Department of Medicine Research Listening Tour Report

Special thanks to those who provided administrative and analysis expertise: Tiera Vaughns, Brita Alley, Jenny Kemp, Alesia El Ali and Alison Shapiro. Thank you to all faculty and staff who spent time engaging in this process.

DOM Research Listening Tour At-a-Glance...

DOM Research Listening Tour At-a-Glance...

A new Department of Medicine (DOM) Vice Chair (VC) for Research team was appointed on October 1, 2022. The team is comprised of Janine Higgins, PhD (VC for Research), Fernando Holguin, MD (Associate VC for Research), and Mary Weiser-Evans, PhD (Associate VC for Research). The VC for Research team is responsible for overseeing all DOM research activity with the goal of making the Department a national leader and model for research in the nation within five years. To achieve this transformational goal, we embarked on an extensive listening tour to:

  • Involve research faculty and staff in the process of developing the DOM research strategic plan from the ground up
  • Learn about the spectrum of research in DOM 
  • Discover barriers to optimal productivity and success
  • Define successful elements of the current research enterprise
  • Discover major drivers of dissatisfaction with the current enterprise.