Translational Research Institute

Organization

The Arkansas TRI structure encourages excellence and inclusiveness, and infuses enthusiasm and energy. The TRI organizational structure capitalizes on centralized research and education on the UAMS campus and maximizes the frequency and quality of multidisciplinary, interinstitutional, and intercommunity interactions. The TRI structure was designed to seamlessly integrate institutes and colleges across UAMS to combine strengths and minimize weaknesses. The TRI administration includes all UAMS colleges, disciplines, and statewide partners; the TRI Director has close contact with directors of all program components. The TRI Executive Board includes a representative and alternate from each component and representatives from major external partners. Because large committees can be slow to move, a smaller committee, the Executive Steering Committee, advises the TRI Director and helps draft policies to be brought before the Executive Board.

TRI Director/CTSA PI

Curtis L. Lowery Jr., MD

Assistant Dean for Clinical Research and Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. He is the Executive Director of The Center for Distance Health and the Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System (ANGELS) programs. As TRI Director, Dr. Lowery reports directly to the Chancellor and sits on the Chancellor�s Cabinet.

Co-Directors:

Cornelia Beck, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, Department of Geriatrics, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Professor, College of Nursing. She is also the Director of the UAMS Alzheimer�s Disease Center (ADC), established in 2001 with funding from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Lawrence Cornett, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Department of Medicine. UAMS Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine. Principal Investigator, Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)

Executive Steering Committee

Aubrey Hough, MD
Dr. Hough is a Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the Department of Pathology and Associate Dean for Translational Research and Special Projects in the UAMS College of Medicine. Dr. Hough holds the Drs. Mae and Anderson Nettleship Endowed Chair in Oncologic Pathology. He is also the chairman of the UAMS Bioterrorism Steering Committe

Robert E. McGehee, Jr., PhD
Professor, Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, Physiology and Biophysics. He is Dean of UAMS Graduate School and Director of Basic Science Research, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology and Director for the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program at UAMS. Additionally, he is Program Director of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center�s Cell Differentiation and Signaling Program.

S. Michael Owens, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He is the Director of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the Wilbur Mills Endowed Chair in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention.

James Raczynski, PhD, FAHA, FSBM
Professor and Founding Dean, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health. He is also the Director of the COPH Arkansas Centerfor Minority Health Disparities.

William R. Hogan, MD, MS,
Chief and Associate Professor Division of Biomedical Informatics

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