The REDCap Forms Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary (lecture/demo).

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: Focusing a Newer Lens

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in diabetes are longstanding and well-documented. While past diabetes disparities research has often highlighted individual-level interventions and behavioral targets to improve disparities, the social determinants of health (SDOH) represent systemic and root cause factors responsible for inequities at the level of populations.

Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABP will present findings from the ADA’s current SDOH and Diabetes Scientific Review, including nomenclatures for understanding SDOH, evidence of SDOH impact in diabetes, available recommendations for action to mitigate the SDOH, and recommendations for the next generation of diabetes research on SDOH.

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Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine Senior Director, Population Health Research and Development Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology & Clinical Research
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine

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The REDCap Hands-On Form Building Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary. This session will be a click along hands-on/lecture/demo.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Wisdom in the Room: Medicine, Faith, and Research: A New Recipe for Collaboration

Pastor James D. Gailliard and Lori Carter-Edwards PhD, MPH will discuss how we can leverage faith spaces for health purposes, describe how research partnerships can develop and evolve in the faith space, and share examples of the roles that faith-based organizations have played during COVID-19.

Wisdom in the Room is a conference call series hosted by the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program at NC TraCS at UNC-Chapel Hill that provides a forum for information and resource sharing among research stakeholders, community partners, and others interested in community engaged research.

Presenters

Lori Carter Edwards, PhD, MPH, Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program
NC TraCS Institute

Rev. James D. Gaillard, Senior Pastor
Word Tabernacle Church

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This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: Paper writing.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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Odum Institute Short Course - Using Qualitative Research to Study Social Justice

This course will address how researchers can use qualitative research to draw attention to underlying mechanisms that define social problems. Once uncovered, deeper understanding of these mechanisms can guide large-scale surveys, direct responses to requests for proposals by private foundations and government agencies, inform policy briefs, and even influence new legislation. In this regard, it is important for qualitative researchers to think beyond simply highlighting problems in order to also develop skills that leverage our work in ways that more directly impact people’s everyday lives.

This course will go over qualitative processes to better position course participants in their efforts to design and collect data specifically aimed at contributing directly to social justice. Timely issues, including racial disparities in policing, will be used as examples of how decision-making across the methodological life of a qualitative project can be leveraged to address social problems.

Presenter
Rashawn Ray, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research
University of Maryland

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COVID-19 Research Open House Week: Community Research Symposium

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is hosting an Open House to engage CTSA members, newcomers, and the wider translational research community. The N3C is a data resource and collaborative community built for COVID-19 research. The N3C Data Enclave contains harmonized, patient-level clinical data from 36 institutions across the country, allowing the research community to study COVID-19 at a scale and statistical power not possible within any single institution.

The event will be kicked off with a one-hour Community Research Symposium, followed by a week of open Clinical Domain Team meetings to welcome new collaborators and help them launch their research questions.

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REDCap Functions is advanced training in using functions with your project such as Surveys, Randomization, Calendar/Scheduling, etc.

The session will cover Imports, Reusing Forms, Exports, Surveys, Data Quality Checks, Collecting Data Offline (REDCap Mobile), Subject App (MyCap), Pulling Epic Data, Special layouts (Shazam), Multiple Languages, and more.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced*)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

COVID-19 Research Open House Week: Kidney Disease in N3C

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is hosting an Open House to engage CTSA members, newcomers, and the wider translational research community. The N3C is a data resource and collaborative community built for COVID-19 research. The N3C Data Enclave contains harmonized, patient-level clinical data from 36 institutions across the country, allowing the research community to study COVID-19 at a scale and statistical power not possible within any single institution.

The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Clinical Domain Team aims to investigate risk factors associated with kidney injury and recovery, as well as use of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) in relation to COVID-19.

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Join the NRP for their latest education session. Cassie Myers, CIP and Mike Matamoros, MS, CIP from the UNC Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) will help attendees better understand the relationship between assays and investigational devices.

Presentation Topics Includes:

• Understand the different stages of assay development and apply the applicable regulatory framework, specifically investigational devices regulations
• Accurately complete the IRBIS application, Assay tables, and consent forms to facilitate IRB review processes
• Evaluate when a modification occurs how this will impact the regulatory framework and IRB requirements

Attendance at this event is pending approval for 1 contact hour of clinical research education on applications for Maintenance of ACRP’s CCRC®, CCRA®, CPI® or ACRP-CP® certification designations

Presenters

Cassie Myers, CIP, Director
UNC OHRE

Mike Matamoros, MS, CIP, IRB Quality Improvement/Assurance Manager
UNC OHRE

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Odum Institute Short Course - Academic Publishing 101: From Idea to Article...and Beyond

Although graduate school teaches you many things, many PhD students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you publish your research? How do you actually get papers accepted in strong academic journals?

This talk will cover several major ideas in academic publishing (focusing on the social sciences). Topics include:

• professional integrity and ethics
• the role of academic conversations and communities as a guide for publication forums and journal selections
• the mechanics of publishing in journals and other forums (including outlining, writing style, journal, legal, and newspaper submissions, the peer review process, revisions, and corresponding with editors)
• acceptance and all that follows

Presenter
Todd BenDor, PhD, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Director, Odum Institute
UNC-Chapel Hill

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COVID-19 Research Open House Week: N3C Immunosuppressed/Compromised Domain Team

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is hosting an Open House to engage CTSA members, newcomers, and the wider translational research community. The N3C is a data resource and collaborative community built for COVID-19 research. The N3C Data Enclave contains harmonized, patient-level clinical data from 36 institutions across the country, allowing the research community to study COVID-19 at a scale and statistical power not possible within any single institution.

The Immunosuppressed/Compromised (ISC) Clinical Domain Team aims to gain a better understanding of how COVID-19 affects patient populations with suppressed or compromised immune systems.

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This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: Pitching you and your research program.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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This course will provide a basic introduction to time series analysis and its applications in social science research. Emily Wager, PhD will cover time series regression and exploratory data analysis, ARIMA models, model identification/estimation, intervention analysis and other models used for causal inference.

This course will use examples and hands-on labs in STATA. Participants should have a thorough understanding of regression analysis and some familiarity with STATA.

Presenter
Emily Wager, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Houston

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COVID-19 Research Open House Week: Pharma/Commercial Domain Team

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is hosting an Open House to engage CTSA members, newcomers, and the wider translational research community. The N3C is a data resource and collaborative community built for COVID-19 research. The N3C Data Enclave contains harmonized, patient-level clinical data from 36 institutions across the country, allowing the research community to study COVID-19 at a scale and statistical power not possible within any single institution.

The vision of the Pharma-Commercial Domain Team is to maximize engagement with commercial groups to support the increased use and utility of N3C resources and community for research on COVID-19.

Those interested should email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for an invite.

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COVID-19 Research Open House Week: Pharmacoepidemiology Domain Team

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is hosting an Open House to engage CTSA members, newcomers, and the wider translational research community. The N3C is a data resource and collaborative community built for COVID-19 research. The N3C Data Enclave contains harmonized, patient-level clinical data from 36 institutions across the country, allowing the research community to study COVID-19 at a scale and statistical power not possible within any single institution.

The goal of the Pharmacoepidemiology Clinical Domain Team is to evaluate important, empirically testable hypotheses regarding the use, safety, and effectiveness of therapies for COVID-19 using a limited dataset from the N3C.

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Learn how to leverage the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) new translational grant funding programs to accelerate the development of your preclinical heart, lung, blood or sleep technology.

The NHLBI recently launched the Catalyze program to empower and support translational research through a comprehensive suite of funding, technical services, training, and mentorship to translational investigators working across NHLBI’s entire heart, lung, blood, and sleep portfolio.

Projects supported by NHLBI Catalyze receive funding, project management support, access to technical services and expertise, advisory services (IP, regulatory, commercialization), training opportunities, access to best practices and the opportunity to become part of an innovation network.

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This course will provide a basic introduction to time series analysis and its applications in social science research. Emily Wager, PhD will cover time series regression and exploratory data analysis, ARIMA models, model identification/estimation, intervention analysis and other models used for causal inference.

This course will use examples and hands-on labs in STATA. Participants should have a thorough understanding of regression analysis and some familiarity with STATA.

Presenter
Emily Wager, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Houston

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The REDCap Open Training Session will review using surveys and provide ample time to answer any questions REDCap users might have.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Beyond the PMBOoK: Journey to the Secret Sauce - A Discussion of 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg

Developing good habits is critical to good program or project management. Habits are a cycle of three components: Cue—Routine—Reward. People tend to think of the routine as the important part, but researchers have found the cue and reward are the really critical parts of this cycle. Cues and rewards shape how habits work. As habits develop in humans, we actively think less and less, and operate mainly on unconscious repetition.

In this event, Janet Lockhart, CPA, PMP will present a 19 minute video by 'The Power of Habit' author Charles Duhigg, and then lead a discussion. Attendees will see examples of the "Cue—Routine—Reward" process and how this method transformed the development of the Febreze odor remover product, as well as how it contributed to the problem resolution approach that is used at Starbucks. This seminar is sponsored by NCPMI Higher Education Community of Practice and the Duke Project Management Community of Practice.

Presenter
Janet Lockhart, CPA, PMP, Senior Contracting Officer
RTI International

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Our Community Our Health - COVID-19 Vaccines: Voices from the Community

This interactive town hall will discuss up-to-date knowledge about COVID-19 and the vaccines as well as its impact on rural and urban communities.

This virtual event is free and open to the public.

Presenters

Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Public Health Leadership Program, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Health Behavior
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Cyd Lacanienta, MSW, Associate Director Stakeholder Engagement, Community Collaboration Core, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Tracy Battaglia, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology, Director of the Women’s Health Unit
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Michael Gutter, PhD, Associate Dean for Extension and State Program Leader for 4-H Youth Development, Families and Communities
University of Florida

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This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: How to give a 10 minute scientific talk.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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This course will provide a basic introduction to time series analysis and its applications in social science research. Emily Wager, PhD will cover time series regression and exploratory data analysis, ARIMA models, model identification/estimation, intervention analysis and other models used for causal inference.

This course will use examples and hands-on labs in STATA. Participants should have a thorough understanding of regression analysis and some familiarity with STATA.

Presenter
Emily Wager, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Houston

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