Faculty Council Meeting & Town Hall · Birth Cohort Genome Sequencing Pilot ($700K; 2017- 2019) McGill/U de Sherbrooke/GQ/FRQ-S. 2017 SRP Administrative Implementation Proposals •

Faculty Council Meeting& Town Hall

September 26, 2017

AgendaSection I 1. Welcoming remarks (New members), VP-Dean Eidelman2. Approval of agenda3. In memoriamSection II4. Principal’s remarks, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier5. The Naylor Report, Associate Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, Anne McKinneySection III6. Report from the Steering Committee, VP-Dean Eidelman7. Consent agenda8. Business arising / Dean’s updateSection IV9. Project Renaissance: Strategic Research Plan, Vice-Dean, Life Sciences, Philippe Gros10. Campus Real Estate Master Plan, Cameron Charlebois & Anna Bendix11. Other Project Renaissance updates, VP-Dean EidelmanSection V12. Kudos, VP-Dean EidelmanSection VI13. Open session/Town Hall

• Thomas Schlich, Social Studies of Medicine, returns from sabbatical

• Carmen Loiselle, representing Oncology, replacing Robin Cohen (on sabbatical)

• Leonora Lalla, replacing Raj Aggarwal• Yondu Mori, replacing SCSD rep Lisa

Martignetti• Nahal Fansia, representing the Nursing

Undergraduate Society, replacing Elize Cucca

Welcome to New Members

AgendaSection I 1. Welcoming remarks (New members), VP-Dean Eidelman2. Approval of agenda3. In memoriamSection II4. Principal’s remarks, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier5. The Naylor Report, Associate Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, Anne McKinneySection III6. Report from the Steering Committee, VP-Dean Eidelman7. Consent agenda8. Business arising / Dean’s updateSection IV9. Project Renaissance: Strategic Research Plan, Vice-Dean, Life Sciences, Philippe Gros10. Campus Real Estate Master Plan, Cameron Charlebois & Anna Bendix11. Other Project Renaissance updates, VP-Dean EidelmanSection V12. Kudos, VP-Dean EidelmanSection VI13. Open session/Town Hall

In Memoriam

Rene CrépeauAssistant Professor, Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery

* Peter Roper

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry*

Richard EmeryAssociate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry,

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Suzanne FortierPrincipal and Vice-Chancellor

McGill University

Anne McKinneyAssociate Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation

The Naylor Report

INVESTING IN CANADA’S FUTUREStrengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research

“Our government must ensure its support for fundamental research is coherent, effective and agile enough to keep pace with the dynamic nature of contemporary science.” — The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science

Panelists

C. David Naylor Robert J. Birgeneau Martha Crago

Mike Lazaridis Claudia Malacrida Arthur B. McDonald

Martha C. Piper Rémi Quirion Anne Wilson

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MANDATE AND CONSULTATIONSTwo main mandate questions: Are there any overall program gaps in Canada’s fundamental research funding ecosystem

that need to be addressed?

Are there elements or programming features in other countries that could provide a useful example for the Government of Canada in addressing these gaps?

Consultation 1,275 submissions from

individuals, associations, and other organizations.

Roundtables in five Canadian cities engaging 230 researchers.

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A vibrant research ecosystem is essential to: Living longer and healthier lives in a cleaner and safer environment.

Protecting and enriching Canada’s diverse cultures and heritage.

Developing innovative technologies, goods, and services that contribute to our economic prosperity and create fulfilling jobs.

Sustaining our economic sovereignty, standard of living, and valued social programs.

Fostering a creative, vibrant, and inclusive society.

Stimulating informed public debate.

Supporting evidence-based policy-making in a period of accelerating change and complex domestic and global challenges; and

Educating and inspiring the next generation of innovators in all walks of life.

A CASE FOR SCIENCE AND INQUIRY

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RESOURCES

Key facts: Dropped out of top 30 nations for

“research intensity”.

GERD intensity declining.

HERD touted as highest in the G7, but only 23% from federal sources in 2015.

Granting council funding per researcher in steady decline since 2008-09, in constant dollars.

“As a small country, Canada may not be able to invest in basic research at the same levels as the world’s top economies in absolute terms. However, in relative terms, we must be at or very near the top of the funding pyramid”

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PERFORMANCE

Key findings: Canada remains above-average in citations, helped by below-average impact of massive

volume of publications from China.

Declining outputs highlighted in report could be arguably offset if Canadian research showed rising impact as measured by citation analysis.

Canada is strong performer in certain fields, but citation ranking fell in 13 of 22 fields assessed.

Canada lags many other nations in winning international prizes, not least Australia.

“The bar we set for our investment in research should be the quality of its output.”

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FINDINGS

Canadian accomplishments have long been a source of national pride, but:

research competitiveness has been eroded,

a need to strengthen stewardship of federal research ecosystem, and

flat-lining of federal spending paired with a decline in proportion of federally derived funding for research.

Recommendations form a comprehensive agenda to strengthen the foundations of Canadian extramural research.

Chapters 4&5 – Oversight/Governance Chapters 6&7 – Programs/Funding

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Urgency: Urgent given weakening competitive position, critical societal and economic challenges,

and major opportunities created by global political trends.

Strategic advice on both research and innovation is necessary in short term as innovation ecosystem to undergo review and possible overhaul.

Clear evidence of weak system-level oversight:Suboptimal coordination across the pillar agencies.

Puzzling inconsistencies in program architecture.

Uneven decision making on investments in national science facilities.

Discrepant success rates and blurred accountabilities

Proliferation of disconnected entities arising from opportunistic decisions, some inspired and some not

Importance of coordination of university and federal government science

GOVERNANCE – WHY THE FOCUS?

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STEWARDSHIP AND GOVERNANCE

Related recommendations: National Advisory Council on Research and Innovation (NACRI).

• Advice, coordination and strategic alignment, evaluation.

Chief Science Advisor – Vice Chair of NACRI, integrated Secretariat.

Four Agency Coordinating Board.

Rationale: Canada, for a long time, has needed high-level overview and coordination of research efforts

- concerns date back to the 1910s.

Current advisory systems have not had the stability and support to make a lasting contribution.

Further machinery changes may be needed if major improvements do not occur rapidly.

“Canada’s federal research ecosystem, despite many strengths, is weakly coordinated and inconsistently evaluated, and has not had consistent oversight.”

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EXAMPLE – COORDINATION OF AGENCY INITIATIVES

Related recommendations: Four Agency Coordinating Board

Rationale: Encouraging but piecemeal efforts to

improve, highly dependent on preferences of agency presidents.

Need to prioritize cross-cutting issues related to: early career researchers, equity and diversity, indigenous scholars and research, peer review.

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES TO SUPPORT ECOSYSTEM

Key challenges and considerations: Small and declining share of HERD attributable to the federal government.

Anomalous dependence on institutional subsidies.

Declining research performance on multiple measures.

Trends in per researcher funding.

Demographics of the research community.

Density of full-time researchers and senior research trainees.

Success rates.

“Independent science and scholarly inquiry have been underfunded for much of the past decade, as the federal government has concentrated resources on innovation-facing and priority driven programs”

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DIRECT PROJECT FUNDING - PRESSURES

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DIRECT PROJECT FUNDING

Related recommendations: $485 million, over 4 years to increase investment in independent investigator-led research.

Systematic approaches for international collaboration, multidisciplinary work, high-risk ventures, and projects requiring a rapid response.

Rationale: Moves balance of funding back toward a 70:30 ratio.

Addresses current gaps.

“The panel’s single-most important recommendation is that the federal government should rapidly increase its investment in independent investigator-led research”

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INFRASTRUCTURERelated recommendations:

Stabilize CFI funding.

Digital research infrastructure.

MSIs/Infrastructure operating costs.

Rationale: Saw-tooth pattern impedes planning

and coordination.

More coordination needed for digital research infrastructure.

MSI matching fund requirement is challenging.

Operating cost difficulties for smaller capital awards.

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PERSONNELRelated recommendations: Harmonize scholarship and fellowship programs and optimize to attract international talent.

Improve funding levels, allocation, and management of CRC awards.

Rationale: Strategic federal investments can advance the overall research enterprise by developing and/or

attracting, and then supporting, the outstanding personnel needed to achieve excellence.

Real award values for CRC have diminished over time, students/trainees are underfunded.

The current mix of graduate and post-graduate awards vary considerably by value, duration, and international portability.

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FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS

Related recommendations: Improve RSF reimbursement rate.

Rationale: Current average reimbursement level at

21.6 per cent of eligible grants – very low comparatively.

F&A costs are significant: maintaining equipment, regulatory standards, computational services, managing IP, lighting, and heating, administering grants and awards.

Universities cross-subsidize research mission at expense of teaching.

“The much larger issue is strengthening the overall institutional fabric of Canadian research.”

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SUMMARY – RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

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CONCLUSION

“Given global competition, the role of research in underpinning innovation and educating innovators, the need for evidence to inform policy-making, and the current unsettled conditions in the research ecosystem, the Panel firmly believes that this commitment is also among the very highest-yield investments in Canada’s future that any government could make.”

Urgent action needed:Stronger oversight and governance.

Transformative investments.

Report from Steering Committee

• Report posted and link circulated:– http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/files/medicine/20170830_s

teering_committee_report_to_faculty_council.pdf

• Motion to authorize Steering Committee to name membership replacements over the summer, later bringing names to Faculty Council for approval.

• Approval for the Dean to seek Faculty Council renewal at a future Senate meeting.

• Approval of Faculty Council Agenda.

http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/files/medicine/20170830_steering_committee_report_to_faculty_council.pdf

Consent Agenda

• Faculty Council Minutes (June 7, 2017)– http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/files/medicine/faculty_cou

ncil_minutes_june2017.pdf

http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/files/medicine/faculty_council_minutes_june2017.pdf

Business ArisingFaculty Accreditations

• Updates:– MDCM Program– Physical Therapy– Undergraduate Nursing

• Next up:– Postgraduate Medical Education (Office + 65-70 programs)– Continuing Professional Development– Nurse Practitioner Programs

• Minister appoints 10 new independent members:– Peter Kruyt, Chair– Sarah Prichard– Samira Sakhia– Mary-Anne Carignan– Kevin O’Farrell– Michal Piotr Kuzmicki– Thomas Pitfield– James Cherry– Dale MacCandlish-Weil– Deep Khosla

• McGilll Rep to be appointed

Business ArisingMUHC Board of Directors

Business Arising

• Bicentennial Planning– Town Hall Oct. 24!

• Capital Campaign• Grand Challenges

– Infection and Immunity Grand Challenge

Philippe GrosVice-Dean, Life Sciences

Project RenaissanceUpdated Strategic Research Plan

(Faculty of Medicine)

Strategic Research Plan Update -2017

Philippe Gros (Vice Dean, Life Sciences)Shari Baum (Associate Dean, Research)

Strategic Initiatives: 2014 SRP• Four major strategic initiatives: Global Health Initiative School of Global and Population Health Initiative in Computational Medicine Restructuring of the MD-PhD Program

• Major funding initiatives: Technology Platforms and Core Facilities ($2.1M)

(2015-2017) Merck Translational Research Fund ($1.8M)

(2014-2018)

2017 SRP Update Process

• Solicited input on new priorities and new initiatives from all units

• Set up steering committee including representation from basic and clinical sciences, Schools, RIs

• Received and reviewed 18 submissions• Overview presented at Project Renaissance Retreat• Updated draft approved by Steering Committee• Reviewed by DOC• Present to FC

2017 SRPStrategic Initiatives

• Five major foci for new initiatives: Stem cells and regenerative medicine BioX Translational Research/Knowledge Translation Life Sciences Complex: Bioinformatics MI4 (McGill Interdisciplinary Institute in Infection and

Immunity)

• Major funding initiatives: Technology Platforms and Core Facilities ($1.3M)

(2018-2020) Birth Cohort Genome Sequencing Pilot ($700K; 2017-2019)

McGill/U de Sherbrooke/GQ/FRQ-S

2017 SRPAdministrative Implementation Proposals

• Standing Committee on Research• Evaluative Framework for Funded Initiatives• Increased and Strategic System of Bridge/Start-

up/Retention Funding

Fonds d’accélération des collaborations en santé (« Health Collaboration Acceleration Fund »)

• Healthy living and chronic disease prevention• Infection control• Access to emergency and frontline services• Improving the safety and relevance of care and services, particularly

in terms of support for Quebec oncology programs and biomedical services

• Adaptation of services and home support for seniors• Improving services for vulnerable persons• Increasing the efficiency in the organization of services

Topic: Precision Medicine and Big Data in Health$75M (2017-2013)

1:1 match with industry

Cameron CharleboisExecutive Director, Campus Planning and Development

Anna BendixSenior Campus Planner

Campus Real Estate Master Plan

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September 2017

Campus Planning and Development Office

Downtown Campus

Real Estate Master Plan

Working Hypothesis 2017 - 2025

Preliminary Downtown Campus Real Estate Master Plan 2017

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Context - McGill’s Strategic Academic Plan, Planning and Design Principles and Vision for the RVH

Planning and Design Principles, approved

by the Board of Governors in 2008 - to help support the University’s mission, guide its growth, and ensure that individual projects develop as part of a cohesive whole.

• Dynamic Intellectual Community

• Strategic Growth

• Research, Teaching and Learning

• Historic Buildings and Landscapes

McGill University Strategic Academic Plan 2017 – 2022, vision of a university that is open connected and purposeful. Five priority areas:

• Be open to the world

• Expand diversity

• Lead Innovation

• Connect across disciplines and sectors

• Connect with our communities


Vision and Development Plan for the RVH, a multi-faculty initiative for the new campus.

• Two Academic Pillars: Sustainability Systems and Public Policy

• Discovery Centres

• Spaces where people can meet, interact and create

• Reimagine the University and dissolve boundaries between disciplines, communities and institutions

• Create a model for the repurposing of heritage buildings and for new buildings constructed to the highest standards of sustainability and design


September 2017

• Space allocation is based on stewardship, not ownership.

• Research space will be developed, where possible, along academic themes, based on multi-Faculty user groups.

• Under normal circumstances, the rental of commercial property should only be considered as a short term solution.

• The RVH Complex will be acquired, renovated and expanded by 2025. This development will not cover the entire site, with select buildings

assumed to be developed by partners.

• The MNI/MNH complex will not be vacated earlier than 2024.

• Mansions and row houses which do not meet the University’s academic needs will be removed from the academic inventory, and the

income generated by the sale or emphyteutic leases of these properties will finance real estate solutions.

• Planning must respect the University’s space deficit as currently recognized by government, i.e. 23,443 net m2.

• For planning purposes, all areas are represented in gross m2.

• Net to gross ratio, for planning purposes, is set at 0.6 (1.67). The actual gross area will vary from one project to the other.

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Planning Assumptions



September 2017

• MEES “espace reconnu” – all Ministère de l'Éducation, de l'Enseignement supérieur, (MEES) eligible space, which excludes rented

space, tenant space, arena space, clinic space, farm space, indoor parking and residences

• 2015 Gross Area MEES “espace reconnu” of the Downtown Campus: 550,000 gsm

• MEES 2014/2015 Recognized Space Deficit: 37,000 gsm ( 2013/2014: 72,000 gsm)

• McGill’s actual long-term space deficit as per current space needs: 57,000 gsm

• The Ministry’s current long-term Space Plan for McGill is 550,000 + 37,000 = 587,000 gsm

• McGill’s projected long-term campus as per current needs: 550,000 + 57,000 = 607,000 gsm

• The University currently rents 26,000 gsm of gross leasable commercial space

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Space Facts



September 2017

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Existing Precincts



September 2017

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Proposed Removals



1 DAVIS HOUSE & ANNEX

2 HOSMER HOUSE & ANNEX

3 3605 MOUNTAIN

4 RABINOVITCH HOUSE

5 1140 PINE

6 CHARLES- AND LADY-MEREDITH HOUSES AND ANNEXES

7 PURVIS HALL & ANNEX

8 DUGGAN HOUSE & ANNEX

9 PEEL STREET ROW HOUSES

10/11 UNIVERSITY STREET / PINE AVE – MAINLY RESIDENCES

12 MARTLET HOUSE

13 DUROCHER

14 HUTCHISON (RESIDENCES)

15 UNIVERSITY HALL

RENTAL REMOVALS:

- UQAM

- 1010 SHERBROOKE

- 550 SHERBROOKE

- 551 PEEL

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September 2017

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Adaptive Reuse



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1 STEWART BIOLOGY2 WILSON HALL3 REDPATH LIBRARY4 STRATHCONA ANATOMY & DENTISTRY

September 2017

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New Builds and Acquisitions



September 2017

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Working Hypothesis – long-term (2025+)



September 2017

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Resulting Precincts



September 2017

Other Project Renaissance Updates• Faculty of Medicine space strategies

– Powell Building– Other developments

• “Physicians of Tomorrow” strategic planning– Committee for Medical Education Governance

• McGill academic health network retreat (June 19, 2017); Follow-up retreat Dec. 11– Emerging infectious diseases– Cancer Research Summit– Cardiovascular diseases– Patient-centred care

2017 Canadian Academy of Health Sciences FellowsDr. Miguel Noel Burnier Jr., Dr. Alan Charles Evans, Dr. Yann Joly, Dr. Madhukar Pai,

Dr. Morag Park, Dr. Pierre Pluye, Dr. Donald Sheppard, Dr. Brett D. Thombs

2017 Fellows of the Royal Society of CanadaDr. Marcel A. Behr, Dr. Edith Hamel, Dr. Jerry Pelletier,

Dr. Maryam Tabrizian, Dr. Andrea Tone, Dr. Robert Zatorre

2017 Members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Dr. Srividya Iyer, Dr. Martin Drapeau

2017 Royal Society of Canada McLaughlin MedalDr. Michel L. Tremblay

Royal College Prix d’Excellence Specialist of the Year for Region 4Dr. Devinder Cheema

Kudos

KudosCanadian Thoracic Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Pediatric Respirology

Dr. Larry Lands

Canadian Society of Toxicology’s Gabriel L. Plaa Award of DistinctionDr. Bernard Robaire

Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer ResearchDr. Eduardo Franco

McGill Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesAndré Yves Gagnon

Rita Allen Foundation and the American Pain Society’s Award in PainDr. Arkady Khoutorsky

KudosCanadian Association of Occupational Therapists’ Fellowship Award

Dr. Annette Majnemer

Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists’ Golden Quill AwardDr. Laurence Roy

Quebec Division President of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International AwardDr. Anita Brown-Johnson

Elected 60th President of the Canadian Physiotherapy AssociationSarah C. Marshall

Society for Mathematical Biology FellowsProf. Leon Glass, Prof. Michael Mackey

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship Dr. Eric Latimer

Acoustical Society of AmericaRaymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science

Adriel John (AJ) OrenaÉtudiants-chercheurs étoiles Award, Fonds Santé (August)

Claire GizowskiÉtudiants-chercheurs étoiles Award, Fonds Santé (June)

Eric MaPharmacology and Therapeutics Mark Nickerson Prize

Catherine BoudraisPharmacology and Therapeutics Merck Canada Award

Leslie ScarffePharmacology and Therapeutics QuintilesIMS Bursary

Brianne WartmanThe Dr. Robert and Sharon Francis Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award

Ellen Zhou

Congratulations to all.

Kudos toOur Students

Open Discussion/Town Hall

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