Trey Lemley

The 2025-2029 Research Strategic Plan for Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine aims to define strategies that will advance the goals and activities of the College Strategic Plan. Key priorities include supporting research and creative scholarship opportunities for faculty and students, providing comprehensive support for the College's research enterprise, and establishing specific research focus areas. The plan also articulates support for the College's five strategic foci: enhancing the learning environment, improving recruitment and retention, strengthening student support, fostering professional development and outreach, and enabling institutional growth.

The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine's Research Strategic Plan for 2019 outlines initiatives to advance knowledge and foster excellence in creative scholarship and medical practice among its faculty and students. Key priorities include establishing a summer research experience and a Distinction in Research track for students. The plan details tactical initiatives focused on supporting sponsored research requests, ensuring research compliance and training, developing and maintaining research laboratories, strengthening partnerships with non-profit organizations, implementing faculty research incentives, expanding student research opportunities, and fostering collaborations through consortia and outreach programs.

This Research Strategic Plan outlines strategies to advance the goals and activities of the Burrell College's broader strategic plan, specifically focusing on fostering an atmosphere of inquiry and discovery. Key priorities include developing a tiered mentoring environment for faculty researchers, expanding faculty-mentored student research opportunities, facilitating student engagement with the research community, fostering collaborations with educational affiliates, and promoting the expansion of sponsored research. The plan aims to enhance research and creative scholarship, ultimately impacting healthcare needs in the Southwest.

This Research Strategic Plan defines strategies to advance the goals and activities of the Burrell College's overarching 2021-2024 Strategic Plan, specifically focusing on its commitment to fostering an atmosphere of inquiry and discovery that inspires excellence in scholarship and medical practice among faculty and students. Key priority areas include developing and expanding a tiered mentoring environment for researchers, increasing faculty-mentored student research opportunities, facilitating student engagement with the research community, developing collaborations with educational affiliates, and promoting the expansion of sponsored research.

The strategic plan for Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine aims to improve the health and lives of people in the Southwest. Key objectives include increasing the number of physicians, educating new medical professionals, conducting research, and diversifying the physician workforce to provide culturally humble care. The plan specifically focuses on populating every county in the border region with a BCOM graduate and facilitating the development of residency programs in areas such as El Paso, Albuquerque, southeastern New Mexico, and Las Cruces, ultimately enhancing physician attraction and retention in the community.