The department calendar at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/calendar is the official source of information for department scheduling. Be sure to refer to it each day for meeting information. (direct link if you're already signed in to webcalendar on your browser)
Effort Reporting
At all times know the sources of your salary support and the percent efforts from each source
Notify Frank Harrell and Linda Stewart if the average effort devoted to a project over any 6-month period is not concordant with the funded % effort
Ask Bill Dupont or Linda Stewart if you have a question about how effort reporting is done
Grant Proposals
Faculty biostatisticians should request the PI to list them as a co-investigator if their involvement in the proposed research warrants this designation
Negotiate percent effort for PhD/MS team on new grant applications
It is mandatory to include our IT/Professional Funds fee in all grant proposals other than certain K awards
Your signature on the conflict of interest provides the approval for Biostatistics to sign off in COEUS; at that time, you should add that proposal to your list of pending projects
A department member may only be named as a consultant on a grant if the PI on the grant is not at Vanderbilt
See GrantPolicies for other policies related to grant proposals
Data to Collect
See DataToCollect; especially note data to be kept current in dbconnect
Authorship and Submission of Manuscripts
Department members are not to be named under Acknowledgements in a published paper except in special circumstances
Beginning Feb 2008, if you or any of your co-authors had any NIH grant support remotely related to the manuscript, you must submit a PDF copy of the manuscript to Pubmed Central upon acceptance of the manuscript in a journal
Most but not all journals do this automatically; check with the journal to be sure
If you do not deposit the paper, you will not be able to reference it in any NIH grant progress reports
Teaching Income
At least 55% of income for teaching must be used directly for salary support
Meetings for Biostatisticians
Master Biostatistician Meetings (Thursdays at 9 am)
Biostatistics Seminars (Wednesdays at 1:30)
Biostatistics Clinics (Weekdays at noon)
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds (Thursdays 8 am)