Research Collaboration on a Shoe String Research Collaboration on a Shoe String Budget or None at All…a Dean’s Budget or None at All…a Dean’s

PerspectivePerspective

Thomas A. Cavalieri, DO, FACOI, FACPThomas A. Cavalieri, DO, FACOI, FACPInterim DeanInterim Dean

Professor of MedicineProfessor of MedicineEndowed Chair for Primary Care ResearchEndowed Chair for Primary Care Research

Director, New Jersey Institute for Successful AgingDirector, New Jersey Institute for Successful AgingUMDNJ – School of Osteopathic MedicineUMDNJ – School of Osteopathic Medicine

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale

Why do research?Why do research?

All truths are easy to understand once they All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei

Why do research?Why do research?

Advances our institutional missionsAdvances our institutional missions

Advances our professionAdvances our profession

Advances science Advances science

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in creative imagination and marks real advance in science.science.

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

Why collaborate on research?Why collaborate on research?

The scale and complexity of today’s biomedical The scale and complexity of today’s biomedical research problems increasingly demand that research problems increasingly demand that scientists move beyond the confines of their own scientists move beyond the confines of their own discipline and explore new organization models for discipline and explore new organization models for team science.team science.

Elias Zerhouni, MDElias Zerhouni, MD

……exciting basic science discoveries demand exciting basic science discoveries demand that clinical research continue and even expand…that clinical research continue and even expand…Clinical research needs to develop new partner-Clinical research needs to develop new partner-ships among organized patient communities, ships among organized patient communities, community-based physicians and academic community-based physicians and academic researchers.researchers.

Elias Zerhouni, MDElias Zerhouni, MD

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.that I can borrow.

Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson

Why collaborate on research?Why collaborate on research?

Pools resourcesPools resources

Creates synergyCreates synergy

Develops faculty’s research skillsDevelops faculty’s research skills

Builds a better productBuilds a better product

Makes us more competitiveMakes us more competitive

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh

Types of CollaborationsTypes of Collaborations

IntradepartmentalIntradepartmentalInterdepartmentalInterdepartmentalInterdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Inter-institutional Inter-institutional

Areas of FocusAreas of Focus

Primary carePrimary careOMM/OPPOMM/OPPHealth promotion/disease preventionHealth promotion/disease preventionPublic health/community medicinePublic health/community medicineHealth servicesHealth servicesHolistic medicineHolistic medicineComplementary and alternative medicineComplementary and alternative medicineTranslational researchTranslational research

Getting Started:Getting Started: Rules for Researchers Rules for Researchers

Start small but think bigStart small but think big

Be realisticBe realistic

Don’t put all your eggs in one Don’t put all your eggs in one basketbasket

Getting Started:Getting Started:Rules for DeansRules for Deans

Identify research as an institutional priorityIdentify research as an institutional priorityEncourage and support collaborationEncourage and support collaborationNurture an institutional mindsetNurture an institutional mindsetIdentify faculty with the requisite interest, Identify faculty with the requisite interest, energy, and acumen to achieve successenergy, and acumen to achieve successProvide release timeProvide release timeEnsure the necessary infrastructureEnsure the necessary infrastructureMake start-up funds availableMake start-up funds available

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.tried to succeed. Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt

Funding OpportunitiesFunding Opportunities

Institutional supportInstitutional support

PhilanthropyPhilanthropy

EndowmentsEndowments

FoundationsFoundations

Osteopathic Heritage Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Foundation

American Osteopathic American Osteopathic AssociationAssociation

Disease/cause-Disease/cause-specific organizationsspecific organizations

Pharma/corporationsPharma/corporations

State and local State and local government agenciesgovernment agencies

HRSAHRSA

AHRQAHRQ

NIHNIH

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.exhilaration of victory. General George PattonGeneral George Patton