In this week's Update:
- CTSI Town Hall Meeting
- Early Stage Faculty Boot Camp
- Daniela Geba Thesis Defense
- CTSI Matchmaking Service
- RoAR Pilot Awards
- REDCap Tip of the Month
- Calendar of Events
- Funding Opportunities
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CTSI Town Hall Meeting
You are invited to attend the CTSI’s Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. We will begin with a short introduction with updates on new initiatives and funding opportunities followed by an open forum question and answer period. Refreshments will be served.
Date: Tuesday, July 18
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Evarts Lounge, Helen Wood Hall
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Early Stage Faculty Boot Camp
Registration Now Open
Plan now to attend the Early Stage Faculty Boot Camp, a week-long course to help senior instructors and assistant professors identify the skills they need for successful career advancement. This year’s session will take place Monday through Friday, September 25 through 29, 2017, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Course content includes: exploration of the myriad of local resources, sources of support for early career endeavors, mentorship, discussions with local experts including journal editors and successful individuals pursuing different career paths, work-life balance, the NIH review process, and resources for educators.
Visit the CTSI website for more details. We ask each participant to commit to attending all sessions. There is no charge for URMC faculty members. Registration is now open. The deadline is September 1, 2017. Click here to register.
To read more about the boot camp and a recent participant’s experience, go to the CTSI Stories Blog.
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PhD in Translational Biomedical Science Thesis Defense – Daniela Geba, MD
“Utilization of Screening Methods for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Care Settings: Current Practice and Future Directions”
Committee Members:
James McMahon, PhD, Chair
Ann M. Dozier, PhD, Advisor
Thomas A. Pearson, MD, MPH, PhD
Michael McDermott, PhD
Robert Mooney, PhD
Public Seminar
Date: Thursday, July 6, 2017
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Helen Wood Hall (1W-501)
All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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Did You Know?
The CTSI offers the Research Team Builder service that can connect faculty members with established researchers who have obtained funding in their field. The report is built from data available through the NIH Reporter Matchmaker application, which analyzes large amounts of text and gives ranked results of projects that most closely resemble the concept and terms in the provided text. Researchers can supply a conference abstract, research statement, or other scientific text up to 15,000 characters, and the CTSI will do the rest. See an example and learn more in the CTSI Stories Blog.
To obtain a report, contact the Research Help Desk.
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2017 RoAR Pilot Awards
The Rochester Aging Research Center (RoAR) invites applications for pilot funding. Projects in basic and geriatric aging research are considered.
For more information contact Anne Reed at anne_reed@urmc.rochester.edu
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REDCap Tip of the Month:
Limiting Survey Responses
Have you ever run a registration or enrollment survey in REDCap with a limited number of spots? Did you wish that you could automatically limit the number of survey responses?
Now you can set a maximum number of responses to collect with the new “response limit” option for surveys. This option will prevent respondents from starting the survey after the limit has been reached. The field exists in the survey settings menu within the online designer page.
To define a response limit, enter a number into the response limit field. If this field is left blank, there will be no limit imposed on the number of survey responses. Limits must be set up for each survey individually. You have the option to include or exclude partially completed responses as part of this limit. Additionally, you can craft custom text to be displayed once the survey limit has been reached.
To read more, go to Tip of the Month
Thanks to the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences for their ongoing REDCap Tip of the Month series.
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