Health Systems Research | Jennifer Weiss Goal: UW Health quality improvement ranked colorectal cancer screening performance at 11 out of 20 reporting groups, despite the demonstrated importance of early screening to cancer detection and treatment. …
A variety of resources are now available to support patient and other stakeholder engagement in high-quality translational research. Consistent with the call from the NIH NCATS to “make community engagement the norm,” the ICTR …
Community-Engaged Research | Jane Mahoney Goal: As falls are a significant source of morbidity and mortality for older adults, there was a need for effective, community-based falls prevention programs for community-dwelling older adults. ICTR Support: …
What is the SMART IRB?
SMART IRB (Streamlined, Multisite, Accelerated Resources for Trials Institutional Review Board) was developed under an NIH grant and is responsive to new NIH policy requiring the use of a single IRB for multi-site research funded …
A 2016 NIH grant to UW-Madison and Brigham and Women’s Hospital for conducting an influenza vaccine trial will take advantage of infrastructure support from two clinical research networks managed by ICTR (WiNHR, MARCH) and will …
2016 Class of Clinical Investigation & Clinical and Translational Science Students
For more information about the Graduate Program in Clinical Investigation, Certificates in the Fundamentals of Clinical Research or Clinical and Community Outcomes Research, or the TL1 Training program, contact Sally Wedde, ICTR education programs administrator, …
Meet Our New PhDs in Clinical Investigation
Implementation of Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing Programs in the ICU Jackson Musuuza, MBBS, PhD, is one of the first implementation scientists to receive a degree from the graduate program in Clinical Investigation administered by UW ICTR. …
ICTR Selects Four New Pre-Doctoral Trainees
Four students have joined the ICTR TL1 career development pre-doctoral training program funded by the NIH. They are Quinton Cotton, MSSA, Ross Luethcke, David Rutkowski, and Brian Walczak, DO. The TL1 program has six trainees …
UW ICTR Pilot Awards Program Provides $1.5 Million to Support Research
For the tenth consecutive round, the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is making pilot awards to support clinical and translational research. With help from institutional co-funding and ongoing support from the Wisconsin …