Leadership and Administrative Core

Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, New York NY

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Project Summary/Abstract: LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE CORE The goal of the Leadership and Administrative Core is to provide, not only administrative oversight of the Center, but to also advance research in geriatric palliative care (GPC) and its translation through a framework of connected activities that starts with creating a pipeline of trainees, supporting their research development, and ends with efforts to disseminate the work to improve the lives of older persons and their families. The core specific aims are to foster and support scientific innovation in GPC and to disseminate research ready for clinical and policy translation; to assist and oversee the Research Education Component in identifying, selecting, and monitoring junior investigators and their studies; to assist, oversee, and coordinate 3 resource cores in identifying methodologic themes that will advance research in GPC; to integrate activities and facilitate interchange in GPC among the OAIC cores and investigators; to coordinate the OAIC’s work with research activities of other programs and institutions; and to provide administrative and communications support, coordination of human subjects review, and fiscal management for the cores and projects involved in this OAIC. In the renewal, we expand the size, and breadth of the OAIC’s leadership team including a new MPI and new core leaders, continue and expand existing successful efforts of the OAIC including our cross-cutting themes of dementia and implementation science, and add new innovative initiatives. New to this renewal, we propose two changes to allow for better integration of inter-related activities while reducing administrative costs and infrastructure. First, we have integrated our prior PESC into the REC given the vast majority of pilot funding has gone to early-stage scientists. Second, we have created a new expanded Resource Core – Research Methods and Measures (RC-RMM) that merges our prior Measurement, Methods, and Analyses Core (RC-MMA) and Population Research and Methods Core (RC-PRM). RC-RMM and adds qualitative and geospatial analyses resources. We also propose a new cross-cutting theme and resource core focused on Health Disparities (RC-HD) that will leverage a range of existing data sources to support research that will advance our understanding of health disparities in the longitudinal course of serious illness on older adults and their caregivers. We have created new partnerships with OAICs to advance health services research and enhance dissemination of OAIC research through the award winning GeriPal podcast. By strategically leveraging resources from other programs, this core maximizes the impact of a modest investment to create an OAIC that is comprehensive in scope, significant in local impact, collaborative with other OAICs and NIA programs, and national in its reach.