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Clinical and Translational Science Awards

Clinical 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 Research

May 14–15, 2009
Natcher Conference Center (Bldg. 45, Main Auditorium)
National Institutes of Health
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

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.

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Clinical Research Management

June 22–23, 2009
Natcher Conference Center (Bldg. 45) - Main Auditorium
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

June 22: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
June 23: 7:30 a.m. – noon

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:

• Advance methods of process improvement in clinical research management
• Report metrics definitions and 2009 data in clinical research management
• Share experiences in implementing process improvements at CTSA sites — successes and challenges
• Develop networking relationships between counterparts at CTSA sites
• Initiate CTSA Consortium-wide projects based on data-driven approaches to clinical research management
• Provide public access to CTSA Consortium data in clinical research management

This workshop is co-sponsored by NCRR and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation.

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Future of Telehealth: Essential Tools and Technologies for Clinical Research and Care

June 25–26, 2009
Natcher Conference Center (Bldg. 45) - Main Auditorium
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

June 25: 8:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
June 23: 7:30 a.m. – noon

This two-day event will bring together stakeholders from government agencies, academic institutions, health care organizations and technology companies to:

• Review the state of telehealth science and technology
• Identify gaps in knowledge that can be addressed through targeted research and evaluation initiatives
• Explore ways to leverage evolving information and communication technologies to advance the field

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.

SUMMARY, AGENDA, LOGISTICS

Advancing Rare Diseases Research through Networks and Collaboration

July 16, 2009
Natcher Conference Center (Bldg. 45) - Main Auditorium
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

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:

• Discuss lessons learned from the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network
• Highlight successful collaborations to improve rare diseases research
• Highlight the involvement and essential role of patient advocacy groups to facilitate research and accrual of patients
• Discuss the role of best practices across research consortia and research networks for translation of basic discoveries into clinical practice in rare diseases

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Reports and Summaries of Previous Meetings

Building Collaboration for Clinical Research Networks

The 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.