Research Administrators Forum Sponsored by the Office of Research Administration Marcia Smith Associate Vice Chancellor May 10th, 2011 Agenda  Welcome and Announcements - Marcia Smith  RAPID Effort Reporting Workgroup Status Report – Maurice Taylor and Shannon McGarry • Current Deadline and Metrics  Research Policy and Compliance Update – Ann Pollack • PHS COI Regulations  OCGA Initiatives and Updates – Patti Manheim • Intake Team Metrics • EPASS – Extramural Proposal Approval and Submission Summary • Award Snapshot  RAPID Proposal and Award Tracking System (PATS) Project Update and Go-Live – Michelle Leonard and Gloria Su  RAPID Post Award Management System (PAMS) Project Update and Demonstration -- Raellen Man, Jennifer Aguilar, Jessica Lee, Allison Philabaum Effort Reporting Metrics As of the 4/13/12 Certification Deadline On-time Completion Rates for Service Period: Spring 2011 & Summer 2011  74 Percent & 73 Percent Open Reports  5,253 open reports out of 131,202  On-time Completion Rates for Prior Service Period:  Fall 2010 & Winter 2011  73 Percent & 68 Percent 1 Effort Reporting Metrics  As of 5/09/12  Completion Rates at UCLA  89% certification rate on Campus  Open Reports  16,989 open reports out of 156,641 Fall 2011 and Winter 2012 are available! Certification is due July 30th, 2012 2 Ann Pollack Assistant Vice Chancellor – Research May 10, 2012 Revised Public Health Service Regulations Quick review: • Intended to increase accountability, add transparency, enhance regulatory compliance and effective management of financial conflicts of interest and strengthen governmental compliance oversight • Increases disclosure, review and reporting requirements • Requires an initial disclosure that must be updated within 30 days of acquiring or discovering any new significant financial interest, and at least annually Revised Public Health Service Regulations • Adds an education/training requirement • Expands reporting requirements • Adds a new public accessibility requirement • Adds new monitoring requirements Revised Public Health Service Regulations • Require that investigators disclose SFIs that are related to their institutional responsibilities • Require that UCLA engage in a two-step review of disclosed financial interests to determine:  if any disclosed significant financial interest is related to the PHS research (could be affected by the research or is in an entity that whose financial interest could be affected by the research), and then  if any disclosed significant financial interest constitutes a financial conflict of interest What Are Significant Financial Interests? • Anything of monetary value related to the investigator’s institutional responsibilities including but not limited to:  Salary or other payment for services and the value of equity in a publicly traded entity >$5,000 over the past 12 months  Salary or other payment for services >$5,000 or any equity in a privately held entity over the past 12 months  Intellectual property rights (e.g. license fees or royalties) paid by any entity, other than UC, upon receipt of income related to such rights (>$5,000 in the past 12 months)  Travel of any $ value paid for, or reimbursed by, an outside entity Institutional Responsibilities “For the purposes of this policy, the term institutional responsibilities is defined as teaching/education, research, outreach, clinical service, and University and public service, on behalf of the University of California performed in the course and scope of the investigator’s UC appointment” (UC and UCLA definition)