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UCLA Older Americans Independence Center (Pepper Center)
Center Cores and Components
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORE Theodore
J. Hahn, MD, Core Leader (310) 268-4108 The goal
of the Research Development Core (RDC) is to train junior
faculty members to become future academic leaders in basic,
clinical and health services research directed toward improving
the independence of older persons, and to support innovative
pilot research designed to develop new interventions that
will promote independent functioning in older individuals.
Related goals involve attracting new faculty from various
disciplines into aging research and serving as a resource
in aging education and research to the UCLA community. Features
of the RDC include: (1) a CDA program comprised of 3-5 junior
faculty members and their mentorship committees in a structured
interdisciplinary program that provides integrated training
in mechanistic and outcomes research, and promotes faculty
career development; (2) a pilot grants program to encourage
the development of new basic, clinical and health services
research approaches to promote independence in older adults;
(3) an organized program of instruction to enhance the research
training of all junior faculty and fellows, the latter representing
our future junior faculty; (4) a Research Development Mentorship
panel, comprised of senior faculty with a wide range of expertise,
to provide junior faculty awardees with individualized interdisciplinary
training in required areas; and (5) an interdisciplinary RDC
Committee to monitor the progress of RDC awardees and assure
that the RDC contributes to the enhancement of aging-related
research and training at UCLA. COST/EFFECTIVENESS CORE Emmett Keeler, PhD, Core Leader (310) 393-0411 ext. 7239 The Cost/Effectiveness
Core is housed at RAND and the specific aims of this research
core are: 1) to provide technical support in design, statistics,
and health, utility, and cost measurement for all the projects
of the Center; 2) to assess the cost-effectiveness of proven
or conjectured effective interventions of the Center; 3) to
examine new approaches to cost-effectiveness analysis in geriatrics
and gerontology. DATA
MANAGEMENT CORE The Data Management Core (DMC) provides data collection and data management services to all Center projects, including pilot projects and research projects undertaken as part of OAIC junior faculty career development awards. Data collection
and data management services available through the DMC include
consulting and advising investigators on data collection tools,
developing and maintaining tracking systems to monitor subject
recruitment and scheduling of data collection activity, data
entry, verification, and data cleaning services, and providing
data documentation for all project databases. In this way,
the DMC serves as a centralized resource for all OAIC researchers,
providing expertise and consulting in study design and data
collection as well as actually organizing and maintaining
data bases for the various studies. LEADERSHIP/ADMINISTRATIVE CORE (L/AC) David
B. Reuben, MD, Co-Leader (310) 825-8253 The administrative
core has five specific aims: 1) to provide day-to-day management
of the UCLA OAIC; 2) to serve a fiscal management function
for the UCLA OAIC; 3) to maintain contact with NIA staff and
the advisory committee; 4) to ensure communication, coordination
and collaboration among the UCLA OAIC and other OAIC's; 5)
to provide administrative oversight for internal quality control
of ongoing research and research assistance to individual
projects as needed; and 6) to manage dissemination activities
for the UCLA OAIC.
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Last Updated: March 3, 2006 |
