Presenter Sam Cykert, MD, professor UNC School of Medicine Sam Cykert, MD, will describe how implementation of the Heart Health Now study affected cardiovascular risk when applied to high-risk patients in 219 practices across North Carolina. Half of these practices were in rural areas and a quarter of high-risk patients were Black. The discussion will... Read more »
Join NC TraCS for the next Wisdom in the Room, a conference call series providing a forum for those interested in community-engaged research. This month’s focus is on engaging youth as stakeholders. Tania Connaughton-Espino and Meredith Burns of SHIFT NC will lead a discussion about the development of SHIFT NC’s new Youth Advisory Council, share... Read more »
The opioid crisis response has largely overlooked multiple patient populations with complex opioid-related vulnerabilities, including older adults with cancer or dementia. Join Andrew Roberts for a presentation of findings from his KL2-funded work examining high-risk opioid use patterns and outcomes in older adult cancer survivors. He will also discuss future directions for work informing opioid... Read more »
Robert Agans, PhD, researches new methods to produce cost-effective population-based estimates for gender and sexual minorities. In this seminar, Agans will highlight recent findings using a new technique developed at UNC, including some health disparity data between transgender and cisgender people. The NC TraCS Inclusive Science Program Spring Seminar Series highlights research with a focus... Read more »
Join this month's COVID-19 journal club to discuss the use of real-world data to evaluate the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine as described in this recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine: BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting. Discussion Leaders Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD Associate Professor, Epidemiology Gillings... Read more »
Join NC TraCS and the UNC Center for AIDS Research for the Spring 2021 edition of the Implementation Science Speaker Series, featuring Carolyn Audet, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Epidemiology and Assistant Director of Community Based Implementation Research at Vanderbilt University. In this seminar, Audet will discuss the engagement of traditional healers in... Read more »
Join translational and clinical scientists from across the CTSA Consortium for a presentation by Hanny Al-Samkari, MD describing the revolutionary potential of anti-angiogenic therapy in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and the evidence to date for systemic bevacizumab as a treatment for bleeding and anemia in HHT. Registration required. Contact Allison Rorie with any questions.
In this session of the NC TraCS Machine Learning seminar series Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD, will introduce Machine Learning concepts and the potential implications of using Machine Learning for clinical research. Registration required. For questions, contact Patricia Knoepp.
In this seminar, Cathi Propper, PhD, will focus on early predictors of cognitive outcomes in preschool-age children. Specifically, prenatal experiences such as stress, inflammation, and nutrition play a critical role in shaping childhood developmental trajectories and they differ by sociodemographic status. Prenatal experience may also influence infant sleep across the first year of life, which... Read more »
Join the NC TraCS Institute for a live training session for Semblie, a free platform for developing digital health interventions. Semblie was designed with the needs of public health researchers and practitioners in mind. This web-based platform makes it easy to create interactive decision aids and tailored health education tools. This session will introduce the... Read more »
Please join NC TraCS for a CTSA Grand Rounds seminar, "The impact of sleeping and waking behaviors on maternal health during pregnancy," with Marquis Hawkins, PhD. He will discuss his work on sleep health characteristics and gestational weight gain. Hawkins is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and... Read more »
Please join NC TraCS and Maria Fernandez, PhD, for a seminar – Planning implementation strategies using Implementation Mapping – on April 12 at 8 a.m. EDT. Implementation Mapping (IM) provides a systematic process for developing strategies to improve the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of evidence-based interventions in real-world settings. In this seminar, learn how IM... Read more »
Join the NC TraCS Inclusive Science Program on Thursday, April 28, at 11 a.m. for the seminar, ‘Lessons learned and unlearned in ZOE 2.0: a multi-ethnic community-based genetic epidemiologic study of early childhood oral health in North Carolina.’ Kimon Divaris, PhD, DDS, will discuss the development of an NIH-funded community-based pediatric oral health research program... Read more »
The growing prevalence of mobile device ownership and high-speed internet access have created new opportunities to reach, educate, and empower patients to participate in their care. However, digital health interventions can be difficult to implement in busy clinical environments and may widen health disparities. David Miller, MD, MS, will share lessons learned along his 20-year... Read more »
Master of Public Health candidates Chloe Coletta (she/her) and Sharon Son (she/her) will provide a 45-minute overview of two different decision-aid tools that they developed using Semblie, a free and easy-to-use web-based platform developed by researchers at UNC and RTI International. This webinar will provide attendees with concrete examples of how Semblie can be used... Read more »
