PCORI Applicant Town Hall: Increasing Vaccine Confidence among Long-Term Care Workers (Expedited COVID-19 PFA)

This town hall will provide an overview of PCORI and the information applicants may need to submit a responsive application to the Increasing Vaccine Confidence among Long-Term Care Workers: Expedited COVID-19 Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA).

The targeted PFA will open on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Applications will be due Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 5pm ET.

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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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Please join the Office of Clinical Trials for a virtual town hall to learn about several initiatives underway to improve clinical research at UNC. Topics to be discussed will include: processes to reduce administrative burden, changes to the research fee schedule, remote consent options, subject injury language, and an update on OnCore Enterprise.

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The REDCap Hands-On Form Building Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary. This session will be a click along hands-on/lecture/demo.

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.

Machine Learning Seminar Series: Use Cases for Machine Learning – From predicting out-of-hospital deaths in claims data to identifying novel side effects of drugs using social media

In this session of the Machine Learning Seminar series, Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH, PhD, will provide an overview of Machine Learning vs Natural Language Processing. Dasgupta will discuss three examples of how he has utilized Machine Learning in research – from using an algorithm to predict out-of-hospital deaths in claims data to using Machine Learning to conduct systematic review searches.

Presenter
Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH, PhD
Innovation Fellow, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Senior Scientist, Injury Prevention Research Center
UNC-Chapel Hill

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When working with data, one thing is fairly certain: data is rarely in an optimal format. A misplaced space here, or an extra comma there, can mean the difference between two clicks and two hours of work. In this course, we will work with ways to isolate, extract, and transform data from webpages, text files, and published datasets using Python and Pandas. This Odum Institute class will also introduce regular expressions, a language for matching specific parts of text.

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This six-part orientation is strongly recommended for all clinical research personnel who are new to UNC or new to research. The series will introduce research personnel to the UNC offices involved in clinical trials, discuss the federal and local regulations governing conduct of research, and provide an overview of best practices utilized in the implementation of clinical research. It is recommended that registrants complete both the CITI Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and CITI Human Subjects Protection (IRB/Ethics) modules prior to attending the orientation.

Each session of the orientation will be held on Wednesday afternoons,1:30 to 4:30 pm. Research personnel are encouraged to attend all 6 modules, but may choose to attend only those of particular interest or relevance. The topics to be covered this week include:

• Introduction to REDCap (Clarence Potter) - 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
• Investigator-Initiated Study Processes (Valorie Buchholz) - 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
• ClinicalTrials.gov and ICMJE requirements (Monica Coudurier) - 2:40 pm - 3:20 pm
• Adverse Event Evaluation and Documentation (Marie Rape) - 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
• IND and IDE Studies at UNC (Marie Rape) - 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
• Post-Session Q&A Discussion 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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CRO Career Conversations: Clinical Research Coordinator

This panel discussion will highlight the role of Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs). Learn about the aspects of clinical research that CRCs support including subject screening and recruitment, regulatory maintenance, data collection, and data management activities.

Panelists from NC TraCS include:

Susan Pusek, DRSc
Moderator
Director, Education Programs

Susan Pusek, DRSc has over 27 years of experience in clinical/translational research, training and administration. She began her career as a research coordinator and project manager for industry-sponsored, federally-funded and investigator-initiated phase I-IV clinical trials, health services research done in the community and epidemiologic studies. In her current role as Director of Education Programs at NC TraCS, Pusek now develops training programs, seminars and workshops for biomedical researchers and their teams.

Catherine Barnes
Personnel Development and Training Specialist
UNC Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO)

Catherine Barnes has over 5 years of experience in conducting and managing human subjects research, and is a Certified Clinical Research Professional through SOCRA. She also creates and manages various education sessions for research personnel, including topics like informed consent, source documentation management, phlebotomy and others. Her primary interests revolve around the education and retention of research personnel to ensure that they feel happy in their positions while growing professionally and personally.

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Contract research organizations (CRO) operate in many capacities to support the work of healthcare innovators and help move therapies from idea to market. NC Biotech’s CRO Career Conversations speaker series provides an introduction to key roles within the CRO industry and the opportunity to learn about career pathways, day-to-day responsibilities, and more from professionals currently in the field.

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.

COVID Clinical Trials: The Intermountain Healthcare Experience

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS of Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah.

Presenters
Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS
Associate Professor and Director of Pulmonary/Critical Care Research
Intermountain Healthcare
Associate Professor, University of Utah

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Machine Learning Seminar Series: Introduction to CLARK 1.0 and 2.0

In this session of the Machine Learning Seminar series, Buck Bohac, PhD, will walk attendees through the process of using CLARK! and regular expressions for clinical research. CLARK! is a machine-learning classifier developed through a collaboration between NC TraCS and CoVar Applied Technologies, a Durham, NC-based machine learning company. CLARK! is designed to take clinical notes as input, and classify those notes based on features defined by the user as regular expressions.

Presenter
Buck Bohac, PhD
NC TraCS Data Analyst and Applications Specialist

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