November 6th, 2013

1:30-2:30pm, MRB-III Room 1220

PEOPLE

• Departures
  • WJ Cunningham
  • Marcia Freudenthal
  • Amy Graves
  • Linda Stewart
  • William Wu
• Promotions
  • Leena Choi
  • Hank Domenico
  • Tatsuki Koyama
• New Faculty
  • Mary Banach - Adjunct Instructor in Biostatistics
• Faculty/Staff Recognition
  • Cornelius Program Speeds Assessment of Readmission

SERVICE

• Department Move
  • Shuttle Transfer
  • Clinic Location
  • If you have any move related items that still need to be addressed, please submit your comments here.
  • Hanging pictures competition
  • Final move from MCN by Alexander's on Thursday, 11/7

QUALITY

• CQI: Mario Davidson, PhD
• Administrative Update
  • ETO report
  • Travel
  • Tax Exemption - meals in-town
  • Purchasing
    • Please continue to submit all requests (computers, books, travel, etc.) through dbconnect.
    • Faculty and staff should not make arrangements to use any Vanderbilt funds without proper prior written approval.
  • Effort
  • Community survey
  • New administrative structure - in Chair Presentation

GROWTH & FINANCE

• BCC update: Jeffrey Blume, PhD
• Graduate Program Update: Jeffrey Blume, PhD

Department Chair Presentation

Logistics

• Office security
• Office policies to be developed
• Clinics
• Coordinating activities across 2525 WE; seminars & communication
• Office for Division of Cancer Biostatistics

New Administrative Pod Structure: Public Health

• Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
• Center for Health Services Research + other VIMPH entities
• Department of Biostatistics
• Department of Health Policy
• Epidemiology Graduate Program
• Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
• Department of Emergency Medicine (research only)
• Department of Biomedical Informatics (education only)

Ron Jannetta, Chief Business Officer

• Some of our administrative staff will have roles for other pod components
• Not expected to change office locations
• Seth Martin assumes administrative role over all cores in our pod

Our Mission

• Research
• Education
• Collaboration
• Our people

Discussion