Agenda

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Policies Guiding and Governing Faculty
Elizabeth “Betsy” Ripley, M.D., M.S., RAC, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and
Professor of Internal Medicine, VCU SOM

As a result of attending this presentation, you will be able to:

• Manage outside professional activities within the School of Medicine guidelines. and participate in the approval/reporting process.
• Summarize the SOM faculty guidelines on Promotion and Tenure.
• Access the Faculty Handbook to identify resources available to new faculty.
• Define Title IX and Title IX compliance requirements.
• Discuss the VCU Code of Conduct and its application to faculty.

10:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Topics in Research Integrity
Monika S. Markowitz, Ph.D., Director, Office of Research Integrity and Ethics, Office of the VP for Research and Innovation, VCU

As a result of this presentation, you will be able to:

• Explain main features of VCU’s research conflict of interest policy and process.
• Define interests to be reported into Activity and Interests Reporting System (AIRS) and who reports their interests.
• Complete a Financial Interest Report in the AIRs system and access resources for support.
• Define research misconduct and explain how it differs from research noncompliance and authorship disputes.
• Identify how and where to report concerns or allegations about research misconduct.
• Increase understanding of VCU’s policy and process for addressing research misconduct.

This seminar is sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs, VCU School of Medicine.  A detailed flyer will be sent out closer to the date of the event.  For directions to seminar location, visit the MCV Campus map available at: http://www.maps.vcu.edu/pdfs/mcv_map.pdf.  For questions contact deborah.stewart@vcuhealth.org