2020 Advancing Health Equity & Diversity Pilot Awards
The 2020 UW ICTR Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program will award grants to three UW investigators conducting health disparities research with underserved populations. The AHEAD initiative is a program of the ICTR …
July 9, 2020
Revisit the ‘Talking Barbershop’ Black Men’s Health Webinar
Don’t worry! If you missed the CCHE:LIVE ‘Talking Barbershop – Improving Black Men’s Health: The Barbershop Community Engagement Model’ webinar on Tuesday, 6/23 you can catch up on the conversation via the video capture. This …
June 25, 2020
UW SMPH Standing Up for Equality and Health Equity
On Tuesday, June 2, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) leadership shared the following message ~ Dear members of the SMPH community, It has been just over a week since George Floyd, an …
June 3, 2020
ICTR Funds COVID-19 Response Awards
UW ICTR has joined with the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) to fund three 2020 COVID-19 Response Grant Awards. These three new awards extend the 22 awards previously announced by WPP to address urgent health needs …
June 3, 2020
Call for Trainers: CTSA Translational Research Fellowship
The UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), an ICTR partner school, is recruiting UW trainers for 2-year research fellowships designed to engage veterinary clinical specialists in inter-disciplinary research teams. Funded by a CTSA Innovation Award …
May 11, 2020
New R21 Award from NHGRI for Susan Passmore, PhD
Congratulations are in order for CCHE Assistant Director Susan Passmore! Dr. Passmore has been awarded a R21 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for her project, ‘Feasibility of an Innovative Method to …
May 5, 2020
Three New KL2 Scholars Selected for 2020
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison early-career faculty members will join the ICTR KL2 Scholars Career Development Program starting this summer! This year’s incoming scholars are: Laura Eisenmenger, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, SMPH Adam Kuchnia, Assistant …
April 9, 2020
Message from UW ICTR Leadership about our COVID-19 response
A recurring series of posts from our leadership and faculty directors: We are all living through dangerous and challenging times due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. ICTR staff and leadership promptly adopted federal, state, and …
April 6, 2020
E2I Awards Support Moving Research Findings Into Practice
Three evidence-based interventions have been selected to receive the 2020 UW Evidence to Implementation (E2I) Awards. The E2I Award Program was launched in 2018 with two awardees, and expanded this spring to three awards. The …
April 6, 2020
Rebecca Marnocha to Retire after 30 year career at UW
A message from ICTR leadership: It is with warm wishes that we announce the upcoming retirement of Rebecca Marnocha, PharmD, on May 22, 2020. Dr. Marnocha created boundary spanning functionality across diverse entities at the …
April 2, 2020ICTR Welcomes New Chief of Biomedical Informatics
A recurring series of posts from our leadership and faculty directors: Our ICTR community is delighted to welcome Jomol Mathew, PhD, as the inaugural Chief of Biomedical Informatics (CBMI), a newly created role in UW …
April 1, 2020
UW BIRCWH Award Promotes Women’s Health and Sex Differences Research
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as the site of a new institutional career development grant through the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program. Led by multiple-PIs Elizabeth Burnside, Marsha …
February 26, 2020
Research Recruitment and Retention Survey Coming Soon
From the desks of: Dorothy Farrar-Edwards, PhD, Director, UW Collaborative Center for Health Equity, Elizabeth Nugent, MSPH, CCRP, Chief Clinical Research Officer, UW Health & SMPH, and Allan Brasier, MD, Executive Director, UW Institute for …
February 21, 2020
Human Subjects Protection Expert to Join New Clinical Research Initiatives at SMPH/UW HEALTH
Long-time Health Sciences – Institutional Review Board (HS-IRB) Office Director, Nichelle Cobb, PhD, has joined ICTR in a brand new role that capitalizes on her expertise in human subjects protection to support the expansion of …
January 23, 2020
Dean Golden Talks About Why He Joined All of Us Program
Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health discusses why he joined the “All of Us Research” Program and why this historic effort is so important to the future of …
December 6, 2019
TL1 Pre-Doctoral Program Adds Team Science Training Component
A new dimension was added this year to the ICTR TL1 pre-doctoral training program. Applicants had the choice of applying using the existing process as individuals or with a new application designed for TL1 training …
December 2, 2019
Meyerand Receives Prestigious Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring
ICTR celebrates the recent selection of Beth Meyerand by the UW Women Faculty Mentoring Program advisory committee for a 2019 Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring! The Slesinger award was created to celebrate the often …
October 31, 2019
BEAM Initiative Connects Incoming M1 Students with Trained Faculty Mentors
At an invitational event early this fall, 33 incoming medical students met on the third floor of the Health Sciences Learning Center for an early evening kickoff of a new mentoring program for underrepresented students. …
October 20, 2019
All of Us Research Program announces partnership with Aaron Perry’s Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association
Reprinted with permission The All of Us Research Program at UW-Madison recently launched a partnership with Aaron Perry and his Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association to recruit and enroll participants in this historic health research effort to help …
October 18, 2019Social Justice is an Important Component of Medical Education
Last month, a former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns,” arguing that medical school curricula …
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