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Sally Davis, Ph.D., Professor, Director

The Office of Creative Endeavors, Department of Pediatrics, promotes research and creative activities for the department by providing assistance in grant development, and submission and provides support to the department’s research committee. For more information, please see this website: http://hsc.unm.edu/pedsresearch.

The Office of Creative Endeavors solicited, received, and completed a wide variety of tasks from Pediatrics faculty, staff, and residents.

1. Grants and Contracts

• The office conducted funding searches for faculty, staff, and House officers. The office assisted faculty with the preparation and submission process of grants and contracts and processed amendments/revised budgets for previously submitted grants. The office continued to operate a grants/contracts database. Total number of grants/contracts submitted = 80 Total number of grants/contracts awarded = 66

2. Events/Promotion/Communication

• The office sponsors the “Research Report” at faculty meetings.

• Holly Shipp Buchanan, HSC Library

• Janelle Browne, HS Strategic Planning

• William Reed, Office of Research

• Lee Gulbransen, HSC Controllers

• LuAnne Papile, Neonatology

• Sally Davis/Leif Nelin, Pediatric Research Committee

• Barbara Carver & Margaret Saiz, Human Research Review Committee

• Greg Gomez, Office of Research, SMART Program

• The office offers support to the Pediatric Research Committee. The committee meets once each month.

• The office displayed an ongoing series of posters to showcase faculty and housestaff research on the Creative Endeavors bulletin board in the department.

• Hired Mark Eichinger, Ph.D., as the Research Coordinator for the department.

• Sally Davis, Ph.D., Chair of the Pediatric Department Research Committee serves on the Dean’s Science Advisory Council (SAC)

3. Research

• To continue to support the Office of Creative Endeavors as a means of implementing research and creative/scholarly activities in the department.

• To distribute indirect cost money back to investigators.

• To continue to work across departments within the Health Sciences Center in collaborative research.

• To continue implementing the 5 year Strategic Plan for the department.

• To develop a website for Pediatric Research.