GCRC Advisory Committee

Meeting Schedule

The GCRC Advisory Committee (GAC) plays a major policy-making, planning and guiding role in the GCRC. The GAC consists of ten to twelve members, appointed by the Principal Investigator, on a rotating basis. The GAC is responsible to the Principal Investigator and is a cross-section of the faculty members familiar with the broad elements of the GCRC research activities. Drs. Martin Blaser and Jonathan Brodie chair the GAC jointly.

The GAC supervises and reviews the operations of the GCRC including the Core Laboratory and the Informatics Core, sets general policies, delineates common needs of the Center's investigators, establishes admission policies, and evaluates projects for Center use. It also reviews and approves the Data and Safety Monitoring Plans of all protocols using GCRC resources. No studies are undertaken on the Center without GAC approval, except when temporary approval has been given by the Program Director and the Institutional Review Board for urgent studies created by an unexpected opportunity to study unusual research patients.

The GAC prioritizes projects for Center use to assist the Program Director in allocating resources: in all cases, NIH-funded clinical research is the first priority. The GAC is responsible for assuring implementation of existing NIH policy on the inclusion of women and minorities as study participants. The GAC is also responsible for the designation of the category of inpatient research days and outpatient visits for each project proposed for the Center as Category A, B, or D, including the classification of research sponsored by industry.

The GAC reviews copies of the research agreements between GCRC investigators and industry sponsors, itemized budgets, and other relevant correspondence for appropriate categorization of industry-related projects. This review includes not only drugs and other therapeutics, but also devices.

The GAC periodically reviews Center operations to ensure that Center resources are used for the most scientifically worthy projects. The GAC strives to play an active role in encouraging younger faculty members to perform clinical research and to assist them in applying its concepts and methods.

The GAC has formed a subcommittee, the Informatics Advisory Committee (IAC), to provide oversight over the Informatics Core function: the IAC minutes are presented to the GAC for approval. It is the policy of the GAC that the GCRC's biostatistician assist with the review of project design and optimal approaches for subsequent data analysis for all GCRC protocols.

Meetings of the full GAC are held monthly and minutes, which detail the proceedings, are kept.

The following is a current list of members.

Voting Members:

Co-Chairmen:

Martin J. Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology

Jonathan D. Brodie, PhD, MD, Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry, Interim Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry

Members:

Judith A. Aberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Principal Investigator, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit

Sylvia Adams, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) - (Alternate for Dr. Franco Muggia)

Veronica M. Catanese, MD, Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education, Associate Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology

John P. Curtin, MD, Stanley H. Kaplan Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chairman

Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiology (Alternate for Dr. )

Silvia C. Formenti, MD, Meyer Professor & Chairman of Radiation Oncology and Professor of Medicine

Lewis R. Goldfrank, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine

Judith S. Hochman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Clinical Research

Edmond Knopp, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery

Nancy S. Kwon, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (Alternate for Dr. Goldfrank)

Anil K. Lalwani, MD, Mendik Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology and Chairman and Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience

Dolores Malaspina, MD, Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry

Franco M. Muggia, MD, Anne Murnick Cogan and David H. Cogan Professor of Oncology; Director, Division of Medical Oncology; Associate Director (Medical Oncology), NYU Cancer Institute

Ashwatha Narayana, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Residency Program Director (Alternate for Dr. Formenti)

William N. Rom, MD, MPH, Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine and Professor of Environmental Medicine and Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Mario Svirsky, PhD, Noel L. Cohen Professor of Hearing Science (Alternate for Dr. Lalwani)

Fred T. Valentine, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Center for AIDS Research and ACTG

Michael Weitzman, MD, Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Pediatrics and Chairman

 

Ex-Officio Members:

Principal Investigator

Robert I. Grossman, MD, Dean, NYU School of Medicine; Louis Marx Professor and Chairman Department of Radiology and Professor of Neurosurgery

Program Director

Bruce N. Cronstein, MD, Dr. Paul R. Esserman Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Pharmacology

Associate Program Directors

Pediatric Care: William Borkowsky, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease and Immunology Division

Informatics: Ross Smith, PhD, MD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Research Computing Resource

Assistant Program Director

Genomics: Michael Weiden, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine

Bioinformatics

Stuart Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology

Biostatistics

Judith D. Goldberg, ScD Professor and Director, Biostatistics Division

Ilana Belitskaya-Levy, PhD , Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Division

Linda Rolnitzky, Biostatistician

Core Lab

Frank T. Martiniuk, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, GCRC Core Laboratory Director

John G. Hay, MD, Associate Professor of Pulmonary Disease, Associate Core Laboratory Director

Research Subject Safety Office

Eric M. Leibert, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Research Subject Advocate

Halia Melnyk, RN, Assistant Research Subject Advocate

GCRC Staff

Deborah Chavis-Keeling, Administrative Director

Eleanor DeCandia, RN, MA, Nurse Manager

Lourdes Roman, Administrative Assistant

Hal Rosenblatt, Research Grants Coordinator

Steven Sotero, Informatics Core Manager

Human Subjects Representatives

Elan Czeisler, MA, Director of the Institutional Review Board