1) To advise and provide administrative support for the service Cores. The goal is to enhance collaborative and cooperative interactions between the Cores and members of the Research Base in a way that promotes research relevant to skin and skin diseases at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals.
2) To manage the Pilot and Feasibility program. The Administrative Core will provide administrative support for this program and oversee the Pilot and Feasibility Selection Committee. The objective is to ensure that the selection committee, in consultation with the Pilot and Feasibility Committee members, fulfills its responsibility of identifying the best skin-related research proposals. The ancillary goal is to engage Pilot and Feasibility recipients to maintain their new interest in skin disease and, if the recipient is a young investigator without other support, to advise them with regard to academic development.
3) To maintain an on-site Executive committee, composed of the Director, Co-Director, Core Directors, and the Chair of the P & F Selection Committee.
4) To maintain and expand the Enrichment program to include new lectures, and courses related to the special expertise of the respective Core Directors.
5) To ensure that communications between the research base and the Core and P & F programs are effective. The goal is to ensure that members of the research base, particularly new members, are fully informed of the opportunities present in the HSDRC.
6 To ensure oversight by an External Review committee and an Advisory committee. The goal is to obtain objective and constructive suggestions on how to make the HSDRC a more effective enterprise.
7) To provide sound fiscal management, particularly with regards to the appropriate use of Core and Pilot and Feasibility funds.
8) To orchestrate an effort to raise a substantial endowment so that the HSDRC can become a self --sufficient entity. The goal is to work closely with the Development Office at the BWH (and hopefully other development offices as well) to begin raising an endowment of sufficient magnitude to make the HSDRC self-sufficient.
