Building Bridges for Health Equity: Clinical Scholars Leadership Lessons

This session brings together four RWJF Clinical Scholar alumni from the 1st cohort of the new RWJF Clinical Scholars program, to share their lessons learned from working on complex issues of youth mental health, foster care, oral health, and opioid addictions.

They aim to engage conversation on building bridges with communities in ways that foster engagement and build power together. As team leaders on their RWJF Clinical Scholars projects, the presenters will also share lessons from their fellowships. During this session, these alumni will also discuss what they wished they had done sooner or differently and how they are applying their skills during COVID.

Presenters

Joyce Javier, MD, MPH, MS
University of Southern California

Charles Moore, MD, Professor, Otolarynology
Emory University

Anjali Taneja, MD, MPH, FASAM, Executive Director
Casa de Salud

Derrick Stephens, LCSW, President and CEO
Phoenix Healthcare Consultants, LLC

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

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

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

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

Current REDCap training offerings include:

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

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Sleep Research Forums 2020 - Restless Legs Syndrome: A Sleep Disorder with Origins in the Spinal Cord

Join Stefan Clemens, PhD and the UNC Departments of Allied Health Sciences & Neurology for a discussion on restless legs syndrome. This is part of the departments' 2020 Sleep Research Forums series.

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Presenter
Stefan Clemens, PhD, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Brody School of Medicine, Department of Physiology
East Carolina University

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

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

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

Current REDCap training offerings include:

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

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

WinSPIRE (Women in Science Promoting Inclusion in Research Experiences) is a paid six-week-long immersive summer mentorship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides cohorts of woman-identifying and nonbinary high school students with hands-on experience in a research laboratory, engaging college-prep workshops, and an extensive support network of women in science.

This is an interest meeting for prospective mentors for the 2021 program. The program is a great mentorship opportunity available for any woman-identifying and non-binary graduate students, post-docs and faculty throughout the UNC STEM network. There will be a panel of previous mentors there to answer questions.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Serious Mental Illness: a Public Health Perspective

Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH is Professor and Rosalynn Carter Chair in mental health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. As one of only a handful of psychiatrists in the country based in a school of public health, Druss is working to integrate mental health, physical health, and public health.

Druss will give a talk on his research as it pertains to the effect of the COVID-19 on serious mental illness. His work focuses on understanding and improving access, quality, and outcomes of care for populations with serious mental illnesses and medical comorbidity. This work has included epidemiological studies; intervention trials; and health policy and public health research.

Presenter
Benjamin Druss, MD, MPH, Professor, Health Policy and Management
Emory University

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The Wake Forest School of Medicine Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity will host this conversation to answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and the plans for vaccine distribution within North Carolina over the coming months.

To submit questions to the conversation, please send them through Webex during the call or text them to 336-462-9502. For general questions about the event, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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