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Questions and Answers Regarding 2009 CTSA Awards,
NIH Clinical and Translational Science Consortium Grows to 39 Members
Upcoming MeetingsClinical and Translational Science AwardsClinical and Translational Science Awards Committee Meetings and Activities (use the "next meeting" links to access times, locations, and organizer contact information) Improving Health WITH Communities: The Role of Community Engagement in Clinical and Translational ResearchMay 1415, 2009 This is the second annual conference to discuss, share best practices and collaborate with communities and health care providers to improve health. Participants will develop recommendations for academic-community collaborations and partnerships with other community programs to establish research agendas. Please join Barbara Alving, M.D., director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at NIH, along with Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., director, VCU Center for Human Needs at the Virginia Commonwealth University, and Eric Whittaker, M.D., executive vice president for strategic affiliations and associate dean for community-based research at the University of Chicago Medical Center, as they discuss ways to transform the clinical research enterprise through effective collaboration. Best practices, effective collaboration strategies and successful models will be discussed and shared. Registration is now closed. VIEW VIDEOCAST DAY 1 Clinical Research ManagementJune 2223, 2009 June 22: 8:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Clinical research management, the processing of protocols and clinical studies, is a high-priority issue for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) consortium. To address these and other regulatory issues, this workshop will:
This workshop is co-sponsored by NCRR and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. Future of Telehealth: Essential Tools and Technologies for Clinical Research and CareJune 2526, 2009 June 25: 8:15 a.m. 5:30 p.m. This two-day event will bring together stakeholders from government agencies, academic institutions, health care organizations and technology companies to:
A workshop on the second day will yield specific recommendations to stimulate development, implementation and evaluation of telehealth applications for clinical care, clinical and translational research, and health education and training, with the ultimate goals to broaden participation in research and improve health outcomes in medically underserved communities. Advancing Rare Diseases Research through Networks and CollaborationJuly 16, 2009 7:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by NCRR and the NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research, this conference will provide a forum to:
Reports and Summaries of Previous MeetingsBuilding Collaboration for Clinical Research NetworksThe purpose of the meeting was to focus on the theoretical and practical solutions in promoting clinical network collaboration. We were able to draw from a wide variety of resources including social, behavioral, and organizational science to identify solutions to common problems in collaborations in clinical research, and to identify common causes of success and failure. Clinical and Translational Science AwardsClinical and Translational Science Awards Committee Meetings and Activities (use the "previous meeting" links to access minutes and presentations) Listen to the 2007 CTSA Pre-submission Webcast held on October 5, 2006 (requires free RealPlayer). Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN) National Leadership ForumThe National Leadership Forum (NLF) presented the methods and findings from the NIH Roadmap-sponsored Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN) Descriptive Survey and Best Practices Study. (May 31 - June 1, 2006) Read more. Ensuring the Inclusion of Clinical Research in the National Health Information NetworkThe federal government is promoting the use of electronic health records (EHR) for use within medical organizations and also to support a national health information network (NHIN). The goal of the meeting was to lay the groundwork for a plan to include clinical and translational research in the NHIN. (May 9, 2006) |
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