Research Collaboration on a Shoe String Budget or None at All…a Dean’s Perspective Thomas A. Cavalieri, DO, FACOI, FACP Interim Dean Professor of Medicine Endowed Chair for Primary Care Research Director, New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging UMDNJ – School of Osteopathic Medicine

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

Why do research?

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

Why do research? Advances our institutional missions Advances our profession Advances science

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

Why collaborate on research?

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

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

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

Why collaborate on research? Pools resources Creates synergy Develops faculty’s research skills Builds a better product Makes us more competitive

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

Types of Collaborations IntradepartmentalInterdepartmentalInterdisciplinaryInter-institutional

Areas of Focus Primary care OMM/OPP Health promotion/disease prevention Public health/community medicine Health services Holistic medicine Complementary and alternative medicine Translational research

Getting Started: Rules for Researchers Start small but think big Be realistic Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

Getting Started: Rules for Deans Identify research as an institutional priority Encourage and support collaboration Nurture an institutional mindset Identify faculty with the requisite interest, energy, and acumen to achieve success Provide release time Ensure the necessary infrastructure Make start-up funds available

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

Funding Opportunities Institutional support PhilanthropyEndowmentsFoundations Osteopathic Heritage Foundation American Osteopathic Association Disease/cause- specific organizations Pharma/corporations State and local government agencies HRSAAHRQNIH

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