Pod Overview
The CTSA Program Pods facilitate communication between NCATS, the CTSA Program Steering Committee (SC), and the CTSA Program hubs. Pods are led by current members of the SC who are responsible for communicating updates, activities, and important information from NCATS and the SC directly to their Pod during their recurring bi-monthly Pod meeting. During the Pod meetings, Pod members are encouraged to discuss any CTSA Program related issues, questions, concerns, and suggestions they may have at their hub specifically or CTSA-wide. The Pod Lead will then communicate this feedback to the SC and NCATS via the Pod Submission Form and during SC meetings.
Pod Submissions
The Pod Submission Form serves as one of the primary means for Pods to communicate with CTSA Program leadership. The Pod Lead is responsible for submitting meeting summaries and any feedback or questions raised by Pod members through this form. These submissions are then posted on the CCOS website and feedback is presented to the Steering Committee on a monthly basis.
Pod Assignments
A Pod is a subgroup representing five to six CTSA Program hubs led by the “Pod Lead,” a current member of the CTSA Steering Committee. Pod members consist of each hub's primary PI (required) and hub administrator (optional). Pod groupings may vary year-by-year to reflect rotation of Steering Committee membership.
University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
SC Pod Leader: Randy Urban
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth Houston
University of Texas Hlth Science Center
University of Kansas Medical Center
Univ of Arkansas for Med Scis
University of Cincinnati
SC Pod Leader: Jessica Kahn
Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ at Indianapolis
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Florida
University of Iowa
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
SC Pod Leader: Rosalind Wright
University of Illinois at Chicago
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Rockefeller University
Northwestern University at Chicago
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Virginia Commonwealth University
SC Pod Leader: Frederick "Gerry" Moeller
New York University School of Medicine
Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch Worcester
University of Virginia
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Yale University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
SC Pod Leader: Mimi Kim
Harvard Medical School
Columbia University
Washington University
University of Rochester
University of Chicago
Case Western Reserve University
SC Pod Leader: Grace McComsey
University of Kentucky
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Boston University Medical Campus
UT Southwestern Medical Center
University of California at Davis
SC Pod Leader: Theodore Wun
University of New Mexico Health Scis Ctr
University of California, San Francisco
University of Colorado Denver
University of Utah
University of Washington
Mayo Clinic Rochester
SC Pod Leader: Vesna Garovic
Tufts University Boston
Ohio State University
University of Southern California
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of California-Irvine
Pennsylvania State University
SC Pod Leader: Jennifer Kraschnewski
Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
Johns Hopkins University
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
State University of New York at Buffalo
University of Pennsylvania
Emory University
SC Pod Leader: Elizabeth Ofilli
University of Miami School of Medicine
Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Duke University
Medical University of South Carolina
Wake Forest University
University of California Los Angeles
SC Pod Leader: Arleen Brown
Stanford
Scripps Research Institute
University of California, San Diego
Oregon Health & Science University
