Georgia CTSA Newsletter
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Georgia CTSA Weekly eRoundup
August 17, 2018
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| | | | Carolyn Meltzer, 2018 Gold Medal Award Recipient for the Association of University Radiologists
Carolyn, Metlzer, MD, director of Georgia CTSA Innovation Catalyst program, was named the 2018 Gold Medal Award Recipient for the Association of University Radiologists. The Gold Medal is awarded in recognition of unusually distinguished service or contributions to the Association of University Radiologists, academic radiology, or the field of radiology ... | | Read More | |
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| | | | Designed for recruitment optimization, innovation, and research (on recruitment methodology). Functions include, providing local recruitment strategies, conducting high-impact research on recruitment, and liaison with ResearchMatch.org. ... | | Read More | |
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| | Seeks highly creative and conceptually innovative high-risk research with the potential to accelerate critical discoveries or major advancements that will significantly impact military health and medicine. | | Read More | |
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| | Often novel insights emerge only when you juxtapose individuals with deep but disparate expertise around a common goal. The Emory School of Medicine (SOM) Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Awards accentuate the theme of innovation, complementing existing WHSC supported Synergy awards, and fall into two categories in this initial round: (1) those focused on transformational research ideas (the I3 Wow! Research awards), and (2) those focused on novel ideas in medical education (the I3 Education awards). | | Read More | |
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| | | | The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the Emory Synergy Award Program, Georgia CTSA, Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, Emory Health Services Research Center, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory+Children’s Pediatrics Institute, and Georgia State University is pleased to announce the eleventh round of research seed grants in Healthcare Innovation. Seed grants will fund multi-investigator and multi-disciplinary ... | | Read More | |
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| | This American Heart Association grant supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one's first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant's future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. | | Read More | |
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| | The program aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will allow biomedical researchers to significantly advance our understanding of the roles of these complex molecules in health and disease. | | Read More | |
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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the curriculum in the Georgia CTSA’s Master of Science in Clinical Research degree program in the Laney Graduate School. Tuition awards are not available, but Emory faculty and postdocs may be eligible for the Emory Courtesy Scholarship which would cover tuition for the course. This is a semester-long course which meets on Thursdays, from 10:00 to 11:50 am. ... | | Read More | |
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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the curriculum in the Georgia CTSA’s Certificate Program in Translational Research in the Laney Graduate School. Tuition awards are not available, but faculty and postdocs at Emory may be eligible for the Emory Courtesy Scholarship if employed at least one year. This is a semester-long course which meets on Mondays from 3:00-4:50 p.m. from September 10 until ... | | Read More | |
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| | The program supports research training activities in minority health and health disparities research for individuals from diverse backgrounds, including groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences research, at domestic institutions and/or at specified foreign low and middle income (LMIC) locations. | | Read More | |
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| | Data Interpretation and Management: Which Assay to Believe? | | Read More | |
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| | | | FHIR (aka HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is a rapidly emerging standard that enables you to create healthcare apps that can work anywhere. Cerner, Epic, Apple, Google, VA, Medicare, CDC, and hundreds of other organizations have adopted FHIR to support everything from clinical decision support to population health to personal health records.
Georgia Tech’s CS 6440 course is the first university course based ... | | Read More | |
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| | This FOA invites eligible U.S. small business concerns (SBCs) to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose to develop a product, process, or service for commercialization with the aim of improving minority health and/or reducing health disparities in one or more NIH-defined health disparity population groups. Appropriate technologies should be effective, affordable, and culturally acceptable. | | Read More | |
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| | Designed to educate attendees about the America's Largest Seed Fund and how to apply for these research and development dollars. With over $1 billion dollars of annual HHS funding, this is one of the largest sources of early-stage capital for technology commercialization in the United States. | | Read More | |
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| | This event is geared towards engaging, educating, and supporting the LGBT community to take charge of their individual health. We work hard to empower men who have sex with men and Transgender individuals on ways of improving their health and wellbeing. This includes clinical trials to help prevent HIV, Vaccine trials for infectious diseases and education around different ways of protecting themselves from contracting HIV (and other STIs). | | Read More | |
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| | Morehouse School of Medicine's Daniel Dawes, JD and Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD will speak. | | Read More | |
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| | Why is the concept of vulnerability important in bioethics? This presentation challenges the pragmatic approach on vulnerability to address a relational and universal conception of it. We will discuss some of the implications derived from this reflection within clinical ethics, such as re-thinking autonomy, professionalism, and "asymmetrical responsibility" in health care.
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| | | | Join researchers from across the Georgia CTSA as Emory and Morehouse researchers share information on interests, research, and resources in extracellular vesicles (EVs). Blue Sky Groups are convened to discuss common research areas and identify potential areas of collaboration. These groups meet once to discuss a broad topic, and then future meetings are organized based on interests and potential outcomes. ... | | 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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| | Part of the THINK BIG Symposium Series, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administrative Building Auditorium. Keynote speaker, Jacques Ravel, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present "The Host-vaginal Microbiota Interaction and its Impact on Women's Health." | | Read More | |
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| | | | As scientific teams become normative environments in which to advance and accelerate medical and health discoveries, there is a growing need for these teams to work with greater effectiveness to achieve their scientific goals. Participate in this free interactive workshop to learn best practices for working as a scientific research team, held at Morehouse School of Medicine. ... | | Read More | |
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| | The event is designed to educate the health care industry about the power and maturity of HL7 FHIR. The format features short presentations/demos from providers, vendors, academic institutions, start-ups and individuals showcasing FHIR-based solutions that are in development or already being deployed. This event is ideal for students and young entrepreneurs who have created a FHIR-enabled application to showcase their work to the industry. This is not a technical meeting, and no code-a-thons or work group business will take place. Call for Speakers: developers interested in providing a 15-minute overview of their functioning HL7 FHIR app are invited to submit a presentation title, brief description, a link to or video of their product.
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| | | | Join researchers from across the Georgia CTSA for an evening of energetic and dynamic networking. Attendees will participate in a series of short one-on-one meetings with potential collaborators from both clinical and basic science areas.
The event will be held at UGA from 5:00-7:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW ... | | Read More | |
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| | | | Registration deadline today, February 15.
Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, director, Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health will serve as keynote speaker. Georgia CTSA brings together researchers from across the state to present the best new clinical and translational research and build collaborative partnerships. The conference will be held at the beautiful Callaway ... | | Read More | |
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| | | | The Georgia CTSA supports translational and clinical research across our member institutions. As part of this effort, our Collaboration & Multidisciplinary Team Science (CMDTS) program focuses on promoting collaboration and team science among investigators at all four institutions and ultimately across other CTSAs.
In an effort to foster this mission, we have compiled opportunities currently available to researchers across Georgia that support clinically-related ... | | Read More | |
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www.GeorgiaCTSA.org. Do you have news, seminars, or events of interest to clinical and translational researchers? Send them to
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Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect Georgia CTSA support, "Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR002378. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health." KL2 Scholars should also list KL2TR002381 and TL1 Trainees should also list TL1TR002382. |
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