Workforce Development & Higher Education | Angela Byars-Winston Goal: To examine the cultural influences on career development, especially for racial and ethnic minorities and women in the sciences, engineering, and medicine. ICTR Support: Her KL2 Scholar …
Research Dissemination to the Community | Heather Johnson Goal: Young adults with hypertension are less likely to be diagnosed or treated compared to other age groups. Johnson’s MyHEART (My Hypertension Education And Reaching Target) program …
Next month, ICTR will begin screening applicants for our newest Career Development offering, a TL1 Postdoctoral Training program. With an application deadline of March 6, this new program joins the KL2 Scholars Program, the existing …
The ICTR Biomedical Informatics team and the SMPH IT group worked with their partners in the Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC), to develop and validate a common data model that will allow researchers to use a …
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