Resources at the Office of Health Research (OHR)
OHR Mission: The purpose of the OHR is to enhance and extend the academic activities of the College of Nursing (CON) by helping faculty and graduate students develop and conduct research that builds the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevents disease and disability, manages and eliminates symptoms caused by illness, and enhances end-of-life and palliative care. Conducted in the context of an urban environment, CON research focuses on advancing nursing science to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes across the lifespan among diverse individuals, families, and communities.
The Office’s mission is to support faculty and graduate students in the development and conduct of research and scholarly activities that advance nursing science. The Office functions to: create a research environment that promotes learning and scholarship; enhance research productivity; and assist faculty and graduate students in securing external funding to support research.
The office staff is dedicated to the delivery of services to increase the development of faculty and scholarship. Many activities are offered to support this mission: (a) pre-award support services including research grant planning and development, budget preparation, statistical consultation, presubmission reviews and grant submission; (b) post-award support services including facilitation of project start-up, and budget management assistance; (c) management of internal research funding processes; (d) dissemination of faculty and student research accomplishments; (e) facilitation of scholarly seminars and workshops throughout the year; and (f) consultation from visiting scholars, senior nurse researchers, statisticians, and editors.
OHR Actions to Achieve Mission
OHR Staff Functions:
Dr. April Vallerand, Interim Associate Dean for Research, :
Provide pre-award consultation, assistance with proposal development, access to University Grantsmanship Development Workshops, and facilitate CON presubmission proposal reviews.
Post-award consultation is also available regarding all aspects of grant administration [e.g., research team management, grant productivity, and Principal Investigators’ (PI) post-award responsibilities to funding agencies].
Dr. Gail Brumitt, Associate Director-Research Projects, :
Provide assistance with creating, designing and implementing processes and procedures related to research proposal development
Provide assistance in all aspects of the research proposal preparation and submission process including: planning, program design, writing, facilitation of budget planning and proposal preparation, assistance and guidance on writing research protocols and IRB applications, assistance with evaluation of preliminary data for research proposals, and coordination of CON resources (e.g., literature searches, editorial needs, manuscript preparation)
Provide guidance and assistance with project implementation, management and termination.
Ms. Penny Kopka, Grant & Contract Administrator, :
Provide pre- and post-award grant services (budgets and financial paperwork, creation of grants.gov application folders etc).
Mr. Clinton Loh, OHR Assistant, :
Provides assistance to OHR Director and to faculty preparing research proposals.
Dr. Liza Jenuwine,
Data Entry
Data entry services are available to faculty who have little or no research funding. Contact Dr. Jenuwine only after discussing data entry needs with OHR director. Data entry services should be included as a line item in grant budgets.
Grant Technician
Assists faculty to locate NIH, foundation, professional agency, Department of Defense or other type of funding opportunity announcements relative to their proposed research ideas.
Performs literature searches for the background section of the grant application in concert with direction from the principal investigators (PIs).
Provides technical advice and support to researchers and PIs relative to preparing graphics, figures, charts, and/or tables to ensure grant content is described in a clear and concise manner resulting in an easy to read grant for reviewers.
Assists faculty to strengthen grant applications relative to logic of presentation, grammatical correctness, and formatting issues. Provides support to faculty to ensure timely processing of grant applications to include, but not limited to, reviewing grant applications to ensure completeness, compliance, and accuracy.
Graphic Design
Provides assistance with poster design to all faculty and to doctoral students with grant funding or presentations at national conferences.
Dr. Thomas Templin, Professor—Research, :
Expertise related to psychometrics and structural equation modeling; will review a draft of specific aims and provide feedback; available for brainstorming sessions.
Dr. Hossein Yarandi, Professor – Research, :
Broad statistical expertise including cost effectiveness; available to review methods sections of a proposal and provide feedback; available to brainstorm about project development; available for data analysis.
Beth Langelier, Manuscript Technician, , 586-421-5106 (home),
586-863-6015 (cell):
Manuscript editing and/or technical assistance
Dr. Mary Walsh, Grant Writer - contact OHR Director when needed.
Sarah James, Grant Editor - contact OHR Director when needed
Additional OHR Functions:
Establish peer review panels for critique of proposals; see MYCON-Research for more details about pre-submission reviews (mock reviews).
Research mentoring offered by OHR Director, Associate Director-Research Projects, and other OHR personnel; contact OHR Director at any time.
Facilitate brainstorming sessions. Brainstorming sessions can be held as a strategic planning session at any stage of your research development. They can be held to brainstorm about directions of a proposal or how to respond to an RFP. They can be held in stages so that more than one session is held leading to a proposal. Each session usually as 2-3 faculty members (from within or outside the CON, depending on your needs), generally who are active researchers. Contact the OHR to schedule a brainstorming session.
OHR seminar series for faculty and students; check the pink calendar for days and times.
Provide information on funding sources and grant application processes.
o Watch for regular e-mail announcements.
o Check the OHR bulletin board.
o Check the OVPR website www.research.wayne.edu for internal funding opportunities on the Research Funding Opportunities link.
o Community of Science-Pivot is an online funding resource and faculty database profile available to all faculty at no charge. Faculty can search the world's most comprehensive funding database, with customized funding alerts that can be sent directly to you via e-mail. Community of Science Pivot offers faculty the opportunity to search profiles of researchers from 1,600 institutions throughout the world. It also allows faculty to create their own profile to showcase their research and expertise. Easy and convenient tools can help keep your CV updated and accessible. To create your COS Pivot profile, go to http://pivot.cos.com . If you have questions regarding Community of Science-Pivot, contact Sarah James in the OVPR at .
Provide laboratory and office infrastructure for faculty researchers.
o Space is provided to faculty with research funding.
o Submit requests for research space to Ms. Penny Kopka at ,
577-4134
Facilitate opportunities for successful interdisciplinary collaboration in research.
o Contact OHR Director with questions.
o OHR seminars provide opportunities to meet faculty from across campus who could potentially be helpful collaborators.
o See Research Connect on the OVPR main page (bottom left) or go to http://www.experts.scival.com/wayneresearchconnect/default.asp
Maintain OHR repository of grant related information, policies and guidelines at CON-Research webpage
Check CON-Research webpage for templates (e.g., resources and environment), grant guidelines, important publications etc.
Provide other support for faculty research.
o Work study students; see CON-Research webpage under Grant Services for directions about accessing a work study student.
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