Events Calendar

Interested in the science of stakeholder & community engagement?

Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for a Stakeholder and Community Engagement Symposium on Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-3:00PM, at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Rachel’s Amphitheater (1 Kneeland Street, 14th Floor, Boston).

Please RSVP here by Friday, March 3.

Agenda

• 9:30AM: Registration and welcome
• 10:00AM: Introductions
• 10:30AM: Project presentations
• 12:30PM: Lunch
• 1:15PM: Breakout sessions
• 2:30PM: Report-back, summary, evaluation, and next steps

Topics

The workshop will focus on the following projects, with the objective of assisting teams to develop proposals for future grant submission:

• Expanding on the science of community-engaged research: Building bridges and strengthening relationships with communities; Linda B. Hudson, ScD, MSPH; Tufts University School of Medicine
• Family Goals and Preferences for Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder; Tara Lavelle, PhD; Tufts Medical Center
• Effectiveness of Community-Based Diabetes Care Model (C-DCM) in addressing Health Disparities in Immigrant Populations; Mohan Thanikachalam, MD; Tufts University School of Medicine
• HCV Testing and Treatment Pathways in Jails; Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS; Tufts Medical Center

Contact

For more information, please contact Thomas W. Concannon, PhD, Tufts CTSI Director of Stakeholder and Community Engagement.

Want to learn about, or conduct, cancer clinical trials?

Tufts CTSI and the Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center are hosting a free 20-hour course for fellows, faculty, research team members, and anyone interested in the process of conducting cancer-related clinical trials.

Documents

• Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials Training Series Outline (PDF)
• Proposed Pre-work on I LEARN (PDF)

Session 1, October 14, 2016

• Session 1 Agenda
• Slides: Differences Between Industry-Sponsored, Industry-Supported, and PI-Initiated Studies (PDF)
• Slides: Oncology Clinical Research Lifecycle (PDF)
• Session 1 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 1 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)

Session 2, November 18, 2016

• Session 2 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 2 Slides (PDF)
• Protocol template (PDF)
• CTEP Protocol Table of Contents (PDF)
• Klein Duvelisib IST Protocol (PDF)
• Session 2 Video (mp4 Video)

Session 3, December 16, 2016

• Session 3 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 3 Slides, Part 1 (PDF)
• Session 3 Slides, Part 2 (PDF)
• Session 3 Video (mp4 Video)

Session 4, February 10, 2017

• Session 4 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 4 Slides (PDF)
• Session 4 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 3 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 4 (mp4 Video)

Session 5, March 24, 2017

• Session 5 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 5 Slides (PDF)
• Session 5 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 5 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)
• Session 5 Video, Part 3 (mp4 Video)

Details

Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials will take place on Fridays, from 1:00-5:00PM on the Tufts Health Sciences Campus in Boston:

• October 14 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• November 18 (Tufts University Center for Medical Education, Room 114, 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston)
• December 16 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• February 10 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• March 24 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)

Course sessions will also be videorecorded and posted on Tufts CTSI’s I LEARN website.

Attendees are encouraged to review other courses on I LEARN prior to the start of Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials.

Goals

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain how to navigate investigator-initiated clinical trial processes in cancer.
• Discuss how to work with pharmaceutical industries and other for-profit entities.
• Define investigational new drug (IND) and investigational device exemption (IDE) studies and explain how IND/IDE clinical trials are conducted.
• State the Principal Investigator’s responsibilities for leading a clinical trial as well as the responsibilities of the research team.

To Register

To attend, sign up here. Participants are encouraged to attend all five sessions.

Tufts CTSI offers Mentor Training for individuals who mentor junior faculty in research. These interactive, two-hour sessions are funded by Tufts CTSI.

Admission to the training is by application only.

Our Spring 2017 Mentor Training will be on Wednesday, March 29 from 2:00 – 4:00PM. It will be led by Karen Freund, MD, MPH, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Quality Improvement, Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Gordon Huggins, MD, Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI) Center for Translational Genomics, Cardiologist, Preventive Cardiology Center, and Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine.

For more information, please view the Mentor Training web page.

Details

Mentor Training
Wednesday, March 29, 2:00-4:00PM
(Location to be announced)