC receive advice from: 1) anInternal Advisory Committee, appointed by the Dean, that provides advice, especially regarding therelationship of the DRTC to other parts of VUMC; 2) an External Advisory Committee; 3) the Pilot andFeasibility Review Committee; 4) Research Advisory Committee that consists of co-leaders from the sevenDRTC research areas; and 5) a Research Training Advisory Committee that overseeing DRTC-affiliatedtraining grants and efforts. The Administrative Component also includes considerable informatics expertiseto create and utilize a variety of electronic approaches to effectively communicate with DRTC members andthe diabetes research community outside Vanderbilt and to provide informatics support to DRTC-affiliatedmembers. In summary, an experienced and effective DRTC management team, bolstered by sustained andsubstantial support from VUMC, is working to ensure that the Vanderbilt DRTC's research base, corefacilities, training activities, and enrichment efforts continue to be outstanding and at the forefront of diabetesresearch. In addition, the DRTC leadership is interested in working collaboratively with other diabetescenters, the NIDDK, and other interested organizations to enhance and facilitate diabetes researchthroughout the United States.
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