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Comprehensive Integrated Research Operations
Comprehensive Integrated Research Operations (CIRO) is a departmental centralized unit providing crucial support services to all divisions' faculty, trainees and staff, fostering research advancement and collaboration. Our commitment is to ensure access to essential tools for competitive medical research, establish a robust research infrastructure, minimize administrative burdens, maximize research funds and attract dynamic researchers to our community.
What We Do
Research Operations plays a crucial role in offering essential administrative and logistical assistance that supports the execution of research initiatives in Internal Medicine. Our team is dedicated to creating and consolidating strategies and tools for managing the operational facets of research including recruitment, procurement, and departmental communications and events. This enables researchers to concentrate on conducting studies and applying research findings.
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Services we provide:
- Recruitment (staff/faculty)
- Faculty recruitment visits
- Human Resources support
- Procurement
- Space management
- Resource allocation
- Departmental fiscal management
- Workday navigation
- Strategic planning
- Internal Medicine events and communications
Research Administration serves as the essential link between visionary researchers and the complex landscape of research administration. Our team offers essential administrative support to manage research, specializing in funding, compliance and project management. Our expertise in sponsor regulations, coupled with close collaboration with the central Research Administration office, ensures proper stewardship of funds, compliance with funding agencies and institutional policy adherence.
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Services we provide:
- Proposal and contract development
- Project support through standardizing processes and communication
- Agreement/amendment setup
- Financial oversight of extramural funding
- Facilitation of reports to granting agencies
- Award negotiations, acceptance and set-up
- Grant close-out
- Actively promote and monitor compliance with granting agencies, policies and guidelines.
Clinical Research Administration (CRA) plays a vital role in ensuring that clinical trials are compliant with the rules for conducting clinical studies. Our team assists faculty and research teams with regulatory guidance and quality assurance support. CRA centralizes clinical research administration and optimizes the clinical trial processes by providing regulatory management throughout the entire lifecycle of all IM Clinical Trials and human subjects projects.
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Services we provide:
- Clinical trial start-up
- Initial IRB submission (informed consent form drafting and required IRB applications)
- Clinical trial activation
- Post-initial approval IRB amendments
- Adverse event and reportable information guidance
- Annual reviews
- Clinical trial closures and financial reconciliation support
CRA will also draft and submit required trial regulatory documents and assist with navigating sponsor regulatory mandates and changes by providing standardized processes and communication in support of continuous compliance.
