Representing the CIRAR University Administrative Oversight Group, Dr. Mary Mundinger, Dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing, gives opening remarks at the Invitational Symposium for Columbia University Research Center Directors

PANEL 1 (l-r):

Dr. Fredi Kronenberg, from the Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Dr. Anne Gelijns, from the International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (InCHOIR)

Dr. Peter Bearman, from the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy (ISERP)

Dr. James Yardley, from the Nanotech Center

Dr. Sherry Glied (Moderator), Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public Health and CIRAR Expert Liaison

• Funding Sources
• Faculty Recruitment
• Relationship between Centers & Institutions
• Relationship between Centers & the Community
• Importance of Leadership
• Center Sustainability

During the break, NIH Program Administrator, Dr. Gregory Farber (center) speaks with Dr. Phyllis Della-Latta (CIRAR Executive Committee Member) and Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

PANEL 2 (l-r):

Dr. Allan Formicola, from the Center for Community Health Partnerships (CCHP)

Dr. Regina Santella, from the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan

Dr. Roberta Balstad from the Center for International Earth Science Network (CIESIN)

Dr. Nabila El-Bassel from the Center for Intervention and Prevention Research on HIV & Drug Abuse (CIPRHDA)

Dr. Suzanne Bakken (Moderator), Director of the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved, and CIRAR Executive Committee Member