As a member of the Central Administrative Support team, I assist a group of basic science researchers at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. I enter and analyze internal and departmental budgets using Workday and various other databases. I ensure accurate and timely reconciliation, analysis, and reporting of over 300 state, federal and private grants. I assist in the annual budget load process. In conjunction with my Central Administrative Support colleagues, we coordinate with faculty and administration to optimize the utilization of research funding.

I established and oversaw the Editorial Offices of the Elsevier peer-reviewed scientific journals, Pharmacology & Therapeutics (P&T) and Biochemical Pharmacology (BCP), and a monograph series, Advances in Pharmacology. In conjunction with the editor-in-chiefs, 62 editors, staff and the publisher I helped formulate annual strategic plans then achieved the operational goals within budget. For continuous feedback loops, I created and monitored key performance indicators then instituted the ongoing reporting mechanisms. After synthesizing the data, I presented to management the pertinent data analytics to evaluate pipeline contents, editorial advisory board members’ performance, and submission acceptance rates to ensure timely, high impact publications. I used month-to-month comparisons with prior year data and ad hoc analyses to adjust policies, procedures and software configuration to optimize year-end results and help reduce the risk of accepting unethical manuscripts. I initiated and maintained a goodwill relationship with all members of the editorial advisory boards through an onboarding process of my design. I reconciled the State of Kansas budget reports to ensure expense allocations I prepared were accurately applied and spending was in line with expectations. I managed executive and international meetings, arranged schedules, logistics, agendas and minutes. I routinely communicated with authors, reviewers, editors and internal colleagues around the globe to offer the best possible publishing experience.Key accomplishments:• I directed the smooth conversion of the submission, review and revision processes from an e-mail-based configuration to web-based tracking systems for both journals.• During my tenure both journals achieved peak submission volumes (BCP: 867 in 2003 to 3,865 in 2023 / P&T: 61 in 2003 to 160 in 2023) and impact factors (BCP: 3.581 for 2006 to 5.800 for 2022 / P&T: 7.397 for 2003 to 13.600 for 2022) since inception (BCP 1958 / P&T 1979).

I managed the Secretary General's Office of a Swiss not-for-profit that advances the worldwide interests of pharmacologists. I handled the daily communications with pharmacologists, students, and the officers of the 63 adhering organizations and worked closely with the Treasurer's Assistant on financial reporting and budget development. I solicited, edited and produced the contents of the website and the newsletters. I scheduled and arranged the logistics, agenda and minutes of all Executive Officer and Committee business meetings. I was responsible for organizing the quadrennial General Assembly of the IUPHAR Council and the Young Investigator Competitions for the World Congresses of Pharmacology.Key accomplishments:• I formulated and rolled out an updated website design, which offered online resources for pharmacologists in developing countries and enabled each IUPHAR specialty interest group to separately manage its own contents.• I designed, tested and launched the user/administrator aspects of a web-based interactive membership tracking database.

I created and implemented the processes and staffing of the Editorial Office for a society-owned monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. I established and maintained the budget, results analyses, and employee development strategies. I wrote the author/reviewer/editor reference guides, and developed routine and ad hoc reporting mechanisms. Every accepted manuscript crossed my desk for format and citation auditing.Key accomplishments:• In collaboration with HighWire Press, I facilitated the alpha and beta testing of Bench>Press in tandem with live operations.• I supervised the eventual migration to the finalized web-based system, personally trained the editors and wrote the user guides for authors, reviewers and editors.• Implementation of Bench>Press and Fast Forward publication reduced the submission to first decision turnaround time from about 3 months to about 1 month, and submission to acceptance turnaround time from about 9 months to about 2 months.• For these reasons, I was the first Managing Editor awarded a bonus since the journal was founded in 1908.

Starting with a $15 million budget and a charter outlining the strategies to increase the number of primary care doctors practicing in rural Kansas, I established and supervised the Offices of Primary Care of the University of Kansas School of Medicine through the Kansas Health Foundation Primary Care Physician Education initiative. In conjunction with the Executive Dean’s Office in Kansas City, the Dean’s Office in Wichita, and the primary care faculty on both campuses, I configured, recruited, trained, and managed the staff in the Kansas City and Wichita offices. We regularly flew to towns throughout Kansas to develop local partnerships to support student and residency training in rural settings. I designed and implemented in Excel a 3-tier budget-to-milestone tracking system of the five-year grant.Key accomplishments:• I designed and implemented a 3-tier Excel budget-to-milestone tracking of the five-year grant.• I organized and directed the quarterly and annual site visits by external advisory committee members.

Tracked, compiled and reported status of university-wide strategic management planning process and produced budget reports.

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