The Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
Please note: There will be no seminar on Friday, April 7 due to the UNC Spring Holiday. The Monday, April 3 seminar will be recorded and the recording will be made available to registrants.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions (This seminar will be recorded & made available to registrants due to the Friday, April 7 UNC Spring Holiday.)
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: No seminar due to UNC Spring Holiday. The recording from the Monday, April 3 seminar will be made available to registrants.
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
Joint NC BERD Seminar: Identifying and managing threats to validity: DAGS and other causal inference methods
This session will introduce approaches that can be used to identify and mitigate threats to validity in epidemiological and clinical research.
This event is hosted by Wake Forest and being cross-promoted by the NC BERD Consortium, a collaboration of the CTSA-funded BERD cores at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Duke University School of Medicine.
Presenter: Mike Bancks, PhD, MPH
More InformationThe Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
Please note: There will be no seminar on Friday, April 7 due to the UNC Spring Holiday. The Monday, April 3 seminar will be recorded and the recording will be made available to registrants.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions (This seminar will be recorded & made available to registrants due to the Friday, April 7 UNC Spring Holiday.)
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: No seminar due to UNC Spring Holiday. The recording from the Monday, April 3 seminar will be made available to registrants.
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSHP, MBMI, FACC
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Management
Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Senior Medical Director, Enterprise Virtual Care and Retail Health
CVS Health
The Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
Please note: There will be no seminar on Friday, April 7 due to the UNC Spring Holiday. The Monday, April 3 seminar will be recorded and the recording will be made available to registrants.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions (This seminar will be recorded & made available to registrants due to the Friday, April 7 UNC Spring Holiday.)
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: No seminar due to UNC Spring Holiday. The recording from the Monday, April 3 seminar will be made available to registrants.
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
Symposium Agenda
9:10-10:20 a.m. | Welcome, followed immediately by opening keynote address (DeBerardinis)
10:30-11:20 a.m. | Trainee Talks
11:30-12:30 p.m. | poster session 1
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Lunch with speakers
1:40-2:30 p.m. | Trainee Talks
2:30-3:30 p.m. | poster session 2
3:45-4:45 p.m. | Closing Keynote Talk (Larsen)
4:45-5:00 p.m. | Student Awards & Closing Remarks
About the Keynote Speakers:
Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
Ralph DeBerardinis earned a BS in biology from St. Joseph’s University and MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. DeBerardinis was the first trainee in the combined residency program in pediatrics and medical genetics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and received several awards for teaching and clinical care. He ultimately achieved board certification in pediatrics, medical genetics and clinical biochemical genetics. DeBerardinis performed postdoctoral research in Craig Thompson’s laboratory in the Penn Cancer Center from 2004 to 2007. He joined the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2008 and joined the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) shortly after its founding in 2012. DeBerardinis serves as chief of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism at UT Southwestern and director of the Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program in the CRI. DeBerardinis became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator in 2018 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020. The DeBerardinis laboratory is interested in the role of altered metabolic states in human diseases, particularly pediatric inborn errors of metabolism and cancer. This research is tightly integrated with clinical activities in medical genetics, oncology and radiology, providing seamless opportunities to examine the relevance of findings in patients.
Joe Larsen, PhD
Joe Larsen is Vice President, Clinical Development at Locus Biosciences where he leads development programs for Locus’s clinical stage assets. Previously, Larsen was Vice President, Strategic Portfolio Development at Venatorx Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel antibiotics. Prior to that, Larsen spent ten years in the federal government, including serving as Deputy Director of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) medical countermeasures at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), where he oversaw the $2.8B Project Bioshield fund for the late-stage development and procurement of medical countermeasures. Larsen received his PhD in microbiology and immunology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a BA in microbiology from the University of Kansas.
Meaningful partnerships with patients, community members, or other collaborators involved in your research are invaluable. Projects are set up for success when care is intentionally given to developing and strengthening partnerships over time.
This online training will describe best practices for building mutually beneficial partnerships. The session will also cover common challenges that researchers and patient, community, and other partners experience when working together, along with suggested solutions.
Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 or Engagement in Research Nuts and Bolts trainings are not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.
The Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research: Online Training Series is a 3-part online training series about engaging patient, community, and other partners in research. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.
Part 1will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.
Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team.
Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.
This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.
The NC TraCS Institute's new cycle of CTS (Clinical and Translational Science) Pilot funding has been announced. Concept proposals are due April 25, 2023. Full proposals are due July 11, 2023.
First released in 2022, CTS Pilots are focused on translational science—a departure from our long-standing pilot RFAs focused on translational research. In preparation for this 2nd cycle of CTS Pilots, TraCS is holding 1-hour information sessions for investigators interested in learning more about this funding opportunity.
Each session will begin with a 20-minute presentation by CTS Pilot Program faculty that will include a discussion of the definition of translational science and a review of the multi-step application process. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about the CTS Pilot RFA for the remainder of the one-hour session.
Presenters
David Peden, MD, MS
CTS Pilot Program Module Lead, NC TraCS Institute
Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, UNC School of Medicine
David Carroll, PhD
Director of Research Funding Development, NC TraCS Institute
The Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
Please note: There will be no seminar on Friday, April 7 due to the UNC Spring Holiday. The Monday, April 3 seminar will be recorded and the recording will be made available to registrants.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions (This seminar will be recorded & made available to registrants due to the Friday, April 7 UNC Spring Holiday.)
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: No seminar due to UNC Spring Holiday. The recording from the Monday, April 3 seminar will be made available to registrants.
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
This 2-part, 6-hour course will be split over 2 days and offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Research is relying on increasingly complex code. However, most academics have not received formal training in software development. This course will introduce participants to some of the best practices of professional software development. Participants will learn to structure their R code into reusable functions and store those functions as separate scripts and/or packages. Participants will learn to write automated tests for their functions, to help confirm that results are as expected and to ensure that future changes to code do not cause unexpected changes to results.
In this course, participants will also learn how to create reproducible “environments” that record package versions in use to help avoid package version incompatibilities and ensure that results can be replicated even months or years after the original analysis.
Many R users code using the R markdown or Quarto systems that allow integrating text with code. In this course, participants will learn how these useful tools can affect modular design, and how to use them together. No previous R Markdown or Quarto experience is required. Modular design is best paired with a version control system and integrates with Git and Github.
This workshop offers an overview of big data types and sources as well as a discussion of their potential for survey and social science research as well as their potential pitfalls. Data types discussed through a total data quality lens: social media, digital trace, administrative and sensor data. Quality issues for each type of data will be addressed, including possible error frameworks to use in working with these specific data types. The workshop will end with a discussion of how to maximize data quality for these data sources.
Joint NC BERD Seminar: Interaction and effect modification: what are they and how are they different
This moderate-to-advanced-level session will introduce, describe, and distinguish causal interaction and effect measure modification.
This event is hosted by Wake Forest and being cross-promoted by the NC BERD Consortium, a collaboration of the CTSA-funded BERD cores at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Duke University School of Medicine.
Presenter: Mike Bancks, PhD, MPH
More InformationPlease join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their April research forum featuring research in sleep science and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.
Mark Shen, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
UNC School of Medicine
Exploring the link between sleep and brain development in infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Graham Diering, PhD
Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
UNC School of Medicine
Early life sleep disruption as a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder
Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The goal of this two-day series is to provide researchers with the knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. Both sessions will begin at 9:00 AM and a question-and-answer session will follow each presentation.
The first day of the series will provide an introduction and focus on the following key points:
- Who needs a clinical protocol and why it is important
- UNC Scientific Review Committee processes
- Types of clinical protocols, and content expectations for sections of the protocol
- Resources and tools available at UNC to support clinical protocol development
Audience: academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research and/or clinical trials.
ACRP Contact Hours: 2.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on the application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees
This 2-part, 6-hour course will be split over 2 days and offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Research is relying on increasingly complex code. However, most academics have not received formal training in software development. This course will introduce participants to some of the best practices of professional software development. Participants will learn to structure their R code into reusable functions and store those functions as separate scripts and/or packages. Participants will learn to write automated tests for their functions, to help confirm that results are as expected and to ensure that future changes to code do not cause unexpected changes to results.
In this course, participants will also learn how to create reproducible “environments” that record package versions in use to help avoid package version incompatibilities and ensure that results can be replicated even months or years after the original analysis.
Many R users code using the R markdown or Quarto systems that allow integrating text with code. In this course, participants will learn how these useful tools can affect modular design, and how to use them together. No previous R Markdown or Quarto experience is required. Modular design is best paired with a version control system and integrates with Git and Github.
Why Do We Have IRBs?
Please join Charlote Coley, MACT, CIP, from the UNC Office of Human Research Ethics, and the UNC Network of Research Professionals for a discussion about Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and why we have them.
Research that includes human subjects must be reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board prior to enrolling subjects. Why is this both a Federal regulatory and ethical requirement? What prompted this legislation and process?
Objectives:
- Historic background that prompted the need for these national and international statements/declarations about research involving human subjects
- What more recent events have prompted re-examination and interpretation of these regulations and guidelines
- How these events have shaped the purpose and function of the IRB
The goal of this two-day series is to provide researchers with the knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. Both sessions will begin at 9:00 AM and a question-and-answer session will follow each presentation.
On the second day of the series, we will take a "deeper dive" into clinical study design, statistics, and their impact on clinicaltrials.gov reporting:
- Clinical Protocol Study Design - aims, objectives, endpoints, and outcomes
- Statistical analysis, sample size considerations, data management
- Clinicaltrials.gov - introduction, registration, and outcome measure reporting
- Protocol problem spots and ways to improve protocols
Audience: academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research and/or clinical trials.
ACRP Contact Hours: 2.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on the application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Amit Garg, MD, MA (Education) FRCPC, FACP, PhD
Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Past President, Canadian Society of Nephrology
Lead, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation Provincial Program
Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Western Facility
Nephrologist, London Health Sciences Centre
Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University
The Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is hosting a virtual public meeting via Zoom to provide a detailed look at the current beta sites and overall progress in modernizing the clinicaltrials.gov website. The meeting will give attendees the opportunity to hear from and interact via chat with ClinicalTrials.gov modernization team members and other stakeholders, including during two simultaneous breakout sessions. This meeting is part of NLM’s overall effort to keep stakeholders informed about the ClinicalTrials.gov modernization effort, which seeks to deliver an improved user experience on an updated platform that will accommodate growth and enhance efficiency.
For more information about the event, please click here.
Postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty interested in applying for the new NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program are invited to learn more about the program from the new K12 leaders, Michelle Hernandez, MD, and Jon Juliano, MD. Those interested in being mentors are also invited to learn more about the program.
The same information will be presented at each meeting followed by time for questions and discussion. All sessions are in-person ONLY & held in Brinkhous-Bullitt room 219. Please register for the information session that works best for your schedule.
More information about the NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program is available at https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/education/ctsa-k12.
The 24th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research will be held on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, from 2:30-5pm in the Blue Zone of Kenan Stadium. The Celebration will consist of two sequential poster sessions starting at 2:30pm and 3:45pm, and it will be open to the public.
Joint NC BERD Seminar: Advancing Equitable Data Science at Duke and Beyond
Duke AI Health is focused on developing, evaluating, and implementing data science and artificial intelligence applications for health and healthcare at Duke, which strives to promote ethical and equitable data science. In this presentation, the speaker will define equitable data science, review their role as the inaugural AI Health Equity Scholar in achieving equitable, and present a short case study to illustrate challenges in applying equitable data science in the healthcare domain.
This event is hosted by Duke University and being cross-promoted by the NC BERD Consortium, a collaboration of the CTSA-funded BERD cores at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Duke University School of Medicine.
Presenter: Michael Cary, PhD
More InformationPostdoctoral fellows and junior faculty interested in applying for the new NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program are invited to learn more about the program from the new K12 leaders, Michelle Hernandez, MD, and Jon Juliano, MD. Those interested in being mentors are also invited to learn more about the program.
The same information will be presented at each meeting followed by time for questions and discussion. All sessions are in-person ONLY & held in Brinkhous-Bullitt room 219. Please register for the information session that works best for your schedule.
More information about the NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program is available at https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/education/ctsa-k12.
Postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty interested in applying for the new NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program are invited to learn more about the program from the new K12 leaders, Michelle Hernandez, MD, and Jon Juliano, MD. Those interested in being mentors are also invited to learn more about the program.
The same information will be presented at each meeting followed by time for questions and discussion. All sessions are in-person ONLY & held in Brinkhous-Bullitt room 219. Please register for the information session that works best for your schedule.
More information about the NC TraCS K12 mentored career development program is available at https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/education/ctsa-k12.
The Communication Skills module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on the types of oral and written communication used in clinical and translational research.
Seminars in the Communication Skills module (April 3-May 5) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 – 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 – 2 p.m ET.
In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, April 3: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions
Monday, April 10: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Monday, April 24: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Monday, May 1: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Virtual | Zoom
Friday, April 7: How to write & publish a scientific paper: the process from identifying a journal, to assigning authorship, all the way through to the peer review process and making revisions
Friday, April 14: The 10-minute scientific talk; Pitching your research to any audience
Friday, April 28: Working with the media: interviews with journalists and science communicators; Sharing your research through social media
Friday, May 5: Career mapping: creating and communicating a vision for your career and/or research program
Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Matthew W. Semler, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics
Medical Director, VICTR Center for Learning Healthcare
Vanderbilt University Medical Center