UNC NRP Researcher Appreciation Week: Developmental Support for Children in Clinical Trials

Please join the UNC Network for Research Professionals for the first session in Researcher Appreciation Week as Kelly Clark, Therapy Services Manager - Pediatrics, presents on the ONE VOICE approach to supporting children and families during clinical trials.

About the Speaker:

Kelly Clark is a certified child life specialist with over 25 years of experience supporting children, adults, and their families as they navigate new and challenging experiences in community and healthcare settings. Prior to working in the healthcare setting, Kelly was a parent of a hospitalized child and brings this experience to the table both in professional encounters and as co-chair of the NC Children's Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Board. Kelly has presented at the local, state, and national level on topics including supporting children and adults with autism, partnering with families, and understanding personal and professional boundaries. Kelly lives in Chapel Hill with her husband Tony, son Sam (18), daughter Kate (9), and dogs Kai and Pickles.

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Meeting Them Where They Are: Engaging Schools in Evidence-based Intervention Research

Presenter: Phylicia Fitzpatrick Fleming, PhD, NCSP

Implementation of evidence-based intervention in schools is a viable strategy for addressing mental health needs of minoritized youth of low-income backgrounds. However, schools in high poverty neighborhoods—which serve a disproportionately high percentage of minoritized children —are often multiply stressed with limited resources, making intervention implementation challenging. Given increased demands, such as student behavioral challenges and teacher stress, it is often difficult for schools to identify feasible interventions to support the variable needs of their students. Focusing on two randomized control trials—Organizational Skills Training-Tier 2 (OST-T2) and Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS)—this talk will discuss challenges associated with engaging schools in evidence-based organizational skills intervention research and will also highlight the strategies used to support these processes, outlining ways to improve future school engagement.

Phylicia Fitzpatrick Fleming, PhD, NCSP, is a licensed psychologist and research scientist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) working across several school-based IES funded projects and a community-based PCORI funded project. Additionally, Fitzpatrick Fleming currently serves as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) & American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Children’s Mental Health Champion for the state of Pennsylvania. Her work and research focus primarily on building collaborative partnerships between families/communities and researchers/clinicians with the goal of increasing access to evidence-based interventions in behavioral health. Central to this work is addressing the needs of low-income, marginalized, minoritized families and communities.

This event is hybrid with the on-site presentation & reception held in the Spangler building.

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NC TraCS Data Science Seminar Series: Deploying local LLMs as a tool for research

Please join the NC TraCS Institute as Tomas McIntee, PhD, a Research Data Scientist with the TraCS Data Science Lab, discusses strategies for deploying and using open-source, large language models (LLMs) for research. This month's seminar is a more advanced follow-up to April's seminar focused on using ChatGPT and similar tools.

Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Seminar Series will cover a range of topics related to health care data science, clinical data, data engineering, and working in these areas at UNC-Chapel Hill. These hybrid seminars will be held on the third Tuesday of each month from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the NC TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of Brinkhous-Bullitt or via Zoom.

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The 2024 NCBC Microbiome Symposium will take place in person on Wednesday, May 22 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center located at 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Presentations include keynote speakers Drs. Martin J. Blaser (director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey), and Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello (Henry Rutgers Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University).

The symposium will also feature poster sessions, networking time for trainees and the keynote speakers, companies, and lunch.

This will be a great opportunity for researchers to reconnect with fellow academia and industry scientists. All attendees must register and purchase a ticket.

Date/Time

May 22, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
NCBiotech
$40- $100 registration

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Symposium Sponsors

Duke Microbiome Center
NC State College of Veterinary Medicine
Novonesis
Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)
UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Research Development

UNC NRP Researcher Appreciation Week: Introducing Veeva SiteVault and eConsent

Please join the UNC Network for Research Professionals for the second session in Researcher Appreciation Week as Charles Robinson and Christina Smith from the UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research introduce the Veeva SiteVault and eConsent.

About the Speakers:

Charles Robinson is the Veeva Application Administrator in Clinical Research Informatics. He has 10 years of experience working with local government; implementing software, performing business analysis, and integrating systems. Before that, he spent 10 years working in higher education at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Christina Smith is the Director of Clinical Research Informatics in the UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, where she oversees support for OnCore, Veeva SiteVault and eConsent, and REDCap. Previously, she held positions at Duke's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Cornell University, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and the American Urological Association. Healthcare is Christina's second career: she spent more than 10 years in science communications in Washington, D.C., providing executive speechwriting, science writing, public relations, and committee support to several large scientific associations. She is a registered nurse, with a BSN from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and an MHA from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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UNC NRP Researcher Appreciation Week: Three Techniques in Project Management: setting up the project for success

Please join the UNC Network for Research Professionals for the third session in Researcher Appreciation Week as Allison Ali, Pre-award Research Administrator in the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, presents on setting up your projects for success.

About the Speaker:

Allison Ali thinks in terms of tasks. Tie two tasks together; she has a project! She sharpened her skills in real estate project management when she worked for a boutique firm on the Upper East side of New York. She applied the frameworks of project management, self-taught at the time, to establish a workflow to meet deadlines and deliverables whether it was to a magazine editor at Town and Country or to the board of directors of a co-op on Park Avenue. One key takeaway is the importance of taking the time to develop and foster meaningful professional relationships with stakeholders and team members. Now nestled at UNC School of Medicine, Allison manages projects for physician-scientists, a different breed altogether. She is also a graduate student pursuing a degree in Masters of Applied Sciences where she just completed a semester in project management. She wishes to share her experience, knowledge, and techniques to help others manage their projects with skill and success.

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The NC TraCS Institute's new cycle of Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Pilot funding has been announced. Proposals are due August 13, 2024.

First released in 2022, CTS Pilots are focused on translational science. In preparation for this cycle of CTS Pilots, NC TraCS is holding 1-hour information sessions for investigators interested in learning more about this funding opportunity. Join the CTS Pilot Program leadership to hear about this pilot funding opportunity and have your questions answered.

Presenters
David Peden, MD, MS
CTS Pilot Program Co-director, NC TraCS Institute
Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, UNC School of Medicine

David Carroll, PhD
CTS Pilot Program Co-director, NC TraCS Institute

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