Deans of health professions colleges share ideas for building research programs

The newly formed Deans of Health Professions Research Group held its first meeting this spring in Santa Fe, N.M. The deans of colleges of health professions, health related professions and allied health met to discuss opportunities and obstacles to performing research within their colleges.

The group was founded by Robert Frank, Ph.D., dean of the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida, as a mechanism for deans of health professions colleges to share ideas for building research programs in a collegial atmosphere. During the group’s meeting in Santa Fe, hosted by Frank and Harold Jones, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discussions centered on research opportunities for colleges of health professions, medical rehabilitation research and grantsmanship.

Members of the Deans of Health Professions Research Group attending the meeting also included Wilsie Bishop, D.P.A., of the College of Public and Allied Health at East Tennessee State University; Clifford Brubaker, Ph.D., of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh; Gary Neiman, Ph.D., of the College of Health and Human Services at Ohio University; Richard Oliver, Ph.D., of the School of Health Professions at the University of Missouri; Thomas Robinson, Ph.D., of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kentucky; Mark Sothmann, Ph.D., of the School of Allied Health Sciences at Indiana University; and Charlottte Tate, Ph.D., of the College of Applied Health Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago.