Southern California Research Center for ALPD and Cirrhosis

ADMINISTRATIVE CORE - SUMMARY The Administrative Core is the key organizational backbone for the Southern California Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases (ALPD) and Cirrhosis. It plays an integral role in supporting the center’s pursuit for the mission of serving as a national resource by achieving efficient networking and communications among all center components and internal and external oversight committees and providing required administrative support. The core also identifies and facilitates new programmatic developments for research on the center theme; promotes new collaborative opportunities among the center members and with non-center investigators; and renders coordinated efforts to support the academic growth of graduate students, postdocs and early-stage investigators. The Core fulfills the following specific responsibilities: 1) efficient IT-based communication among the center components and members; 2) budgetary and financial management; 3) administrative and logistic support to the cores; 4) coordinating biannual Executive, Pilot Project, Education/Training, and Outreach Committee meetings, and an annual Scientific Advisory Board meeting; 5) organizing Progress Report meetings, single-topic workshops, and annual center symposia; 6) managing educational and training program; 7) supporting local and global outreach; and 8) fundraising and implementation for new programmatic developments. The Core also supports optimal cross-utilization of the unique and complementary resources available at our center, other centers of excellence, government and non-profit organizations within and outside of our regional network. In the past 5 years, the Core’s strategic efforts have contributed not only to the center’s scientific and research base growth but also to the emergence of successful early career investigators, education and training of undergraduate and graduate students, and implementation of 4 community seminar/workshops and 4 international symposia. With support by the Administration Core, the center continues to strive as a uniquely specialized, interdisciplinary, and integrated center of excellence serving regional, national and global communities.