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October 2020

ISPCTN Communication
As a reminder, a weekly checklist comes out each Friday highlighting action items and brief updates for clinical sites. The ECHO ISPCTN monthly bulletin comes out on the first Tuesday of each month. If you are not currently receiving the weekly checklist email, please notify us at askDCOC@uams.edu.
ISPCTN Virtual SC Meeting Follow Up 
Post meeting evaluation
Action requested - Deadline October 12
Thank you to all who attended last week's virtual ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee meeting. The DCOC would like to recognize the Virtual Face-to-Face Planning Committee: Christie Madden, Lee Pyles, Paul Darden, and Alan Simon. The Network benefited from your creativity and your quick work. Attendance was around 120 people each day and so far the DCOC has received positive feedback regarding the meeting content. If you have not yet completed the post-meeting evaluation, please do so by clicking HERE.

CE Credit
Action requested - Deadline October 28

All meeting attendees can claim credit for their participation by completing the  CME EVALUATION.

We have corrected the error within the original link sent to attendees following the virtual Steering Committee meeting. You should now be able to choose one option per row, not one per column. Certificates will be emailed within 7 days of completing the evaluation. If you have any questions regarding credits, please email Catrice Banks Johnson.


Leadership Committee election results
Congratulations go to Drs. Sara Watson of Kentucky and Rusty McCulloh of Nebraska for being elected to serve on the ECHO ISPCTN Leadership Committee for the next two years. Thank you all for voting promptly and thank you to all of the worthy candidates for sharing their excellence with the Network.

Pod site revisions
As a result of the change in leadership committee membership, the DCOC is rearranging both Dr. Watson's and McCulloh's assigned sites within their ISPCTN pods. Below is the revised list of sites for each pod:

Rusty McCulloh Pod: Nebraska; South Dakota; Hawaii; Vermont
Sara Watson Pod: Arkansas; Louisiana; Louisville; South Carolina; West Virginia

A revised pod meeting invite will go out to both pods this week. These revisions will take effect beginning with the next pod meeting scheduled for October 19.


Opportunities to volunteer
  • November SC Meeting planning team
  • GO In Target: Revise goals, objectives, and indicators; draft targets.
  • ECHO ISPCTN Branding Group
  • Junior investigator pilot planning
If you are interested in volunteering to serve on one of these teams, contact Jessica Snowden

Meeting slide presentations 
You can access all general session slides through the ECHO ISPCTN Research Portal HERE. Or for quick view, access each day's slides below:

DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3


EXPANDED CONCEPT PROPOSALS
Action requested

Please take time to review the Expanded Concept Proposal slides HERE and provide any feedback to the questions presented by Drs. Cowan and Perry by clicking FEEDBACK 
SAVE THE DATE! NOVEMBER 3-5
 
Virtual ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee Meeting 
Action requested
Registration deadline is October 23

The first ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee meeting in Cycle 2 is scheduled for November 3-5 from 1:00 - 4:30 CST/2:00 - 5:30 EST.  
 
Due to the membership size of the Steering Committee, the DCOC is asking that each clinical site awardee register all attendees for this virtual conference. By registering your research teams, the DCOC can better plan breakout sessions and other meeting activities.

Click HERE to register. 
SAVE THE DATE! APRIL 6-7, 2021 
Face-to-face ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee Meeting
April 6-7, 2021 
Renaissance Capital View Hotel
Arlington, VA

Mark you calendar for the next planned face-to-face ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee Meeting scheduled for April 6-7, 2021.  A save-the-date calendar invite will be sent to all steering committee members to hold this date on your calendar.

A meeting registration link along with hotel reservation link will be shared in early 2021. 
ISPCTN Communication
Update your contact information

Now that we have entered Cycle 2, the DCOC is updating the email lists for important network communication as well as the ISPCTN site directory that is located on the ECHO ISPCTN Research Portal.

Offboarding:
If you have personnel that actively participated in Cycle 1 that are not participating in Cycle 2, please email this information to Sherry Lloyd so that she can properly offboard these members.

Onboarding:
If your site has added research team members for Cycle 2 that include Faculty Development Leaders, Junior Investigators and Research Coordinators, please submit a separate contact information survey for each person or share the link with that person to complete themselves.  CONTACT INFORMATION.


Request portal access
In addition, if you have a new team member(s), each will need to request access to the ECHO ISPCTN Research Portal. To request access, CLICK HERE. A principal investigator can request access for team members, or the team member can request access listing the name of the Principal Investigator as the approver. Once access is requested, the new team member will receive an activation email with instructions on how to log into the portal. For all portal questions, please email AskDCOC@uams.edu
Professional Development Opportunity
ECHO Discovery
Save the date!

October 13 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Presentation: "Heterogeneity of severe bronchiolitis: Implications for acute management and for developing asthma"
October 13, 2020 at 1:00pm ET
MEETING LINK
ECHO News
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Trial Updates

Study enrollment update
The VDORA1 sites have enrolled 42 Part 2 participants to date. Seventeen participants have been randomized and are on study therapy. Nine participants are currently in the diary card run-in phase prior to randomization; eleven have screen failed and five are pending screening lab results.

All 15 original VDORA1 sites have been activated for Part 2 of the study and we are bringing up three new sites as well.

Please continue to send all questions that you may have about site activation to AskVDORA@uams.edu.

The ACT NOW trials have launched!  For more information regarding the ACT NOW ESC and Weaning trials, access the newsletters below:

ACT NOW ESC
ACT NOW Weaning
ECHO ISPCTN Publications
To access the latest ECHO ISPCTN Publications updates, click here:
PUBLICATIONS STATUS TABLE
To access the ECHO ISPCTN Manuscripts Author Roster, click here:
MANUSCRIPTS AUTHOR ROSTER
Share the Good News from your Site!
Alaska News
Co-principal investigator, Matt Hirschfeld, recently co-authored a paper in Journal of Pediatrics on Pediatric Cancers in Alaska Native children. Although incidence of pediatric cancers is increasing, survival is improving.  A decrease in hepatic cancers attributable to hepatitis B vaccination was also identified. Click HERE to read the article.

If you have good news that you would like to share in the ECHO ISPCTN Monthly Bulletin please email AskDCOC@uams.edu
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