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Core Units

Development & Dissemination

Director: Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN

Co-Directors: Barbara Berger, PhD, RN, and Karen Kavanaugh, PhD, RN

Support Staff: Mark Mershon, BA, Media Specialist; Kevin Grandfield, BS, MFA, Publications Manager; and Linda Graham, MS, RN, Program Coordinator

Services provided by this core:

Development

  1. Provide support and mentoring for novice investigators
  2. Provide funding for pilot studies to promote research focused on reducing health risks in vulnerable populations
  3. Provide
    • Individual and group mentoring
    • Critiquing of grant proposals by internal and external reviewers
    • Editorial services for proposal development
    • Opportunities to present at pre-conference practice sessions
  4. Link novice and senior investigators with available resources
  5. Track pilot study principal investigator productivity
  6. Maintain a list of funding sources for research

Dissemination of Research Findings—to the scientific and clinical communities and to the general public

  1. Support dissemination of research findings
  2. Provide editorial services for manuscripts
  3. Organize seminars and colloquia for investigators inside and outside the CRRVP
  4. Support translation of research findings to practice
  5. Promote presentations and publications in venues suitable for and accessible to nursing clinicians in direct practice
  6. Publicize results of the science performed by CRRVP investigators/affiliates to the general public through:
    • Local media
    • College of Nursing CRRVP Web site
    • Web-based public education documents
    • A speakers’ bureau
  7. Organize symposia for presentation at nursing science meetings
  8. Facilitate development and presentation of symposia
  9. Maintain database of appropriate clinical journals for publication of findings
  10. Organize presentations addressing clinical audiences
  11. Publicize research results to the lay public
  12. Enhance successful publication of data-based manuscripts by providing senior or colleague mentors, think tanks, scientific reviews by faculty, and editorial services during manuscript development