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A Fierce Collaborator, Dr. Margolius’ Laser Focus on Health Priorities for Cleveland Will Help Eliminate Health Disparities This article is a part of our CTSC Translational Science Superheroes series. Dr. David Margolius had a long-term goal of working in public health or policy to help change the built environment. Being the Director of the Cleveland Department of Public Health was serendipitous

Dr. David Crowe’s Vision Was Too Important to Wait According to the National Institutes of Health, three percent of dermatologists are Black and 4.2 percent are Hispanic while Black and Hispanic Americans make up 13.4 and 18.5 percent, respectively, of the U.S. population. The lack of skin image diversity in medical textbooks means that medical students do not learn about how the conditions

Rick Kittles, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research at Morehouse School of Medicine, Laid a Foundation with Words of Science, Wisdom, and Caution This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. The Oxford dictionary defines “ancestry” as one’s family or ethnic descent. Ancestry is the bridge between genetics and society–oftentimes with cultural, religious or political meaning. WIth race as

Fireside Chats with Leading Ladies Makes its Rounds to the Heights of Local Healthcare Pillars This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. According to a study titled Representation of Women in the Leadership Structure of the US Health Care System, published in JAMA Network Open, 15.3% of health system CEOs were women in 2021. Partnering with our diversity, equity, inclusion, and

A Work in Progress, the SOP Laid the Groundwork for Equitable Inclusion of Community Representatives in Manuscript Development and Publication This article is a CTSC Special Feature. Community engagement in research–throughout the research process–is pivotal to producing evidence that is built on principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Oftentimes you’ll hear of opportunities

Dr. Tarabichi’s Data Obsession Shines in the Clinical Space This article is a part of our Health Disparities Researcher Feature series. Yasir Tarabichi, MD, pulmonary, sleep, and critical care physician at MetroHealth Medical Center, has always been a self-proclaimed “tech and data geek”. Figuring out early in life that his skillset was data-based, Dr. Tarabichi found himself frequently asking,

Bionutrition, REDCap, BERD, and Administration Take on READI In Unique Ways This article is a CTSC Special Feature. The CTSC Research Equity, Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion (READI) team sat down with a few CTSC service leads to understand what services they provide and how it does (or could) intersect with READI. Spoiler alert–each service has already pivoted or is pivoting. Bionutrition

“Community” Set the Tone on a Nationwide Stage This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. The fourth and final challenge in our inaugural Mission: Health Equity Challenge Series is complete. On March 16, 2023, 145 members of the research community, from colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, medical schools, and private companies nationwide convened for the CTSC Health

Women Can’t Make History If They’re Not Surviving Childbirth This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. Women’s History Month is an opportune time to reflect on how far women have come and how far society needs to go to create and cultivate an environment where all women can thrive, and experience as well as receive equity in all aspects of their lives. However, women can’t make

Potter Will Be Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s First Black Female Neurosurgery Resident This article is a part of our CTSC Special Feature series. According to the National Institutes of Health, less than 4% of all neurosurgeons in the United States are Black or African American. When accounting for both race and sex, as of September 3, 2020, there were 33 neurosurgeons in the United States

Dr. Eric Chen and Chesley Cheatham Champion Resources for Patients This article is a part of our CTSC Barrier Busters series. The Government Accountability Office conducted a study, as prompted by the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act, to explore barriers to clinical trial participation and possible solutions to increase diversity in clinical trial participation. The December 2022

CTSC Collaborators A. Bolu Ajiboye, PhD, 2016 Annual Pilot Co-Investigator: CBS 60 Minutes to feature research by CWRU biomedical engineers Dustin Tyler, Bolu Ajiboye to restore sense of touch for amputees and people with paralysis; Feel again: Advancements in prosthetics limb technology allow feeling, control Michael Decker, PhD, 2015 Core Utilization Pilot Primary Investigator, 2021 Annual Pilot

TriNetX is global health research network that provides a technology platform, accessed through a website, that aggregates the de-identified electronic health records of more than 100 million patients, mostly from the United States and also some from around the world. Both MetroHealth and University Hospitals of Cleveland were early adopters of TriNetX. MetroHealth and University Hospitals of

The award was presented at Research! America’s 27th Advocacy Awards held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2023. Dr. Pamela Davis has been recognized by the Board of Directors of Research! America for a career of distinguished leadership and sustained commitment to public engagement and advocacy for research. Dr. Davis was founding PI of the Clinical and

Pamela Davis, MD, PhD and Rong Xu, PhD have been busy researching how to repurpose ketamine in cocaine abuse disorder. Read through their publication or articles about this break-through: Repurposing ketamine to treat cocaine use disorder: integration of artificial intelligence-based prediction, expert evaluation, clinical corroboration and mechanism of action analyses New study reveals ketamine

Demonstration projects to focus on important healthcare concerns in our local community Dr. Goutham Rao, division chief of family medicine at University Hospitals, and a team of multidisciplinary PIs and colleagues at UH and CWRU, were recently awarded a 4-year $4 million grant from AHRQ for a Center to Improve Clinical Diagnosis at UH. Diagnostic errors in medicine are common and frequently

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is an initiative launched by NIH/NCATS in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main aim is to accelerate scientific discovery and provide a tool for collaboration on COVID-19 research by creating an aggregated and harmonized repository of electronic health record (EHR) data from COVID-19 patients across the country. This data enclave represents one

Dr. Goutham Rao, the Jack H. Medalie Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been selected to serve a four-year team with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force is made up of 16 volunteer members who are nationally recognized experts in prevention, evidence-based medicine, and

Did you know there is help when it comes to registering a study/reporting results with ClinicalTrials.gov? We have a dedicated person to help with ClinicalTrials.gov questions and compliance. Rachael Massey works remotely from Raleigh, North Carolina, and has over 6 years of experience working with ClinicalTrials.gov registration and results reporting. She is able to work with study teams one on

Women Can’t Make History If They’re Not Surviving Childbirth This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. Women’s History Month is an opportune time to reflect on how far women have come and how far society needs to go to create and cultivate an environment where all women can thrive, and experience as well as receive equity in all aspects of their lives. However, women can’t make

Research, Racism, Resilience, and Restitution Were Anchors of Yvonka Hall’s Talk This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. According to the 2020 United States Census, people who identify as African American or Black make up 13.6% of the United States and 47.4% of the Cleveland population. African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from

Two National and Two Local Black History Makers Share Their Journeys and Impact This article is a part of our CTSC Event Recap series. A social media influencer, science communicator, and “medical mythbuster”. The inaugural Men’s Minority Health Director at the UH Cutler Center for Men. An activist, artist, and visionary of the “Mothers of Gynecology” monument. One of the first pioneers in

by Jarrod Dalton, PhD, Director, Center for Populations Research, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute This article is a Health Disparities Researcher Self Portrait authored by a CTSC-supported health disparities researcher. I’m Jarrod Dalton, PhD, and I design new approaches to examining the systems fueling health inequity. My experience is shaped through decade-long relationships with

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Director of Community Engagement, Kristina Austin, Shares Evolution of the Symposium and Potential for Impact This article is a CTSC Special Feature. The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCCC) Cancer Disparities Symposium (the “Symposium”) will turn seven years old this year. The brainchild of Dr. Monica Webb Hooper, current Deputy Director of the National

Thomas Frazier, PhD, KL2 Scholar John Carroll’s Dr. Thomas Frazier Receives 2022 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science SFARI Grant Vanessa Ho, MD, MPH & Jeffrey Claridge, MD, KL2 Scholars Functional Status is Key to Long-term Survival in Emergency General Surgery Conditions Christopher Hubert, PhD, KL2 Scholar – Recently received a R01 grant Shania Knighton, PhD, RN, CIC, KL2 Scholar – Recently

Nathan Berger, MD, 2021 & 2016 Core Utilization Pilot Primary Investigator, 2017, 2015, & 2011 Core Utilization Pilot Co-Investigator Epigenetic effects of high-fat diet on intestinal tumorigenesis in C57BL/6J-ApcMin/+ mice Pamela Davis, MD, PhD, CTSC Associate PI and former Principal Investigator Drug use and COVID-19 is an especially dangerous combination for the heart, study finds Mahmoud

COVID-19 plus drug use can increase chance of sometimes fatal heart infection, new study shows Rong Xu, PhD, 2012 Themed Pilot Primary Investigator, 2011 Annual Pilot Co-Investigator People who take opioids or cocaine are more susceptible to developing endocarditis, a life-threatening condition where the inner lining of the heart's chambers and valves becomes inflamed, new research from Case

The Nourishing Neighborhoods Empowering Communities Study (aka: Nourishing Power Study) – led by the CWRU Swetland Center for Environmental Health and two community partners (The FARE Project and Neighborhood Connections) – is excited to share news about its first cohort of 10 Nourishing Power Fellows. The Fellows join a robust group of partners in the Nourishing Power Network, a community action

Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) research focuses on studying the translation of research evidence into routine practice, including tools for dissemination of knowledge and strategies for real-world implementation of research findings. The CTSC has launched a new D&I webpage where you can find useful resources related to D&I research. We have also added a D&I Consultation service to