Policies

• Eligibility: Full-time faculty members of subscribing depts/units receive 20 supported hours, 20 free grant hours, plus 20 supported hours for each post-doctoral trainee (Fellows and Residents) annually. Hours can be pooled by multiple investigators and can span multiple years, but do not carryover from year to year. Pooling of trainee hours under a faculty member are not permitted, unless the trainee has a specific role and/or is specifically a collaborating member of the team. The BEAD Core also provides direct fee-for-service work to all other full time faculty members and their post-doctoral trainees, as well as external clients.
  • Eligibility for supported hours applies to FT faculty members and their post-doctoral trainees from the Departments of (1) Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), (2) Dermatology (DERM), (3) Gynecology & Obstetrics (OB/GYN), (4) Pediatrics (PEDS) including FT JHBCC Surgery Faculty & ACH Faculty, (5) Medicine (MED) and (6) any SKCCC/SOM faculty member conducting patient reported outcomes (PROs) work.
  • Post-doctoral trainees (Fellows and Residents) must be accompanied by their primary faculty mentor to the first consult and must stay engaged in the work to completion. If at any time, the primary faculty member disengages, the BEAD Core reserves the right to discontinue the services. (Exception: Trainees are not eligible for subscription hours for EPIC data extractions or cost effectiveness work given the cost and time required).
• Turnaround: Investigators are encouraged to seek research support early in the research process to ensure maximal support. No request will be taken with a deadline of less than 15-business days. We reserve the right to reject a short time turn around as this does not reflect our values of integrity, respect and professionalism.
• Quotes: Quotes must be signed and returned within 2 weeks. If work is expected to go beyond what is listed in the quote, clients will be informed in a timely manner.
• Invoices: Invoices must be signed and returned within 30 days.
• Co-authorship: If a BEAD Core members’ contribution (typically lead) rises to the level of a scientific contribution on a manuscript or other scholarly product, it is expected the member will be included as a co-author.
• Grant effort: BEAD Core members may be written into grants for effort. This effort should be reviewed with the Director and once funded, the Director reserves the right to reallocate the % efforts if necessary. The Director is available to provide Letters of Support for grants/applications and assist with budgeting of research support effort.
• Communication: In the case that a BEAD Core analyst is assigned to a client’s project, clients cannot have one-on-one communication with the analyst. The BEAD Core lead will be the client’s primary point of contact.
• Marketing: The Director (and when needed Scientific Associate Directors) will provide marketing presentations to inform, educate and engage our client base, i.e. faculty investigators and their trainees as well as leadership.

Values: 

• Respect for intellectual curiosity and all forms of knowledge and inquiry.
• Integrity in our work ethic and science, dedication to innovative solutions, practices and services.
• Service with professionalism, flexibility, and consistent and clear communication.
• Equity ensuring accessibility; team science approach which celebrates multiple disciplines and training backgrounds; community participatory approach model.