CLIC News Roundup – June 1, 2021
News from around the CTSA Program Consortium |
Cancer Research at CTSA Program Hubs
May was National Cancer Research Month, and Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hubs are on the forefront of cancer research. From genetic counseling to mining electronic health records, the CTSA Program is approaching cancer research from multiple directions, with the goal of getting treatments to patients more quickly.
Visit our website and click through the map to see the contributions hubs are making to cancer research.
Black Voices in Research: the University of Florida CTSI Provides a Platform for Underrepresented Voices
Dressed in black, Tiffany Danielle Chisholm Pineda stood on a stage and spoke about her experience as a Black research professional working to eliminate personal biases in scientists.
“Most of the time I’m pointing out what people didn’t have the ability to see because of the perspective of the lens of their culture,” she said. “I am here to share my story so that you can look and see what needs to be done to evolve, to grow, to clean, or even throw away your lenses so that these stories are no longer being told, even in 2021.”
Pineda is the chair of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Diversity and Cultural Competency Council (UF CTSI DC3), which is funded through the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
She is now in the beginning stages of putting together a “call to action” for other CTSA Program hubs, which would bring hubs together to exchange ideas.
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CLIC Education |
Connect with the CLIC Education Team!
Since spring 2020, our team has met with over 30 education teams from hubs across the consortium to learn more about their unique programs. From DEI initiatives to partnerships with community hospitals, pathways programs for high school students, and recruiting through social media, we have learned so much about the educational landscape of the CTSA program.
Want to connect with us? Send us an email at education@clic-ctsa.org.
The CLIC Career Development Community has launched!
Over 130 users have joined this newly launched interactive space on the CLIC website. Create a CLIC account and join any of the three focus areas now to collaborate, network and share ideas with your peers. Each focus area includes a message board, community content feed and searchable community member list to foster communication across the consortium.
News from around the CTSA Program Consortium |
Brain implants turn imagined handwriting into text on a screen
Electrodes in a paralyzed man’s brain turned his imagined handwriting into words typed on a screen. The translation from brain to text may ultimately point to ways to help people with disabilities like paralysis communicate using just their thoughts.
CTSA Program Coordinating Centers’ News |
UCLA CTSI-Supported “Get Out the Vaccine” Campaign Among California Governor’s Initiatives
Vaccinating a Mobile Population: UI Health Care Researchers Work to Reach Iowa’s Migrant Workers
CTSA ReFRAME Call for Proposals
More information here >>
4th Annual Children’s National – NIAID Symposium (Virtual)
The symposium will be held on Thursday, June 3, and Friday, June 4 as a virtual event that highlights current research on COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and the intersectionality of COVID-19, allergy, and immunology on the pediatric population.
Webinar: Participant Engagement Platform (PEP): Stanford’s honest broker services for participant recruitment
Stanford Medicine’s Research Participation services has developed the Participant Engagement Platform (PEP) as a way of offering and managing “honest broker” outreach, such as Direct Email and Epic MyChart. The Research Participation team (honest broker) sends the study invitation to potential participants (identified via EHR cohort search) on behalf of the study team. Only when a potential participant expresses interest, does the Research Participation team pass on their contact info to the study team for follow-up. This is an exciting way to scale recruitment to engage more participants, while protecting patient privacy and reducing study team burden.
June 16, 12PM EDT
N3C Among the 2021 FedHealthIT Innovation Award Winners
The 7th Annual FedHealthIT Innovation Awards recognizes and honors the Federal Health technology and consulting community by celebrating programs nominated and selected by their peers for DRIVING INNOVATION and RESULTS across the Department of Veterans Affairs, Military Health, Health and Human Services, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services