Each VA facility having one or more healthcare professions training affiliations must establish an advisory entity (i.e., Affiliation Partnership Council) to assist in the management and coordination of the relationships between VA and its affiliations partners. The intent is for the councils to act as strategic planning and coordinating bodies for the affiliations. The APC appointed this committee for the accomplishment of specific management or strategic tasks associated with Research for which the APC is responsible.
Charge: • Develop goals and objectives in keeping with the APC priorities strategic plans.
• Promote research, research education, scholarship and collaborations between the VA and AU Investigators.
• Submit reports to assess the committee’s effectiveness in reaching its goals and objectives and make recommendations for future activities to the APC.
• Advise and formulate recommendations and provide information to the APC on research and research education and policy guidelines and procedures.
• Establish subcommittees as required to facilitate the work of the committee
• Advise on the allocation and use of funds to support research and research education
• Engages in strategic planning for research development
• Facilitate joint recruitment of VA Merit Award Eligible/VA Merit Award Funded Investigators to accept AU/CNVAMC positions.
• Committee Chair, or his/her designee will be responsible for scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, presiding over meetings, prepare an annual report, and perform other duties consistent with the efficient management of the committee.
• Each committee member would be responsible for completing all assigned tasks as prioritized by the Committee Chair.
• Plan and conduct VA, AU, and Fort Gordon/Eisenhower Research symposium.
Members | Role | Constituency | Representing | Term | |
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Interim Associate Dean for Research, Dental College of Georgia, Babak Baban |
Member | Dental College of Georgia | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
AU Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Marshall Bedder |
Member | Department of Psychiatry, AU | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
CNVAMC Research Career Scientist/Professor of Physiology, Wendy Bollag |
Member | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | ||
Executive Director, Augusta Biomedical Research Corporation, Jetesey Dennis |
Member | Augusta Biomedical Research Corporation | Administrative | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Executive Director of Corporate Relations, AU, Rob Dennis |
Member | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | ||
Senior Vice President for Research, Augusta University , Michael Diamond |
Committee Co-Chair | AU | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
CNVAMC Senior Research Career Scientist/Regents' Professor, Zheng Dong |
Member | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | ||
Robert Gibson | Member | Emergency Medicine | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Associate Chief of Staff, Research and Development, Charlie Norwood VAMC, Tom Hartney |
Committee Co-Chair | Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Glenda Hathorn | Secretary/Reporter | Staff | July 2021 - June 2022 | ||
Vahe Heboyan | Member | MCG Department of Population Health Science | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
John Heslen | Member | AU Cybersecurity | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Director Military Initiative, Economic Development Specialist, Karen Nixon |
Member | Partnership and Economic Development | Administrative | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Chief of Clinical Investigation, Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Open Open |
Member | Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Standing in for Chief of Clinical Investigation, DDEAMC, Peter Parker |
Member | Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center | Staff | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Director, Federal Relations, Monty Philpot |
Member | Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs | Administrative | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
AVP, Interdisciplinary Research, AU, Warren Thorp |
Member | Interdisciplinary Research, AU | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Almira Vazdarjanova | Member | Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Associate Dean for Research, College of Allied Health Sciences, Chandramohan Wakade |
Member | College of Allied Health Sciences | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Michael Washington | Member | DDEAMC | Community | July 2021 - June 2022 | |
Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing, AU, Julie Zadinsky |
Member | College of Nursing | Faculty | July 2021 - June 2022 |