January 27, 2000 - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Low Library Faculty Room and Rotunda
Columbia University
535 West 116th Street
New York, New York
Hosted by Columbia University
and
Co-Sponsored by
The Association of American Universities, The Association of American Medical Colleges, Cornell University, New York University and Yale University
The report is available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/html/rand/index.htm.
The format will be short panel presentations followed by discussion from the floor. There will also be an opportunity to submit written comments.
8:00-8:30 Registration - Continental breakfast provided
8:30-9:00 Welcome
Dr. George Rupp, President, Columbia University
Dr. Arthur Bienenstock, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science
and Technology Policy, and
Chair, National Science and Technology Council Task Force on
the Government-University
Research Partnership
Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, President, Association of American Medical Colleges
9:00-10:15 Panel 1: Roles and Responsibilities
with respect to the academic medical center.
What fiscal and other Federal policies are needed to sustain and grow
the partnership in research and education?
Moderator: To be announced
Mr. Jerry G. Fife, Director, Contract and Grant Accounting, Vanderbilt
University
Dr. Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, The National
Institutes of Health
Dr. David Hirsh, Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Professor of Biochemistry
& Molecular Biophysics, and
Acting Dean, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Samuel Silverstein, John C. Dalton Professor and Chairman, Department
of Physiology &
Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons Invited
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Panel 2: The partnership and clinical
and population-based research and education.
What Federal policies are needed to best support and assure the vitality
of these growing areas of activity?
Moderator: Dr. Stephanie S. Spangler, Deputy Provost for Biomedical
and Health Affairs, Yale University
Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs,
University of Michigan
Dr. Karen Antman, Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center
Ms. Mary McCabe, Office of Clinical Research Promotion, National Cancer
Institute
Dr. John R. Feussner, Chief Research and Development Officer, Department
of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Dr. Henry Ginsberg, Director, Irving Center for Clinical Research,
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
12:30-2:00 Luncheon Address -- Lunch provided
Reflections on the problems and prospects of the partnership from both
the university and Government perspectives.
Introduction by Dr. George Rupp, President, Columbia University
Address by Dr. Herbert Pardes, President, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Invited
2:15-3:45 Panel 3: The partnership and
the future.
What Federal research and education policies are needed to prepare
the partnership to deal with the challenges posed by leading-edge biomedical
and health services research in the 21st century?
Moderator: Dr. Robert M. Glickman, Dean, NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Stephen Shea, Director, Division of General Medicine and Hamilton
Southworth Professor of
Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Robert R. Rich, Executive Associate Dean for Research, Emory University
School of Medicine
Dr. Gregory Siskind, Assoc. Dean for Research and Sponsored Programs,
Cornell Medical College
Other speaker to be announced
3:45-4:30 Open Discussion of Principles
Discussion lead by:
Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, President, Association of American Medical Colleges
and Dr. Michael M. Crow, Executive Vice Provost, Columbia University
4:30-5:00 Summation and Closing Remarks
Dr. David Korn, Senior Vice President, Association of American Medical Colleges
Office of Science
and Technology Policy
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