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Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: Insights from the KP-VACCINATE Megatrial

Friday, May 30, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Embedding Randomization into Clinical Care in a Learning Healthcare System: Insights from the KP-VACCINATE Megatrial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, MBA, ScM
Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Division of Research
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

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Odum Institute: Enhancing Academic Work with AI

Tuesday, June 03, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Enhancing Academic Work with AI: Tools, Tips, and Practical Insights

This course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and effectively use AI tools to enhance academic research, teaching, and productivity. Participants will explore cutting-edge AI tools, such as Microsoft Co-pilot, Gemini, Claude, and others, through live demonstrations, interactive discussions, and practical applications. Emphasizing ethical ...

CRI: Interleukin 6 regulation of T cell metabolism and function

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Interleukin 6 regulation of T cell metabolism and function

Join the Children's Research Institute for a seminar with Yazan Alwarawrah, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Alwarawrah is interested in targeting metabolism for the treatment of disease. Currently, he is studying T cell metabolism in the context of obesity-associated protective immunity dysfunction where he uses the diet ind...

Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: Improving the Ethical Oversight of Pragmatic Clinical Trials

Friday, June 13, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Fit for Purpose: Improving the Ethical Oversight of Pragmatic Clinical Trials

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Berman Institute of Bioethics & Department of Health Policy & Management
Johns Hopkins University

Nancy Kass, ScD
Phoebe Berman Professor of Bioethics & Public Health
Berman Institute of Bioethics & Department of Health Policy &...

Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: Addressing Shortfalls in Evidence-Based Therapies for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction

Friday, June 27, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Addressing Shortfalls in Evidence-Based Therapies for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Amrita Mukhopadhyay, MD, MS
Eugene Braunwald, MD Assistant Professor of Cardiology
The Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Division of Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health
NYU School of Medicine and NYU Lang...

Odum Institute: Place-based Research Approaches to Local Communities

Friday, September 05, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Place-based Research Approaches to Local Communities

This course will provide researchers with qualitative tools and perspectives to authentically conduct community-based participatory research. Participants will learn how to center community perspectives and marginalized voices. Community groups often lack resources and platforms to alleviate narratives about emerging and systemic social and public health challenges. Researchers are...

Odum Institute: Version Control with Git and GitHub

Tuesday, September 09, 2025 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until September 11, 2025

Version Control with Git and GitHub

This 2-part (9/9/2025 and 9/11/2025) 5-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to...

Odum Institute: Version Control with Git and GitHub

Thursday, September 11, 2025 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until September 11, 2025

Version Control with Git and GitHub

This 2-part (9/9/2025 and 9/11/2025) 5-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to...

Odum Institute: Foundations of Applied Mixed Methods Research Design

Friday, September 12, 2025 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Foundations of Applied Mixed Methods Research Design

This workshop provides participants with practical instruction on the topics of integrating qualitative and quantitative data, and the essential principles behind designing fundable mixed methods research. Specific topics include crafting mixed methods objectives and research questions, choosing appropriate sampling strategies, and selecting the most effective data collection metho...

Odum Institute: Introduction to Multilevel Modeling

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until September 26, 2025

Introduction to Multilevel Modeling

This course will take place over two days (9/24/2025 and 9/26/2025) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Nesting can arise from hierarchical data structures (e.g., siblings nested within family; patients nested within therapist), longitudinal data structures (repeated measures nested within individual), or both (repeated measures nested within ...

Odum Institute: Introduction to Multilevel Modeling

Friday, September 26, 2025 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until September 26, 2025

Introduction to Multilevel Modeling

This course will take place over two days (9/24/2025 and 9/26/2025) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Nesting can arise from hierarchical data structures (e.g., siblings nested within family; patients nested within therapist), longitudinal data structures (repeated measures nested within individual), or both (repeated measures nested within ...

Odum Institute: Discrete Choice Modeling

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until October 02, 2025

Discrete Choice Modeling

This course introduces participants to discrete choice models. These econometric models are used to explain how people choose between discrete outcomes, such as mode of travel to work or type of treatment for pain. The course will cover the subset of discrete choice models known as random utility models, namely the multinomial logit and nested logit. These models are often used in disciplines such as economic...

Odum Institute: Discrete Choice Modeling

Thursday, October 02, 2025 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until October 02, 2025

Discrete Choice Modeling

This course introduces participants to discrete choice models. These econometric models are used to explain how people choose between discrete outcomes, such as mode of travel to work or type of treatment for pain. The course will cover the subset of discrete choice models known as random utility models, namely the multinomial logit and nested logit. These models are often used in disciplines such as economic...

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