For Faculty

 

The Academic Institute supports faculty achievement of their research and education goals with collaboration and career development support, intramural seed funding, extramural funding support, and a wide variety of resources and services designed to meet the needs of our academic programs.

Faculty Development and Collaboration Concierge
The collaboration concierge service is a single point of contact for clinicians and faculty trying to navigate through the extensive resources and wealth of expertise available at Houston Methodist; this service can help find specific education, core facilities, equipment, services, information, administrative support or subject matter experts.
 

The extended Faculty development team supports academic productivity with courses, one-on-one coaching, and skills building for teaching, clinical trials, and translational research.

 

Download our brochure  and course catalog.

 

Faculty can also access awards and career development funding:

  • President's Awards: These awards recognize faculty for Excellence in Peer-Reviewed Publications, Transformational Research and Innovative Education.
  • Career Cornerstone Awards: Faculty that receive their first NIH R)1 or equivalent grant as Principal Investigator receive a discretionary fund equivalent to their indirect funding to further their academic work.
  • Katz Investigators: The Jerold B. Katz Academy of Translational Research endowed investigators awards support our rising star faculty with $750K for up to 5 years.
  • Clinical Scholars Program: Our Clinical Scholar endowed junior faculty to devote 20 – 50% of their time to a mentored project and career development plan in translational science, clinical trials, or teaching and mentorship for 3-5 years.

 

 

Research Development
The Research Development provides maintains touchpoints with agencies and sponsors to match project ideas/pilot data with extramural funding opportunities. Projects are supported with services for developing grant proposals, manuscripts, and outcomes and big data study protocols as well as other academic publications, responding to peer-reviews, performing statistical data analyses, visual communications such as models, animations and graphic abstracts.
 
  • NIH Competitiveness Awards: For unsuccessful NIH grants falling within 10% of the payline, this award supports costs of additional research projects for addressing reviewer concerns and increasing the competitiveness of grant resubmissions.
Education and Curriculum Development
The Institute fosters a community of GME and clinical educators dedicated to a culture of excellence in teaching and innovative curriculum development. Faculty have access to services and expertise in:
 
  • evidence-based approaches for designing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs
  • development of quality improvement and patient safety education programs
  • adaptations to emerging needs or changes in GME reporting/evaluation standards
  • skills building for teaching and learning competencies
Governance and Faculty Affairs
The Office of Governance & Faculty Affairs provides essential support for faculty through credentialing, appointments, promotions and recruitment. It plays a key role in ensuring that research activities are conducted by qualified individuals who meet institutional and regulatory eligibility requirements.. Additionally, it supports the governance of Houston Methodist Academic Institute (HMAI) through advisory committees and the Board of Directors.
Seed Funding Opportunities
Houston Methodist offers a range of competitive intramural funding opportunities to support and encourage faculty in research and scholarship endeavors that contribute to professional growth. Intramural grants are funded through a competitive application process.
 
Our largest program is the $28M Translational Research Initiative Program that funds translational and clinical research that will lead to the development of safe and effective interventions from early concept through hand-off to a commercial partner that will bring them to market and make them available for clinical care.

 

Visit our intramural funding opportunities portal.

 

Faculty Resources

Academic Course Catalog

Build key competencies in research and education.
Academic Course Catalog
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Faculty and Research Development Courses
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Faculty Development Brochure

The Faculty Development program was founded by and is steered by our Faculty Development advisory committees and the Houston Methodist Academic Institute president's office.
Faculty Development Brochure
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Methodology Magazine

The source of research and education news for Houston Methodist.
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Scholars

Houston Methodist Scholars is our network of faculty profiles, powered by Elsevier Pure. It aggregates the organization's research information from internal and external sources. Scholars provides our faculty with access to a global network of collaborators and subject matter experts, and information about their publication record and key areas of expertise.
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Research Toolbox

This section contains tools to help Houston Methodist investigators and affiliates in their global collaboration network find the necessary expertise and skills to complete their research team needs, develop conferences and seminars, publish articles and identify and apply for funding opportunities.
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Conflict of Interest Policy

 

Houston Methodist is committed to integrity and the protection of patient welfare. Our Research Conflicts of Interest program is intended to ensure that the design, conduct, reporting and publication of research will not be biased by actual or perceived conflicts of interest. Houston Methodist's goal is to promote the identification and, if required, resolution or management of such conflicts in the context of research.

 

 

The policy document RE14 Conflicts of Interest in Research ensures that the design, conduct, reporting and publication of research will not be biased by any conflicts of interest. This policy applies to all persons performing research at Houston Methodist.

 

 

Public requests for information concerning PHS funded investigators who have financial conflicts of interest must be made in writing to:

 

 

Kirstin H. Madigan, MPH
Director, Research Integrity and Compliances
Houston Methodist Research Institute
Josie Roberts Administration Building, RB4-411
7550 Greenbriar Dr., Houston TX 77030
HMRICOIMailbox@houstonmethodist.org

 

 

The request must include the name of the investigator, the nature of the request and a return address. A written response to the person making the request will be provided within five business days from the receipt of the request in the Office of Research Protections.

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Upcoming Academic Events

Conference, seminars, grand rounds, tumor boards, regularly scheduled series and case presentations are offered in multiple clinical disciplines and Houston Methodist locations.
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