Increasing Revenue for Research@ Hamilton Health Sciences

Our Goal:

• Increasing revenue for research• Goal 4: “Attracting and Stewarding

Resources.” We’re trying to attract funding as a resource

• What is our strategy to get to this goal?

Strategy

• Want to encourage people to think differently; creating momentum for change

• Want to increase revenue, but within the academic teaching hospital framework

• Want to provide a turnkey solution for the users of the system

• Avoid duplication

How to do this?

Plan Execute Evaluate

And Repeat!

Ideas so far…

• Researchers are what attracts funding, interest, etc.

• How can we make them more productive• Build a model with them at the centre

Resource Pool

Collaboration

Research Development

Training and

Support

Strategic Focus

Investigator at the Centre

Resource Pool

• Can we create systems that will allow researchers to spend more of their time on research and less on admin?

• Goal is to have 80% of researcher’s “research time” focussed on research and not on administration

• Centralized resource to support hiring and management of research assistants, study coordinators, etc.

• One stop shop for research support– This would be on an as needed basis!

Collaboration

• How to promote and support collaboration

• Want to create a culture of transparency and collaboration

• Encourage reciprocal trust and sharing• Create opportunities

Research Development: Innovation

• Facilitate engagement with industry and other sources of funding

• Provide support for researchers new to the process of locating funds for research…help them ‘sell’ their ideas

• Not simply the Research Development Officer – it is bigger than just one person (who we are currently recruiting)…

Training and Support

• Increase base level of knowledge so that HHS becomes a leader in clinical research across all areas

• Offer webinars, website tutorials, in person meetings, one on one, group options (acknowledge that people learn in different ways)

• Make the training meaningful – WHY you need this, WHY this will help you be a better researcher

• Shift the focus from “big brother” (we do not want to be auditors or QC) to “partner in research”

Strategic Focus of HHS Research

• Facilitate and promote research• Anticipate groups’ needs – reach out to them before they

ask, because we interact with all of research• Offer help/guidance, but let the group/researcher decide

how much guidance they want so they can retain autonomy• Maintain relationships/presence across all research support

groups in Hamilton: MILO, ROADS, Innovation Factory, MaRs, etc.

• Engage McMaster and SJHH to increase revenue for research across Hamilton

Investigator at the Centre

• Want to create customer focused support– As much or as little as is needed

1. Resource pool – to increase efficiency

2. Collaboration – help connect people

3. Research Development – provide the tools

4. Training and Support – raise the bar

5. Strategic Focus of HHS – provide the big picture!

Ideas

• Thoughts?– On the right path?– Are we missing something?– Other things we need to add?