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, 2019
Social 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 …
October 8, 2019
2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report
CCHE would like to share the newly released 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report ~ The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), in collaboration with the UW Health Innovation Program (HIP), developed the 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report to identify where …
September 19, 2019
Save the Date for HELI 2020!
We are pleased to announce that our next Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI) will take place on Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26, 2020 in Madison, WI. 2020 is our 10 year anniversary, and …
September 12, 2019
26 Pilot Awards Totaling $1.3 million Made in 2019
The 2019 ICTR Pilot Awards program continues the tradition of encouraging early stage investigators in pursuit of preliminary data for larger studies, supporting innovative directions in clinical and translational research, and promoting research that addresses …
August 21, 2019
2019 AHEAD Pilot Awards Focus on Vulnerable and Underserved Populations
Three UW investigators with a focus on health disparities research and program development for underserved populations have been awarded pilot grants from the UW ICTR Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program. The AHEAD …
August 8, 2019
All of Us-UW Milwaukee Team is the UMOS Sponsor of the Year
Congratulations to the UW-Madison Milwaukee All of Us project team for being selected and honored on July 19, 2019 as the UMOS Sponsor of the Year! This award is given to an organization that demonstrates excellence …
July 26, 2019
New KL2 Scholars Start July 1
Three new early stage investigators have joined the ICTR KL2 Scholars program beginning July 1, 2019. The Scholars program is an NIH-funded career development award for junior faculty engaged in translational research that provides protected …
July 22, 2019
Sitting in with Fatou Jallow – A Career at the Intersection of Reproductive Science, Community Engagement & Public Policy
As an undergraduate at Dillard University in New Orleans, Fatou Jallow wasn’t really sure she knew how research was done or by who. She recalls, As immigrants from Gambia, my parents were completely focused on …
July 17, 2019
New Publication on Asset-Based Community Development Approach by Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Group
CCHE would like to alert you to a new opinion article in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ~ “Addressing Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and African-American Participation in Research: An Asset-Based Community Development Approach” is authored by Gina Green-Harris, …
June 12, 2019
UW-Madison Team Received ACTS Distinguished Educator Award for Research Mentor Training Programs
Two University of Wisconsin collaborators were recently honored with a prestigious award from the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS). Christine Sorkness, PharmD, RPh, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Christine Pfund, PhD, …
May 20, 2019
New ICTR Team Science Initiative Promotes Translational Research Progress
Increasingly, interdisciplinary teams are seen as the key to accelerating research progress across a broad spectrum of fields, not least, clinical and translational research. Team training and support has become a high priority of the …
April 26, 2019
Case Study: Using Best Practices During Interdisciplinary Team Formation
In January 2018, the UW Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) invited Betsy Rolland to give a presentation about team science to their departmental research retreat. Rolland, then the Assistant Director of Population Sciences …
April 26, 2019
2019 TL1 Predoctoral RFAs Include New Team Applications
Applying and being trained in teams is a new feature of the TL1 Predoctoral Training Program in 2019. Applicants have the option of applying in teams of two trainees and two trainers. So-called “team trainees” …
February 7, 2019
ICTR – Mendota School Partnership Gets Baldwin Program Funding
We are excited to share that a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Seed Project grant application, “Science Public Outreach Program (SciPOP) Ambassador Teams,” has been selected for funding! This project was jointly submitted by faculty and staff …
February 7, 2019
Health Equity Leadership Institute 2019 Application Open
The application is now open for our 9th Annual Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI) coming up June 17-21, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! We’d appreciate if you could share this message widely across your …
January 23, 2019
ICTR Hosts CHI2 Town Hall Jan 29
Established in Summer 2018, the UW Clinical and Health Informatics Institute (CHI2) is a new academic home for biomedical informatics jointly sponsored by the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and School of Medicine …
January 4, 2019Incoming Clinical Investigation Students for Fall 2018
The Graduate Program in Clinical Investigation remains an integral part of UW ICTR support for workforce development. This fall saw two incoming PhD students in Clinical Investigation, three Masters students in Clinical investigation, and four …
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