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SAVE THE DATE | Team Science Summit 2024: “Collaborations at the Intersection of Climate and Health”

2024 Team Science Summit

Collaborations at the Intersection of Climate and Health

Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2024 Team Science Summit: Collaborations at the Intersection of Climate and Health, an interdisciplinary symposium on climate change-induced health risks.

Understanding and responding to the complex threats to health posed by climate change calls for collaboration across disciplines and communities. Join us for a day of presentations, discussions, and networking hosted by Tufts CTSI and the Tufts University Office of the Vice Provost for Research.  The event will showcase ongoing and emerging work in multiple departments and centers across CTSI partner institutions.

Team Science Summits are meant to increase awareness of translational research and opportunities for collaboration across scientific, engineering, and clinical research communities.  To maximize knowledge exchange and opportunities for conversation, the program will include lightening talks on current projects or capabilities, panel discussions on cross-cutting issues, networking opportunities, and poster presentations.

Event Details

Friday, November 8, 2024

9:00AM–3:00PM EST

Tufts University

Alumae Lounge and Balch Theatre Lobby

40 Talbot Ave., Medford, Mass. 02155

Registration

Registration is required.

Call for Presentations

We invite brief abstracts (150 words or less) for either oral presentations or posters on a current individual or group project or capability relevant to climate change-induced risks to health.  We welcome submissions from established or junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows and other trainees, students, or staff.  Individual oral presentations should be delivered as short, seven to ten-minute talks.  Poster will be on display throughout the day and presented during a designated hour in the program.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Climate change and infectious diseases
  • Extreme weather events and health impacts
  • Air and water pollution related to climate change
  • Mental health and climate change
  • Combined modeling and assessment approaches
  • Climate change adaptation and resilience in healthcare
  • Climate-informed health policy and planning

Submission Process:

  • Deadline for abstracts: EOD, October 5, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: EOD, October 19, 2024

Further details and submission form can be found on the Team Science Summit event page.

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“以公平為數據的中心:讓社區更清晰可見”

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以公平為數據的中心:讓社區更清晰可見

 

立即註冊,加入塔夫茨 CTSI 和透過轉化研究解決亞裔人口差異聯盟 (ADAPT),參加第八屆年度亞裔健康研討會 – “以公平為數據的中心:讓社區更清晰可見”。

這半天的活動將於美東時間 10 月 8 日(星期二)上午 8:30 分 至下午 1:30分 在塔夫茨健康科學學院舉行。 (早餐和登記:8:30AM-9:15AM 午餐和社交:12:30PM-1:30PM。)

亞裔和太平洋島民 (AA&PI) 是美國成長最快的種族群體,由 50 多個種族組成,講 100 多種語言。儘管 AA&PI 社群的生活經驗和健康需求各不相同,但在健康數據和研究中,他們經常被誤認為是同質的「模範少數族裔」。 2023 年 8 月,馬薩諸塞州通過了《數據公平法案》,這是一項具有里程碑意義的立法,要求痲州機構收集主要族裔群體的數據,而不僅是種族的數據。這種數據分類可以讓人們更準確、更細緻地了解全州不同的社區。雖然該法案是提高數據公平性的重要一步,但政府和衛生部門仍需要進一步努力,以確保所有社區在數據和決策中得到公平的代表。

 

與我們一起探討數據公平的重要性、社區聲音和跨種族策略的重要作用,以及促進馬薩諸塞州數據公平的跨領域和跨種族戰略。

 

學習目標:

  • 總結最近通過的馬薩諸塞州數據公平法案、其對現有公共衛生系統的影響及其對促進不同社區健康公平的影響。
  • 討論提升多樣化資料來源、交叉性和以社區為主導的知識收集方法的重要性。
  • 瞭解跨部門和跨種族策略的機會,以促進不同社區在資料收集和知識收集方面的公平代表性。

 

活動細節

美東時間 2024 年 10 月 8 日(星期二)上午 8:30分 至下午 1:30分

塔夫茨大學醫學院

醫學教育中心–波士頓唐人街 夏利臣街145 號 #114室

(Center for Medical Education, Room #114 | 145 Harrison Ave. — Chinatown, Boston)

 

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報名注冊

我們鼓勵研究人員和社區成員參加。

也將為參與者提供中文(國語和廣東話)翻譯。

位置有限!請於 10 月 1 日之前在此報名註冊

 

演講嘉賓簡介

我們的主講人是法學博士 Akil Vohra (阿基爾·沃赫拉) 。身為AAPI 數據政策主任,Vohra (沃赫拉) 先生負責監督聯邦和州戰略,以確保資料的收集、分析、發布和使用,以增進對美國亞裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋島民(AANHPI) 社區的理解和支持。

我們的小組將由數據公平方面的多學科專家組成,包括來自社區組織、政府、研究機構和醫療健保系統的代表。

 

 

研討會 議程

8:30 – 9:15 報名及早餐

 

9:15 – 9:30 歡迎致開幕詞

Harry Selker,塔夫茨 CTSI 院長

Erin Gibson,塔夫茨 CTSI 執行董事

MyDzung Chu,塔夫茨 CTSI ADAPT 總監

Dawn Sauma,ADAPT 共同主席;亞裔反家庭暴力小組 (ATASK) 聯合執行董事

 

9:30 – 10:00 主題演講

Akil Vohra,政策主任,AAPI 數據

 

10:00 – 11:00 小組討論:以公平為數據的中心:讓社區更清晰可見

 

11:00 – 11:15 休息並轉移至分組討論室

 

11:15 – 12:15 分組討論

第一組:健康的交叉性和結構性驅動因素

 

交叉性的認識到我們擁有的多重身分,以及個人因交叉和重疊歧視而面臨的獨特挑戰。本次小組討論將探討我們如何建立研究和數據系統,來找到健康的交叉性和結構性驅動因素。

第二組:獲得社區聲音為中心

 

社區故事對於了解當地問題的影響和原因至關重要。本次小組討論將探討多樣化數據(包括社區故事)的重要性,以及我們如何以數據信息收集方式為中心。

第三組:數據公平的跨種族策略

 

數據公平是一個跨種族問題,影響著全州不同的社區。本小組討論將探討跨種族團結的策略,進一步以促進健康公平,並確保數據公平及受惠給所有社區。

  回到大組匯報

 

12:20 – 12:30 總結與結束語

MyDzung Chu,塔夫茨 CTSI ADAPT 主任

 

12:30 – 1:30 午餐與交流

 

感謝我們的研討會策劃委員會(ADAPT 共同主席,亞裔反家庭暴力工作小組共同執行董事 Dawn Sauma;亞裔婦女健康協會執行董事 Naheed Esar;塔夫茨大學醫學院助理教授 Tsung Mou)。以及我們的塔夫茨CTSI 專業教育團隊和外展經理,感謝他們為本次活動所做的所有工作。

活動是免費提供,並獲得美國國立衛生研究院國家轉化科學促進中心的支持,獎項編號 UM1TR004398。內容完全由作者負責,不一定代表 NIH 的官方觀點。

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8th Annual Asian Health Symposium: “Equity-Centered Data: Making Communities Visible”

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Equity-Centered Data: Making Communities Visible

Register now to join Tufts CTSI and the Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT) Coalition for the 8th Annual Asian Health Symposium Equity-Centered Data: Making Communities Visible.

This half-day, in-person event will be held Tuesday, October 8, 2024 from 8:30AM-1:30PM EST on the Tufts Health Sciences Campus. (Breakfast and Registration: 8:30AM-9:15AM; Lunch and Networking: 12:30PM-1:30PM.)

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AA&PI) populations are the fastest growing racial group in the U.S., comprising over 50 ethnicities speaking more than 100 languages. Despite their diverse lived experiences and health needs, AA&PI communities are often misrepresented as a homogenous “model minority” in health data and research. In August 2023, Massachusetts passed the Data Equity Bill, a landmark legislation mandating state agencies to collect data on major ethnic groups, not just race. This disaggregation of data provides a more accurate and nuanced understanding of diverse communities across the state. While this bill is a significant step towards improving data equity, further efforts are needed across government and health sectors to ensure that all communities are fairly represented in data and decision-making.

Join us to explore the importance of data equity, the vital role of community voices and intersectionality, and cross-sectoral and cross-racial strategies to promote data equity in Massachusetts.

Learning Objectives:

  • Summarize the recently passed Massachusetts Data Equity Bill, its impact on existing public health systems, and its implications for advancing health equity across diverse communities.
  • Discuss the importance of uplifting diverse data sources, intersectionality, and community-led approaches to knowledge production.
  • Identify opportunities for cross-sectoral and cross-racial strategies to promote equitable representation of diverse communities in data collection and knowledge production.

Details

Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 8:30AM-1:30PM EST
Tufts University School of Medicine, Room #114 | 145 Harrison Ave. — Chinatown, Boston

Flyer

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Registration

Researchers and community members are encouraged to attend.

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) language interpretation will also be available for attendees.

Space is limited! Please register here by Tuesday, October 1.

Speaker Biographies

Our keynote speaker will be Akil Vohra, JD. As Director of Policy for AAPI Data, Mr. Vohra oversees federal and state strategies to ensure collection, analysis, publication, and utilization of data to advance understanding and support of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities.

Our panel will feature multidisciplinary experts in data equity, including representatives from community-based organizations, government, research institutions, and healthcare systems.

Click here for full biographies of all panelists and speakers!

Agenda

8:30 – 9:15

Registration and Breakfast

                       

9:15 – 9:30

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Harry Selker, Dean, Tufts CTSI

Erin Gibson, Executive Director, Tufts CTSI

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

Dawn Sauma, ADAPT Co-Chair; Co-Executive Director, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)

 

9:30 – 10:00

Keynote

Akil Vohra, Director of Policy, AAPI Data

 

10:00 – 11:00

Panel: The Data Equity Movement – Gaps and Opportunities

Co-moderators: Carolyn Chou, Executive Director, Homes for All Massachusetts; Tsung Mou, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Jenny Chiang, Senior Vice President of Community Engagement and Market Growth, Tufts Medicine Integrated Network

Cheryl Clark, Executive Director and Senior Vice President, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers’ Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation and Policy; Associate Chief for Equity Research and Strategic Partnerships, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Goldstein, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Bethany Li, Legal Director, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Paul Watanabe, Director, Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston

 

11:00 – 11:15

Break and Transition to Breakout Rooms

 

11:15 – 12:15

Concurrent Breakout Rooms

Facilitators: Jaya Aiyer, Director, Asian and Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network; Catherine Chung, Senior Program Manager, Asian Women for Health; Tsung Mou, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Group 1: Intersectionality and Structural Drivers of Health

Intersectionality recognizes the multiple identities we hold and the unique challenges individuals face as a result of intersecting and overlapping discrimination. This breakout will explore how we can build research and data systems that capture intersectionality and structural drivers of health.

                         

Group 2: Centering Community Voices

Community stories are vital to understanding the impacts and causes of local issues. This breakout will explore the importance of diverse data – including community stories – and how we can center communities in our data and our ways of producing knowledge.

 

Group 3: Cross-Racial Strategies for Data Equity

Data equity is a cross-racial issue, affecting diverse communities across the state. This breakout will discuss strategies for cross-racial solidarity to further health equity and to ensure that data equity benefits all communities.

 

Reconvene and report-out

 

12:20 – 12:30

Summary and Closing Remarks

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

 

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch and Networking

 

Thank you to our Symposium planning committee (Dawn Sauma, ADAPT Co-Chair and Co-Executive Director, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence; Naheed Esar, Executive Director, Asian Women for Health; and Tsung Mou, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine), as well as our Tufts CTSI Professional Education team and Communications Manager, for all of their work on this event.

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UM1TR004398. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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Biomedical and Health Data Sciences Collaborative (BHDSC) Winter 2023 Symposium

The Biomedical and Health Data Sciences Collaborative (BHDSC),  a cross-disciplinary group formed by Tufts CTSI and the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center, invites you to attend their Winter 2023 Symposium on “Precision Nutrition and Artificial Intelligence” on Wednesday, December 6 at 2:00PM.

The event will feature presentations from Sai Krupa Das, PhD, a senior scientist on the Energy Metabolism Team at Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Eric Miller, PhD, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science.

Abstract

The goal of precision nutrition is to provide individual dietary recommendations based on an individual’s genetic background and overall well-being. The NIH Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health supports the development of algorithms to predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns by contributing and leveraging data from the All of Us Research Program. This challenging project requires collaborations between experts in nutrition, genetics, statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This symposium will highlight some of the ongoing efforts at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and highlight opportunities for collaborations in this exciting program.

Details

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
2:00PM-4:00PM

To attend via Zoom, click here.

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2023 Team Science Summit: “Advances, Applications, and Future Directions in Disease Models”

2023 Team Science Summit

Advances, Applications, and Future Directions in Disease Models

Event Details

Friday, October 27

9:00AM–2:15PM EST

Join via Zoom (Meeting ID: 932 8447 3032 / Passcode: 867338)

Summary

New and more relevant experimental models – in vivoin vitro, and in silico – will be essential for better understanding diseases and more effectively testing therapeutics.

This event will highlight work at numerous labs across CTSI’s academic and clinical partners that is creating and using novel modeling systems as well as developing technologies and methods to improve the predictive value of model data for biological and clinical contexts.

Registration

To register, please click here.

To download and share the event flyer, click here.

Agenda

FULL AGENDA + TOPICS (PDF)

PARTICIPANT BIOS (PDF)

 

Program in Brief

9:00AM  WELCOME

Opening Remarks: Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH, Dean, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute

 

9:10AM  IN VITRO ADVANCES

Chair/Moderator:  David Kaplan, PhD, Tufts University School of Engineering

Presentations of current work:

 

10:40AM  Cutting Edge Approaches Using Established and alternative in vivo models

Chairs/Moderators: Gregory Cox, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory

Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, Tufts Cummings School

Presentations of current work:

 

12:45PM  NEW TOOLS FOR OVERCOMING DISEASE MODELING CHALLENGES

Chair/Moderator:  Bree Aldridge, PhD, Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Presentations of current work:

 

2:15PM  CLOSE

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Translational Science Day 2023: Advancing Health Equity Through Translational Science

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Translational Science Day 2023: Advancing Health Equity Through Translational Science

 

Tufts CTSI is excited to announce that its 2023 Translational Science Day symposium is scheduled for Monday, October 16 in person on the Tufts University School of Medicine campus.

The theme of this year’s symposium is “Advancing Health Equity through Translational Science,” and the event will include lightning talks, an interactive research studio, and two keynote speakers: Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), and Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, FDA.

 

Event Details

Monday, October 16

8:00AM – 4:00PM EST

Tufts University Center for Medical Education

145 Harrison Ave.

Boston, Mass. 02111

Click here for directions

 

Symposium Flyer

To download the event flyer to share with your networks or print for community bulletin boards, click here.

 

Registration

Registration is now open! Click here to register. 

Check back on this page in the coming weeks for more details, and subscribe to our bi-weekly Happenings newsletter for event updates.

 

Morning Keynotes

The first morning keynote address (35minute talk, + 10 min Q&A) will be given by Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, Director Division of Clinical Innovation, NCATS

Topic: “The Science of Translational Science”

 

The second morning keynote address (35minute talk, + 10 min Q&A) will be given by Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, FDA

Topic: “Health Equity in Research”

 

Full Agenda (PDF)

8:00AM – 8:25AM

Registration check-in

 

8:30AM – 8:45AM

Welcome

Harry P. Selker, MD, MSPH

Dean, Tufts CTSI

 

8:45AM – 10:15AM

Keynote 1 (35-minute talk, + 10 min Q&A)

Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD

Director Division of Clinical Innovation, NCATS

Topic: “The Science of Translational Science”

 

Keynote 2 (35-minute talk + 10 min Q&A)

Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC

Commissioner of Food and Drugs, FDA

Topic: “Health Equity in Research”

 

10:15AM – 10:30AM

Break

 

10:30AM – 11:30AM

Translational Science Lightning Talks (three talks @ 10-min each + five-min Q&A each)

Goal: Showcase exemplar research projects that advance health equity through translational science approaches

John W. Jackson, ScD, Johns Hopkins University  | “Evaluating Effects of Interventions on Health Disparities”

Amanda Petrik, PhD, Kaiser Permanente | “Diversifying Recruitment into Clinical Trials and Research”

Marzyeh Ghassemi, MSc, PhDMIT | “The Pulse Of Ethical Machine Learning in Health”

 

11:30AM – 12:30PM

Panel Discussion: “Embedding Translational Science and Health Equity into Research Programs” (60 minutes)

Lightning Talk presenters and keynotes

Moderator: Ayanna Thomas, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Dean of Research for Arts and Sciences, Tufts University

Panelists:

Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, Director Division of Clinical Innovation, NCATS

John W. Jackson, ScD, Johns Hopkins University  

Amanda Petrik, PhD, Kaiser Permanente

Marzyeh Ghassemi, MSc, PhDMIT  

 

12:35PM – 1:00PM

Poster Plenary

Moderator: Aviva Must, PhD, Director, Small Grants to Advance Translational Science (S-GATS) Program, Tufts CTSI

The moderator will provide a brief overview of the posters being presented.

 

1:00PM – 1:45PM

Lunch, networking, poster viewing

 

2:00PM – 3:30PM

Interactive Research Studio: “Uncertainty as a driver of financial distress in cancer patients”

Presenter: Eric Anderson, PhD, Faculty Scientist I, MaineHealth Institute for Research

This session will consider a planned study of the financial hardships associated with cancer and its treatment, particularly when involving advanced therapies. Dr. Anderson is interested in understanding how the cost uncertainties, unknown out-of-pocket expenses, and difficulty and stress in interpreting complex medical bills can impact patients’ decision making and health behaviors and drive their experience of financial distress.

 

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts2023 on Twitter and join the conversation.

 

Contact

If you have questions or require additional assistance, please email training@tuftsctsi.org.

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25th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

SAVE THE DATE!

The 25th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 12, 2022, 8:00AM-1:00PM, in the Stearns Auditorium and the Atrium at Tufts Medical Center.

The keynote speaker who will be giving the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds (“Mentoring as the Cultivation of Productive Micro-Environments”) is Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna, MD, PhD. Dr. Iwashyna is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan, where his clinical practice is as a medical intensivist. He is also part of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Clinical Management Research at the Ann Arbor VA HSR&D Center of Excellence.

Agenda/Schedule of Events

25th Annual CTS Graduate Program Symposium

Stearns Auditorium/Atrium Lobby

Friday, May 12, 2023

 

8:00AM Continental Breakfast

8:30AM Welcome by David Kent, MD, MSc

 

8:45AM-10AM Graduating Students’ Presentations

8:45AM Majd Alsoubani, MD, MS

9:00AM Alexander S. Martin, MD, MS

9:15AM Jonathan Y. Brown, PhD

9:30AM Allison C. Reaves., MD, MS

9:45AM Alexis A. Webber, MD, MS

 

10AM Break and Walk to Atrium Group Photo

 

10:15AM – 11:15AM CTS Students’ Poster Presentations

 

10:15AM All Students Presentations

10:30AM Mat Goebel, MD

10:40AM Zahna Bigham, BA

10:50AM Patricia Synnott, MS

11:00AM Charlie Cummings, DVM

 

11:30AM Closing Remarks by Drs. David Kent and Angie Rodday

11:45AM Adjourn

12:00PM Medical Grand Rounds in Wolff Auditorium

 

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第七屆亞裔健康研討會

屆亞裔健康研討會

揭開亞裔社區賭博問題的根源 : 從研究到行動

立即註冊,參加Tufts CTSIADAPT (通過轉化研究解決亞人口差異)聯盟的第七屆亞健康研討會揭開亞洲社區賭博問題的根本原因:從研究到行動

這個為期半天的研討會將於 2022,930, 星期五上午 9:00 至下午1:30 在塔夫茨醫學教育中心, #114 室, 145 Harrison Ave.波士頓唐人街舉行。

(早餐和登記: 9:00AM-9:30AM ;午餐和交流:12:30PM-1:30PM )

 

最近發布的Asian CARES 報告闡明了問題賭博如何成為亞社區的“煤礦中的金絲雀”。參加我們的研討會, 了解賭博成癮對兒童, 家庭和更廣泛的亞社區的根本原因及短期和長期影響, 以及如何通過使用公共衛生方法來解決賭博問題。

學習目標

  • 認識到導致賭博成為亞移民所支持的娛樂形式的根本原因和系統性條件。
  • 了解社區主導組織作為文化經紀人的作用, 非常適合提供語言項目, 服務和乾預措施,以解決亞移民社區的賭博問題。
  • 描述針對亞移民社區的賭場營銷策略示例, 並確定解決此問題的利益相關者和策略

細節

9月30日,星期五, 上午 9:00 -下午 1:30

塔夫茨醫學教育中心,#114 室 | 145 Harrison Ave.波士頓唐人街

 

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座位有限!請在9月23日前註冊請在這裡註冊

 

議程

9:00-9:30   註冊及早餐

9:30-9:45   歡迎致辭

Alice Rushforth, 項目與合作副院長, Tufts CTSI

Kanchana Bhat,執行董事, Tufts CTSI

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT 主任, Tufts CTSI

Dawn Sauma ,ADAPT 聯合主席

亞洲反家庭暴力工作組 (ATASK) 聯合執行主任

 

9:45-10:00  主題演講

Ben Hires, 首席執行官 (Asian CARES 聯合首席研究員)

波士頓華埠社區中心 (BCNC)

 

10:00-11:00 小組討論(1):Asian CARES(解決研究、教育和服務中心)研究結果和建議:亞社區的賭博問題

主持人:Dawn Sauma ,聯合執行主任 (ADAPT 聯合主席)

亞洲反家庭暴力工作組 (ATASK)

 

小組成員:

Heang Leung Rubin, Asian CARES 聯合首席研究員

負責人兼創始人, CHIC Community Engagement Consulting, LLC

 

Yoyo Yau, 項目總監(Asian CARES 聯合首席研究員)

波士頓華埠社區中心(BCNC)

 

Geumhee Cho,Asian CARES 社區實地工作者

亞洲反家庭暴力工作組 (ATASK)

 

Shirley Zhen, 精神科-心理健康執業護士

南灣社區健康中心 (SCCHC)

 

討論/問答

 

11:00-11:10  休息

 

 

11:10-12:20 小組討論(2):股權審計:有針對性的賭場營銷對亞裔社區的影響

主持人Carolyn Wong,研究助理

亞裔美國人研究所 (Institute for Asian American Studies, UMASS Boston)

 

小組成員:

Ben Hires,首席執行官 (Asian CARES 聯合首席研究員)

波士頓華埠社區中心(BCNC)

 

Frank Poon, 董事

公盟教育 (Civic Education Alliance)

 

Sothea Chiemruom 執行董事

大洛厄爾柬埔寨互助協會(CMAA Lowell)

 

Mark Vander Linden,研究和負責任博彩總監

馬薩諸塞州博彩委員會 (Massachusetts Gaming Commission)

 

Mark Gottlieb, 執行董事

東北大學公共衛生倡導研究所 (Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern University)

 

討論/問答

 

12:20-12:30 總結和閉幕詞

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT 主任, Tufts CTSI

 

12:30-1:30  午餐與交流

 

本次活動免費提供,並得到了美國國立衛生研究院國家轉化科學促進中心的支持,獎號為 UL1TR002544。內容完全由作者負責,並不一定代表 NIH 的官方觀點。

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
7th Annual Asian Health Symposium

Thank you for your interest in Tufts CTSI’s 7th Annual Asian Health Symposium! Registration has closed. The event will be recorded. If you would like to be notified when recordings are available, please email Tufts CTSI Professional Education.

 

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Unpacking the Root Causes of Problem Gambling in the Asian Community: From Research to Action

Register now to join Tufts CTSI and the Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT) Coalition for the 7th Annual Asian Health Symposium “Unpacking the Root Causes of Problem Gambling in the Asian Community: From Research to Action.”

This half-day in-person event will be held Friday, September 30, 2022 from 9:00AM-1:30PM on the Tufts Health Sciences Campus. (Breakfast and Registration: 9:00AM-9:30AM; Lunch and Networking: 12:30PM-1:30PM)

The recently launched Asian CARES report illuminates how problem gambling is the “canary in the coal mine” for the Asian community. Join us to learn about the root causes as well as the short and long-term impacts of gambling addiction on children, families, and the broader Asian community and how problem gambling can be addressed by using a public health approach.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize the root causes and systemic conditions that lead to gambling as the espoused form of entertainment for Asian immigrants.
  • Understand the role of community-led organizations as cultural brokers well-suited to provide in-language programs, services, and interventions addressing problem gambling in the Asian immigrant communities.
  • Describe examples of casino marketing tactics targeting the Asian immigrant communities and identify stakeholders and strategies to address this issue.

Details

Friday, September 30, 2022, 9:00AM-1:30PM
Center for Medical Education, Room #114 | 145 Harrison Ave. — Chinatown, Boston

Flyer

Download and share the English version and translated version!

To visit the translated version of this event page, please click here.

Registration

Researchers and community members are encouraged to attend.

Language interpretation and translation services in Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese will be provided.

Space is limited! Please register here by September 23.

Speaker Biographies

To download biographies of all our panelists and speakers, please click here.

Agenda

9:00-9:30         Registration and Breakfast

 

9:30-9:45         Welcome and Opening Remarks

Alice Rushforth, Associate Dean of Programs and Partnerships, Tufts CTSI

Kanchana Bhat, Executive Director Tufts CTSI

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

Dawn Sauma, ADAPT Co-Chair

Co-Executive Director, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)

 

9:45-10:00       Keynote

Ben Hires, Chief Executive Officer, Asian CARES Co-Principal Investigator

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

 

10:00-11:00     Panel 1: Asian CARES (Center for Addressing Research, Education and Services) Research Findings and Recommendations: Problem Gambling in the Asian Community

Moderator: Dawn Sauma, ADAPT Co-Chair

Co-Executive Director, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)

 

Heang Leung Rubin, Asian CARES Co-Principal Investigator

Principal and Founder, CHIC Community Engagement Consulting, LLC

 

Yoyo Yau, Chief Program Officer (Asian CARES Co-Principal Investigator)

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

 

Geumhee Cho, Korean Client Navigator (Asian CARES Community Fieldworker)

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)

 

Shirley Zhen, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

South Cove Community Health Center (SCCHC)

 

Discussion / Q & A

 

11:00-11:10    BREAK

 

11:10-12:20     Panel 2: Equity Audit: Impact of Targeted Casino Marketing on the Asian                                 Communities

Moderator: Carolyn Wong, Research Associate

Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston

Panelists:

Ben Hires, Chief Executive Officer, Asian CARES Co-Principal Investigator

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

 

Frank Poon, Director

Civic Education Alliance Inc.

 

Mark Vander Linden, Director of Research and Responsible Gaming

Massachusetts Gaming Commission

 

Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director

Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern University

 

Discussion / Q & A

 

12:20-12:30     Summary and Closing Remarks

MyDzung Chu, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

 

12:30-1:30       Lunch & Networking

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
24th Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 24th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 6, 2022, 8:00AM-1:00PM, in Wolff Auditorium and the Atrium at Tufts Medical Center.

This year’s keynote speaker is Moira Kapral, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto.

Dr. Kapral will give a talk 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.

A detailed schedule will be available soon.

Schedule of Events

  • 8:00AM: Continental Breakfast, Tufts Medical Center’s Stearns Auditorium
  • 8:15AM: Welcome
    • David Kent, MD, MSc
      Director, Graduate Program in Clinical and Translational Science
  • 8:30AM: Presentations by Graduating Students
    • Emma Price, VMD, MS
    • Caroline Hsu, MD, MS
    • Dara Azuma, MD, MS
    • Anita Kumar, PhD, MD, MSCE
  • 9:30AM: Academic Poster Exhibit and Photo Opportunity for Students and Faculty, Tufts Medical Center Atrium
  • 10:30AM: Presentations by Graduating Students
    • Natalie Pawlak, MD, MS
    • Jessica Penney, MD, MS
    • Charles Cummings, DVM, MS
  • 11:15AM: Closing Remarks
    • David Kent, MD, MSc
  • 11:30AM: Adjourn in Stearns Auditorium
  • 12:00PM: Keynote Lecture/Medical Grand Rounds in Tufts Medical Center’s Wolff Auditorium

Registration

To RSVP, please email info@tuftsctsi.org.

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2022

Download our presenter biographies and abstracts (PDF).

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The Impact and Promise of Learning Health Systems

Mark your calendar for Translational Research Day 2022:

Tuesday, March 15
10:00AM-4:00PM (eastern time)
Online via Zoom

Registration

Registration for Translational Research Day 2022 has closed.

Morning Keynote

The morning keynote address will be given by Michael K. Gould, MD, MS of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.

Closing Keynote

The closing keynote address will be given by Gordon Bernard, MD of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Agenda

  • 10:00-10:15AM: Welcoming remarks
    • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH
      Dean and Principal Investigator, Tufts CTSI; Executive Director, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS), Tufts Medical Center
  • 10:15-11:00AM: Keynote address
    • Michael K. Gould, MD, MS
      Director for Health Services Research and Implementation Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
      Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
      Senior Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente
      Embedded Research in the Learning Healthcare Systems at Kaiser Permanente
  • 11:00-11:05AM: Break
  • 11:05AM-1:00PM: Scientific Talks
    • Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, Tufts Medical Center
      Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Inpatient Healthcare for People Who Inject Drugs
    • Jenica Upshaw, MD, Tufts Medical Center
      Reducing Readmissions and Mortality for Patients with Heart Failure
    • Nicole H. Moraco, MD, MA, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
      Filling the ICU Communication Gap
    • Neil Korsen, MD, MSc, Maine Medical Center
      Rob Chamberlin, MD, MBA, MaineHealth ACO
      How Do Primary Care Staff Spend Their Time? Preparing for Changes in Primary Care Reimbursement
    • Ronald Kulich, PhD, MS, Tufts School of Dental Medicine
      Development and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Controlled Substance Risk Training Program within Dentistry
  • 1:00PM-1:30PM: Lunch break
  • 1:30PM-3:00PM: Concurrent breakout sessions: Mini Research Studios
    • Session A: Addressing Tobacco Use Behavior in Young Adults with Psychosis
      David Weiss, PhD, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
    • Session B: Produce Prescriptions on Maternal and Birth Outcomes: A Food is Medicine Intervention Among Pregnant Women
      Perrie O’Tierney-Ginn, PhD, Tufts University/Tufts Medical Center
      Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD, Tufts University
  • 3:00-3:05PM: Break
  • 3:05-3:25PM: Closing Keynote
    • Gordon Bernard, MD
      Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
      Professor of Medicine
      Melinda Owen Bass Chair in Medicine
      Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • 3:25-4:00PM: Leading Learning Health Systems Panel Discussion

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts2022 on social media and join the conversation.

 

Conferences & Symposia
2021 CTSI Regional Shared Mentoring Symposium

Overview

Join us for a half-day mentoring virtual event geared towards fellows and early career faculty who are interested in exploring mentorship and career development in clinical and translational research.

The event provides networking, panel discussions, and one-to-one mentoring with senior faculty from
local clinical and translational science institutions. It is an excellent opportunity to obtain career advice from mentors and presenters.

Agenda

  • 8:30AM: Networking and introductions
  • 9:00AM: One-to-One Mentoring Sessions
  • 10:00AM: Panel discussion, Getting to K and Beyond
  • 11:00AM: Exploring Career Opportunities in Translational Science
  • 12:00PM: Closing remarks/questions

Registration

To attend, please register here.

Note: Mentees will be asked to provide an NIH formatted biosketch ahead of the mentoring session.

Details

Friday, December 10, 8:30AM-12:30PM

Online

Download a flyer (PDF).

Conferences & Symposia
Team Science Summit: The COVID-19 Impact on Health Care

Are you interested in studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems and the communities they serve?

Do you have an idea for a collaborative research project and want to meet like-minded clinicians and/or health policy researchers to help you formulate next steps?

Save the date for Tufts CTSI’s Fall 2021 Team Science Summit, The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Health Care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted issues such as:

  • Health disparities
  • Equity of access
  • Telehealth
  • System preparedness and responsiveness
  • Health Care staffing
  • Health Care workforce well-being

This event will bring together researchers and clinicians from Brandeis University and Tufts CTSI partners to explore opportunities for multidisciplinary collaborations focused on examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care. The format will consist of several short talks (five-to-seven minute) followed by breakout groups to help build future collaborative research projects.

Details

Friday, September 17, 2021
2:00-3:30PM
via Zoom

Registration

Please register here.

Who should attend?

Researchers, clinicians, and students at any level who already doing research on the impact of the pandemic, have ideas for new research on the impact of the pandemic, or who are interested in learning more about the pandemic’s impact are encouraged to attend.

Agenda

2:00PM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Jennifer Perloff, PhD, MPA, Brandeis University
  • Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Tufts University

2:10PM: Topical Project Presentations

  • Modeling Impacts
    • Approximate Bayesian Computation for an Explicit-Duration Hidden Markov Model of COVID-19 Hospital Trajectories
      Michael Hughes, PhD, MS, Tufts University School of Engineering
    • COVID-19 ICU Outcomes by Race
      Sadeq Quraishi, MD, MHA, MMSc, Tufts Medical Center Critical Care Medicine
  • Care Innovations
    • AI-Supported Multilingual Audio for Patients of Limited English Proficiency
      Hyeon Ju Song, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Telehealth within Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Programs
      Nadine Linendoll, PhD, MDiv, GNP, Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center
  • Workforce Issues and Impacts
    • PTSD related to COVID-19 and the Impacts of the Workplace
      Samantha Meeker, MPH, PhD Candidate, Northeastern University
    • Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Realistic Implications for Future Care
      Christine Bishop, PhD, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
  • Vaccine Uptake
    • Community Dialogues to Build Trustworthiness and COVID Vaccine Confidence
      Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD, Tufts School of Dental Medicine
    • A Qualitative Study of Decisions About COVID-19 Immunizations Among Rural Mainers
      Kathleen Fairfield, MD, MPH, DrPH, Maine Medical Center

2:50PM: Parallel Sessions (Topic Discussion/Idea Generation)

  • Breakout 1: Modeling Impacts
    • Facilitator: Jennifer Perloff, PhD, MPA, Brandeis University
  • Breakout 2: Care Innovations
    • Facilitator: Daniel Weiner, MD, MS, Tufts Medical Center
  • Breakout 3: Workforce Issues
    • Facilitator: Karen Donelan, ScD, EdM, Brandeis University
  • Breakout 4: Vaccine Uptake
    • Facilitator: Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Tufts University

3:30PM: Adjourn

Abstracts

Approximate Bayesian Computation for an Explicit-Duration Hidden Markov Model of COVID-19 Hospital Trajectories

Michael Hughes, PhD, MS, Tufts University School of Engineering

I’m looking to brainstorm if there are any groups that have ideas about how the model could help their research, or how we can extend the model to better capture important real phenomena. We address the problem of modeling constrained hospital resources in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to inform decision-makers of future demand and assess the societal value of possible interventions. For broad applicability, we focus on the common yet challenging scenario where patient-level data for a region of interest are not available. Instead, given daily admissions counts, we model aggregated counts of observed resource use, such as the number of patients in the general ward, in the intensive care unit, or on a ventilator. In order to explain how individual patient trajectories produce these counts, we propose an aggregate count explicit-duration hidden Markov model, nicknamed the ACED-HMM, with an interpretable, compact parameterization. We develop an Approximate Bayesian Computation approach1 that draws samples from the posterior distribution over the model’s transition and duration parameters given aggregate counts from a specific location, thus adapting the model to a region or individual hospital site of interest. Samples from this posterior can then be used to produce future forecasts of any counts of interest.

 

The Association of Race with Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Sharma E. Joseph, MD and Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA, MMSc

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

The team investigated whether race is associated with length of stay (LOS), discharge destination, and in-hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a single, teaching hospital that serves a racially diverse patient population. We performed a retrospective analysis of data from COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICUs at Tufts Medical Center between March 2020 and August 2020. Self-reported race was categorized as White, Black, Latinx, or Asian. Via a 500-patient analytic cohort (200 White, 100 Black, 100 Latinx, and 100 Asian), we investigated the association of race with ICU length of stay and with discharge destination (non-home vs home) and mortality. Our analysis demonstrated that there was no difference between White, Black, and Asian patients regarding ICU LOS. However, compared to White patients, Latinx patients were more likely to have a prolonged ICU LOS. We found there was no relationship between race and discharge destination, and that there was no difference in mortality between White, Black, and Latinx patients. However, Asian patients had almost 60% lower likelihood of mortality compared to White patients. Our results suggest that race may have an influence on important clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU. Further studies are needed to determine whether biological reasons can explain these observed differences and to determine whether these risk factors could be modified to improve outcomes in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

 

AI-Supported Multilingual Audio for Patients of Limited English Proficiency

Hyeon Ju Song, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We aim to provide AI-supported multilingual audio to patients of limited English proficiency so that they can receive quality medical care. We are in the stages of testing out our research by collaborating with various care teams across the Mass General Hospital. This project aims to reduce health disparity and promote equity both during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

 

Telehealth within Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Programs

Nadine Linendoll, PhD, MDiv, GNP, Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center

The Reid R Sacco Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program closed to in-person visits in early 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic heath care providers began to worry that vulnerable cancer patients would begin to fall out of care and experience negative health outcomes.  Responding to the need to keep patients in care, the clinic began a rapid roll out of new telehealth platforms to facilitate provider-to-patient interaction in real time. The transition to telehealth occurred quickly through strategic decision-making and policy changes at both the federal and state level. Clinic staff initially identified the most vulnerable patients with known mental health concerns. Telehealth was rolled out to patients in two phases including audio only and then audio-video platforms. Telehealth services successfully kept vulnerable patients in care during the pandemic with increased flexibility to check in with patients more frequently. The clinic’s long-term goal is to integrate telehealth into standard AYA survivorship care; however, telehealth faces increasing barriers in health policy, as many of the modifications made early in the pandemic are being amended or lifted. Oncology providers are advocating for health policy legislation to extend telehealth services beyond the pandemic into routine oncologic care.

 

PTSD related to COVID-19 and the Impacts of the Workplace 

Samantha Meeker, MPH, PhD Candidate, Northeastern University

The COVID-19 pandemic’s immediate consequences have been grave; however, the severity of the long-term effects is yet unknown. Among these unknown impacts is the rate of PTSD related to COVID-19 among the general population. Rates of PTSD related to the pandemic have been shown to be high in early studies, but research around mental health and the workplace has found that workplaces can mitigate the mental health issues, like PTSD, related to a health emergency such as COVID-19. Our research aimed to examine how PTSD related to COVID-19 was impacted by workplaces. Specifically, we studied the impacts of job supports, including types of paid leave and organizational practices on PTSD. We used data from a national panel survey of working parents that measured PTSD using a modified version of the Impact of Events Scale – 6. We found that both demographics and workplace supports played a role in levels of PTSD among working parents. Our findings suggest that workplace level interventions can be effective during times of health emergencies to reduce mental health issues among staff.

 

Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Realistic Implications for Future Care

Christine E. Bishop. PhD, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Kacy Ninteau, BS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care

Palliative care addresses physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual suffering that accompanies serious illness. Symptom management and continuous assessment of goals of care are especially valuable for seriously ill nursing home residents, but are often far from ideal in practice. Previous research has emphasized use of outside consultants, who have often been difficult for nursing home residents to access, or dedicated internal resources, hard for resource-strapped nursing homes to provide. Our preliminary investigation of palliative care challenges stemming from the isolation imposed by the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) highlighted the potential for in-house delivery of palliative care. It left us with questions about the roles in facilitating or impeding effective palliative care for residents’ physicians, Medicare hospice policy and providers, and the knowledge base and task priorities of overextended nursing staff.  We are seeking partners with knowledge of nursing home palliative care to contribute to a study design using qualitative, administrative, and survey data.

 

Community Dialogues to Build Trustworthiness and COVID Vaccine Confidence

 Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD, Tufts School of Dental Medicine; Jennifer Allen, ScD, MPH, MSN, Melissa Barbosa, Raissa Li, Anton Schenk, Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences; Binta Barry, Maggie Fenwood Hughes, MSW, MS, Nicole Tong, Tufts CTSI

The pandemic has dramatically revealed the need for public health communication strategies that value people’s legitimate uncertainties and fears about COVID vaccination.  We are creating dialogues in Boston communities of color and immigrant communities where participants share life experiences that underly what they think and feel about COVID vaccination.  These conversations create a space to build mutual understanding as people humanize one another when considering the risks and benefits of vaccination. This talk will describe the process of building dialogues that are “from the community, for the community”, as well as highlight the tensions and challenges in doing this work.

 

A Qualitative Study of Decisions About COVID-19 Immunizations Among Rural Mainers

Kathleen Fairfield, MD, MPH, DrPH, Maine Medical Center

While New England states have been relatively successful in COVID-19 uptake of vaccines, rates remain below thresholds set by the CDC. In Maine, rates of vaccination were still only 64% of the 12+population in August 2021. Experts have emphasized an evidence-based approach—listening to the concerns of communities—to create effective policies or messages to encourage more people to be immunized. However, there is little available evidence for rural populations, especially in New England. We sought to better understand reasons for vaccine hesitancy among rural Mainers to fill this need. In collaboration with community partners, we recruited individuals to participate in semi-structured interviews about their attitudes toward, knowledge about and experience with COVID-19 vaccination, including how they receive and evaluate information related to the vaccines. Our findings are clear that there is variability in attitudes towards COVID-19vaccines among rural populations in northern New England, and these differences warrant separate strategies for accelerating vaccine uptake. Explicit messages to vaccinate are likely to backfire among individuals whose hesitancy stems from skepticism of COVID-19. Mandates may further entrench their concerns and could inspire sympathy among many of the vaccinated as well. We plan to use insights from this study to develop a targeted messaging intervention.

 

Contact

Hannah Santos, MBA
Senior Project Manager, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Hsantos@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Conferences & Symposia
23rd Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

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.

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2021

Download a handout of our presenter biographies and abstracts (PDF).

Translational Research Across the Spectrum

Interested in learning about how research that spans translational phases leads to discoveries like the COVID-19 vaccines? Mark your calendar for Translational Research Day 2021:

Tuesday, April 27
9:00AM-3:00PM
Online via Zoom

Registration

Please register here to attend.

Keynote

The keynote address will be given by John R. Mascola, MD, Director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Mascola will highlight the scientific discoveries that laid the foundation for rapid COVID-19 vaccine development.

Agenda

  • 9:00-9:15AM: Welcoming remarks
    • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH
      Dean and Principal Investigator, Tufts CTSI; Executive Director, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center
  • 9:15-10:00AM: Keynote address:
    • John R. Mascola, MD
      Director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
      Rapid Response to a Novel Pathogen: COVID-19 Vaccine Development
  • 10:00-10:05AM: Break
  • 10;05AM-noon: Plenary: Scientific talks
  • noon-12:30PM: Lunch break
  • 12:30PM-2:00PM: Concurrent breakout sessions
    • Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD
      Director of Science Communications, Tufts CTSI; Director, Tufts Initiative In Civic Science; Professor, School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, Tufts University
      Building Trustworthiness and Vaccine Confidence through Dialogue in COVID-19-vulnerable Communities
    • Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH
      Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Maine Medical Center
      Improving Discharge Decision-making among Vulnerable Hospitalized Patients
  • 2:00-2:05PM: Break
  • 2:05-2:45PM: Plenary: Report-out and next steps
  • 2:45-3:00PM: Closing Remarks
    • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts2021 on social media and join the conversation.

 

Conferences & Symposia
6th Annual Asian Health Symposium: A Virtual Event Part 3

Talking about Casino Gambling: Community Voices from Boston Chinatown

This presentation summarizes a study of casino gambling behavior of residents and workers in Boston Chinatown.

The aim of the study was to learn about the trajectory and life context of individual participants’ gambling activity, including how individual participants describe their motivation, nature, and frequency of gambling, and its effects on self and family.

The research was conducted by a university-based research team in partnership with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, and with the assistance of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling.

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  • Understand features of gambling behavior and problems, including risk and protective factors, by interpreting interviews of workers and residents in Boston Chinatown.
  • Examine social determinants of gambling problems or addiction, including poverty, job stress, social isolation, and lack of healthy recreational alternatives.
  • Understand the benefits of family-based counseling approaches to address gambling problems in this population.

Presenters

Carolyn Wong, Research Associate
Institute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

Yoyo Yau, Director of Programs
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

Discussant:
Victor Ortiz, Director
Office of Problem Gambling Services, Department of Public Health (DPH)

Details

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, noon-1:00PM

Online via Zoom (please register to receive the Zoom link and password).

Registration

All are welcome to attend. Please register here.

 

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
6th Annual Asian Health Symposium: A Virtual Event Part 2

Housing and Health: Exploring Perceptions of Housing and Neighborhood among Residents in a Subsidized Boston Chinatown Housing Complex

In this interactive session, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and community partners seek reactions and actionable next steps based on findings from a natural experiment designed to explore interrelationships of housing and social determinants on low-income families’ well-being.

In 2019/2020, housing lottery “winners” in Chinatown were surveyed along with applicants who were still “waitlisted” for affordable housing. Results include comparisons of housing and neighborhoods, social and community cohesion, and satisfaction with life and life situations between the residents of the new subsidized housing complex and those still on the waiting list.

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  • Identify and explore cross-cutting issues for families seeking to stabilize and improve their lives.
  • Discuss implications for local housing providers, developers, and policy makers regarding investing in housing and neighborhoods.
  • Identify actionable next steps for disseminating and/or operationalizing findings.

Presenters

Virginia Chomitz, Associate Professor
Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Angie Liou, Executive Director
Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC)

Discussant:
Elana Brochin, Program Director for Health Equity
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC)

Details

Wednesday, October 14, 2020, noon-1:00PM

Online via Zoom (please register to receive the Zoom link and password).

Registration

All are welcome to attend. Please register here.

 

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
Breaking the Silence: Confronting Exclusion in Research

Read the Breaking the Silence Summary Report (PDF).

Watch the videos from Breaking the Silence (YouTube).

The goal of medicine and research should be that “all patients, of all backgrounds, get the care they need when they interface with our health care system” (Joyce Sackey, MD, Tufts University Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer).

Are we doing enough to reach this goal?

Join us for a meaningful evening of self-reflection, dialogue, and community-building, followed by a call to action around the issue of deeply-rooted biases that lead to exclusion in research.

The evening will begin with keynote speaker Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, past President of the American Public Health Association and Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse College. Dr. Jones is known for her contributions to critical race theory and her work in defining institutional racism, personally mediated racism, and internalized racism within the context of modern US race relations.

After that, we will enjoy a community dinner that will include facilitated roundtable discussions to further explore the themes from the keynote presentation and panel discussion. These dialogues will provide an opportunity for participants with diverse views and backgrounds to speak openly about exclusion in research to seek a better understanding of their own views, as well as the views and experiences of others.

Breaking the Silence: Confronting Exclusion in Research is the fourth symposium in the Breaking the Silence series launched in 2017. Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Institute of Clinical Research and Health Polices Studies (ICRHPS) are hosting this symposium, in collaboration with Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center.

Download and share the Breaking the Silence: Confronting Exclusion in Research flyer (PDF).

Details

Friday, March 6
5:15-8:00PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111

Anyone interested in discussing the impact of bias on health is welcome to attend, especially members of the Tufts research community, Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center leadership and faculty, students, research participants, and community residents.

Registration

This event begins at 5:15PM and ends at 8:00PM. We hope attendees will plan to stay for the entirety of the event. If this is not feasible, please contact us at info@tuftsctsi.org.

Please register to attend by February 28.

Agenda

  • 5:00-5:15PM Registration
  • 5:15-5:20PM Welcome and Introductions
    Joyce Sackey, MD
  • 5:20-5:30PM Institutional Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion in Research
    Caroline Genco, PhD, MS
    Kara Greer, MA, PHR, SWP
  • 5:30-6:00PM Keynote Talk: How is Racism Operating Here? A Guide to Action
    Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
  • 6:00-6:20PM Panel Discussion
    Moderator: Linda Hudson, ScD, MSPH
    Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
    Sherry Reddix, MA, MPH
    Dawn Sauma, MSW, LICSW
  • 6:20-6:35PM Transition to Dinner and Dialogue
    Linda Hudson, ScD, MSPH
  • 6:35-7:50PM Dinner and Facilitated Dialogue
  • 7:50-7:55PM Where We Go from Here
    Jonathan Garlick, PhD, DDS
  • 7:55-8:00PM Closing Remarks
    Harry Selker, MD, MSPH

About Tufts CTSI Events

Tufts CTSI’s Professional Education programs provide non-degree continuing education and training for clinical and translational research professionals from all Tufts CTSI partners and beyond.

Course enrollment priority is given to researchers from Tufts CTSI partner institutions. If your participation needs to be approved by your supervisor or a person responsible for your time release, you may provide their contact information when you register for the program.

This course is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UL1TR002544.  The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

 

Conferences & Symposia
6th Annual Asian Health Symposium: A Virtual Event Part 1

Finding Belonging Amidst Neighborhood Development: A Case for the Arts in Boston’s Chinatown

The Pao Arts Center uses arts, culture, and creativity to promote social cohesion and community well-being in an ethnic enclave, Boston’s Chinatown. In the same neighborhood, luxury development may be disrupting the community’s close-knit social fabric and sense of a coherent cultural identity.

A team comprised of Tufts University researchers, Pao Arts center staff, and community residents investigated whether the Pao Arts Center remedies the effects of this displacement. Preliminary findings from the research will be presented.

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  • Learn what the research team found about the effects of the Pao Arts Center
  • Understand more about how to do a collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-based research study.

Presenters

Peter Levine, Academic Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs
Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University

Cynthia Woo, Director
Pao Arts Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

Discussant:
Giles Li, Senior Program Officer
Arts and Creativity, Barr Foundation

Details

Wednesday, October 7, 2020, noon-1:00PM

Online via Zoom (please register to receive the Zoom link and password).

Registration

All are welcome to attend. Please register here.

 

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2020

Building Research Teams for Impact on Health: Spanning Disciplines and Stakeholders

Interested in learning how to build authentic partnerships for translational research collaboration? Mark your calendar for Translational Research Day 2020 on Friday, March 6 at the Tufts Health Sciences Campus in Boston.

Friday, March 6
8:30AM-3:30PM
Tufts Medical Center
Wolff Auditorium
800 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

Download and share the Translational Research Day 2020 flyer (PDF).

Watch the livestream on March 6 starting at 9:00AM EST!

Access the Translational Research Day slides here (PDF).

Registration

Please register to attend.

Keynote

The Grand Rounds keynote address will be given by Sharon Terry, MA, President and CEO of Genetic Alliance in Washington, DC. Ms. Terry is internationally known for her work on engaging individuals, families and communities to transform health and further biomedical research. She played a central role in identifying the gene for a rare disease affecting her two children.

Agenda

  • 8:30AM: Registration, breakfast, and digital poster session
  • 9:00AM:
  • 9:15AM: Taming the Wild Beast: Fueling the Power of Collaborative Innovation (Gigi Hirsh, MD, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation)
    • NewDigs is a collaborative biomedical innovation platform that for the past 10 years has developed new methods for delivering value faster to key stakeholders. Dr. Hirsch will share her extensive experience gained in identifying and working with the value chain of decisionmakers, including the critical role of effective communication processes in sustaining collaboration. She will also discuss new tools that have emerged from these processes that drive value to stakeholders.
    • Moderator: Harry Selker, MD, MSPH, Tufts CTSI)
  • 9:45AM: Scientific Talks: Handbook of Broadly-Engaged Team Science
    • Anticipating the Growing Use of Real-World Data in Clinical Research (Kenneth Getz, MBA, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development)
      • Dr. Getz will discuss the shift towards the use of real-world data in the drug development and drug approval process. The use of real-world data in drug innovation and approval reflects the growing importance of obtaining insights directly from patients and their caregivers and others involved in patient care. Access to and use of real-world data requires a new level of collaboration and teamwork among multiple stakeholders, which is now occurring.
    • The Changing Role of Patient Advocates in Oncology Research (Susan Parsons, MD, MRP, Tufts Medical Center)
      • Dr. Parsons will draw on her extensive experience as a Principal Investigator on numerous studies of patient-centered cancer care and her key role in clinical trial development for the National Cancer Institute as a member of the NCI’s Scientific Steering Committee for Cancer Care Delivery an NCI-funded inter-group study of newly diagnosed patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma. Dr. Parsons will discuss the emerging role and importance of advocates in planning and conducting clinical trials as well as the challenges and benefits of integrated research teams.
    • Moderator: Jonathan Davis, MD, Tufts CTSI
  • 10:25AM: Break
  • 10:40AM: Panel: Authentic Engagement of Non-researchers in Team Science (Robert Sege, MD; Linda Hudson, PhD; Sara Folta, PhD, Tufts CTSI)
    • We will hear from three experts in community engagement in research. Dr. Hudson will discuss the value of partnering with communities, and the critical role of relationship-building, including how to engage and retain the interest of community stakeholders. Dr. Folta will draw upon an innovative theory to discuss principles of creating equity in research partnerships between scientists and community members. She will identify the six different types of capital non-scientist stakeholders bring to research and examples of how to achieve equity in these relationships. Dr. Sege will discuss his innovative work with community-based pediatric providers to achieve change in community-based clinical practices.
    • Moderator: Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD, Tufts CTSI
  • 11:25AM: Digital poster session, lunch, networking
  • 12:00PM: Keynote Address and Medical Grand Rounds
    • If You Are Not At the Table, You Are On the Menu: Building Research Teams for Impact on Health (Sharon Terry, MA, Genetic Alliance)
    • Moderator: Harry Selker, MD, MSPH, Tufts CTSI
  • 1:00PM: Travel to Dental Building, 14th Floor, for afternoon sessions
  • 1:15PM: 
    • Session A: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in Basic Science Research (Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD, Tufts CTSI; Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, Tufts CTSI; Jens Rueter, MD, The Jackson Laboratory. Moderator: John Castellot, PhD, Tufts CTSI)
      • This groundbreaking session will involve presentations from three major basic scientists who have done pioneering work in diversification of research teams, demonstrating partnerships to advance research and leading to innovative approaches to research design and implementation. Dr. Garlick will discuss his transformation as a scientist researching scleroderma based on inclusion of patients in conceptualizing and implementing studies. He has since developed the Civic Communication curriculum, which engages scientists and all stakeholders in acquiring skills in authentic collaboration. Dr. London, a leader in the One Health initiative, will discuss the necessity and complexity of cross-species research and her new approaches that blend multi-team, multi-institutional resources to include mouse, dog and human models. Dr. Rueter from The Jackson Laboratory is leading a project at the other end of the translational spectrum — he is conducting implementation research community based health care providers. This is research on the use of genomic testing to improve the care of cancer patients in rural Maine. Dr. Rueter’s project is at a critical flexion point in scientific research—the translation from laboratory to widespread use. This project is using a collaborative model in which the lab is partnering with cancer care providers in local clinics to improve access to and use genomic testing by patients and their physicians in cancer care. The use of genomic testing in precision medicine is relatively new and integration into community use is challenging.
    • Session B: Innovative Broadly-Engaged Team Science Tools, Methods, and Frameworks (Peter Levine, PhD, Tufts University; Sarah Goff, MD, PhD, Baystate Medical Center; Kathleen Szegda, PhD, MPH, MS, Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts; Denise H. Daudelin, RN, MPH, Tufts CTSI; Moderator: Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Tufts CTSI)
      • This session is a unique opportunity to hear from experts in community-based research and stakeholder engagement. Drs. Goff and Szegny have developed a training program for community leaders designed to model authentic partnerships in research. Additionally, they developed a training course, community-engaged research 101, focused on researchers and building relationships with communities. Drs. Goff and Szegny will talk about their training, giving examples of key concepts and approaches. Attendees will participate in a short exercise to demonstrate these ideas. Ms. Daudelin will discuss the Math Equipoise project, which was a large-scale project in which diverse stakeholders were involved in designing research to address the outcomes of osteoarthritis. This presentation will focus on the approaches used to create a patient and scientist integrated research team. Peter Levine has extensive experience developing partnerships for health improvement with members of social movements. Social movements such as ACT-UP have changed the course of scientific research; however, many researchers do not have knowledge of social movements or how to effectively engage with them. He will present a framework to assist researchers to engage effectively with social movements relevant to their research interests.
  • 3:00PM: Networking and refreshments (Alice Rushforth, PhD; Debra Lerner, MS, PhD, Tufts CTSI)

Poster Session

Present your translational research at our poster session!

Posters will be displayed electronically (on HD screens from ePosterBoards) from 8:30AM-noon. Previously presented posters are welcome. Learn more and submit your abstract by Friday, February 21. 

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts2020 on social media and join the conversation.

 

Conferences & Symposia
CTSA Shared Mentoring Workshop 2020

Agenda

  • 8:00-8:45AM: Working breakfast, networking, and registration
  • 8:45AM: Introductions
  • 9:00: Panel discussion, Getting to K and Beyond
  • 10:15: Break
  • 10:30: One-to-One Mentoring Session
  • 11:15: Exploring Career Opportunities in Translational Science

RSVP

To attend, please register here.

Details

CTSA Shared Mentoring Workshop
Friday, January 31, 8:00AM-noon
Tufts University School of Medicine, 145 Harrison Avenue, Room 114
Boston, MA 02111

This event is hosted by Tufts CTSI and co-sponsored by BU-CTSI, Harvard Catalyst and UMass CTSI.

Conferences & Symposia
One Health Research Symposium Plus

Interested in optimizing the health of humans, animals, and the environment through an innovative and integrative, interdisciplinary approach to education, research, and practice?

Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for One Health Symposium Plus on Monday, October 7 at Tufts University’s Health Sciences Campus in Boston. This interactive event will focus on new research project ideas with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions and engaging all event participants in team science approaches to further catalyze research ideas.

By the end of this interactive symposium, event participants will be able to:

  • Recognize how research teams develop research projects, from concept toward a written funding proposal.
  • Identify Tufts CTSI team-based translational science resources that can help advance a research project.
  • Articulate the value of gathering peer and expert feedback during the development of a fundable proposal.

Details

Monday, October 7, 2019, 9:00AM-1:00PM
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Room 1415 (14th floor)
1 Kneeland Street, Boston MA

Registration

To attend, please register here by October 2, 2019.

Agenda

  • 9:00AM: Registration
  • 9:30AM: Introduction
  • 10:00AM: The Urban Lead Burden in Humans, Animals, and Plants
    • Research team:
      • Ronnie Levin, MA, Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
      • Marieke Rosenbaum, DVM, MPH, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
      • Carolina L. Zilli Viera, PhD, Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 10:30AM: CAAN: Canines for Autism Activity and Nutrition
    • Research team:
      • Deborah Linder, DVM, DACVN, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
      • Christina Mule, PhD, Pediatric Psychologist, Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
      • Aviva Must, PhD, Chair of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
      • Sara Folta, PhD, Associate Professor, The Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy, Tufts University
      • Sean Cash, PhD, Associate Professor, The Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy, Tufts University
  • 11:00AM: Introduction to Breakout Sessions
  • 11:15AM: Lunch
  • 11:30AM: Working Lunch: Breakout Groups
    • Levin, Dental 1415
    • Linder, Dental 1414
  • 12:45PM: Debrief Breakout Sessions, Next Steps, Evaluations, & Adjourn
Conferences & Symposia
Team Science Summit: Innovations in Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disease Research

 

Are you a clinician or a researcher working to understand, treat, or prevent Alzheimer’s disease or cognitive disorders associated with aging?

Tufts CTSI, together with The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), is hosting a Team Science Summit: Innovations in Alzheimer’s and Healthy Aging Research on Wednesday, September 18, 8:00AM-3:30PM, at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (711 Washington Street, Boston).

This event will bring together researchers and clinicians from across Tufts University and Tufts CTSI partners to explore opportunities for multidisciplinary collaborations focused on neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer’s, other dementias) and healthy aging research. Presentations will focus on ongoing work to interrogate mechanisms of disease evolution, build novel disease models and translational tools, and enable biomarker- driven precision medicine approaches for care and disease prevention.

We encourage clinicians and researchers with an interest in forming new collaborative research projects, including postdocs, to register and attend this full-day event consisting of panel discussions, poster presentations, and networking opportunities.

Details

Wednesday, September 18
8:00AM-3:30PM
Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
711 Washington Street, Boston

Registration

Please register here.

Agenda

  • 8:00AM: Registration and Breakfast
  • 8:30AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
    • Welcome, Alice Rushforth, PhD, Tufts CTSI
    • The Jackson Laboratory Overview, Susie Airhart, JAX
    • Charge for the Day, Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Tufts CTSI
  • 9:00AM: Novel Mechanistic Insights into Neurodegenerative Processes
    • Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurodegeneration, Philip Haydon, PhD, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Precision Mouse Models of Human Disease: Mechanisms Linking Translation and Axon Degeneration, Robert Burgess, PhD, JAX
    • Neurovascular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration,Tina Chabrashvili, MD, PhD, Tufts Medical Center
    • Brain Injury, Metabolism, and Alzheimer’s Disease, Chris Dulla, PhD, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Moderated discussion
  • 10:30AM: Break
  • 10:45AM: Models and Experimental Strategies: Toward Precision Understanding
    • Multi-Omic Analysis Identifies Transcriptional Networks and Drivers Associated with Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, Catherine Kaczorowski, PhD, JAX
    • Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with Human iPSC-Derived Brain Tissues, Giuseppina Tesco, MD, PhD, Tufts University
    • Translational Data Science for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Gregory Carter, PhD, JAX
    • Targeting Alzheimer’s Susceptibility Factors with Peptide Aptamers, Benjamin Harrison, PhD, University of New England
    • Moderated Discussion
  • 12:15PM: Lunch, Poster Session, & Networking
  • 1:15PM: Nutrition, Healthy Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease
    • More Than Memory Loss: Using Advanced Mouse Models to Investigate Non-Cognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, Kristen O’Connell, PhD, JAX
    • Individual Nutrients and the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, Paul Jacques, DSc, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
    • The Jackson Laboratory Nathan Shock Center Resources for the Aging Research Community, Ron Korstanje, PhD, JAX
    • The Role of Polyphenols in Healthy Aging, Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
    • Context & Community in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Tom Meuser, PhD, Center for Excellence in Aging & Health (CEAH) at University of New England
    • Alzheimer’s Disease Research at a Rural Psychiatric Hospital in Maine: Strategies for Clinical Trials and Translational Research in an Unlikely Setting, Cliff Singer, MD, DFAPA, AGSF, Northern Light Health
    • Moderated Discussion 
  • 3:00PM: Wrap Up
Conferences & Symposia
21st Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 21st Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 3, 8:30AM-1:00PM at Tufts University School of Medicine, 145 Harrison Avenue, Room 114, Boston, MA.

This year’s keynote speaker is Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, FRCP, Distinguished Professor and Michael P. Fink Endowed Chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Health System. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The event will also feature presentations and posters by students enrolled in the CTS Graduate Program, and the 2019 Clinical and Translational Science Poster Competition.

Schedule of Events

  • 8:30AM: Breakfast
  • 9:00AM: Welcome
  • 9:15AM: Poster Viewing and Moderated Poster Talks
    • Guarav Gulati, MD
    • Anna Meader, MD
    • Xi Qian, PhD
    • Bethany Roehm, MD
  • 10:15AM: Photo Opportunity for Students and Faculty
  • 10:30AM: 2019 Clinical and Translational Science Poster Competition – Winner’s Presentation
  • 10:45AM: Presentations by Graduating Students
    • Wendy McCallum, MD, MS
    • Natalia Olchanski, MS, PhD Candidate
  • 11:15AM: Closing Remarks
  • 12:00PM: Keynote Lecture/Medical Grand Rounds in Tufts Medical Center’s Wolff Auditorium
Conferences & Symposia
Addiction Research Symposium Plus

Interested in addiction research? Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for our Addiction Research Symposium Plus on Wednesday, March 13 at Tufts University’s Boston Health Sciences Campus. This interactive event will focus on nascent research projects with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions and engaging all event participants in team science approaches to further catalyze research ideas.

By the end of this interactive symposium, event participants should be able to:

  • Identify common regulatory concerns surrounding the unique populations involved in addiction research.
  • Recognize how research teams develop research projects, from concept toward a written funding proposal.
  • Identify Tufts CTSI team-based translational science resources that can help advance a research project.
  • Articulate the value of gathering peer and expert feedback during the development of fundable proposal.

Selected Proposals

The following projects will be presented and discussed:

  • Oxygenating the Addicted Brain Through Aerobic Exercise, Eduardo Fontes, PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences
  • Incorporating Acupuncture into the Continuum of Care for People with Severe Opioid Use Disorder, Barbara Herbert, MD, Column Health and Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Intranasal Glial-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) Gene Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder, Barbara Waszczak, PhD, Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences; Emmanuel Pothos, PhD, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Salivary Gene Analysis and Brain MRI to Understand Hypothalamic and Reward Pathway Dysregulation Affecting Oral Feeding in Infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, Elizabeth Yen, MD; Jill Maron, MD, and Jonathan Davis, MD, Tufts Medical Center Pediatrics Department

Details

Wednesday, March 13, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Room 216A
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA

Registration

To attend, please register here by March 4, 2019.

Conferences & Symposia
5th Annual Asian Health Symposium

Moving Forward, Looking Back: Using Research to Improve Community Health

Interested in hearing the results of research conducted in Boston’s Chinatown/Asian communities? Wondering what’s next?

Join Tufts CTSI and  the Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT) Program for the 5th Annual Asian Health Symposium, Moving Forward, Looking Back: Using Research to Improve Community Health. This half-day event will inform participants about research taking place in and around Chinatown. See how academic/community collaborations fueled research and the findings that resulted from that work. Attendees will hear presentations on recent and ongoing studies focused on overlooked health issues or understudied areas, discuss potential next steps, and brainstorm how to further increase community engagement in research.

Researchers and community members are encouraged to attend this exciting event.

After attending this event, participants should be able to:

  • Identify several exciting research projects completed in Boston Chinatown/Asian Communities in the past five years.
  • Describe the key findings/takeaways from these research projects.
  • Recognize the value of increased community engagement and collaboration with research in your community.

Details

Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 9:30AM-1:30PM
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Rachel’s Auditorium, Room 1414 (14th Floor)
1 Kneeland Street, Boston MA

Registration

Researchers and community members are encouraged to attend.

Space is limited! Please register here by April 15.

Agenda

  • 9:00AM: Registration and Breakfast
  • 9:30AM: Welcome Remarks
  • 9:40AM: Opening Remarks
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director
    • Dawn Sauma, ADAPT Co-Chair; Co-Executive Director, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK)
    • Ed Flynn, District 2 City Councilor, Boston City Council
  • 10:00AM: Panel 1, Community-Engaged Research Studies in Boston Chinatown/Asian Communities
    • Moderator: Susan Koch-Weser, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM)
    • Panelists:
      • Cindy Liu, Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Disparities Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Uncovering the Stress and Mental Health Experiences in Boston Chinese Immigrant Families: The Role of Research in Program Development.
      • Christina Sakai, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine. Pathways to Autism Diagnosis and Management in a Chinese Immigrant Community.
      • Yoyo Yau, Director of Programs, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
      • Amy LeClair, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center. The Health of Asians and Chronic Disease Study.
      • Catherine Chang, Quality Assurance Director, Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center (GBCGAC)
      • Carina Katigbak, Assistant Professor, Connell School of Nursing, Boston College. Walking Together: A Multi-Component Intervention to Increase Physical Activity of Ethnic Minority Older Adults.
  • 11:15AM: Break
  • 11:30AM: Panel 2, Studies Conducted by Emerging Scholars: Building the Pipeline of Health Equity Researchers
    • Moderator: Virginia Chomitz, Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, TUSM
    • Panelists:
      • Mehreen Ismail, PhD Candidate in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Food Access and Food Security Experiences of Affordable Housing Residents in Boston’s Chinatown.
      • Taylor Ahlborn, MS Candidate in Biomedical Sciences, TUSM. Facilitators and Barriers in the Service Network for Victims of Violence in the Asian-American Community in Massachusetts. 
      • Jean Jiyoung Lim, PhD Candidate, TUSM. Health Communication in Boston’s Chinatown.
  • 12:15PM: Next Steps and Closing Remarks
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director
  • 12:30PM: Lunch and Networking

Spread the Word

Download a flyer (PDF) to share with your networks, colleagues, and friends!

 

This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Conferences & Symposia
AWARE for All Boston

On Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 in Boston, MA local community members, patients, and research professionals will come together to learn about clinical research, get free health screenings, and hear from physician and patient speakers.

AWARE for All is a free educational program that provides valuable information and resources on the clinical research process to help people make informed decisions about participation. The event serves as a platform for dialogue between local patients, members of the public, and research professionals. This program is made possible by the incredible community partners we collaborate with in every city.

Registration is encouraged but not mandatory! We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 at the NonProfit Center. For more information, please email awareforall@ciscrp.org or call 617-725-2750.

Please register here.

Conferences & Symposia
Regional CTSA Shared Mentoring Symposium

4thAnnual Shared Mentoring Symposium

Join us for a time of networking, panel discussion, and one-to-one mentoring.

This half-day symposium is geared towards fellows and junior faculty who are in the early stages of their careers and interested in exploring mentorship and career develop within clinical and  translation research. The event provides an excellent opportunity to network with peers from local CTSA institutions and receive career development advice.

The symposium is hosted by the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science and co-sponsored by Boston University CTSI, Tufts University CTSI, and Harvard Catalyst.

Please register here by October 5.

Conferences & Symposia
Health Equity Research: Symposium Plus

Interested in health equity research? Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for Health Equity Research: Symposium Plus on Wednesday, October 10 at Tufts University’s Boston Health Sciences Campus. This interactive event will focus on nascent research projects with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions and engaging all event participants in team science approaches to further catalyze research ideas.

Research project proposals to be presented are:

  • Extending Access to Cancer Genetic Counseling to Maine’s Rural, Remote Communities by Susan Miesfeldt, MD, Maine Medical Center
  • Assessing Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risks Among Veterans by Adolfo Cuevas, PhD, Tufts University
  • Linking Financing, Workforce, and Clinical Care to Improve Behavioral Health Integration for the Most Vulnerable by Diana Bowser, ScD, MPH, Brandeis University
  • Communication Intervention for Dental Hygienists to Deliver to Teens Around Crystal Meth Use Prevention by Margie Skeer, ScD, MPH, MSW, Tufts University School of Medicine

By the end of this interactive symposium, event participants will be able to:

  • Describe methods for including a health equity focus in a proposal to improve overall health outcomes.
  • Recognize how research teams develop research projects, from concept toward a written funding proposal.
  • Identify Tufts CTSI team-based translational science resources that can help advance a research project.
  • Articulate the value of gathering peer and expert feedback during the development of fundable proposal.

Details

Wednesday, October 10, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, DeBlois Auditorium
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA

Registration

To attend, please register here by October 1.

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2018: Addiction Research in the Lab, Clinic, and Community
Translational Research Day 2018: Slide Deck (PDF)
Translational Research Day 2018: Agenda/Schedule (PDF)

Translational Research Day 2018: Presenter Biographies and Abstracts (PDF)

 

Interested in finding translational solutions to addiction?

Don’t miss Translational Research Day 2018: Addiction Research in the Lab, Clinic, and Community.

Wednesday, November 7
8:30AM-4:00PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education, Room 114
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston

Registration

Please register to attend in-person or online.

Agenda

Do you have a poster on addiction research?

Present it at Translational Research Day! Details are available here. The deadline to submit poster abstracts is Monday, October 22.

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts18 on social media and join the conversation.

 

Conferences & Symposia
Evidence and the Individual Patient: Understanding Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Patient-Centered Care

 

This conference will explore the inherent limitations of using group data to guide treatment decisions for individuals. Topics will include examining HTE as it pertains to personalized decision making and precision medicine, modifying care in light of more personalized evidence, and identifying the highest policy and research priorities to facilitate translation and dissemination of these methods. This conference will take a broad view of personalized/precision medicine that seeks to take into account the full gamut of patient-level variation (i.e. not just genetic/pharmacogenetic variation). Conference participants will include thought leaders and stakeholders who are developing and promulgating methods for more individualized evidence from academic, government and regulatory sectors.

Register for the live webcast here.

 

 

 

Conferences & Symposia
Sensors, Biomarkers, and Devices in Medicine: Symposium Plus

Interested in the next-generation of clinical sensors, biomarkers, and devices? Want to meet translational research collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for Sensors, Devices, and Biomarkers in Medicine: Symposium Plus on Tuesday, April 24 at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Room 1414 (1 Kneeland Street, Boston). This interactive event will focus on nascent research projects with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions and engaging all event participants in team science approaches to further catalyze research ideas.

Four projects will be presented and discussed:

  • Non-invasive Detection of CSF Derived Exosomal PD Biomarkers in Olfactory Mucus, submitted by Mansoor Amiji, PhD, Northeastern University
  • Clinical Testing of Glucose and Lactate Biosensors, submitted by Ahmed Busnaina, PhD, Northeastern University
  • Toward Connected, Distributed, Self-Powered, and Self-Optimizing Medical Implants, submitted by Tommaso Melodia, PhD, MS Northeastern University
  • Developing an Activity-Dependent Biomarker of Upper Motor Neuron Dysfunction in ALS, submitted by Oscar Soto, MD, Tufts Medical Center

By the end of this interactive symposium, you should be able to:

  • Describe potential translational roadblocks in developing, testing, and using sensor-and device-based health prevention, detection, management, or intervention strategies.
  • Examine potential pitfalls of intellectual property (IP) in the development of these technologies or strategies.
  • Identify stage-appropriate funding mechanisms and understand the attributes that make a project attractive to funding agencies.
  • Identify Tufts CTSI resources that can help me in advancing a research project and that support team-based translational science.
  • Explain the value of peer and expert feedback in the process of developing a fundable proposal.

Details

Tuesday, April 24, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Rachel’s Auditorium, Room 1414
1 Kneeland Street, Boston MA

Registration

To attend, please register here by April 20.

Conferences & Symposia
20th Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 20th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 18, 8:00AM-1:00PM in Wolff Auditorium at Tufts Medical Center (800 Washington Street, Boston).

This year’s keynote speaker is Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and  Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

The event will also feature presentations and posters by students enrolled in the CTS Graduate Program, and the 2018 Clinical and Translational Science Poster Competition.

Schedule

7:30AM – Breakfast

8:15AM – Welcome by David M. Kent, MD, MSc

8:30-9:45AM – Presentations

  • 8:30AM: Alexa Craig, MD, MS
  • 8:45AM: Taimur Dad, MD, MS
  • 9:00AM: Kimberly S. Esham, MD, MS
  • 9:15AM: Vaibhav Kumar, MD, MS

9:30-10:30AM – Student Poster Session (Atrium) and Clinical & Translational Science Poster Competition (Wolff Auditorium Lobby; winner will be announced at 10:00AM)

10:30-11:45AM – Presentations

  • 10:30AM: Jana Cerullo Leary, MD, MS
  • 10:45AM: Henry Rogalin, PhD, MS
  • 11:00AM: Alexander A. Xu, MS
  • 11:15AM: Lauren Westafer, DO, MS
  • 11:30AM: Teresa May, DO, MS

11:45AM – Closing Remarks

12:00PM – Keynote Lecture/Medical Grand Rounds by Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and  Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

Conferences & Symposia
4th Annual Asian Health Symposium: In Pursuit of Health & Wellness: Addressing the Impact of Stress in Asian Immigrant Communities

Would you like an opportunity for community-building, networking, learning about, and addressing the impact of stress on Asian immigrant populations? Mark your calendar for the 4th Annual Asian Health Symposium, In Pursuit of Health & Wellness: Addressing the Impact of Stress in Asian Immigrant Communities.

This exciting event, free and open to all, is hosted by the Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations Through Translational Research (ADAPT) Program.

After attending this session, you should be able to:

  • Describe the stressors related to daily living and social determinants facing Asian immigrants
  • Identify resources and services available for mitigating the impact of stress in the community
  • Recognize the value of cross-community dialogue in addressing the impact of stress on Asian immigrant communities

Details

Friday, April 6, 2018, 9:30AM-1:30PM
Pao Arts Center
99 Albany Street, Boston MA, 02111

Agenda

  • 9:00AM-9:30AM: Breakfast and registration
  • 9:30AM-9:50AM: Welcome and opening remarks
    • Alice Rushforth, Executive Director, Tufts CTSI
    • Megan Cheung, ADAPT Co-Chair; Associate Director/Clinical Director, Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center (GBCAC)
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI
  • 9:50AM-11:00AM: Panel 1: Stressors that Impact Asian Immigrant Communities
    • Moderator: Ed K.S. Wang, Director of Policy and Planning, Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Member, Governor’s Advisory Council on Refugees and Immigrants; Board President, National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
    • Panelists:
      • Mary Chin, Executive Director, Asian American Civic Association (AACA)
      • Lisette Le, Executive Director, Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID)
      • Niem Nay-Kret, Community Health Worker, Lowell Community Health Center
      • Anh Vu Sawyer, Executive Director, The Southeast Asian Coalition (SEAC)
      • Mary Truong, Executive Director, Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI)
  • 11:00AM-11:10AM: Break
  • 11:10AM-12:10PM: Panel 2: Innovative Strategies for Addressing Stress
    • Moderator: David Takeuchi, Associate Dean for Research, Dorothy Book Scholar, Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College
      Co-Founder, Research in Social, Economic and Environmental Equity (RISE3)
    • Panelists:
      • Pata Suyemoto, Writer, Educator, & Mental Health Activist
        Co-founder, Breaking Silences Project
      • Cynthia Woo, Director
        Pao Arts Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
      • Albert Yeung, Co-Medical Director & Head of the Behavioral Health Department South Cove Community Health Center
        Director, Primary Care Studies of the Depression Clinical and Research Program
        Massachusetts General Hospital
      • Liao Zhang, Research Associate
        Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital
  • 12:10PM-1:10PM: Lunch and table discussions: Critical Factors that Contribute to Community Mental Health and Wellness
    • Susan Koch-Weser, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Jean Lim, former Asian Health Equity Fellow, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • 1:10PM-1:30PM: Groups report back and closing remarks
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

Speakers

  • Mary Chin
    Executive Director, Asian American Civic Association
  • Susan Koch-Weser
    Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine
    Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Jean Lim
    Former Asian Health Equity Fellow, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
    Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Lisette Le
    Executive Director, Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID)
  • Anh Vu Sawyer
    Southeast Asian Coalition of Massachusetts
  • Pata Suyemoto
    Writer, Educator, Mental Health Activist
  • David Takeuchi
    Professor and Dorothy Book Scholar
    Associate Dean for Research
    Co-Founder, Research in Social, Economic, and Environmental Equity (RISE³)
    School of Social Work, Boston College
  • Mary Truong
    Executive Director, Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI)
  • Ed K.S. Wang
    Director of Policy and Planning, Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
    Member, Governor’s Advisory Council on Refugees and Immigrants
    Board President, National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
  • Cynthia Woo
    Director, Pao Arts Center
    Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
  • Albert Yeung
    Co-Medical Director and Head of the Behavioral Health Department at South Cove Community Health Center
    Director of Primary Care Studies of the Depression Clinical Research Program at MGH
  • Liao Zhang
    Research Associate, Disparities Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Registration

Please register here to attend.

Space is limited! Please register by March 16.

Conferences & Symposia
CTSA Shared Mentoring Symposium

This free, half-day symposium is geared towards fellows and junior faculty who are in the early stages of their careers and are interested in exploring mentorship and career development. The event will feature two panel sessions: one on career development strategies and a second on career opportunities in clinical and translational research. In addition to the panel sessions, participants will individually meet with senior faculty members from local CTSA institutions to discuss personal scenarios on career development.

This is an excellent opportunity to network with peers from local CTSA institutions and receive career development advice.

This event is hosted by Harvard Catalyst and co-sponsored by Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

 

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2017: Sensors, Devices, and Biomarkers in Medicine

Translational Research Day 2017 – PowerPoint Slides (PDF)

 

Tufts CTSI Symposium Plus on Sensors, Devices and Biomarkers in Medicine – Request for Proposals (PDF)

How can sensor, device, and biomarker data improve health, prevent and detect disease at an earlier stage, and personalize interventions?

Find out at Tufts CTSI’s Translational Research Day 2017: Sensors, Devices, and Biomarkers in Medicine.

Tuesday, November 14
8:30AM-4:00PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education, Room 114
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston

Registration

Please register to attend in-person or online.

Agenda

  • 8:30-9:00AM: Registration and Breakfast
  • 9:00AM: Introduction
  • 9:10AM: Innovations in the Industry
    • Digital Monitoring Biomarkers Come of Age: Justin Wright, PhD, Eli Lilly and Company
    • Improving the Assessment of Functional Change in CNS Clinical Trials: Josh Cosman, PhD, Pfizer
  • 9:45AM: Sensors and Devices
    • Smart Mechanical Support Devices for Cardiac Care: Navin Kapur, MD, Tufts Medical Center
    • In Vivo Nanosensors and Imaging Technologies: Heather Clark, PhD, Northeastern University 
    • Improving Behavioral Measurements from Mobile DevicesStephen S. Intille, PhD, Northeastern University
    • Embedded Functioning of Nanoscale Sensors in Hybrid Tissues: Brian Timko, PhD, Tufts University
  • 11:00AM: Break
  • 11:10AM: Biomarker Development and Application
    • Harmonizing Biomarker Terminology: NIH-FDA BEST (Biomarkers, EndpointS, and other Tools): Christopher Leptak, MD, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration
    • A Metatranscriptomic Approach to Salivary Biomarker Discovery in the Premature NewbornJill L. Maron, MD, MPH, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
  • 11:50AM: Showcase: MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)
  • 12:25PM: Networking Lunch and Poster Session
    • Introduction to Afternoon Program: Graham Jones, PhD, Tufts CTSI
    • 2016 and 2017 CTSI Pilot Studies Program Awardee Posters &
      Poster Presentations on Sensors, Devices, and Biomarker Research
  • 1:30PM: Case Studies
    • Introduction: Graham Jones, PhD, Tufts CTSI
    • The Challenge of Making Things Work Well: An Academic Perspective: Kumaran Kolandaivelu, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Lessons Learned from the Front Lines: Rami Tazafriri, PhD, and Michael Naimark, MS, CBSET, Inc.
    • Panel Discussion
  • 2:25PM: Funding Opportunities: Tufts CTSI Symposium Plus
    • Graham Jones, PhD, Tufts CTSI
    • Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, Tufts Medical Center
    • John Leong, MD, PhD, Tufts University
  • 2:40PM: Breakout Session (Open to All)
  • 2:40PM: Concurrent Networking Reception
  • 4:00PM: Conference Ends

Do you have a poster on sensor, device, or biomarker research?

Present it at Translational Research Day! Details are available here.

Get Social

Look for #TranslationalTufts17 on social media and join the conversation.

Spread the word! Our Translational Research Day flyer is available here (PDF).

 

Conferences & Symposia
4th Annual Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Symposium Plus

Interested in comparative effectiveness research (CER)? Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for our 4th Annual CER Symposium Plus on Wednesday, June 7, 9:00AM-3:00PM in room 114 (145 Harrison Avenue, Boston). This interactive event will focus on several CER use cases, with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions, and engaging event participants in team science approaches to catalyze research ideas.

Agenda

8:30AM: Registration

9:00AM: Introduction

9:30AM: Project Presentations

  • Structured Opioid Use After Joint Arthroplasty submitted by Geneve M. Allison, MD, MSc, FACP, Tufts Medical Center
  • Modeling Spatiotemporal Contributors to Inter-Facility Clostridium Difficile Colitis Transmission submitted by Luke Muggy, PhD, RAND Corporation

10:30AM: Break

10:45AM: Project Presentations

  • Triggers for Palliative Care Engagement: A Comparative Effectiveness Study submitted by Signe Peterson Flieger, PhD, MSW, Tufts University
  • Linkage to HCV Treatment for People with Substance Use Disorders: A Comparative Effectiveness Research Study submitted by Thomas J. Stopka, PhD, Tufts University

11:45AM: Lunch and Networking

12:15PM: Introduction to Breakout Working Groups

12:30PM: Breakout Working Groups

2:00PM: Report-back, Summary, and Next Steps

2:30PM: Evaluations and Adjourn

 

By the end of this interactive symposium, you will be able to:

  • Describe how CER can help patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders identify the right treatment for a specific patient and a specific time.
  • Value peer and expert feedback as helpful in developing a team science proposal.
  • Describe how researchers presenting at Symposium Plus meetings can work with the CTSI toward submitting a fundable research proposal.
  • Identify the components of a successful CER research proposal.

All are welcome to attend! Please RSVP here.

Details

Wednesday, June 7, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education, Room 114
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston MA

Conferences & Symposia
19th Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 19th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 5, 8:00AM-1:00PM in Wolff Auditorium at Tufts Medical Center (800 Washington Street, Boston).

This year’s keynote speaker is Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, and the Jean Mayer Chair and Professor of Nutrition. A board-certified cardiologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Mozaffarian’s research focuses on how diet and lifestyle influence cardiometabolic health and how effective policies can reduce these burdens. He has authored nearly 300 scientific publications on dietary fats, foods, and diet patterns; global obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases; and evidence-based and cost-effective dietary policies.

The event will also feature presentations and posters by students enrolled in the CTS Graduate Program, and the 2017 Clinical and Translational Science Poster Competition.

Schedule

8:00AM – Breakfast

8:30AM – Welcome by David M. Kent, MD, MSc

8:45-9:45AM – Presentations

  • 8:45AM: Jeannie Kelly, MD, MS
  • 9:00AM: Ivan Sisa, MD, MPH, MS
  • 9:15AM: Jung Min Han, PharmD, MS
  • 9:30AM: Bradley Gardiner, MBBS, MS

9:45-10:45AM – Student Poster Session (Atrium) and Clinical & Translational Science Poster Competition (Wolff Auditorium Lobby; winner will be announced at 10:00AM)

10:50-11:35AM – Presentations

  • 10:50AM: Lester Leung, MD, MS
  • 11:05AM: Jinghui Dong, PhD, MS
  • 11:20AM: Elizabeth Schoenfeld, MD, MS

11:35AM – Closing Remarks

12:00PM – Keynote Lecture/Medical Grand Rounds by Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy.

Conferences & Symposia
Tufts CTSI-Northeastern Joint Summit: Exercise, Aging, and Cognitive Function

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Want to learn about research from experts in the field and meet potential research collaborators?

The Tufts CTSI-Northeastern Joint Summit Exercise, Aging, and Cognitive Function, is an invitation-only, half-day event that brings together seasoned researchers for a collaborative event showcasing expert research, brainstorming, and networking sessions to build potential collaborations. Featuring an overview by Arthur Kramer, PhD (Northeastern University, Senior Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education), this event promises to foster connections across institutions.

Details

Wednesday, September 13
9:00AM-2:00PM
Tufts Health Sciences Campus, Boston
(Room location to be announced soon)

Registration

This event is by invitation only.

 

Conferences & Symposia
One Health Symposium

One Health Symposium Slides (PDF)

Interested in Integrating Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for a One Health Workshop on Tuesday, October 4, 9:00AM-1:45PM, at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Rachel’s Amphitheater (1 Kneeland Street, 14th Floor, Boston). A live webcast will also be available: the link will only be available to people who RSVP for the event.

Please RSVP here by Friday, September 30.

Agenda

  • 8:30AM: Registration and light breakfast
  • 9:00AM: Introduction
  • 9:30AM: Project presentations
  • 10:30AM: Break
  • 10:45AM: Project presentations
  • 11:45AM: Introduction to breakout sessions
  • 12:00PM: Lunch and group breakout sessions
  • 1:15PM: Report-back, summary, evaluation, and next steps

Topics

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

  • Development of a Safe, Inexpensive, Easily Administered EHEC Vaccine for Cattle
    Project team: John Leong, MD, PhD; Abraham L. Sonenshein, PhD; Saul Tzipori, DVM, PhD, DSc
  • A Novel Approach to Asthma Therapy: Decreasing Airway Smooth Muscle Mass – A One Health Approach Using Naturally Occuring Models of Disease in the Horse and Cat
    Project team: Melissa R. Mazan, DVM; Heber Nielsen, MD
  • Antibiotic Stewardship and Infection Control: Sharing Approaches from Tufts Medical Center and the Foster Hospital for Small Animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Effects of the Human Microbiota Due to Bet Antimicrobial Therapy
    Project team: Shira Doron, MD; Kirthana R. Beaulac, PharmD; Tine Vindenes, MD; Annie Wayne, DVM
  • Cohabitation with Production Animals, Gut Microbiota, and Stunting in Children
    Project team: Janet Forrester, PhD; Honorine Ward, MD; Marieke Rosenbaum, DVM

Proposals address one of the four main areas of One Health:

  • Zoonotic and environmentally-induced diseases
  • Diseases shared by humans and other animals (e.g., cancer, heart disease, obesity, arthritis)
  • Challenges and solutions at the intersection of humans, animals, and the environment
  • Human-animal interactions.

Funding Opportunity

Investigators who attend the One Health workshop may be eligible for planning grants ($500) and pilot grants (up to $5,000) to assemble a team and develop One Health research projects. The criteria and process for applying for these funds will be provided at the Workshop. Sign up by September 30 to attend.

Contact

For more information, please contact John Castellot, PhD, Tufts CTSI Navigator.

Conferences & Symposia
Stakeholder and Community Engagement Symposium

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.

 

Conferences & Symposia
3rd Annual Asian Health Symposium: From Collecting Data to Collective Impact

Symposium slides (PDF)

Overview

Would you like an opportunity for community-building, networking, and learning about research to address Asian health disparities? Mark your calendar for the 3rd Annual Asian Health Symposium: From Collecting Data to Collective Impact. 

This exciting event, free and open to all, is hosted by the Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations Through Translational Research (ADAPT) Program and will include:

  • A panel discussion on the importance of collecting disaggregated and local data.
  • An exploratory session on using the Collective Impact approach for creating a roadmap for Asian community health.
  • Group discussions about health priorities for Asian communities in Chinatown and across Greater Boston.

A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Download the event flyer here (PDF).

Details

Tuesday, December 6, 8:30AM-1:30PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education, Room 114
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston

Agenda

  • 8:30AM: Breakfast and registration
  • 9:00AM: Welcome and opening remarks
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI
    • Michael Wagner, President and CEO, Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children
    • Alice Rushforth, Executive Director, Tufts CTSI
    • Giles Li, Executive Director, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
  • 9:45AM: Plenary Panel: Addressing Asian Health Disparities – Why Collecting Disaggregated Data Matters
    • (moderator) Aviva Must, Morton A. Madoff Professor of Public Health and Chair, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • (panelist) Carolyn Wong, Research Associate, Institute of Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
    • (panelist) Susan Koch-Weser, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • (panelist) Eugene Welch, Executive Director, South Cove Community Health Center
    • (panelist) Sherry Dong, Director of Community Health Improvement Programs, Tufts Medical Center
    • (respondent panelist) Tackey Chan, State Representative, Second Norfolk District, MA; Asian American Legislative Caucus
    • (respondent panelist) Ramani Sripada, Co-Chair, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy – Boston Chapter
    • (respondent panelist) Monica Valdes Lupi, Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission
  • 11:00AM: Break
  • 11:15AM: What is Collective Impact? Creating a Roadmap for Achieving Asian Health
  • 12:15PM: Lunch and group discussions on Asian health priorities
  • 1:00PM: Report-back and closing remarks
    • Carolyn Rubin, ADAPT Director, Tufts CTSI

Presenting Organizations

Registration

Please register here to attend.

 

Conferences & Symposia
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Workshop

Save the Date!

Interested in comparative effectiveness research (CER)? Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for a CER Workshop on Tuesday, June 21, 9:00AM-4:00PM in room 114 (145 Harrison Avenue, Boston). This interactive event will focus on several CER use cases, with the goal of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions.

Five projects will be presented and discussed:

  • Comparative Effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Osteoarthritis submitted by Raveendhara Bannuru MD, FAGE, Tufts Medical Center
  • Improving Provider Adherence to Diabetes Screening Guidelines for Asians submitted by Susan Koch-Weser ScM, ScD, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Emergency Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment submitted by Martin Krsak, MD, MSc, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
  • Associations of Provider Prescribing Patterns and Future Opioid use in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with an Acute Painful Condition submitted by William Soares, MD MS, Baystate Medical Center
  • Health Effects of Oral Protein Supplements in HemoDialysis (The HELPS-HD Trial) submitted by Dan Weiner, MD, Tufts CTSI

All are welcome to attend! Please RSVP here.

Additional details about the CER Workshop will be available on this page soon.

Conferences & Symposia
18th Annual Clinical and Translational Science Graduate Program Symposium

Overview

The 18th Annual Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program Symposium will be Friday, May 20, 8:00AM-1:00PM in Wolff Auditorium at Tufts Medical Center (800 Washington Street, Boston).

This year’s keynote speaker is Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). A family physician, clinical epidemiologist, and health services researcher, Dr. Selby has more than 35 years of experience in patient care, research, and administration. He is responsible for identifying strategic issues and opportunities for PCORI and implementing and administering programs authorized by the PCORI Board of Governors.

The event will also feature presentations and posters by students enrolled in the CTS Graduate Program, and the 2016 Clinical and Translational Science Poster Competition.

Schedule

8:00AM – Welcome

8:15-9:45AM – Presentations

  • 8:15AM: Angie Mae C. Rodday, MS, PhD, Predicting Health Care Utilization for Children with Respiratory Insufficiency using Parent-proxy Ratings of Children’s Health-related Quality of Life
  • 8:30AM: Robert M. Blanton, MD, MS, Downstream Substrates of Protein Kinase G as Novel Anti-remodeling Molecules
  • 8:45AM: Nadi Nina Kaonga, MHS, MS, HIV Medication Adherence in Namibia: The Potential for an Early Intervention
  • 9:00AM: Masako Mizusawa, MD, PhD, MS, Changes in Mortality and Length of Stay for Aspergillosis-Related Hospitalizations in the United States from 2001 to 2011
  • 9:15AM: Amanda K. Leonberg-Yoo, MD, MS, Association of Urine Sodium with Progression of Kidney Disease, Incident Heart Failure, Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, and All-cause Mortality
  • 9:30AM: Rita L. McGill, MD, MS, PICC, Imaging, and Dialysis Vascular Access

9:45-10:15AM – Student Poster Session and Clinical & Translational Science Poster Competition

10:15-11:45AM – Presentations

  • 10:15AM: Nadine Al-Naamani, MD, MS, The Association of Systemic Arterial Properties with Right Ventricular Morphology: The MESA-Right Ventricle Study
  • 10:30AM: Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MS, Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Low to Middle Income Countries, Cost Effectiveness Analysis, Example of Ukraine
  • 10:45AM: Marzieh Essaty Mirhashemi, PhD, MS, Transcriptome Analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum in vitro 
  • 11:00AM: Deborah E. Linder, DVM, MS, A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Child-Dog Relationship in Healthy Weight and Overweight/Obese Children
  • 11:15AM: Jonathan M. Babyak, DVM, MS, Prevalent and Incident Kidney Injury in Dogs at a Veterinary Teaching Hospital
  • 11:30AM: Benjamin S. Wessler, MD, MS, Evaluating Performance of Heart Failure Predictive Models

11:45AM – Closing Remarks

12:00PM – Keynote Lecture/Medical Grand Rounds by Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research, or PCORI: We’ve Had a Slight Change of Plans

Conferences & Symposia
Translational Research Day 2015: Innovations in Clinical Trial Participant Engagement

Download the slides for Translational Research Day here.

Why do people participate in clinical studies and trials? What are the challenges to recruiting human and animal research participants, and how can we overcome them? Find out at Tufts CTSI’s Translational Research Day 2015: Innovations in Clinical Trial Participant Engagement.

Tuesday, November 10
8:30AM-4:00PM
Tufts Center for Medical Education, Room 114
145 Harrison Avenue, Boston (or via live webcast)

Please register to attend.

The day will include:

  • 8:30AM: Registration

  • 9:00AM: Welcome

  • 9:15AM: Keynote Address

    • The mPower App and Using Technology Tools for Participant Engagement in Clinical Trials
      Karl D. Kieburtz, MD, MPH, Director of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • 10:00AM: Participant Engagement: Why Participate in Research?

    • Participation in Clinical Research: Motivations and Perspectives
      Julia Farides-Mitchell, MA, the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP)
    • Challenges and Rewards of Engaging Pet Owners in Clinical Trials in Veterinary Medicine
      Andrew M. Hoffman, DVM, DVSc, Diplomate, ACVIM, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
    • Challenges in Enrolling and Consenting Pregnant Women, Children and Neonates in Clinical Trials
      Jonathan Davis, MD, Tufts CTSI and Chief of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
  • 11:00AM: Break

  • 11:15AM: Innovative Recruitment Strategies

    • Using Social Media for Participant Engagement in Clinical Trials: A Pilot Study
      Laura L. Blaisdell, MD, Maine Medical Center
    • Recruitment in Social Behavioral Research (Dear Abby and More)
      Debra Lerner, PhD, Tufts CTSI and Tufts University
    • Using an Expert Panel to Randomize Patients in a Cervical Spondolytic Myelopathy Clinical Trial
      Zoher Ghogawala, MD, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
  • 12:15PM: Summary Remarks: the Future of Participant Engagement in Clinical Trials

  • 12:30PM: Lunch and Poster Session

  • 1:30PM: Challenges in Participant Engagement

    • Using Research Process Improvement to Solve Recruitment Challenges
      Denise Daudelin, RN, MPH, Tufts CTSI and Tufts Medical Center
      Donato Rivas, MD, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
  • 2:15PM: Small Group Discussions

    • Challenges and Solutions
    • Comparative Effectiveness Research Grant Teams
  • 3:15PM: Report Back/Panel Discussion

  • 3:45PM: Summary Remarks

Submissions for the Poster Session are due by November 2.