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Healthcare conference, grant deadlines, funding opportunity, and job opportunity.

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Highlights from Health Ethics at the Intersection of Data and Technology Symposium

The video for the Health Ethics at the Intersection of Data and Technology Symposium will be shared on the Health Sciences Library website soon.

Dr. Cykert recently published an article in JAMIA

Title: A population approach using cholesterol imputation to identify adults with high cardiovascular risk: a report from AHRQ’s EvidenceNow initiative.

Objective: Large practice networks have access to EHR data that can be used to drive important improvements in population health. However, missing data often limit improvement efforts. The goal was to determine the proportion of patients in a cohort of small primary care practices who lacked cholesterol data to calculate ASCVD risk scores and then gauge the extent that imputation can accurately identify individuals already at high risk. Read more

Karthik Adapa, CHIP graduate student recently presented in the "Best Poster Nominations" at the 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation

Poster Title: Assessing readiness of health facilities to implement quality improvement interventions in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Events

Triangle Health Innovation Challenge (THInC) - Duke Medicine’s campus from February 1-3, 2019, register

Future of North Carolina Forum - Friday, December 7th, register

Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum - December 11th-13th — Nashville, TN, register

Med Tech Impact 2018 - December 13th-15th — Las Vegas, NV, register

Student Opportunity

Data Scientist - Epidemiology, Apply

TraCS Informatics Internship Spring 2019, Apply

Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant, Apply.

Telemedicine Evaluation Project, Research Supervisor: Saif Khairat, Learn more

Analytic Consulting Internship Program, Learn more

Winter Data Science Fellowship Opportunity - Learn more

Student Funding - Carolina Internal Funding Database

Student Research Opportunities - Learn more

MLA Scholarship for Minority Students, deadline December 1 - Learn more

U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science - Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, applications due November 15 - Learn more

Community Engagement Fellowship, application deadline February 5. Learn more

Opportunity

2019 Innovation Pilot Awards Request for Proposal

The Center for Health Innovation of the UNC School of Medicine and Health Care System has released the 2019 request for proposal for its $50,000 Innovation Pilot Award. All UNC SOM and HCS employees from any affiliate are eligible to apply. While Principal Investigators must be from UNC SOM or HCS, co-investigators and research team members may include individuals from across the university. Applications are due Tuesday, January 15, 2019 and as many as four awards of up to $50,000 each will be announced in early March. Learn more about the award requirements and to download the request for proposal here. Or you can to learn about previous winners here.
If you have questions, please contact the Center for Health Innovation at innovatehealthcare@med.unc.edu

Job Opportunities

Several part-time and full-time positions have been posted on the CHIP website

Upcoming Grant Deadlines

Enabling Technologies to Accelerate Development of Oral Biodevices (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
LOI: December 28, 2018
Deadline: January 28, 2019, by 5:00 PM

Enabling Technologies to Accelerate Development of Oral Biodevices (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
LOI: December 28, 2018
Deadline: January 28, 2019, by 5:00 PM

Medical Simulators for Practicing Patient Care Providers Skill Acquisition, Outcomes Assessment, and Technology Development (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Deadline: 03/01/2019 (LOI), 10/01/18 04/01/2019

High-Priority Areas for Research Leveraging EHR and Large-Scale Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: Click here

New Informatics Tools and Methods to Enhance U.S. Cancer Surveillance Research (UG3/UH3)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: November 30, April 19

Imaging and Biomarkers for Early Detection of Aggressive Cancer (U01). Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Deadline: December 11

BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health/NIH/DHHS
Deadline: 28-Aug-2018 [LOI/Pre-App][Optional], 27-Sep-2018; 05-Feb-2019 [LOI/Pre-App][Optional], 07-Mar-2019

Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Deadline: Click here

NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Read more
Sponsor: National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Deadline: February 5

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Deadline: Click here

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Deadline: Click here

Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), Read more
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Deadline: March 11, 2019; July 9, 2019; November 12, 2019; March 11, 2020; July 9, 2020; November 12, 2020; March 11, 2021; July 9, 2021; and November 12, 2021, by 5:00 PM

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