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.
As smartphone penetration continues to increase around the world, survey researchers are exploring novel ways to leverage the capabilities of smartphones for data collection beyond self-reports. Researchers can now administer survey questions on the smartphone and, at the same time, ask respondents to perform tasks such as taking pictures, recording audio and video, and granting access to data from built-in sensors and log files. Combining these different sources of data promises to produce information not available from either type of measurement alone. In this talk, the presenter will discuss the benefits and challenges of collecting data passively with smartphones within an existing longitudinal survey. The lessons learned in this study provide design suggestions for other large scale surveys planning to integrate passive mobile measurement into the data collection process. Offered in-person and online.
The Orientation for New Clinical Research Personnel is a two-part series held on May 2 & 3 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. both days. The curriculum is designed to be a true orientation for new research personnel (either new to UNC-Chapel Hill or new to research altogether), but anyone is welcome to attend. The orientation will be held in person in room 219 of the TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building.
Topics covered in the orientation will include:
Please contact Catherine Barnes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have questions regarding this orientation.
The theme of this year’s meeting is Engaging Communities to Advance Health Equity. RADx-UP project teams will present data results and share insights. Sixteen teams will present their data and community engagement strategies. Additional teams will be able to give shorter summaries of their work in poster presentations.
Attendees can also look forward to working group sessions and remarks from NIH leaders and principal investigators. The third RADx-UP Scientific Meeting will showcase project data, research methods, findings and early results across the consortium.
The Orientation for New Clinical Research Personnel is a two-part series held on May 2 & 3 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. both days. The curriculum is designed to be a true orientation for new research personnel (either new to UNC-Chapel Hill or new to research altogether), but anyone is welcome to attend. The orientation will be held in person in room 219 of the TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building.
Topics covered in the orientation will include:
Please contact Catherine Barnes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have questions regarding this orientation.
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:
Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS
CEO, All of Us Research Program
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
NCATS will host two virtual stakeholder roundtable discussions on the topic of strategic planning for 2024 through 2029. The meetings will include an overview of the vision for the center from NCATS Director Joni L. Rutter, PhD; information on the strategic planning process; and small group discussion.
NCATS’ stakeholders include, but are not limited to, patients and members of the health advocacy community; basic, translational and clinical scientists at universities and research institutions; health care providers; biotechnology, venture capital and pharmaceutical industry members; colleagues at other NIH institutes, centers and offices; partners at other government agencies; policymakers; and the public.
NCATS will host two virtual stakeholder roundtable discussions on the topic of strategic planning for 2024 through 2029. The meetings will include an overview of the vision for the center from NCATS Director Joni L. Rutter, PhD; information on the strategic planning process; and small group discussion.
NCATS’ stakeholders include, but are not limited to, patients and members of the health advocacy community; basic, translational and clinical scientists at universities and research institutions; health care providers; biotechnology, venture capital and pharmaceutical industry members; colleagues at other NIH institutes, centers and offices; partners at other government agencies; policymakers; and the public.
Recent advances in technology have simplified the creation, collection, storage, and analysis of health care data. However, researchers and clinicians are still working to realize the potential of this data.
The UNC Program on Health and Clinical Informatics (PHCI), North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) are presenting a seminar series in May 2023 that will provide an introduction to working with electronic health care data. Each Wednesday from May 10 through May 31, 2023 features a presentation from 2:30-4:00 p.m., followed by Q&A on your research project with NC TraCS analysts from 4:00-4:30 p.m.
| Week | Topics covered | Instructor(s) |
| 1: May 10 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese |
| 2: May 17 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Emily Pfaff |
| 3: May 24 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese & Emily Pfaff |
| 4: May 31 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Mike Adams & Anna Jojic |
Questions? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS
Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs
Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Endowed Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri
This course will take place over three mornings (5/15/23, 5/17/23, and 5/19/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry.
This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
This course will take place over three mornings (5/15/23, 5/17/23, and 5/19/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry.
This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
This PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) invites applications for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects. Cycle 2 2023 includes the addition of a Category 3 option to support PCORnet® Studies using PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to advance PCORI's National Priorities for Health. PCORnet is accessible to all investigators interested in using the PCORnet infrastructure, which was designed to improve the nation's capacity to conduct large-scale patient-centered health research.
UNC is a participating PCORnet site under the STAR CRN. Mike Kappelman, MD is the UNC site principal investigator leading and promoting PCORnet as a national data infrastructure resource for all researchers within UNC interested in using the PCORnet Common Data Model (CDM) to their research questions, from observational studies to large-scale multi-network comparative effectiveness trials.
We invite any interested UNC researchers to submit to the Category 3 grant.
This town hall will provide an overview of PCORI and the information that applicants may need to submit a responsive application to the Broad Pragmatic Studies Funding Announcement -- 2023 Standing PFA (for Cycle 2 2023).
*For more information, including registering for events, visit: www.pcori.org.
Contact Penny Wang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions.
Recent advances in technology have simplified the creation, collection, storage, and analysis of health care data. However, researchers and clinicians are still working to realize the potential of this data.
The UNC Program on Health and Clinical Informatics (PHCI), North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) are presenting a seminar series in May 2023 that will provide an introduction to working with electronic health care data. Each Wednesday from May 10 through May 31, 2023 features a presentation from 2:30-4:00 p.m., followed by Q&A on your research project with NC TraCS analysts from 4:00-4:30 p.m.
| Week | Topics covered | Instructor(s) |
| 1: May 10 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese |
| 2: May 17 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Emily Pfaff |
| 3: May 24 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese & Emily Pfaff |
| 4: May 31 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Mike Adams & Anna Jojic |
Questions? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Join the North Carolina Women of Color Research Network for the Spring 2023 Symposium, "Building Your Research Identity." This event is co-hosted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and NC State University.
The NC Women of Color Research Network is a statewide network of researchers representing academia, government, and industry. The Network is a product of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers and its Women of Color Research Network.
The Symposium will offer speakers, panels and networking opportunities focused on promoting career advancement by broadening participation of women researchers and scientists of color, establishing collaborations and partnerships, multi-level mentoring, outreach, and professional networking.
All researchers are welcome – from undergrads to senior faculty, community members, businesses and agencies.
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:
Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Engagement and Qualitative Research Specialist
NC TraCS Institute
Simone Frank, MPH
Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist
NC TraCS Institute
UNC NRP May 2023 Education Session: Smooth Sailing in Rough Seas: Strategies for Using Emotional Intelligence to De-stress Difficult Situations
Please join the UNC Network for Research Professionals and Sharon R. Eisner, an Interpersonal & Presentation Coach, for a seminar discussing strategies to de-stress difficult situations.
Objectives:
This PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) invites applications for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects. Cycle 2 2023 includes the addition of a Category 3 option to support PCORnet® Studies using PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to advance PCORI's National Priorities for Health. PCORnet is accessible to all investigators interested in using the PCORnet infrastructure, which was designed to improve the nation's capacity to conduct large-scale patient-centered health research.
UNC is a participating PCORnet site under the STAR CRN. Mike Kappelman, MD is the UNC site principal investigator leading and promoting PCORnet as a national data infrastructure resource for all researchers within UNC interested in using the PCORnet Common Data Model (CDM) to their research questions, from observational studies to large-scale multi-network comparative effectiveness trials.
We invite any interested UNC researchers to submit to the Category 3 grant.
In this workshop, PCORI staff will provide an overview of PCORnet® and review specific requirements for the Category 3: PCORnet® Studies option in the Broad Pragmatic Studies Funding Announcement -- 2023 Standing PFA (for Cycle 2 2023). Content will include information on the suite of PCORnet resources that are available to investigators interested in using the network to conduct CER/PCOR.
*For more information, including registering for events, visit: www.pcori.org.
Contact Penny Wang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions.
This course will take place over three mornings (5/15/23, 5/17/23, and 5/19/23), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry.
This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
This PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) invites applications for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects. Cycle 2 2023 includes the addition of a Category 3 option to support PCORnet® Studies using PCORnet®, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to advance PCORI's National Priorities for Health. PCORnet is accessible to all investigators interested in using the PCORnet infrastructure, which was designed to improve the nation's capacity to conduct large-scale patient-centered health research.
UNC is a participating PCORnet site under the STAR CRN. Mike Kappelman, MD is the UNC site principal investigator leading and promoting PCORnet as a national data infrastructure resource for all researchers within UNC interested in using the PCORnet Common Data Model (CDM) to their research questions, from observational studies to large-scale multi-network comparative effectiveness trials.
We invite any interested UNC researchers to submit to the Category 3 grant.
Join us for internal UNC-hosted office hours held by Mike Kappelman/Nisha Datta/Kellie Walters/Penny Wang.
*For more information, including registering for events, visit: www.pcori.org.
Contact Penny Wang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions.
Recent advances in technology have simplified the creation, collection, storage, and analysis of health care data. However, researchers and clinicians are still working to realize the potential of this data.
The UNC Program on Health and Clinical Informatics (PHCI), North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) are presenting a seminar series in May 2023 that will provide an introduction to working with electronic health care data. Each Wednesday from May 10 through May 31, 2023 features a presentation from 2:30-4:00 p.m., followed by Q&A on your research project with NC TraCS analysts from 4:00-4:30 p.m.
| Week | Topics covered | Instructor(s) |
| 1: May 10 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese |
| 2: May 17 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Emily Pfaff |
| 3: May 24 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese & Emily Pfaff |
| 4: May 31 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Mike Adams & Anna Jojic |
Questions? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Joint NC BERD Seminar: Analysis of Two-stage Seamless Adaptive Clinical Trials
This event is hosted by Duke 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: Shein-Chung Chow, PhD
More InformationRecent advances in technology have simplified the creation, collection, storage, and analysis of health care data. However, researchers and clinicians are still working to realize the potential of this data.
The UNC Program on Health and Clinical Informatics (PHCI), North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) are presenting a seminar series in May 2023 that will provide an introduction to working with electronic health care data. Each Wednesday from May 10 through May 31, 2023 features a presentation from 2:30-4:00 p.m., followed by Q&A on your research project with NC TraCS analysts from 4:00-4:30 p.m.
| Week | Topics covered | Instructor(s) |
| 1: May 10 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese |
| 2: May 17 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Emily Pfaff |
| 3: May 24 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Peter Leese & Emily Pfaff |
| 4: May 31 | 2:30-4:00pm |
|
Mike Adams & Anna Jojic |
Questions? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
