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 offered on a monthly basis. 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.

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Listening Sessions - NIH Stakeholders Discuss Racial & Ethnic Equity

NIH wants to listen and learn from YOU! Join a session and make your voice heard.

The UNITE initiative was established to identify and address structural racism within the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported community and the greater scientific community. NIH’s initiative aims to establish an equitable and civil culture within the biomedical research enterprise and reduce barriers to racial and ethnic equity in the biomedical research workforce.

WHAT: The listening sessions are part of UNITE’s efforts to listen and learn. Key stakeholders at all levels of the biomedical research community who work and serve in diverse settings and hold various roles, and who partner and collaborate with research teams have important experiences and insights to share. The insights that you share will provide valuable information on the full range of issues and challenges facing diverse talent within the scientific and administrative workforce and will help develop priorities and an action plan.

WHEN: Please find the schedule of listening sessions below and register for a session that best aligns with your affiliation.

Listening Sessions (Selection based on interests)

If you have further questions regarding these sessions, please feel free to email Christen Sandoval at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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SPIRRIT-HFpEF: Opportunities and Challenges in a Large Registry-based Randomized Clinical Trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Adam DeVore, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Duke Clinical Research Institute

Lars Lund, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology
Karolinska Institute
Karolinska University Hospital

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This course will be offered via Zoom only and will not be recorded.

Course Summary:
The purpose of this course is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide guidance for developing a critical eye that will allow attendees to best evaluate data visualizations for quality and accuracy. This short course will demonstrate how good data visualization can be used to explore relationships in survey data, and produce visual displays that enhance project reports and presentations. At the end of the course, attendees will be able to recognize common graphical mistakes that lead to inaccuracies and less effective graphics. They will also be provided with code that will allow them to reproduce some of the graphics discussed.

This is a two-day (2/8 AND 2/10) class and each day will be 1:00pm – 5:00pm. Each day of class is required.

Instructors: Edward Mulrow and Nola du Toit
Edward Mulrow is an Accredited Professional Statistician™ and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and is the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings Program Chair for the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics. He has over 30 years of statistical consulting experience and has organized data visualization workshops and seminars that provided training, in-person consultation, and strategies for communicating statistical analyses in a visual way.
Nola du Toit uses her experience as Research Methodologist to inform and create infographic reports and data visualizations. Her activities cover the entire information visualization process, including data measurement and conceptualization, user understanding and interpretation, and design principles.

Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $65
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc: $90

Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 2/5/2022. 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 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. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.

For questions regarding the status of this class, please contact Jill Stevens at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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This online training session will provide an introduction to qualitative research methods. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences conducting qualitative research.

Topics:

• Differences between quantitative and qualitative research
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Strategies for qualitative data collection
• Methods of qualitative data analysis

Presenter: MaryBeth Grewe, MPH,
NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program Qualitative Research Specialist

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This course will be offered via Zoom only and will not be recorded.

Course Summary:
The purpose of this course is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide guidance for developing a critical eye that will allow attendees to best evaluate data visualizations for quality and accuracy. This short course will demonstrate how good data visualization can be used to explore relationships in survey data, and produce visual displays that enhance project reports and presentations. At the end of the course, attendees will be able to recognize common graphical mistakes that lead to inaccuracies and less effective graphics. They will also be provided with code that will allow them to reproduce some of the graphics discussed.

This is a two-day (2/8 AND 2/10) class and each day will be 1:00pm – 5:00pm. Each day of class is required.

Instructors: Edward Mulrow and Nola du Toit
Edward Mulrow is an Accredited Professional Statistician™ and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and is the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings Program Chair for the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics. He has over 30 years of statistical consulting experience and has organized data visualization workshops and seminars that provided training, in-person consultation, and strategies for communicating statistical analyses in a visual way.
Nola du Toit uses her experience as Research Methodologist to inform and create infographic reports and data visualizations. Her activities cover the entire information visualization process, including data measurement and conceptualization, user understanding and interpretation, and design principles.

Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $65
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc: $90

Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 2/5/2022. 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 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. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.

For questions regarding the status of this class, please contact Jill Stevens at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Great Power and Great Responsibility: Machine Learning in Clinical Research(E. Hope Weissler, MD, MHS; Erich Huang, MD, PhD)

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

E. Hope Weissler, MD, MHS
Resident, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine

Erich Huang, MD, PhD
Chief Science and Innovation Officer, Onduo

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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 offered on a monthly basis. 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.

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The TraCS Research Recruitment & Retention Program offers Drop-in Office Hours every third Wednesday. Get quick answers for your recruitment questions via Zoom. Our recruitment specialists can help answer brief questions, review documents, or provide resources. 

Whether you need recruitment troubleshooting, have questions about MyChart, or help designing a flyer, drop-in and we can help get things started!

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Join NC TraCS and the SOM CRSO for a presentation for current and future Principal Investigators on best practices for ongoing financial management for multi-site, industry-sponsored clinical trials. The School of Medicine’s Finance & Research Support Team (FiRST) will present an overview of industry-sponsored clinical trial financial management and share how the upcoming OnCore implementation will impact current processes.

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This interactive online workshop will focus on semi-structured interviewing, a data collection method used in qualitative research. Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing interview questions and using interviewing skills.

Topics:

• Basics of semi-structured interviews
• Development of interview questions and probes
• Interviewing skills
• Considerations for conducting virtual interviews.

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH, NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program Qualitative Research Specialist
Simone Frank, MPH, Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, of the NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program

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This course will educate attendees on both the elements of the informed consent form and the informed consent process. Attendees will learn what elements should be included in informed consent, how to conduct informed consent discussions and walk through common informed consent scenarios.

Objectives:
- Define both informed consent as a form and a process
- Identify what elements are to be included in an informed consent
- Conduct an appropriate informed consent discussion with various patient populations
- Define HIPAA and identify when the various forms of HIPAA authorization are needed (e.g., full waiver, limited waiver, etc.)

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Building a Resource: The Process of Developing a Trans-stakeholder Framework to Enable Pediatric Drug Development (Perdita Taylor-Zapata, MD)

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Perdita Taylor-Zapata, MD
Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) Program Lead and NICHD Program Officer
Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) for Precision Health @UNC: Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19, a free virtual mini-symposium. At this interactive event, you will engage in discussion with leading Precision Medicine researchers at UNC.

COVID-19 has presented enormous challenges to society. Scientists and clinicians across many disciplines have worked to mitigate the spread and effects of COVID-19. This mini-symposium will feature 3 presentations focusing on how data has informed our response to the pandemic: the collection, analysis, and interpretation of COVID-related data.

Melissa Miller, PhD, and Jeremy Wang, PhD, will discuss Real-time genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an academic medical center. Ryan Kelly will discuss Predicting the unprecedented: An ongoing saga to forecast the impacts of COVID-19 on UNC Health and the communities we serve. Emily Pfaff, PhD will discuss What can we learn from 3.6 million COVID-19 cases?.

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For more information, visit: https://go.unc.edu/PM2022.

Presenters

Melissa Miller PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory;
Jeremy Wang PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics

Ryan Kelly, Principal Data Scientist, ISD Enterprise Analytics & Data Sciences (EADS), UNC Health Shared Services

Emily Pfaff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Co-director, Informatics and Data Science at the NC TraCS Institute

This interactive online workshop will provide an introduction to focus groups, a data collection method used in qualitative research. Attendees will also participate in a mini "mock" virtual focus group session.

Topics:

• Focus group methodology
• Considerations for planning a focus group
• Development of focus group discussion guides
• Focus group facilitation skills
• Tips for conducting virtual focus groups

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH, NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program Qualitative Research Specialist
Simone Frank, MPH, Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, of the NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program

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We invite UNC faculty and staff to join us for the next Carolina Data Science Now seminar. This month's theme is "Tackling Underrepresentation with Data Science."

The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science is used across different disciplines to address underrepresentation. These talks will be followed by a guided panel, an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers, and a discussion with the data science community at UNC-Chapel Hill, where we'll collaboratively examine the resources that enable researchers from a variety of disciplines to tackle underrepresentation through data science.

Speakers:

Deen Freelon, Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Deen Freelon is an associate professor at Hussman and principal researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. His theoretical interests address how ordinary citizens use social media and other digital communication technologies for political purposes, paying specific attention to how identity characteristics influence these uses. His talk will discuss PIEGraph, a novel system for user-eye view research that offers key advantages over existing systems.

Andrés Hincapié, Economics: Andrés Hincapié is an assistant professor who employs applied microeconometrics to study entrepreneurial and health-related choices of individuals over their life cycle. He co-hosts the Mix(ed)tape Podcast, which educates consumers of Afro-Latin culture on its Black roots. His talk will discuss the various mechanisms and decision factors behind the increasing gap in entrepreneurship between white and black males as they age by using a life cycle model of occupational choice.

Matt Jansen, University Libraries: Matt Jansen is a data analysis librarian who provides support for researchers and students on data preparation and analysis across a variety of data formats and research goals, including analyses of text corpora, chiefly in R and Python. His talk will discuss On the Books, a data and machine learning project with the goal of discovering Jim Crow and racially-based legislation signed into law in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement (1866/67-1967).

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For more information, check out the Carolina Data Science Now website.

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The Next Generation of Patient-Centered Trials – No Site Visits, Home-delivery of Meds and Patient-reported Outcomes – The CHIEF-HF Trial(John Spertus MD MPH FACC FAHA)

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

John Spertus, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Daniel Lauer/Missouri Endowed Chair and Professor
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Clinical Director of Outcomes Research
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute

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