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The May Clinical Research Staff Quarterly Training will focus on hot topics in research compliance.

Tufts Medical Center and Tufts CTSI Professional Education are excited to announce the re-launch of the Clinical Research Staff Quarterly Training series. The first training in the new series will focus on topics in research compliance specific to Tufts Medical Center.

Featured Topics

Clinical Research Pre-Registration

The Clinical Research Pre-Registration (Pre-Reg) form is used for patients coming into the hospital for inpatient or outpatient study visits that are scheduled for ancillary care. You will learn how to complete a Clinical Research Pre-Registration form and the importance of this information as it relates to research billing compliance.

Greenphire Clincard

Greenphire Clincard system is the preferred method for providing compensation or reimbursement to subjects in clinical research studies. We will discuss how to get studies added to Clincard, why the system is the most compliant way to pay research subjects, FAQs around using the system and important things to consider when requesting an alternative method.

Research Third Party Vendor Onboarding and Risk Assessment

Wellforce has recently rolled out a new Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) process including a new TPRM Vendor Onboarding Form. We will discuss when this form should be completed as part of study start-up and how to best complete it as it relates to research.

Who should attend

Clinical research staff are encouraged to attend.

Details

Friday, May 7
1:00-2:00PM
Online via Zoom (a link will be sent to those who register).

Registration

To attend, please register here.

Zoom link for the Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 23rd Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 7, 9:00AM-1:00PM , via Zoom.

This year’s keynote speaker is Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, MBA, Director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yeh will present Precision, Pragmatism and Parachutes: Modernizing Empiricism in Cardiovascular Care at the Tufts Medical Center Grand Rounds at noon.

The event will also feature presentations and posters by students enrolled in the CTS Graduate Program.

Schedule of Events

• 9:00AM: Welcome remarks
  • David Kent, MD, MSc
• 9:15AM-10:45AM: Presentations by MS and PhD graduates
  • 9:15AM: Evangelos Papathanasiou, DDS, MS, PhD, MS
    Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators (SPMs) and Scar Tissue Formation after Cleft Lip Surgical Repair
  • 9:30AM: Margaret M. Byrne, MD, MS
    Immune-related Adverse Events in Cancer Patients Being Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
  • 9:45AM: Erin Flanagin, MD, MS
    Muscle-related Determinants of Serum Filtration Marker Levels and Their Association with GFR Estimating Equation Performance in Older Adults
  • 10:00AM: Shawana Bibi, MD, MS
    Clinical and Demographic Predictors of the Need for Pharmacotherapy in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)
  • 10:15AM: Heather Grant, MD, MS
    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Surgical Management and Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer in the Non-Elective Setting
  • 10:30AM: Alexandra Sack, DVM, PhD
    A One Health Approach to Zoonotic Parasitic and Vector Borne Diseases: Evaluating Anthropogenic, Environmental, and Spatial Risk Factors
• 10:45AM-11:00AM: Instructions for Poster Sessions and break
• 11:00AM-11:30AM: Poster sessions moderated by Joshua Cohen, PhD and Robert Sege, MD, PhD
  • Posters by first-year Masters students:
    • Dara Azuma, MD
      Hunger Signaling Gene Expression in Infants of Diabetic Mothers and Their Association with Body Composition and Energy Homeostasis Regulators
    • Charles Cummings, DVM
      Snakebite Envenoming in Avian Species: A Proposal for Clinical Practice Guidelines in Zoological Medicine
    • Haidong Feng, MPH, MS
      Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Tai Chi Versus Physical Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
    • Caroline Hsu, MD
      COVID-19 in Home Dialysis Patients: Epidemiology and Outcomes as Compared to In-Center Dialysis Patients
    • Natalie Pawlak, BS
      Excess Mortality and Risk Factor Distribution Among COVID-19 Deaths: A Study In Zambia
    • Jessica Penney, MD
      Increased Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Patients with a Severe Psychiatric Diagnosis. A Single Center Cohort Analysis
    • Emma Price, VMD
      Factors Associated with Antimicrobial Prescription in Dogs and Cats at a Tertiary Veterinary Hospital
  • Posters by PhD students:
    • Zahna Bigham, BA
      The Impact of Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy on the Incidence of Breast Cancer in Black Women
    • Jonathan Brown, BS
      Discordant Grading of Aortic Stenosis Severity with the Use of Echocardiographic Metrics
    • Anita Kumar, MD
      Patient and Disease Factors Predict Risk of One-Year Mortality Among Older Adults Who Receive Intensive Chemotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL)
  • Posters by Certificate students:
    • David Lee, MD
      The Impact Of Cirrhosis Of Postprocedural Outcomes Of Patients Undergoing Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) And Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR): Update From 2011-2017 US Hospital Data
    • Maria Rodriguez-Berrios, ND
      Association of Acculturation, Community Identity, and Discrimination with Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening
• 11:30AM: Closing remarks
  • David Kent, MD, MSc and Angie Rodday, PhD, MS
• 11:45AM: Break
• 12:00PM: Grand Rounds
  • Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, MBA

Registration

To receive the Zoom link, please email info@tuftsctsi.org.

Want to be a more effective research mentee?

In Spring 2021, Tufts CTSI will offer a new, special Mentor Training session for graduate students in the Tufts University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences MD/PhD and Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) programs.

In addition to exploring concepts of mentoring, this special session will focus on how to have an effective mentor relationship, resiliency, and how to receive constructive feedback.

Details

Monday May 10, 1:00-3:00PM EDT, via Zoom

Submit your application for Graduate Student Mentor Training by April 30, 2021.

Want to be a more effective research mentor?

Join us in May 2021 for one of two case-based training opportunities for faculty members with mentees preparing for research careers in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences.

If you are responsible for mentoring Tufts CTSI’s graduate education program’s fellows (TL1) and scholars (KL2), this is a great opportunity to complete the mentor training recommended every other year.

Meet peers and faculty members with expertise in mentoring and career development, and advance your skills in:

• Goal-setting and alignment
• Feedback (giving and receiving)
• Diversity and unconscious bias
• Relational boundaries
• Team science.

Requirements for the training:

• Complete online pre-work (approximately 1-2 hours) on the Tufts CTSI I LEARN platform prior to attending the live session.
• Participate actively during the live session (2 hours) and share mentoring experiences.
• Answer follow-up surveys about the outcomes and impact of this training on your mentees.

After completing one of these sessions, you should be able to:

• Describe the difference between advising and mentoring.
• Explain the importance of communication in the mentor/mentee relationship.
• Discuss common mentoring challenges and possible solutions.
• Identify mentoring tools and resources that you can use with your mentees.

Details

Monday May 17, 1:00-3:00PM EDT, via Zoom

Admission to mentor training is by application and is open to faculty across our partner network.

Submit your application for Faculty Mentor Training by May 12, 2021.

Want to be a more effective research mentor?

Join us in May 2021 for one of two case-based training opportunities for faculty members with mentees preparing for research careers in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences.

If you are responsible for mentoring Tufts CTSI’s graduate education program’s fellows (TL1) and scholars (KL2), this is a great opportunity to complete the mentor training recommended every other year.

Meet peers and faculty members with expertise in mentoring and career development, and advance your skills in:

• Goal-setting and alignment
• Feedback (giving and receiving)
• Diversity and unconscious bias
• Relational boundaries
• Team science.

Requirements for the training:

• Complete online pre-work (approximately 1-2 hours) on the Tufts CTSI I LEARN platform prior to attending the live session.
• Participate actively during the live session (2 hours) and share mentoring experiences.
• Answer follow-up surveys about the outcomes and impact of this training on your mentees.

After completing one of these sessions, you should be able to:

• Describe the difference between advising and mentoring.
• Explain the importance of communication in the mentor/mentee relationship.
• Discuss common mentoring challenges and possible solutions.
• Identify mentoring tools and resources that you can use with your mentees.

Details

Monday May 24, 1:00-3:00PM EDT, via Zoom

Admission to mentor training is by application and is open to faculty across our partner network.

Submit your application for Faculty Mentor Training by May 12, 2021.