ISPCTN Communication
As a reminder, a weekly checklist comes out each Monday highlighting action items and brief updates for clinical sites. The ECHO ISPCTN monthly bulletin comes out on the first week of each month. If you are not currently receiving the weekly checklist email, please notify us at askDCOC@uams.edu.
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ECHO Program Office
Hosting Diversity Supplement Webinar
Register today!
The ECHO Program Office recently announced that ECHO will again offer Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research for pre- and post-docs. A webinar is scheduled for April 16 from 2-3 pm EDT to provide more detail about the diversity supplements, discuss the application process, and answer any questions you may have.
REGISTER HERE
As a reminder, for this cycle, the following ECHO Components can apply:
- ISPCTN Clinical Sites
- Cohorts, PRO Core, CC, DAC, and DCOC
Applications should be submitted through the parent grant, under the stipulations in PA 21-071 Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed). Candidates must be enrolled in a doctoral degree program toward completion of a terminal scientific degree (e.g., Ph.D., Sc.D., M.D.) or engaged in Postdoctoral, Medical Internship, Residency or Clinical Fellowship Training. Eligible candidates include individuals from underrepresented groups, individuals with disabilities, or individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. NIH will publish a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) for ECHO diversity supplements with more information. We will alert you when the NOSI is published. For more information, contact Susan Laessig, susan.laessig@nih.gov.
Letters of intent should be submitted by April 25, 2021.
Applications will be due in May 2021; NIH ECHO will provide an exact date in the NOSI.
The start date will be September 2021.
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ECHO Launches UNITE
What is your site's call to action?
NIH launched an effort to end structural racism in biomedical research through a new initiative whose acronym is UNITE.
As Director of the ECHO Program, Matt Gillman shares this message to the ECHO ISPCTN, 'I underscore the critical nature of this initiative to “improve and strengthen racial equity, diversity, and inclusion across all facets of the biomedical research enterprise, and expand research to eliminate or lessen health disparities and inequities.'”
Dr. Gillman sees at least three avenues for ECHO to carry forward these principles:
1. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our diversity supplements—this year on the ISPCTN as well as the Cohorts side—is one example.
2. Maintaining diversity and inclusion of our participants. This is a common challenge made even harder by the pandemic’s effect on disadvantaged communities.
3. Addressing research questions toward social and racial equity. Both the effects of the pandemic and the awful treatment and deaths of persons of color in the past year highlight the importance of solution-oriented research in this area.
The ECHO Program Office is looking forward to working with all of you on these crucial issues, including discussions in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group.
Via a Request for Information, NIH leadership would be most grateful for your perspectives and recommendations on the UNITE program. You may submit comments through the submission website by April 9, 2021.
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ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee
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Virtual meeting follow up
April Steering Committee
The ISPCTN Steering Committee meeting took place virtually on April 6 and 7 engaging over 140 ISPCTN members in rich research conversations focusing on goals, objectives, indicators and targets for the Network and how those align with priorities, capacity and aspirations of the Network. Also presented and discussed were study section reviews of two expanded concept proposals; the ECHO Communication Strategy; preliminary results and publications for the iAmHealthy trial as well as the ISPCTN strategy plan regarding COVID-related projects.
All materials discussed at the meeting are available on the ECHO ISPCTN Research Portal. A reminder that you must be logged into the portal to preview and download documents.
SC MEETING PORTAL FOLDER
SLIDES DAY 1
SLIDES DAY 2
Please take a few minutes to complete a post meeting evaluation to share feedback with DCOC about this meeting and future steering committee meetings. This evaluation also includes space to provide questions or feedback on the blitz presentations, which the DCOC will share with those teams.
EVALUATION
Please use this link to provide input on the Goals, Objectives, Indicators, and Targets:
GOIT EVALUATION
Continuing Education Credit
All attendees will receive Continuing Education (CE) credit for attending the ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee sessions by completing the CE Evaluation and Credit Claim Form. Please send the completed form to Catrice Banks Johnson at CRBanksjohnson@uams.edu. Certificates will be emailed back to you within 7 days from completing the evaluation and form.
Credit Claim Form
CE Evaluation
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Save the date!
ECHO ISPCTN Face-to-face
Steering Committee meeting
September 13-14, 2021
The DCOC is planning to host the next face-to-face, in-person ECHO ISPCTN Steering Committee meeting at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, VA on September 13-14. Please note that this is a date change from earlier communication about this conference. A revised calendar invitation was sent to all Network members reflecting the change.
Registration links for team registration and hotel reservations will be shared this summer. Please do not arrange travel or make hotel reservations until the DCOC confirms that this meeting will actually take place in person.
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ECHO ISPCTN
Leadership Committee Minutes
MARCH 2021 MEETING
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Sites are encouraged to contact AskVDORA@uams.edu if they encounter any research restrictions that limit their ability to bring VDORA1 participants in for their study visits and pharmacokinetic measurements.
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Study closeout begins
Data collection for the iAmHealthy study has concluded. Congratulations to the sites and entire iAmHealthy team! As we enter the closeout and data clean and analysis phase, very preliminary data suggests that that the study met two (retention and blinding) of the four primary objectives. The study team is working on several publications that are in various phases of development. Please watch for data analysis updates and consider other publication ideas.
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To access the latest ECHO ISPCTN Publications updates, click here:
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To access the ECHO ISPCTN Manuscripts Author Roster, click here:
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ECHO ISPCTN Meeting Center
The DCOC has focused efforts on organizing certain areas of the portal to be more efficient and user friendly. Take a few moments to visit the portal and check out the ISPCTN Meeting Center. This interactive calendar features the Network meetings and opportunities for professional development. You can actually add these meetings to your calendar from the Meeting Center.
VISIT THE MEETING CENTER
If you have a meeting, professional development opportunity or event that you would like to feature in the ECHO ISPCTN Meeting Center contact Melissa Griffith at MGriffith@uams.edu.
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ECHO Discovery
Save the date!
April 13, 2021
Mark your calendar to attend the next ECHO Discovery webinar titled, "Developmental Origins of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes- What We Know and Don’t Know" featuring speaker Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
The Healthy Start project began in 2010 with a cohort of 1,410 pregnant women who were planning on delivering at University of Colorado Hospital. The goal of this phase of the Healthy Start Study was to learn more about the things that affect the birth weight and obesity of the children being born.
MEETING LINK
- Meeting number (access code): 120 176 9919
- Meeting password: ECHO
- JOIN BY PHONE: 1-650-479-3207
National Research Mentoring Network
University of Utah Grant Writing Coaching
Deadline approaching
Webinar designed for people developing K- or R- level NIH awards. Applications are due by April 16, 2021.
APPLY HERE
ECHO Stakeholder Organization Webinar
April 21, 2021
Register now!
The ECHO Program Office would like to invite you to attend a webinar on April 21, 2021 at 2pm EDT, featuring a Dialogue with ECHO Director Dr. Matt Gillman. The webinar will feature a presentation from ECHO investigators about our work to understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnant women and children. We’ll share early data and information about projects underway.
We look forward to a conversation about:
- ECHO’s COVID-19 research
- Progress of our ECHO-wide Cohort
- ECHO’s latest research findings and upcoming projects on topics like chemical exposures, childhood obesity, and asthma
- New research efforts regarding Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
- Our commitment to health equity and our work with diverse populations
- A soon-to-be-released Request for Information (RFI)
- Your organization’s areas of priority for 2021
REGISTER HERE
Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues.
MAGI's Spring 2021 Conference
April 26 - May 6, 2021
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Central/11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern
The conference will be fully virtual covering many topics of interest to research team members at all levels through 80+ session and eight tracks: clinical operations & project management, quality & risk management; site management; contracts; budgets & billing; regulatory compliance; management & professional skills; working; and special topics. Session recordings will be available during the conference and for the following two weeks.
REGISTER HERE
Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials
July 23, - August 1, 2021
Application deadline: February 15, 2021
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will hold the 21st annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials from July 23 – August 1, 2021. The Institute will be held at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland if possible, but it will be held virtually instead if the COVID-19 pandemic prevents us from meeting in person.
APPLICATION
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Share the Good News from your Site!
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Congratulations to Dr. Matt Hirschfeld from Alaska. Matt was interviewed on NPR last week about the impact of COVID-19 on pregnant women and their families. You can listen to this interview HERE. It is always a joy to follow our site's successes!
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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Have you subscribed?
The ECHO Program would like to remind you to subscribe to the new ECHO Connector! This newsletter is now being distributed in addition to the monthly ECHO Program internal newsletter that you may already receive.The ECHO Connector is an external communication and will help to connect with key audiences outside of ECHO.
MARCH 2021 ISSUE
If you wish to receive news from ECHO, subscribe HERE.
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