ICTR 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, 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 …
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