1. Juggling Research- Related Duties : How to stop putting out fires and use your time wisely Dr. Ida Llewellyn-Smith Department of Medicine Flinders University Adelaide SA 5042 Australia Contact: Ida.Llewellyn-Smith@flinders.edu.au

2. * Prioritize * Collaborate * Delegate Three things

3. Prioritize Urgent Important Not Urgent Important Not Urgent Not Important Urgent Not Important Everything you do will fall into 1 of these categories

4. * Urgent / Important - Things that you MUST do NOW * Urgent / Not Important - Things that you cannot get out of doing nowPrioritize

5. - Things that you MUST make time for. Often the things that ensure your success, e.g., writing papers. * Not Urgent / Not Important - Things to put in an out-of-the-way place. If no one gets back to you, you can ignore them / throw them away. * Not Urgent / Important Prioritize

6. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS - Will these extra experiments get my paper published in a better journal? - Is this benefit worth the amount of time I will have to spend doing them? * Think strategically * Learn to say “Stop!” Prioritize Experiments

7. * Challenge your staff. - They will usually live up to your expectations. Delegate

8. * Hiring good people is key HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT A JOB APPLICANT IS REALLY LIKE? Behavioral Interviewing - Don’t tell me what you WOULD do - Tell me what you HAVE DONE Delegate

9. International: 1.Allan Basbaum, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 2.Sue Ritter, Washington State University, Pullman WA, USA 3.Ursula Wesselmann, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 4.John Massari, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA 5.Patrice Guyenet, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA 6.Ann Schreihofer, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta GA, USA 7.Clifford Saper and Tom Scammell, Harvard University Medical School, Boston MA, USA 8.Stephen DiCarlo School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA 9.Javier Stern, University of Cincinatti, Cincinatti OH USA 10.Eileen Hasser and Cheryl Heesch, University of Missouri, Columbia MO USA 11.Lynne Weaver, Robarts Research Institute, London Ontario, Canada 12.Andrei Krassioukov, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver Canada 13.Peter Somogyi, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 14.Geoffrey Burnstock, University College, London, UK 15.Piers Emson, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, U.K. 16.Susan Deuchars School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 17.David Jordan, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK 18.Janusz Lipski, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand National: 1.Tony Verberne, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg VIC 2.Janet Keast, Prince Management Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 3.Andrew Allen, University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 4.Elspeth McLachlan, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick NSW 5.Antony Hodgson, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSWCollaborate

10. * Make sure you have something to offer - Demonstrated knowledge and skills - Reliability and trustworthiness * Think strategically - What combination of expertise will produce data that will yield the most “saleable package”Collaborate

11. * Choose people you can work with - Reliable and trustworthy - Committed to the collaboration so will do the work * Invest the time and effort - Communicate regularly - Do what you have agreed to doCollaborate