RTI International

And so, you know, the four pillars really at the beginning of this strategy was the community college system, which Luther Hodges got funding for after election in 1956.

The RTI, the Research Triangle Institute, which was basically demanded by Duke as a prerequisite to engage in this strategy because they were fearful about their academic integrity and getting it involved with commercial and industrial research.

So the university involvement, community colleges, the local governments were critical and have been critical.

So we created the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, which evolved into the Council of Governments as a way to engage all our localities to plan for this.

Both of them were CEOs.

And Haynes got cancer and was dying toward the end.

And he brought Archie in to raise the money for the land as a nonprofit and to build RTI.

And so, you know, Archie Davis gets a lot of credit for going to Robert Haynes' contacts to get that money.

She is Vice President of Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment at RTI Health Solutions.

That is a wholly owned subsidiary of RTI International.

And you returned to North Carolina from being in Pennsylvania to help build out RTI's psychometrics business, which led to a role with a company that is now RTI Health Solutions.

And you're moderating a panel on patient voice and bringing that into healthcare research and development.

So start us off just a little bit, if you don't mind, by telling us a role about RTI and how you came to it.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Today I'm representing RTI International, founding organization for RTP.

So we've been around quite some time.

Durham's program, the Holistic Empathic Assistance Response Team, or HEART, launched in 2022, has since responded to more than 25,000 911 calls.

A study this year by the Research Triangle Institute found that the city's program is associated with fewer arrests, that most police officers find it helpful, and that police are rarely called for backup.

Elsewhere, other community response programs have also been studied.

A 2022 Stanford University study of the program in Denver found evidence that it reduced reports of certain crimes by more than a third.

Hey, everybody.

This is Rich Stroffolino with the Department of Know, Dennis Pickett, VP and CISO over at RTI International.

I gotta ask, what has been your priority this week?

Um, priorities this week, I'm looking at an im- a unified security platform.

Uh, and, uh, thank you for sharing that, uh, in the chat and being here with us.

Always, always appreciated.

Also appreciated, Dennis Pickett, VP and CISO over at RTI International, and David Cross, the CISO at Atlassian.

We will have links to all of their show notes as well, as well as David B. Cross' travel blog, which we have to plug each and every time he is on.

Already, your community college has a focus on life sciences because of Baxter and other manufacturers that are in our region.

We've collaborated with Research Triangle Institute, which went together to form a grant.

asking for support for a life sciences initiative and asking for $62.5 million from the Economic Development Administration to support our community college and the development of a new wet lab there, to focus on the recruitment of life sciences businesses in cooperation with Burke County, which has a mega site, the only one available in Western North Carolina.

And also includes RTI, the Bio Center in Raleigh, and also a number of entrepreneurial efforts in the state as well.

Durham's program, the Holistic Empathic Assistance Response Team, or HEART, launched in twenty twenty-two, has since responded to more than twenty-five thousand nine one one calls.

A study this year by the Research Triangle Institute found that the city's program is associated with fewer arrests, that most police officers find it helpful, and that police are rarely called for backup.

Elsewhere, other community response programs have also been studied.

A twenty twenty-two Stanford University study of the program in Denver found evidence that it reduced reports of certain crimes by more than a third.