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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