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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
February 17, 2017
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| | | | | ACTSI investigators and leaders Tabia Akintobi, PhD, MPH, associate professor, Community Health and Preventative Medicine, director and associate dean, Prevention Research Center & Community Engagement, Morehouse School of Medicine, and director, Community Engagement Research Program, ACTSI; Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES, associate professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The half-day 8th Annual Academic & Industry Intersection Conference explored the digital tools needed to facilitate a vision of personalized connected health and population health management. Co-hosted by ACTSI and Georgia Bio. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The foundation seeks to support translational research projects within the scope of all types of cancers. Translational projects should move a novel strategy from the laboratory into a human clinical trial or use specimens from a clinical trial to develop biomarkers or mechanisms. The research should apply in some direct way to human beings within the time frame of less than three years. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this study is to enroll households with confirmed influenza and follow household contacts to estimate the secondary infection risk and factors associated with infection and transmission. This study will also estimate the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine against infection and transmission among household contacts. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | It is expected that the CD2H-CC will 1) support and enhance a collaborative informatics community for the CTSA Program, 2) develop Good Data Practice (GDP) for information stewardship, 3) promote software standards for interoperability, 4) foster collaborative innovation in the area of informatics tools, methods, and processes, 5) stimulate the use of cutting edge biomedical research informatics and data science education for CTSA Program researchers, and 6) evaluate the impact of CD2H-CC activities to enhance health through the use of informatics resources. NCATS will hold a Pre-Application Technical Assistance Webinar for on Thursday at noon. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The HERCULES Exposome Research Center focuses on the advancement of exposome (the comprehensive analysis of exposures analogous to the human genome) science; however, the pilot grant supports any research in the environmental health sciences that aligns with the mission of NIEHS.
All applications must focus on the role of the environment in human disease. Projects can include basic, biomedical, translational, clinical, epidemiological, behavioral or community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches.
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| | | | The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has several open Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program funding opportunities designed to help advance and commercialize translational research technologies. NCATS encourages applications in these research areas of drug discovery and development, diagnostics and devices, bioinformatics and information technology, and clinical research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs) and Emory Medical Laboratory announce a new course for Emory University and Healthcare employees. The two-day course will be held on August 18 and 25. Thereafter, students will be assigned to clinical areas for hands-on training and competency validation. Contact: Kateisha.dowdell@emoryhealthcare.org ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The goal of the ACTSI KL2-Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or PharmD) from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and University of Georgia (UGA). The ACTSI KL2 program is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program was created to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing and who will encourage and foster the development of succeeding classes of such physicians, dentists, and nurse-scientists. The program supports basic/biomedical, clinical, dental, nursing, and health services/epidemiology research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Emory's Office of Technology Transfer, along with the Georgia CTSA, offers the Kauffman FastTrac TechVenture entrepreneur training course again in 2018. This is a six full-day course (over seven weeks) designed to train faculty entrepreneurs who plan to create a start-up company to commercialize their inventions. The course has been conducted at Emory seven times since 2012 and it was well received by faculty participants. All faculty members at ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Data Representation: Deleting Data Points | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The statistics research group directed by ISyE associate professor Yajun Mei, is now offering free consulting for data-analysis questions in the domain of bio-related initiatives on the Georgia Tech Campus every Monday in Petit Institute, Room 3317 at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. during the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semester.
This is the continuation of the consulting sessions offered by Professor Brani Vidakovic, who is taking a leave to work at NSF as a ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As of February 2, all 64 CTSA Program hubs have joined the Streamlined, Multisite, Accelerated Resources for Trials (SMART) IRB Reliance platform. Coming together as one nation to agree to rely on and cede review to each other's Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) is a transformative milestone for the CTSA Program consortium. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Through a cardiovascular screening program called 10,000 Women, the Emory Women's Heart Center hopes to improve the heart health of African-American women in Metro Atlanta. Both screening participants and volunteers are needed to help with this important project. | | | | To Host or Volunteer | | |
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| | | | Citizen Science HD, led by Winship's Adam Marcus, PhD and Theresa Gillespie, PhD, is sponsoring a science photo competition for K-12 students. Winning photos will be displayed at the High Museum during the Atlanta Science Festival. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Srikant B. Iyer, MD, MPH, attending physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, vice president of medical affairs, Tri State Child Health Services, Inc., assistant vice president for quality and operations improvement, Health Network by Cincinnati Children's. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The keynote speaker is Linda Wiant, PharmD, chief, Medical Assistance Plans, Georgia Department of Community Health, held in Morehouse School of Medicine's MRC Bldg. Room G-14 at 12:30 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Joshua Murphy, MD, pediatric orthopedic surgeon, Children¿s Healthcare of Atlanta | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The AAMC is hosting the webinar at 9:00 a.m. It is part of a multi-year series of meetings to map participating institutions' community health-focused activities into coordinated systems and subsequently evaluate impacts for patients, communities, learners, and the institutions themselves. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This webinar will examine how on average, one-third to one-half of the patients for whom appropriate therapies are prescribed do not receive the full benefit from the prescribed therapeutic regimen because of inadequate adherence. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The 3rd Annual ACTSI-Community Engagement Research Program Community Health Matters Forum provided participants with the tools necessary to develop and sustain successful and mutually beneficial community-university translational research partnerships to improve population health in metro Atlanta and beyond. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The training workshop will feature medical experts from the Clinical Trials and Community Physicians Network, Duke University Medical Center, and the Merck Corporation. The ABC Cardiovascular Study will serve as a resource for enrolling research participants, ensuring compliance and alignment of ethical requirements and managing and sharing research data with appropriate study stakeholders. The CME training is co-sponsored by ACTSI and the FDA. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Facilitated by Stacy Heilman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and presented by Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
A light ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | An informal faculty panel discussion featuring senior faculty from across the university will talk about the grants they did not get, the book contract that fell through, challenges they ran into when writing and/or researching – and what they gained from those failures. Hear their stories and learn how they kept from getting discouraged. The session will be held in the Center for Ethics Commons, Room 102 w/remote viewing in Egleston, Classrooms ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute, this event attracts people from the clinical, payer, and biopharma space to meet and discuss current and future projects using FHIR. It is a chance for the local healthcare and health IT communities to understand the latest on what's happening with FHIR as an interoperability platform. Early bird registration rates end on February 28. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | Presented by David Nash, MD, MBA, Dean, Jefferson College of Public Health, Thomas Jefferson University. Hosted by Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program and the Georgia CTSA from noon to 2:00 p.m. in Emory School of Medicine auditorium 120. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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