Leadership/Administrative Core
Key Accomplishments
Key Personnel

Overview
The Leadership/Administrative Core (LAC) determines the vision for research on the science of frailty and its translation in this Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). It leads the identification of the next generation of research on frailty that should be created, supports research planning, recruitment of investigators, setting of goals and benchmarks and evaluation activities for the cores and the OAIC as a whole, conducts other administrative activities and creates visibility for the accomplishments of the OAIC.

Led by the co-principal investigators of this OAIC, in collaboration with the leaders of other OAIC cores and supported by administrative staff, the roles and responsibilities of this LAC include essential leadership in stimulating, planning, goal-setting, integrating, sustaining and monitoring OAIC operations, and the organization and evaluation of all elements of this proposed continuation of the Older Americans Independence Center at Johns Hopkins, as well as responsibility for setting standards, administration and reporting.

Its goals are to ensure the conduct of these OAIC functions within a broader goal of helping recruit, initiate and nurture creation of a critical mass of investigators dedicated to advancing discoveries essential to prevention and treatment of frailty in older adults, and supporting the creation of innovative, high-impact research to this end. The overall goals of workforce development and support of research are to translate the results of OAIC-supported work into new treatments to enhance independence in older Americans, and the creation of a new generation of research leaders in the field.

To these ends, the specific aims of the Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC) are to:

• Provide leadership and organization that will stimulate and sustain the development of innovative research that will lead to new treatments and prevention of frailty in older adults, facilitate translation between basic and clinical research on frailty, and ensure effective, high-impact utilization of each of the cores within the Center.
• Provide leadership in the identification and implementation of scientific opportunities in frailty research that would enhance the impact of the OAIC at Johns Hopkins.
• Set goals with all cores, regularly evaluate the progress in all cores and facilitate integration between cores. Evaluation will include regular review of utilization of core resources by the other OAIC cores and reallocation of resources within or among cores.
• Organize an independent review panel for proposed Developmental projects, Pilot and Exploratory Studies and for the selection of specific junior faculty to receive salary support from the Research Career Development Core. Organize a yearly progress review toward OAIC goals by an External Advisory Committee.
• Preparation of annual reports for non-competing renewal applications and administrative documents as needed, including the report from the External Advisory Committee.
• Organize participation by PI, center administrator, core leaders and others in the annual OAIC scientific meeting and in research planning meetings and scientific presentations.