Next Meeting: October 11, 2005 - 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. - Bldg 31, Conference Room 10

 

Attendees	Substitutes
Affeldt, Mary, NIDA	Lynne Penn
Bullman, Laurie, ORS
Burrell, Eve, NICHD
Childers, Olive, OD/OIR
Domanski, Jeff, NINDS
Ferreira, Ana, NINR
Fonrose, Nadine, OD/OIR
Grosman, Gail, NIGMS
Harrelson, Susan, NIDDK
Klein, Pamela, NIMH
Le, Truc, NINDS
Mancuso, Joan, NIAMS
Ng, Cathy, NCI	Hill, Kristie
Perry, Katy, NIAID
Siegel, Donna, NCI	Langley, Kelli
Simmonds-Barnes, Denise, NCCAM
Strickland, Marlyn, CIT
Unger, Gary, NHLBI
Wiggins, Bruce, NIEHS

Minutes: Prepared by Francie Kitzmiller, NIDDK

Closed Session (1:00 - 2:15)

1) NIH Competency Modeling - Christina D'Onofrio and Keisha Berkley

Keisha Berkley (Program Manager from the NIH Training Center, Office of Stratetgic Management Planning) and Christina D'Onofrio (Capgemini U.S. LLC) explained what competencies are, what the value of competency modeling is, and provided examples. See the handout for details which is also available on-line @ http://learningsource.od.nih.gov/competencies/index.html

2.) ORISE Changes - Oliver Childers, Bill Kelley, and Libby Kittrell

ORISE is a mechanism to allow fellows to come to NIH as contractors. ORISE was previously handled through an Inter Agency Agreement through the Department Of Energy (DOE). The DOE decided that they no longer wanted to carry this responsibility and had a limit on their end of only 35 fellows. With this decision, the DDIR office had to react quickly to change the mechanism to utilize and negotiate with ORISE to process these actions through BPA's instead. This change was implemented during the month of September which was very burdensome for the Administrative staff.
Olive Childers, the DDIR Liaison, was aware that this would be onerous for the Administrative Staff but they had no choice. Instructions are to be sent out later to include what are the procedures to enter Records of Call (ROC's), for the exceptions to the published stipends, examples of how the ROC should be entered, etc. A long discussion was done to try to figure out a way to make this work to accommodate the billing of NIH and the needs of ORISE as well. A subcommittee was established to work on these issues and created some procedures that all of NIH could use, Katy Perry and Francie Kitzmiller are on this committee.

3) Retreat for Principal Extramural and Intramural AOs and EOs - Susan Harrelson and Mary Affeldt

There will be an AO/EO retreat on November 7-8, 2005 in Cambridge, MD. Next Tuesday, there will be a combined EO/AO meeting to discuss this and the NAPA Study. You will be receiving an e-mail from Lynn Hellinger to ask for input on specific areas to help in what should be discussed at the retreat. This is our opportunity to show that the AO's are important in the mission of NIH.

4) Open Discussion

Olive gave a brief overview of the EO meeting and let everyone know there was a closed Scientific Director's meeting. Dr. Gottesman was looking for ways to save money since we are going to have a flat budget in FY06.

Handouts:

" NIH Competency Development

" Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Collaborative Research Appointment Program