The RTI Fellow Program is pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Topol, Scripps Research Translational Institute, as a distinguished lecturer. In his talk, Dr. Topol will discuss the subtype of artificial intelligence (AI) known as deep learning, which has recently been used for a variety of medical applications, particularly image interpretation, across many disciplines. It is early, but these deep neural networks have considerable transformative potential to promote accuracy, streamline workflow, synthesize data for both clinicians and patients, promote patient autonomy, and greatly enhance the patient-clinician relationship. To date, prospective validation studies are quite limited, and we need to confront vital issues such as how AI can unintendedly worsen inequities and discrimination. The ultimate goal, which may be considered counter-intuitive, is to use this technology to make medicine more human.

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Register by: Please register to attend by September 1, 11:59 a.m. ET. Questions regarding this event? Please contact Monica Hall at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Lecturer: Eric Topol, MD
Dr. Eric Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; Professor, Molecular Medicine; and Executive Vice President of Scripps Research. As a researcher, he has published over 1,200 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 315,000 citations; was elected to the National Academy of Medicine; and is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine. His principal scientific focus has been on the genomic and digital tools to individualize medicine.

 

Almost all grant applications require a statistical power analysis. In this session of the TraCS Biostatistics Seminar series, you will learn the basics of what a power analysis is, how it works, and how to conduct one.

Presenter: Todd Schwartz, DrPH
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

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The NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series provides more in-depth discussion of select biostatistical topics for clinical and translational researchers who have basic quantitative training in biostatistical methods.

Registration is open for the 2021-2022 TraCS Professional Development Seminar series. This seminar series is aimed at research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. In this series, we cover foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The TraCS Professional Development Seminar series is split into 4 modules: Finding Funding, Communication Skills, Mentor-Mentee Training, and Rigor and Reproducibility.

Finding Funding

September 3, 2021	12-1 pm: Getting started: types of funding to support research and planning your proposal submission 1-2 pm: Developing a strategy and timeline for productivity in the 2021-2022 academic year
September 10, 2021	12-2 pm: Anatomy of a grant announcement/NIH 101
September 17, 2021	12-1 pm: Pilot awards: purpose and example internal mechanisms 1-2 pm: Peer review process
September 24, 2021	12-1 pm: Working with foundations
October 1, 2021	Panel discussion: Lessons learned about finding funding 12-1 pm: hear from successful early stage researchers 1-2 pm: hear from experienced grant reviewers

Through the UNC Event Registration system, you will be able to select which sessions you would like to attend. Please note: the Zoom link that you receive upon registration will work for all sessions within the Finding Funding module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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Join a live training session for the N3C Data Enclave. Users of all types can learn how to navigate the N3C, utilize the Enclave and resources it provides, and learn how to better achieve their analytical goals. This orientation is split into 2 sessions – Session A and Session B. These orientations are ongoing and will alternate week by week. Session A is recommended before attending Session B

Session B is for analysts, statisticians, data scientists, or anyone who wants to gain a broader understanding of the tools needed to work with the data.

Topics include:

• Focus on technical aspects of working with data in the secure N3C Enclave, including use of OMOP concept sets and N3C-specific tooling, such as the Concept Set Browser.
• Introduce commonly used analysis tools, such as Contour and Code Workbooks and corresponding workflows for simple analyses.
• Introduce the Enclave Knowledge Store, a mechanism for sharing and using community-developed code and data across projects.

Note: This orientation is held alternating Tuesdays | 8-9:30am PT/11am-12:30pm ET

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This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

Introduction to Multilevel Modeling is a two-day workshop focused on the application and interpretation of multilevel models, also known as hierarchical linear models and mixed models, for the analysis of nested data structures. 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 patient and patient nested within therapist). It is well known that the analysis of nested data structures using traditional general linear models (e.g., ANOVA or regression) is flawed, oftentimes substantially so: Tests of significance are likely biased and within- and between-group effects are confounded with one another. All of these limitations can be addressed within the multilevel model. In this workshop, we provide an introduction to the application of multilevel models with nested data, including software implementation in SAS, SPSS and Stata.

Instructors: Dan Bauer and Patrick Curran

Dan Bauer is a Professor in the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina. He teaches primarily graduate-level courses in statistical methods, for which he has won teaching awards from the University of North Carolina and from the American Psychological Association. He regularly teaches classes and workshops on multilevel modeling. In addition, he has contributed to the research literature on multilevel models, making extensions to address specific problems in the behavioral, social, and health sciences.
Patrick Curran is a Professor and the Director of the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Patrick has dedicated much of his career to the teaching and dissemination of advanced quantitative methods and has won teaching awards from UNC and from the American Psychological Association. His program of research includes an emphasis on multilevel modeling, particularly as applied within a longitudinal setting to capture individual differences in growth over time.
 
Registration Fees:
– UNC-CH Students – $0, with a $35 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance)
– UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Non-UNC – $95
– Non-UNC-CH: $145

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Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/5/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within the 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.

UNC School of Social Work and the Office of Provost are collaborating to host the Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Symposium! Join them for the fourth event in the R3 series, "The Many Faces of Environmental (In)Justice: Scholarship Addressing Racism, Infrastructure and Climate Action." Scholars will share their work addressing environmental racism, including the impact of pollution on BIPOC communities, racist planning policies and white supremacist investments in transportation systems. 

Panelists: 
Anderson (Andy) Al Wazni - Doctoral Student at School of Social Work
Morgan Richey - Doctoral Student at Department of Epidemiology
Seth Lajeunsse - Senior Research Associate at Highway Traffic Research Center
Dr. Danielle Spurlock - Assistant Professor at Department of City and Regional Planning 

Moderator: 
Dr. Travis Albritton - Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the School of Social Work 

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This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

Introduction to Multilevel Modeling is a two-day workshop focused on the application and interpretation of multilevel models, also known as hierarchical linear models and mixed models, for the analysis of nested data structures. 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 patient and patient nested within therapist). It is well known that the analysis of nested data structures using traditional general linear models (e.g., ANOVA or regression) is flawed, oftentimes substantially so: Tests of significance are likely biased and within- and between-group effects are confounded with one another. All of these limitations can be addressed within the multilevel model. In this workshop, we provide an introduction to the application of multilevel models with nested data, including software implementation in SAS, SPSS and Stata.

Instructors: Dan Bauer and Patrick Curran

Dan Bauer is a Professor in the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina. He teaches primarily graduate-level courses in statistical methods, for which he has won teaching awards from the University of North Carolina and from the American Psychological Association. He regularly teaches classes and workshops on multilevel modeling. In addition, he has contributed to the research literature on multilevel models, making extensions to address specific problems in the behavioral, social, and health sciences.
Patrick Curran is a Professor and the Director of the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Patrick has dedicated much of his career to the teaching and dissemination of advanced quantitative methods and has won teaching awards from UNC and from the American Psychological Association. His program of research includes an emphasis on multilevel modeling, particularly as applied within a longitudinal setting to capture individual differences in growth over time.
 
Registration Fees:
– UNC-CH Students – $0, with a $35 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance)
– UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Non-UNC – $95
– Non-UNC-CH: $145

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Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/5/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within the 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.

Registration is open for the 2021-2022 TraCS Professional Development Seminar series. This seminar series is aimed at research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. In this series, we cover foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The TraCS Professional Development Seminar series is split into 4 modules: Finding Funding, Communication Skills, Mentor-Mentee Training, and Rigor and Reproducibility.

Finding Funding

September 3, 2021	12-1 pm: Getting started: types of funding to support research and planning your proposal submission 1-2 pm: Developing a strategy and timeline for productivity in the 2021-2022 academic year
September 10, 2021	12-2 pm: Anatomy of a grant announcement/NIH 101
September 17, 2021	12-1 pm: Pilot awards: purpose and example internal mechanisms 1-2 pm: Peer review process
September 24, 2021	12-1 pm: Working with foundations
October 1, 2021	Panel discussion: Lessons learned about finding funding 12-1 pm: hear from successful early stage researchers 1-2 pm: hear from experienced grant reviewers

Through the UNC Event Registration system, you will be able to select which sessions you would like to attend. Please note: the Zoom link that you receive upon registration will work for all sessions within the Finding Funding module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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Join a live training session for the N3C Data Enclave. Users of all types can learn how to navigate the N3C, utilize the Enclave and resources it provides, and learn how to better achieve their analytical goals. This orientation is split into 2 sessions – Session A and Session B. These orientations are ongoing and will alternate week by week. Session A is recommended before attending Session B

Session A is for those who want to learn about N3C, as well as how to engage with project teams and access the data.

Topics include:

• Provide a general overview of N3C, including goals, organization, and community resources such as Domain Teams and Data Liaisons.
• Introduces the 3 data tiers available and important considerations for research driven by the data harmonization process.
• Discusses resources for training and help, as well as the Data Use Request (DUR) process required for researcher access.

Note: This orientation is held alternating Tuesdays | 8-9:30am PT/11am-12:30pm ET

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The Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) and our campus partners have been working hard to put together a collection of informational sessions and networking opportunities for the 2021 Research Symposium for Research Administrators!

As a reminder, registration is not necessary to attend the sessions. For a detailed list of sessions and panel discussions that request questions submitted in advance, to Zoom links for joining sessions at the event, and RACC credit opportunities, please visit our Symposium Website for all the information you need.

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This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class will be supplemented with real-life examples and hands-on exercises.

This is a two-day (9/15 and 9/16) class and each day will be 1pm – 5pm, potentially ending early each day. Each day of class is required.

Instructor: Peyton Williams

Peyton Williams, MPH, is a research associate at RTI International in the Center for Communication Science. He has over 15 years’ experience as a focus group moderator, and is involved with all facets of qualitative data collection from moderator guide and screener generation, to conducting groups, and analyzing and reporting on findings. He has conducted focus groups with an array of audiences, such as physicians, youth, and vulnerable populations, and around a variety of topics including HIV, opioids, and nutrition. Clients he has worked for include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state health departments.
 
Registration Fees:
– CSS Students – $40
– UNC-CH Students – $65
– UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Non-UNC – $90

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Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/12/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within the 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.

* Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. 

The Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) and our campus partners have been working hard to put together a collection of informational sessions and networking opportunities for the 2021 Research Symposium for Research Administrators!

As a reminder, registration is not necessary to attend the sessions. For a detailed list of sessions and panel discussions that request questions submitted in advance, to Zoom links for joining sessions at the event, and RACC credit opportunities, please visit our Symposium Website for all the information you need.

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Whether you are getting acquainted with NIH for the first time, or have had NIH Support for years, understanding NIH’s current priorities can help you put your next application in the right context. This session will highlight some of the most recent hot topics - such as the UNITE Initiative, new Data Management Plan requirements, and responses to COVID - to help you get caught up on the NIH.

Register here to receive an appointment with zoom details. If you have any questions, or issues with the registration form, please contact Molly Puente (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

This month's NRP Education Session will provide an overview of approaches, resources, and projects conducted at the UNC Kidney Center to educate and involve stakeholders throughout research processes.

Objectives:

• Outline patient-centered approaches to conducting research
• Describe methods for meaningful stakeholder engagement throughout all research stages
• Highlight resources developed at the UNC Kidney Center

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Presenter: Adeline Dorough

Adeline Dorough received her Master of Public Health degree in Health Behavior from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a Research Coordinator in the Patient-Centered Innovation in Kidney Disease research group at the UNC Kidney Center. In this role, she collaborates with various stakeholders to design and implement health education resources, interventions, and patient-reported outcome measures. She has expertise in stakeholder engagement, which serves as the foundation for all her work toward improving kidney care experiences and health outcomes. Her utmost priorities are to 1) empower patients to confidently use their voice in research and health care, and 2) engage in equal partnership with diverse stakeholders to bring about sustainable, meaningful change in routine care.

 This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class will be supplemented with real-life examples and hands-on exercises.

This is a two-day (9/15 and 9/16) class and each day will be 1pm – 5pm, potentially ending early each day. Each day of class is required.

Instructor: Peyton Williams

Peyton Williams, MPH, is a research associate at RTI International in the Center for Communication Science. He has over 15 years’ experience as a focus group moderator, and is involved with all facets of qualitative data collection from moderator guide and screener generation, to conducting groups, and analyzing and reporting on findings. He has conducted focus groups with an array of audiences, such as physicians, youth, and vulnerable populations, and around a variety of topics including HIV, opioids, and nutrition. Clients he has worked for include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state health departments.
 
Registration Fees:
– CSS Students – $40
– UNC-CH Students – $65
– UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Non-UNC – $90

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Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/12/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within the 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.

* Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. 

This course will be offered via ZOOM only. However, this course will not be recorded.

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? In this talk, we will discuss several major ideas in academic publishing (focusing on the social sciences). We will discuss:

• 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)
• and acceptance and all that follows.

Course schedule

9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Lunch
12:45 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Break
2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Instructor

Todd BenDor is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching focus on developing ways to better understand and prevent impacts from urban growth on sensitive environmental systems.

Much of his recent research has studied the social, economic, and ecological consequences of ecosystem service markets and ecological restoration regulations. He has also developed computer models to assess the opportunities and consequences of urban growth, as well as promote environmental conflict resolution.

Professor BenDor is a faculty member in UNC's Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology. He holds a BS from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MS from Washington State University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Registration Fees

UNC-CH Students – $0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc – $45

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This class will be offered via Zoom ONLY. Registration closes at 12:01 a.m. on 9/14/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

This course explains how to clean and analyze textual data using R, including both raw and structured texts. It will cover multiple hands-on approaches to getting data into R and applying analytical methods to it, with a focus on techniques from the fields of text mining and Natural Language Processing.

Instructor Bio:
Alison Blaine is a Data Visualization Specialist, currently working at Red Hat, who loves the challenge of bringing data stories to life visually. Prior to her current role, she worked at NC State University and in the health insurance industry, where she specialized in consulting and teaching in the areas of data visualization and statistical computing. Alison has a special place in her heart for R and finds it to be a highly useful and versatile tool for working with data.

Registration Fees:
– UNC CH Students: $0, with a $25 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
– UNC CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc: $40

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Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/14/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. 

* Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within the 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.

 

Registration is open for the 2021-2022 TraCS Professional Development Seminar series. This seminar series is aimed at research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. In this series, we cover foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The TraCS Professional Development Seminar series is split into 4 modules: Finding Funding, Communication Skills, Mentor-Mentee Training, and Rigor and Reproducibility.

Finding Funding

September 3, 2021	12-1 pm: Getting started: types of funding to support research and planning your proposal submission 1-2 pm: Developing a strategy and timeline for productivity in the 2021-2022 academic year
September 10, 2021	12-2 pm: Anatomy of a grant announcement/NIH 101
September 17, 2021	12-1 pm: Pilot awards: purpose and example internal mechanisms 1-2 pm: Peer review process
September 24, 2021	12-1 pm: Working with foundations
October 1, 2021	Panel discussion: Lessons learned about finding funding 12-1 pm: hear from successful early stage researchers 1-2 pm: hear from experienced grant reviewers

Through the UNC Event Registration system, you will be able to select which sessions you would like to attend. Please note: the Zoom link that you receive upon registration will work for all sessions within the Finding Funding module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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Population - based outreach to prevent suicidal behavior: A pragmatic randomized trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features Gregory Simon, MD, MPH, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and Susan M Shortreed, PhD, Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Unit, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Affiliate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington.

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Join a live training session for the N3C Data Enclave. Users of all types can learn how to navigate the N3C, utilize the Enclave and resources it provides, and learn how to better achieve their analytical goals. This orientation is split into 2 sessions – Session A and Session B. These orientations are ongoing and will alternate week by week. Session A is recommended before attending Session B

Session B is for analysts, statisticians, data scientists, or anyone who wants to gain a broader understanding of the tools needed to work with the data.

Topics include:

• Focus on technical aspects of working with data in the secure N3C Enclave, including use of OMOP concept sets and N3C-specific tooling, such as the Concept Set Browser.
• Introduce commonly used analysis tools, such as Contour and Code Workbooks and corresponding workflows for simple analyses.
• Introduce the Enclave Knowledge Store, a mechanism for sharing and using community-developed code and data across projects.

Note: This orientation is held alternating Tuesdays | 8-9:30am PT/11am-12:30pm ET

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As researchers, we are trained to evaluate a study and protocol for scientific value, feasibility of execution, and risk/benefit ratio.  However, when it comes to recruitment, we must view our study through the lens of a potential participant.  Why should they care about this study? What have you done to make it easy for them to participate, and why should they take time out of their day? These "sales" skills are also critically valuable in the development and design of future protocols.  It will always be easier to recruit for a study that has taken the motivations and abilities of its target population into consideration. 

Join the NC TraCS Research Recruitment and Retention Program to learn how to critically evaluate your study from the perspective of the individuals you'll be approaching.  Identify the facilitators, barriers, gains, and pains that might influence someone's willingness to join your study - then, learn how to highlight your strengths when pitching the study to a potential participant.

Recruitment Series Sessions

September 22, 2021	12-1 pm: Selling Your Study Presenter: Emily Olsson, CCRP
September 29, 2021	12-1 pm: Make it Clear: Lay Language Best Practices for Recruitment Presenter: Summer Choudhury, MPH
October 6, 2021	12-1 pm: Designing Effective Recruitment Materials Presenter: Anna Sarnelli, MA
October 13, 2021	12-2 pm: Material Design Workshop *Prerequisite - Attendees of this course must have participated in at least 1 of the previous 3 recruitment series webinars.

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The NC TraCS Recruitment and Retention Program is a 4-part recruitment series culminating in a hands-on material design workshop. In this series, you will learn how to effectively pitch your study, communicate your study to a broad audience, and create eye-catching recruitment materials.

This course will be offered via Zoom only. However, this course will not be recorded.

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a general statistical method that can be employed to test theoretically derived models. In this introductory short course, we cover the fundamental concepts and skills to conduct SEM using R/lavaan and Mplus. Specifically, we will use real data with a step-by-step implementation in R/lavaan and mplus:

1. to conduct confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate measurement validity,
2. to conduct structural equation modeling with latent variables to test/confirm a theoretically derived model,
3. to understand statistical indices measuring the goodness-of-fit of a model.

Instructor Bio:
Professor Din Chen is the Wallace H. Kuralt Distinguished Professor at the School of Social Work and a professor in biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health. He has been teaching a graduate-level SEM class at the School of Social Work since 2015. Professor Chen is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a fellow of the Society of Social Work and Research. He has written more than 200 refereed publications and has co-authored/co-edited 33 books on statistics and biostatistics.

Registration fees

• $20 deposit required to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)

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This class will be offered via Zoom ONLY. Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/19/2021.

NCBiotech and FastTraCS are collaborating with health systems across North Carolina to provide a foundation for clinician innovation. This two-day virtual event puts an emphasis on action, connecting attendees with the people, insights, and strategies needed to systematically tackle the innovation process from ideation through execution.

Questions to be addressed include:

• How do I identify significant unmet needs in health care?
• How do I translate a concept into a new product?
• How do I implement, integrate, and commercialize new technology?
• What funding mechanisms and other resources are available to support my innovation endeavors?
• Should I start a company around my new technology?

This event is perfect for health care providers including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, allied health professionals (e.g., physical therapy, respiratory therapy), EMTs and paramedics.

If you're interested in dipping your toe in the world of health care innovation or have a solution you'd like to develop yet are unsure of next steps, we encourage you to join us and hope you will leave inspired with a clearer picture of how to accelerate your future innovations.

Date: September 23-24, 2021
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $25

View the agenda and learn more at ncbiotech.org/events.

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While Big Data offers a potentially less expensive, less burdensome, and more timely alternative to survey data for producing a variety of statistics, it is not without error. But, the construction of, access to, and overall data structure of Big Data make it difficult to know where to start looking for errors and even more difficult to account or correct for them.

In this course, we will walk through the Total Error Framework, an extension of the Total Survey Error framework, which can be applied to all types of Big Data and can serve as a template for researchers to investigate error in Big Data. We will walk through several examples of error and map it onto the framework and provide exercises for participants to come up with their own examples.

Finally, we will walk through some best practices in determining whether the use of Big Data is a ‘good’ choice for various research objectives, how to correct or avoid errors in Big Data, and documenting the strengths and weaknesses of your Big Data source.

Instructor: Ashley Amaya

Dr. Ashley Amaya is a Senior Survey Methodologist at the Pew Research Center. She has a PhD in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Amaya has published several articles and book chapters on the Total Survey Error Framework, it’s adaptation to Big Data, and the synthesis of survey and Big Data.
 
Registration Fees:
This is part of the RTI/Odum series of short courses. There are no registration fees associated with this course, but registration is required to secure your spot.

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Additional course information:

• This class will be offered via Zoom ONLY. Registration closes at 12:01am, September 21, 2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
• Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.

 

UNC Health and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research are hosting a virtual seminar on properly advancing health equity. This speaker series will mainly go over five key strategies for health care researchers to consider. 

Registration is required to attend this event. This session will also be recorded and distributed to all who registered.  

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Presenters: 
Angela R. Bryant, JD
Senior Consultant, VISIONS Inc.
She is a co-founder of VISIONS Inc. (www.visions-inc.org) a non-profit educational organizational that has provided diversity and inclusion services to over 100,000 individuals and 600 organizations since 1984. She has extensive experience consulting with and training individuals and organizations in applying principles of justice to interpersonal problem-solving and organizational development. She is also the co-founder of VISIONS’ award winning community development project – The Wright’s Center – providing adult day health care services to elders and disabled adults for over 30 years. She has been involved with Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for over 15 years as a community consultant with Project Grace and UNC School of Public Health on HIV and CVD prevention in Nash and Edgecombe Counties. She recently co-founded the Nash-Edgecombe Black Community Vaccine Equity Collaborative and serves on the Advisory Boards for the UNC Office of Health Equity and the Covid Vaccine Equity Reimagined for NC (COVER NC). She has consulted for several years with the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and the RWJF Clinical Scholars Leadership Program.

Crystal Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA
System Executive Director for Health Equity (UNC Health); Associate Professor of Medicine (UNC SOM – General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology); Deputy Director of Research (Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research); Director of the Program in Health Disparities Research (PriHD)
Dr. Cené is an accomplished, nationally, and internationally recognized health services and health disparities researcher. Her work has focused on the contribution of social determinants of risk and outcomes - particularly race, ethnicity, and social networks - to health. Her observational research has been conducted in populations with or at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including older women. Trained in implementation science, her research focuses on implementing and evaluating interventions to enhance patient- and family-centered care and interventions to reduce disparities in care and outcomes by race and socio-economic status. Her research draws on social science theories and methods (e.g., social network analysis) and uses stakeholder engagement as both an object of study and a methodological tool.

NCBiotech and FastTraCS are collaborating with health systems across North Carolina to provide a foundation for clinician innovation. This two-day virtual event puts an emphasis on action, connecting attendees with the people, insights, and strategies needed to systematically tackle the innovation process from ideation through execution.

Questions to be addressed include:

• How do I identify significant unmet needs in health care?
• How do I translate a concept into a new product?
• How do I implement, integrate, and commercialize new technology?
• What funding mechanisms and other resources are available to support my innovation endeavors?
• Should I start a company around my new technology?

This event is perfect for health care providers including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, allied health professionals (e.g., physical therapy, respiratory therapy), EMTs and paramedics.

If you're interested in dipping your toe in the world of health care innovation or have a solution you'd like to develop yet are unsure of next steps, we encourage you to join us and hope you will leave inspired with a clearer picture of how to accelerate your future innovations.

Date: September 23-24, 2021
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $25

View the agenda and learn more at ncbiotech.org/events.

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Registration is open for the 2021-2022 TraCS Professional Development Seminar series. This seminar series is aimed at research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. In this series, we cover foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The TraCS Professional Development Seminar series is split into 4 modules: Finding Funding, Communication Skills, Mentor-Mentee Training, and Rigor and Reproducibility.

Finding Funding

September 3, 2021	12-1 pm: Getting started: types of funding to support research and planning your proposal submission 1-2 pm: Developing a strategy and timeline for productivity in the 2021-2022 academic year
September 10, 2021	12-2 pm: Anatomy of a grant announcement/NIH 101
September 17, 2021	12-1 pm: Pilot awards: purpose and example internal mechanisms 1-2 pm: Peer review process
September 24, 2021	12-1 pm: Working with foundations
October 1, 2021	Panel discussion: Lessons learned about finding funding 12-1 pm: hear from successful early stage researchers 1-2 pm: hear from experienced grant reviewers

Through the UNC Event Registration system, you will be able to select which sessions you would like to attend. Please note: the Zoom link that you receive upon registration will work for all sessions within the Finding Funding module. Each session will be held in-person and/or via Zoom on Fridays.

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Join a live training session for the N3C Data Enclave. Users of all types can learn how to navigate the N3C, utilize the Enclave and resources it provides, and learn how to better achieve their analytical goals. This orientation is split into 2 sessions – Session A and Session B. These orientations are ongoing and will alternate week by week. Session A is recommended before attending Session B

Session A is for those who want to learn about N3C, as well as how to engage with project teams and access the data.

Topics include:

• Provide a general overview of N3C, including goals, organization, and community resources such as Domain Teams and Data Liaisons.
• Introduces the 3 data tiers available and important considerations for research driven by the data harmonization process.
• Discusses resources for training and help, as well as the Data Use Request (DUR) process required for researcher access.

Note: This orientation is held alternating Tuesdays | 8-9:30am PT/11am-12:30pm ET

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How do you explain your study to your potential study participant?

Converting scientific concepts into layman’s terms, foster engaging informed consent conversations, and obtaining successful enrollment can be hard. Join the NC TraCS Recruitment and Retention Program to learn how to meet your target audience where they are and write clear, concise recruitment materials.

Recruitment Series Sessions

September 22, 2021	12-1 pm: Selling Your Study Presenter: Emily Olsson, CCRP
September 29, 2021	12-1 pm: Make it Clear: Lay Language Best Practices for Recruitment Presenter: Summer Choudhury, MPH
October 6, 2021	12-1 pm: Designing Effective Recruitment Materials Presenter: Anna Sarnelli, MA
October 13, 2021	12-2 pm: Material Design Workshop *Prerequisite - Attendees of this course must have participated in at least 1 of the previous 3 recruitment series webinars.

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The NC TraCS Recruitment and Retention Program is a 4-part recruitment series culminating in a hands-on material design workshop. In this series, you will learn how to effectively pitch your study, communicate your study to a broad audience, and create eye-catching recruitment materials.

Methods for Cross-Cultural Research is a 2.5 hour short-course focused on designing and implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. In the face of increasing globalization, concerns for external validity, and the importance of capturing the diversity of human experience, there is a need to consider how to implement research cross-culturally. In this course, participants will consider different definitions of culture, how research is itself a cultural practice, what perspectives and analytical approaches can be employed in cross-cultural research, as well as best practices in designing and implementing cross-cultural research.

Instructor: Allegra Midgette

Allegra J. Midgette, Ph.D. is an incoming (August 2021) Visiting Assistant Professor and ACES Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University. Dr. Midgette completed her postdoctoral training at the Carolina Consortium on Human Development that is part of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Midgette has collaborated with scholars at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil), Northeast Normal University (China), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China), and Seoul National University of Education (South Korea). Dr. Midgette has conducted studies examining Chinese and South Korean children’s and families’ moral reasoning regarding the fairness of the gendered division of labor, Chinese and American children’s and adolescents’ social and moral transgressions and strategies for self-correction, and Korean adolescents’ reasoning about social conventions. Dr. Midgette employs a mixed methodology that places the experiential reality of children and their families at the forefront. Dr. Midgette’s program of research includes an emphasis on analyzing and integrating both developmental and cultural processes in understanding social development.

Registration fees

• $20 deposit required to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)

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This class will be offered via Zoom ONLY. However, this course will not be recorded. Registration closes at 12:01am on 9/26/2021. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS!

* Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.

 

As of October 1, 2021, the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) is releasing an updated SOP #1401. SOP #1401 was previously entitled “New Safety Information” and will now be titled “Promptly Reportable Information”. The SOP has been revised to increase readability by revising the formatting, updating definitions, and amending tables. As part of this release, OHRE will be offering a new IRBIS form and annotated instructions and examples. The OHRE strongly encourages study personnel to attend this session as it relates to reporting requirements. 

Key Discussion Topics:

1. Overview of Definitions – revised definitions
2. Updates to the NSI Form in IRBIS
3. Format changes to the SOP

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