In This Week's Update:
- CTSI/CLIC Job Opportunities
- Nina Schor: Master Mentor
- Application Instructions for Clinical Trials
- TIN Collaborative Webinar Sessions
- Summer Brown Bag Series
- Culturally Sensitive and Responsive Care
- Telemedicine Care for Parkinson’s Disease
- NCATS Toolkit for Patient-Focused Therapy Development
- Calendar of Events
- Funding Opportunities
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Job Opportunities in CTSI/CLIC
Job ID# 203341 – CLIC Common Metrics Communications Trainer
The purpose of this position is to lead and direct the pilot testing and implementation phases of the CTSA Consortium's Common Metric project. This position reports to the Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC) associate director of the Common Metrics project. This person will collaborate closely with the associate director of the Common Metrics project, team leads, and members of the other common metrics sub-teams. This person is expected to have experience training individuals synchronously online and requires excellent communication skills.
Job ID# 203199 – CLIC Common Metrics Data Specialist
The purpose of this position is to develop, design and facilitate data collection and reporting for the CTSA Consortium’s Common Metrics project. This person will serve as the primary interface between the common metrics data collection sub-team and the three other sub-teams working collaboratively on the common metrics project. This will include leading and facilitating regularly scheduled project meetings, providing data out of the scorecard system in a timely manner, and facilitation of reporting and visualization creation.
Provide one-on-one consultations to hubs that are experiencing issues or have questions during the common metric reporting process. Also will serve as the back-up coverage for the common metrics trainer.
For more information on these positions, go to the URMC careers page.
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Nina Schor: Master Mentor
for Under-Represented Scientists
Nina F. Schor, M.D., Ph.D., chair and William H. Eilinger Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, was recently added to the list of “Master Mentors” at the NIH’s National Research Mentoring Network. Learn what it takes to become a Master Mentor for this network, which connects under-represented trainees in the sciences to professionals who can offer mentorship and guidance.
Read more on the CTSI Stories Blog.
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Video to Learn About NIH Grant Application Instructions for Clinical Trials
The NIH defines a clinical trial as, “a research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes."
A new website has been created by the NIH to help researchers and administrators find information about submitting grants involving clinical trials. In addition, a new video is available that explains how to fill out the new clinical trial forms (FORMS-E).
To view the new website, click here. To view the video, click here.
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Trial Innovation Network
Collaborative Webinar Sessions
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To promote information sharing and expertise from the CTSAs, the Trial Innovation Network is hosting a series of collaborative webinars. The webinars feature various trial-related topics presented by experienced researchers, several of which are scheduled over the upcoming months. Webinars are accessible via the Trial Innovation Network website, and sessions are archived for easy referral.
The first session will be held on August 23rd at 3:00 pm (Eastern Time) and will focus on the “Efficacy-to-Effectiveness (E2E) Trial Design: Generating Evidence for Optimal Use of New Treatments,” presented by Dr. Harry Selker from Tufts University.
Efficacy to Effectiveness (E2E) trials are designed to address the effectiveness and safety gaps that often occur in standard randomized controlled trials, and offer an opportunity for improved understanding of how a treatment will work in more usual real-world clinical settings. E2E trial design is an approach whereby an effectiveness trial is prospectively designed to commence seamlessly upon completion of the efficacy trial.
Anyone may register for these one-hour sessions that include a 30-minute presentation followed by Q&A/Discussion.
To register and learn more about the series, click here.
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The 5th Annual Summer Brown Bag Series:
Understanding Historical Trauma Toward Devising Effective Clinical Interventions
to Mitigate the Impact
 Presented by: Ronke Tapp, director for Multiculturalism, University Health Services
Date: Thursday, August 24th
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Location: Helen Wood Hall, (1-304)
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Culturally Sensitive and Responsive Care: Using CultureVision and Other Tools
Diversity Seminar Series from the Office for Inclusion and Culture Development
Unconscious bias has been shown to impact patient care. Understanding the needs of patients from diverse cultural backgrounds is critical for researchers and providers. CultureVision is the first comprehensive, user-friendly database that can help researchers and healthcare providers become more aware when working with people from various ethnicities.
All faculty, fellows, residents, researchers, students, and staff are welcome.
Presented by: Linda H. Chaudron, M.D., MS, associate vice president and senior associate dean for Inclusion and Culture Development, professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, URMC
Date: Friday, September 15th
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Location: URMC, Upper Auditorium (3-7619)
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Telemedicine as Effective as In-Person Care for Parkinson’s Disease
Former KL2 Career Development Scholar, Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, published new findings that telemedicine can successfully deliver quality care to patients with Parkinson’s disease. The Connect.Parkinson project, a nationwide research study funded by the federal Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute, links neurologists with Parkinson’s patients via video conferencing, allowing patients who have impaired mobility and driving ability to receive care in the comfort of their own homes.
Read more in the URMC Newsroom.
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NCATS Toolkit for Patient-Focused Therapy Development: Demonstration and
Dissemination Meeting
NCATS will launch a new, centralized online resource portal to help patient support organizations make progress along the entire translational science spectrum, no matter where they might be in that process.
Patients, their caregivers, and patient-support organization representatives are invited to attend and learn how the toolkit can help streamline the search for the right resources to help in their therapeutic development activities. Participants also will have the opportunity to provide input into how the toolkit can be expanded and made more useful.
Developed in collaboration with patients and rare disease advocates, these tools will cover the broad therapy development landscape, including:
- How to establish a patient registry
- How to drive patient-focused discovery and pre-clinical research and development
- How to work with NIH and the Food and Drug Administration
- How to conduct post-market surveillance
View the agenda. Click here to learn more and register.
Date: Friday, September 8th
Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: National Institutes of Health
Natcher Auditorium
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
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