Agenda for CMSRU Strategic Planning Meeting
Meeting Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Meeting Location: CMSRU Conference Room 522
Time:
5:00 – 5:10
Topic:
Welcome, Strategic Plan assessment process review
5:10 – 5:30
Research Strategic Plan
5:30 - 5:55
CMSRU growth opportunities: Strategic Plan breakdown
CMS/GME; College of Health Sciences; Program Development;
Affiliations
Next meeting (Gallery review)
5:55 – 6:00
Participants: P. Katz, P. Vanston, C. Knowlton, C. Bekes, B. Kocher, J. Kirby, J. Carpenter, M. Goldberg, S.
Mandayam, R. Harvey, J. McGeehan, J. Mitchell-Williams, C. Hasit , V. Weil
Summary:
Focus on the research Strategic Plan, see below time-line
Potential areas for focus at CMSRU:
Centers of Excellence:
1. The science of healthcare delivery
2. Medical Education (for Health Care Professionals, students, etc.)
3. Critical Care/Intensive Care
4. Cardiovascular medicine
5. Diabetes management
6. Biomedical Engineering
Innovative Research Methods:
7. Systems engineering
8. Computational Intelligence, Bioinformatics & Diagnostic Data Mining
9. Financial/cost effectiveness research
10. Mechanisms (MOA) and bio-markers
11. Information translation/delivery
Upon completing an overall assessment of the areas of intended research focus, we began to work on the goals
necessary for insuring that the medical school established a solid framework from which to provide research
education to our medical students as well as to prepare for current and developing research. We used the following
format to organize the planning process.
Moving Forward:
Goals
Objectives
Actions
Needed
Responsible
Parties
Necessary
Resources
Timelines
Benchmarks
Assessment
of Goal
The original four key goals were reviewed and received minor editing:
1. Students will engage in meaningful projects that generate knowledge.
2. Research faculty will develop rewarding, sustainable and productive research careers.
3. Faculty will be prepared to adapt and create a supportive environment suitable to mentoring medical
students in scholarly projects based on skill sets.
4. CMSRU will support a research environment that produces high quality studies that can obtain competitive
funding.
The next step in the planning process is to establish the following for each goal:
- Objectives to reach the goal;
- Actions necessary to accomplish each objective;
- Responsible parties;
- Resources required;
- Timelines and benchmarks
- Assessing/determine if we're meeting our goals.
Agreed on the following objectives for our first two goals; some have specific actions listed as they were a natural
extension of the conversation. We will refine these as the process moves forward.
1. Goal: Students will engage in meaningful projects that generate knowledge.
Objectives:
o Provide a directory of opportunities for student projects
 Consider team projects
 Determine experience necessary
 Consider a match (similar to Rowan engineering)
o Develop a cadre of faculty mentors
 Identify interested faculty aligned with our overarching goals
 Insure commitment in process
 Provide standards for mentoring/training
o Utilize a tracking mechanism to insure that all students are aligned with a project and that the
project status is monitored
 Faculty advisors will review periodically
 Research mentors will track and discuss
 Student responsibility/reporting
o Identify students interested in research as well as interest areas
 Conduct student survey early in MS1
o Set up an advisory committee for each student project consisting of at least two members within
outside of the mentors department
2.
Goal: Research faculty will develop rewarding, sustainable and productive research careers.
Objectives:
o Faculty will be provided administrative support in order to successfully compete for funding from
external agencies.
 Management grants
 Identification of foundation support
o Provide Incentive
 Insure that research faculty time spent training medical students has positive impact on
academic status
 For recognition/ to excel in areas of expertise
o Mentoring for faculty
o Foster interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues within and outside of RU
o Education/faculty development
o Establish seed funding
3.
Faculty will be prepared to adapt and create a supportive environment suitable to mentoring medical
students in scholarly projects based on faculty skill sets.
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4.
Create a culture where a student centered approach to medical education is valued
 Hold a pre-meeting of faculty interested in mentoring medical students in various projects
to outline expectations, etc.
 Ensure faculty are aware of constraints on students (workload)
Identify specific funding opportunities that could support educational development of mentors
Faculty recognized for successfully creating valued research opportunities for students.
CMSRU will support a research environment that produces high quality studies that can obtain
competitive funding.
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Provide faculty with modern, well-equipped research space to perform their research with
appropriate core facilities and administrative infrastructures
 Grant applications
 Grant financial management
Adequate library, statistical, software available, laboratory services
Adequate laboratory space available commensurate with need and funding
Bring in experts to provide guidance on competitive grant writing and seeking funding
Establish seminar/grand rounds series
Strategic Divisions & Subcommittee work
• Research
• Education/Students
• Community
• Finances
• Development
• Organizational growth/Opportunities
Research Strategic Planning Committee Members:
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
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Jeff Brenner and Ken Gross
Cooper University Hospital
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Mike DiSanto, Joe Parrillo, Steve Trzeciak, and Larry Weisberg
Coriell Institute for Medical Research
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Michael Christman and Joe Mintzer
Rutgers Camden
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Andrey Grogoriev and Joe Martin
Rowan University
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Parviz Ansari, Greg Caputo, Steve Chin, Shreek Mandayam, Steve Phelan, and Robi Polikar
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Cathy Poon
Led by: Patti Vanston and Harry Mazurek
Guidance: by Paul Katz and Annette Reboli
Four key goals:
1. Students will engage in meaningful projects that generate knowledge.
2. Research faculty will develop rewarding, sustainable and productive research careers.
3. Faculty will be prepared to adapt and create a supportive environment suitable to
mentoring medical students in scholarly projects based on skill sets.
4. CMSRU will support a research environment that produces high quality studies that can
obtain competitive funding.
Next Meeting:
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Gallery Review
Extra time
15 minutes per group
– presentation
– Feedback (allow at least 5 minutes)
Prioritize items
Consider alignment with mission/vision/brand