In This Week’s Update:
- Join us This Wednesday to Discover Embark
- June is Men’s Health Month
- Men’s Health Day Promotes Healthy Aging
- Annual Health Professions' Faculty Development Colloquium
- UR CTSI Promoting Health Research in the Community
- TIN Webinar: Financial Sustainability of Centralized Support
- Growing Gene and Cell Therapy (GGACT) Letter of Intent
- Calendar of Events
- Funding Opportunities
|
|
Discover Embark This Wednesday
Embark is a new initiative to streamline and strengthen clinical research at URMC. The initiative will reduce administrative burden on our clinical research teams, allowing them to spend more time to care for study participants. Ultimately, Embark will enable us to conduct more clinical trials and discover new treatments and cures. All URMC community members who are involved in clinical research are encouraged to attend the upcoming Discover Embark event to learn more. Email the Embark team with any questions.
Date: Wednesday, June 5
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Class of ’62 Auditorium
|
|
June is Men’s Health Month
Sponsored by Men’s Health Network since 1992, Men’s Health Month focuses on preventable illness among men and boys. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that men die at higher rates than women from nine of the top ten causes of death in the U.S., and veterans are at a higher risk of prostate cancer than the general population. Visit RocHealthData to see the change in prostate cancer by county, the veteran population and by census tract.
|
|
Men’s Health Day Promotes Healthy Aging
UR Medicine's 14th Annual Men's Health Day is a community educational activity consisting of short presentations aimed at increasing awareness of common health conditions affecting men ages 50+ with an emphasis on prevention. Attendance is free and open to the public, and lunch is provided to all participants. Providers from across UR Medicine will discuss a range of important health topics that will give men the knowledge and tools to better engage in their own health. Speakers and topics at the event include:
- The Importance of Research Participation – Carrie Dykes, Ph.D., CTSI Director of Research Services
- Precision Medicine and Its Impact on Cancer Treatments – Jonathan Friedberg, M.D., M.M.S., Wilmot Cancer Institute
- The Parkinson’s Pandemic – Ray Dorsey, M.D., M.B.A., Neurology
- Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults – Elizabeth Santos, M.D., Psychiatry
- Having a Successful Golf Season with TPI – Sandeep Mannava, M.D., Ph.D., and Clifford Everett, M.D., M.P.H., Orthopaedics
- Oral Health and Orofacial Pain as You Age – Michael Yunker, D.D.S., Eastman Institute for Oral Health
- Screening for Urological Cancers – Thomas Frye, D.O., Urology
Register now.
Date: Friday, June 7
Time: 11:30 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Locust Hill Country Club, 2000 Jefferson Road
|
|
Annual Health Professions'
Faculty Development Colloquium
Registration is now open for this annual colloquium which brings together faculty, educators and healthcare professionals to share best practices through interactive sessions, panel discussions, workshops and poster presentations to foster networking and the interchange of ideas. Contact the Office for Faculty Development with any questions. Learn more. Add to your Outlook calendar.
Date: Wednesday, June 12
Time: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Alumni Corridors and Forbes Mezzanine
|
|
UR CTSI Promoting Health Research
in the Community
Tour de Cure is a fundraising campaign of the American Diabetes Association with cycling, running and walking options. The event brings together members of the community to learn about diabetes, healthy living and to support people living with diabetes. The UR CTSI will host a table at this event beginning at 10:00 am to provide information and encourage community members to participate in health research.
Date: Saturday, June 8
Location: Xerox Complex, Chiyoda Drive, Bldg 147, Webster
UR CTSI will also host an informational table at the Rochester NY March for Science, which promotes science for the common good and advocates for equitable access to scientific education and opportunities as well as responsible scientific practices and evidence-based policies in the public interest. The March for Science event will be at the Pittsford Farmer’s Market. The UR CTSI will be there at 10:00 am.
Date: Saturday, June 15
Location: Pittsford Farmers Market, Spiegel Community Center, 35 Lincoln Avenue
|
|
TIN Webinar:
Financial Sustainability of Centralized Support at an Academic Health Center
Presented by: Kate Marusina, Ph.D., M.B.A., UC Davis
Centralized clinical trials management is a relatively new phenomenon for academic health centers where clinical research is typically conducted by individual investigators with decentralized study teams. Comprehensive support to investigator-initiated trials must include access to clinical research coordinators, regulatory assistance, budgets and contract negotiation, data entry and other clinical research activities.
This presentation describes the structure and functions of centralized clinical trial support and implementation of various recharge models and methodologies for measuring true costs of clinical research projects. Register.
Date: Monday, June 3
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
|
|
Growing Gene and Cell Therapy (GGACT) Cooperative Letter of Intent
The overall goal of the Growing Gene and Cell Therapy (GGACT) cooperative is to support investigators to rapidly translate complex gene and cell therapies to early phase, investigator-initiated clinical trials. The next application cycle is now open. Letter of intent due by Monday, July 1. Contact Maria Suarez for questions and to submit letter of intent. Learn more.
|
|
|
|
|
