NC TraCS and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine's CRSO are hosting a Clinical Trialist Training Bootcamp in-person and virtually beginning August 10th.

The goal of the four-session bootcamp is to educate current and future site Principal Investigators on industry-sponsored clinical trials, including:

• the landscape of clinical trials at UNC
• how to evaluate study opportunities
• elements of study start-up
• investigator responsibilities, and
• overseeing a study throughout its life cycle.

Investigators should leave the training with more confidence on how to conduct industry-sponsored clinical trials and manage research teams.

Sessions will be held from 4-6 p.m. in TraCS room 219 (Brinkhous-Bullitt 2^nd floor) and on Zoom on the following dates:

August 10 —Introduction, NC TraCS and CRSO Services, Research Opportunities and Workflow Development
August 17 —Budget Preparation, Contract Review and Execution, IRB Application
August 24 —PI Responsibilities, Participant Recruitment, Participant Engagment and Consent
August 31 —Protocol Adherence and Data Management, Adverse Events and Protocol Deviations, Site Visits, Coordinator and Staff Oversight

If attending virtually, A Zoom link will be provided to registered participants prior to the first session.

Attendance is limited. Only current or future site Principal Investigators should register.

Please contact Catherine Barnes (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions.

Last year, the TraCS Biostatistics team hosted an introductory overview of power analyses. This talk is offered as a follow-up presentation, giving more varied information about sample size planning.

Emphasis will be given to different kinds of sample size estimation for different situations, the notion of effect size and how to estimate it, and some strategies to improve power. (Although the presenter will provide a brief review of hypothesis testing and the basics of power at the beginning, people who are wholly unaware of power analysis may find this follow-up talk more difficult to follow.)

Presenter: Jeff Laux, PhD
Research Associate, NC TraCS Biostatistics

Format: ~1 hour talk, 30 min Q&A

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The NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series provides more in-depth discussion of select biostatistical topics for clinical and translational researchers who have basic quantitative training in biostatistical methods. Join us this fall for seminars on power analysis & sample size planning, parameter interpretation in generalized mixed regression models, basic steps in questionnaire development, and choosing the right graphs and tables for your data.