Within the University of Miami’s (UM) Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship (OVPRS), Lory Hayes is the Director of Disclosures & Relationship Management (DRM). The DRM and the UM COI Committee determine whether an investigator’s relationship with an external entity could introduce bias into research or education at UM, and where this occurs, to manage it. Lory received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and has held scientific and managerial positions in industrial and academic settings. After moving to UM in 2008, Lory joined the OVPRS in 2010 and took on her current position in 2017.