Governance

Since the establishment of the WVCTSI, leadership and faculty at WVU have worked to develop an optimal structure to support a statewide infrastructure for clinical and translational research and to facilitate interactions with collaborating institutions. This structure provides for efficient access to resources and services by investigators, while ensuring strong oversight, both internally, and externally. It relies on a well proven committee structure that we have used for other programmatic funding.

WVCTSI Organizational Flow Chart

Leadership:
Dr. Uma Sundaram has served as Director of the WVCTSI since 2008. Dr. Sundaram has long-standing expertise in translational research beginning with his undergraduate training in bioengineering at Johns Hopkins University and continuing through his MD and residency/fellowship training at Yale. He has a strong record of high quality, NIH-funded research in the area of gastroenterology that includes basic, clinical, and translational research.

Drs. Laura Gibson, Suresh Madhavan, and James O’Donnell have served as Co-Directors of the WVCTSI since 2008 and continue in this role. They have worked closely with Dr. Sundaram and the Core Directors in developing the Cores and in establishing the Policies and Procedures which govern the operation of the WVCTSI. Each of the Co-Directors has translational research expertise and institutional and national leadership roles.

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Internal Advisory Committee:
The Internal Advisory Committee consists of WVU and University of Kentucky faculty leaders with clinical and translational research expertise. The Internal Advisory Committee advises the WVCTSI Director and Operations Committee on its overall operations and its success in meeting its goals. This evaluation is based on semiannual updates provided by the Director to the Committee and by the reports of the Tracking, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Core.

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