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 needed1. Resource pool – to increase efficiency2. Collaboration – help connect people3. Research Development – provide the tools4. Training and Support – raise the bar5. Strategic Focus of HHS – provide the big

picture!

Ideas• Thoughts?

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