| AR’s: |
Administrative Regulations. Any reference preceded by AR generally refers to these UK governing regulations (available on-line). |
| CM: |
Campus Management. New SAP module for student/academic information. |
| DAV: |
Departmental Authorization and Voucher, also called Vouchers, are used to pay off-campus vendors and for some employee reimbursements. |
| DOE: |
Distribution of Effort form is developed in conjunction with the department chair and signed yearly by each College of Medicine faculty member. |
| ERP: |
Enterprise Resource Planning. |
| EVPHA: |
Executive Vice President of Health Affairs |
| FES: |
Faculty Effort System is the on-line system for tracking faculty effort. |
| FRS: |
Pre-SAP, Financial Resources System (now replaced by SAP). |
| HIPAA: |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 mandates that health care providers take measures to protect an individual’s protected health information (PHI) and to ensure that PHI is uniformly coded. |
| HRS: |
Pre-SAP, Human Resources System (now replaced by SAP). |
| ICIS: |
Integrated Clinical Information System is the on-line patient information system. |
| IDIV: |
In old FRS system: Inter-Department Invoice-Voucher for internal accounting transactions. |
| IRIS: |
Integrated Resources Information Systems Project uses SAP ERP software to replace previous financial (FRS), human resources (HRS) and student resources (SIS), purchasing and inventory management systems. |
| JV: |
In SAP, Journal Voucher replaces IDIV for internal accounting transactions. |
| KMSF: |
Kentucky Medical Services Foundation: handles billing for the physicians. |
| MPPS: |
Medical Professions Placement Service in the College of Medicine helps place physicians and other health professionals in Kentucky. |
| PAR: |
Payroll Authorization Record activates payroll status for all employees. |
| PHI: |
Protected health information protected by HIPAA (above). |
| PPD: |
Physical Plant Department (not to be confused with PDP). |
| SAP: |
Systeme Anwendungen und Produckte is a German company that developed the SAP ERP software currently in use at UK. |
| SIS: |
Student Information System is old on-line system to track student information. To be replaced by the Student Module in SAP in fall 2006. |
| DLAR: |
Department of Lab Animal Resources. |
| IACUC: |
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for the protection of research animals. |
| IRB: |
Institutional Review Boards (Medical and Nonmedical) for the Protection of Human Research Subjects. |
| NIH: |
National Institutes of Health |
| OSPA: |
Office of Sponsored Project Administration is responsible for administering extramural grants and contracts awarded through the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. University policy regarding soliciting and receiving sponsored projects is found in AR II-1.0-3. OSPA also administers the Conflict of Interest policy (AR II-4.0-4). |
| ORI: |
Office of Research Integrity oversees issues related to research protocols and activities, including IACUC, IRB HIPAA for human research. |
| PI: |
Principal Investigator is the term that designates the primary researcher, usually a faculty member, who has been awarded a grant. By extension, any faculty member who heads a research lab is often called a “PI”. |
| RCTF: |
Research Challenge Trust Fund is a state legislative initiative to provide funding to UK to promote research activities in support of the goal of reaching Top 20 status by 2020. Also called “Bucks for Brains.” |
| RDRC: |
Radioactive Drugs Research Committee administered by ORI. |
| RSO: |
Research Subjects Office provides administrative assistance to the IRB, the RDRC and the IACUC. |
| SPA: |
Sponsored Projects Accounting (not to be confused with OSPA) handles accounting procedures for all types of extramural funding accounts, including grant accounts. |
| UKCRO: |
University of Kentucky Clinical Research Office p support services for industry-sponsored clinical research in the Medical Center. All contracts for clinical research must be submitted through UKCRO (was KCCRIS: Kentucky Center for Clinical Research and Investigator Services). |
| UKRF: |
University of Kentucky Research Foundation is a separate foundation through which extramural grants are submitted and awarded. UKRF is administered through OSPA. |
| ADRC: |
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, one of the original 10 centers funded by NIH, is housed in Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. |
| ASTeCC: |
Advanced Science and Technology Commercialization Center is located on Lexington Campus. It provides research space and funding for initiatives designed for eventual commercial development. |
| CDAR: |
Center for Drug and Alcohol Research is directed by Dr. Carl Leukefeld, also chair of Behavioral Science. |
| CIS: |
Cancer Information Service is run by Markey Cancer Center. |
| CTSC: |
Clinical and Translational Science Center is under development in response to the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award RFA. The CTSC will eventually combine the GCRC, UKCRO and other research and academic programs in support of clinical and translational research. |
| GCRC: |
The NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center provides in-patient and out-patient support to clinical studies. |
| KIPRC: |
Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center in the College of Public Health. |
| MRISC: |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center is located in the Davis-Mills Building. |
| SCoBIRC: |
Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center is funded in part by the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Trust (KSCHRT). |
| AHEC: |
Area Health Education Center is the umbrella for a number of regional programs that provide rotations for medical students and off-site training for residents. |
| DGS: |
Director of Graduate Studies. |
| GME: |
Graduate Medical Education supports Residency Programs. |
| IBS: |
Integrated Biomedical Sciences is an undifferentiated core curriculum for first-year students in the basic sciences, UK College of Medicine. Students select one of 6 participating doctoral programs after completing IBS. |
| OME: |
Office of Medical Education support undergraduate medical education |
| MPPS: |
Medical Professional Placement Services places physicians in Kentucky |
| TASC: |
Teaching and Academic Support Center provides services in support of academic programs. |
