Events

Dennis Hopkinson, M.D., traveled to Kigali on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2018 where he taught at the University of Rwanda. The hospitalist at VCU Health and assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine collaborated with local Kigali researchers on multiple projects while he was there, and work has continued remotely. Join Hopkinson for a presentation of his research into

Issues to be addressed during this 60-minute forum are: What challenges regarding benefits and risks in designing pediatric vaccine clinical trials, and in evaluating ongoing trials? What regulatory questions must IRBs consider when approving pediatric vaccine clinical trials? What are the ethical and regulatory considerations specific to clinical trials of SARS-CoV- 2 vaccines? Learning

Malawi has the highest cervical cancer burden in the world—at least partly attributable to the low use of screening services. Join Corrina Moucheraud, a CTSA KL2 Scholar, to discuss her work that includes qualitative interviews with Malawian women and men and clinical and implementation data from “screen and treat” programs. She will highlight new findings about the complex and multi-level factors

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute will present "Graphical Models: New Methods, Algorithms, and Applications" at its next Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series from 4 to 5 p.m. on March 16. The Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series features statisticians and methodologists from multiple Penn State departments. Lingzhou Xue, associate professor of

This webinar will provide an overview of the STELLAR prototype– an interactive web-based system to assess the learning needs of the clinical and translational research workforce, a Self-career Training, Education, Life-long Learning Advancement Resource.

The Data Manager is responsible for the complete data process: from design, to build, to quality control, to cleaning, and finally to archiving. In smaller research teams, this role may be absent or overlooked due to other pressing tasks, or may be parceled out as extra duties among team members. TraCS is hosting this training to help research teams develop better data managers. We will review

Nima Aghaeepour, PhD Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Data Sciences School of Medicine, Stanford University Machine Learning for Multiomics Profiling of the Immune System Register in advance for this meeting: https://cwru.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrd-6urTgvGN27AMe3l-CEycImlrpib… The Visiting Professorship Program is a working group within the Center for Leading

The opioid crisis response has largely overlooked multiple patient populations with complex opioid-related vulnerabilities, including older adults with cancer or dementia. Join Andrew Roberts, a CTSA KL2 Scholar who trained at UNC, for a presentation of findings from his work examining high-risk opioid use patterns and outcomes in older adult cancer survivors. He will also discuss future

In this seminar, Jessica Myrick, Ph.D., associate professor of film-video and media studies, will address how the language and images used to describe COVID-19 in the media can shape emotional and cognitive responses to the condition as well as subsequent policy support. This talk will draw on interdisciplinary approaches spanning health behavior, media studies, political science and social

Almost all cardiovascular variables that have been assessed at different times of day and night in humans have been found to have a day/night pattern, including blood pressure heart rate, and vascular endothelial function. These patterns result from the summation of predictable circadian effects with variable behavioral (e.g. sleep, exercise, and meal intake) and environmental (e.g. temperature)

CLIC is pleased to announce that the Common Metrics Multi-Year Data Report: 2015-2019, is now available on our website. Approved hub personnel can view the report and the PowerPoint files. Access to these files is approved through your local CTSA Program website administrator. CTSA Program institutions are encouraged to share and discuss their Multi-Year Reports with their leadership teams as well

The CCTS Bioethics Forum brings together researchers, bioethicists, students, community members, front-line research staff, and clinical staff to discuss ethical issues in research. This year's event will focus on the topic of "Equity and Trust for COVID-19 Testing, Treatment, and Vaccination: Where Do We Go from Here?"

Multi-Modal Assessment of Hip Joint Pathology Grand Rounds Lecture School of Health & Rehabilitation Science Ohio State University College of Medicine and Clinical & Translational Science Award Program Visiting Professor Lecture Michael Samaan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Kinesiology & Health Promotion Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Department of Biomedical Engineering University of

This talk will present the pillars and rationale of Open Big Neuroscience, present the important characteristics of Big Biomedical Data and challenges with sharing sensitive information. The DataSifter technique for novel statistical obfuscation of sensitive will be demonstrated. Some case-studies illustrating applications to Neurodegenerative Disease, Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange, and

This month's MHRI-GHUCCTS Monthly Statistical Seminar Series features Dr. Paul Kolm, Associate Director in the Department of Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics at MedStar Health Research Institute. Dr. Kolm will discuss "Propensity Score Analysis of Non-randomized Studies". ABSTRACT: A randomized clinical trial is the gold standard of research designs, but many studies are not randomized and

Sjӧgren's syndrome (SS), the second most common rheumatic disease contributing nine times the cost of a healthy person, has hallmark features of oral and ocular dryness due to salivary and lacrimal gland inflammation. Minor salivary glands, central to the pathogenesis and diagnosis of SS, contain mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). In other conditions MSCs are responsible for tissue repair and

KL2 awardees from Clinical and Translational Science Centers (CTSA) present virtual lectures as part of the CTSA Visiting Scholar Program. Heather Watchel, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by the Harvard Medical School will present her research on “Circulating microRNA Signatures in Primary Hyperparathyroidism.”

Lecture: CTSA Visiting Scholars KL2 awardees from clinical and translational science centers (CTSA) present virtual lectures as part of CTSA Visiting Scholars. Heather Watchel, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss her research on "Circulating microRNA Signatures in Primary Hyperparathyroidism." This event is free and open to the pubic. Register.

Telehealth plays an important role in the Clinical Implementation and Public Health stages of the Translational Science Spectrum. Understanding the barriers and limitations of telehealth will inform development of new technology and models that expand access and improve the quality of care. The impact of this un-meeting is to use the results to make immediate changes to how telehealth visits are conducted for clinical care, to develop new strategies to removing barriers to telehealth in underserved populations and to advance multidisciplinary initiatives regarding research with telehealth.

The CTSA Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC) program has created the new NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Visiting Scholars Program to help promote networking among KL2 Scholars. During the pandemic, KL2 Scholars are unable to visit other institutions or conferences to give presentations and network as they have in the past. This new program provides scholars