In the name of God

The 5-year strategic plan of Stem Cells Center affiliated with Afzalipour Medical Hospital of Kerman, Kerman University of Medical Sciences includes a process of organizations ordering and goal realization which is one of the most important management measures. Planning is a good opportunity for organizations to define their major goal policies and execution methods to achieve a perspective of the organization. Planning will primarily cause a growth in the personnels' knowledge, abilities, and capabilities, find new methods and resources and make the using of data for organizational development possibile. On the other hand, putting the personnel on the way of planning may increase their awareness of the goals, methods, and resources and increase their level of cooperation on the process of conducting the plans. The suitable monitoring and evaluation tools are formed and the correction and evolution will occur using the given feedbacks. Finally planning may define a logical and real path on the way of organizations to realize their goals. We hope that compiling a long-term plan in the field of research may provide an opportunity for educating and creating abilities to cooperate and utilize practical tools.

Dr. Shahryar Dabiri

The Chairman at Pathology and Stem Cells Research Center, Afzalipour School of Medicine

Declaration of the Mission

We decide to use the groundwork laying and facility development to provide an appropriate field for conducting research in the Molecular, Pathology, Cell Culture and Cell Therapy with emphasis on university sustainable development in the field of health, specifically cancers.

Weaknesses, Threats, and Opportunities

1. Strengths

1. Using employees with technical expertise related to the center's activity
2. Possibility of holding workshops on research methods and staff empowerment
3. Access to research facilities and equipments needed in the center
4. Ability of the staff in holding local and international seminars
5. Presence of an independent committee of research
6. Independent management structure
7. The possibility of collaboration with other active research centers in or out of medical school on molecular, pathological, and cell culture fields
8. Supporting the researchers whose projects lead to articles to be presented in congresses and seminars in or out of Iran
9. The presence of research consulting committee on the fields related to the center

2. Weaknesses

1. Staff limitations to support reasearch activities
2. Financial limitations to support research development
3. Limited connection between the researchers and the result users
4. Insufficiency of staff responsibilities according to the updated needs
5. Lack of social awareness about research
6. Inadequate interest and motivation among faculty members and students to carry on researches on the topics of the center's interest

3. Threats

1. Concentration of all the current affairs regarding financial resources on the university's deputy of research
2. Molecular, pathological, and cell culture researches high expenses
3. Unfair financial resources specification to support research projects
4. Lack of clear priority in research issues at local and national levels
5. Lack of a long-term national plan in the field of research
6. Lack of a permanent connection among research institutes
7. Insufficient specification of national income resources to research

4. Opportunities

1. The presence of legal conditions to use other organizations' financial resources for resaerch development in the center
2. The possibility of conducting collaborative projects among universities and research centers
3. The possibility of using national resources for research
4. The possibility of presenting research projects to attract financial support of other organizations and international communities

Beneficiaries

1. Local

1. University educational hospitals and medical centers of the province
2. Student research committee
3. Universities and educational and scientific centers of the district

2. International

1. Deputy of research and technology
2. Blood transfusion organization
3. Harvard and Miami university of USA

Strategies

1. Inducing job motivation in the level of personnel and managers
2. Employing staff
3. Empowerment of the staff
4. Mutual connection among the center's researchers and beneficiaries
5. Inducing stronger motivation among faculty members and students to conduct research projects in molecular, pathological, and cell culture fields
6. Enhancement of medical services of the center
7. Taking part in national projects of the ministry of health and medical education
8. Compiling medium-term and long-term plans to enhance the research rank of the university deputy of research

Specific Goals

1. Providing a suitable context for development of the access and use of the beneficiaries from the present research facilities and resources
2. Updating scientific and research information sources of the center
3. Establishing a center for research information presentation and creating the possibility of conducting molecular and pathological researches in all of the province and district hospitals and health and educational centers
4. Development of team research
5. The optimal use of the projects' results
6. Management according to the center's documents
7. Educational, motivational, and skills reinforcement among beneficiaries to attract the support of these sectors in the center's research projects
8. Planning to employ staff needed to conduct the research
9. Contacting the researchers and the experts in other research centers in local and international levels
10. Exchanging information and research and educational facilities among the scientific and research centers in local and international levels
11. Staff empowerment to use the facilities and resources optimally