Joe Taylor is a Managing Director in the Health and Education Practice at Huron Consulting Group and he has worked in the higher education and healthcare environments for over 14 years. He specializes in assisting research universities with operational, process, compliance, and strategic issues. Joe has conducted more than 15 assessments of universities' compliance with federal research requirements. The assessments focused on the following topics: direct charging practices, cost accounting standards, effort reporting, cost sharing, conflict of interest, recharge centers, financial reporting, cash management, unallowable costs, cost transfers, program income, and sub recipient monitoring. Joe has worked with more than 35 premier research universities and other non-profit organizations, including Boston College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, George Washington University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Foundation, Northwestern University, Rice University, The Ohio State University, University of Illinois, University of Louisville, University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, University of Washington, and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.