Purpose
The Research Council has umbrella responsibility for research development and coordination within the College of Medicine (COM). The Research Council advises the Executive Associate Dean for Research on all matters which it considers significantly related the efficient and effect function of the College’s research missions. In addition to its advisory role, the Research Council reviews applications for intramural pilot and bridging grants, reviews Core Facilities, and reviews proposed campus policies and revisions to existing policies that have the potential to impact the College’s research mission. The Research Council is to keep college faculty informed broadly about college‑level, campus and university events of importance to the research community.
Research Council members, with full voting privileges, are selected from the COM faculty and appointed by the Executive Associate Dean for Research. The membership is representative of the breadth of research conducted within the COM with a balance of basic, clinical and translational investigators.
The Chair and Chair-Elect of the COM Research Council shall be elected from among the voting membership annually. The Chair-Elect shall rise to the position of Chair the following year.
The COM Executive Associate Dean for Research and the Chair of the Research Council may invite others to take part in Research Council meetings as appropriate.
Members (voting)
- John Arthur, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine
- Giulia Baldini, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Richard Dennis, Ph.D., Professor, Geriatrics
- Ruud Dings, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology
- Nicola Edge, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine
- J. Craig Forrest, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
- Ekaterina Galanzha, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Sc., Associate Professor, Otolaryngology
- Teresa Hudson, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry
- Rick Leung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Vladimir Lupashin, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology & Cell Biology
- Angus Macnicol, Ph.D., Professor, Neurobiology and Developmental Science
- Stavros Manolagas, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine
- Pearl McElfish, Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Skye Miner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Director of Research Ethics
- Charles O’Brien, Ph.D., Professor, Medicine
- Paul H. Phillips, M.D., Professor, Ophthalmology
- Zhiqiang Qin, Ph.D., Pathology
- Analiz Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
- William J. Steinbach, M.D., Professor, Pediatrics
- David Ussery, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Ex-Officio Members (non-voting)
- Suzanne Alstadt, Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
- Westley Ashley, J.D., Assistant Director, Conflict of Interest
- Jon Blevins, Ph.D., Institutional Biosafety Committee
- Karl Boehme, Ph.D., COM Representative on UAMS Research Committee
- Paul Drew, Ph.D., Professor, College of Medicine Office of Research
- Anna Evatt, Program Manager, Office of Research Information Systems
- Mario Ferruzzi, Ph.D., Director, Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center
- William Gentry, M.D., Director, Clinician Scientist Program
- Laura James, M.D., Director, Translational Research Institute
- Open, President, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute
- Robert McGehee, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School
- Kimberly Murphy, Institutional Compliance Research
- Richard R. Owen, M.D., Associate Chief of Staff for Research, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
- Edith Paal, Director, Institutional Review Board
- Eric Peterson, Ph.D., BioVentures
- Nathan M. Petty, Research Compliance Officer
- Renee Raines, Assistant Dean for Administration, College of Medicine
- Jessica Snowden, M.D., Professor, Vice Dean for CoM Office of Research
- Tyrone Stephens, Director of OSPAN
- Alan Tackett, Ph.D., Director of Research, Cancer Institute
- Pamela “Mo” Valentine, Director of Grants Accounting
- Jerry Ware, Ph.D., Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee