Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Jan 26 2023

 

Present:   Juvena Hitt, Ben Littenberg, Liliane Savard, Adam Sprouse Blum, Connie van Eeghen, Liz Winterbauer (6)

 1.                   Warm Up: Winter is here and ‘tis the season for new projects!

2.                   Liz: Protocols for patient focus groups on educational materials distributed to post-partem moms

a.       Liz is working with Quality Counts, the QI organization affiliated with the Maine Medical Association.

b.       Focused on post-partum maternal hypertension, particularly educational material provided at birthing centers; how to improve related to health equity, culture competence, accessibility, etc. Research question: Are hypertension related education given to new moms culturally appropriate and accessible in rural Maine?

                                                   i.      Target audience: new moms, as well as other women with access barriers, who may develop post-partum problems and need to know to get care

                                                 ii.      Partners: “In Her Presence” (supports new refugees, including Somali), Maine Primary Care Association (FQHCs, including rural, homeless, vulnerable), Maine Health Department home health services

1.       The Maine organization is interested in developing relationships with these groups

c.       Discussion:

                                                   i.      Is the group Liz is working with clear on why they have focused on HTN for this population?

                                                 ii.      IRB is likely to exempt this as QI, not a research study with human subjects

1.       Check with the IRB at University of Southern Maine

                                               iii.      For the several focus groups planned, how to organize presentation of materials

1.       Ground this in the research question and goals

2.       Recognize difference in populations and organize the focus groups accordingly

3.       Strive for universal design principles in education materials

3.                   Next week:  TBD

Recorded by: CvE

NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans - compilation of resources

Dear Colleagues,

 

Effective immediately, all NIH applications that generate research data (Research Projects, Individual Career Development Awards (Ks), Small Business SBIR/STTR, and Research Centers) require a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP); this includes new proposals or active NIH awards going up for renewal with receipt date of January 25, 2023.

 

UVM Research Development, Libraries, and Sponsored Projects Administration have partnered to provide you with resources and tools to help you prepare the 2-page DMSP document:

 

• UVM's Guide to the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy: An organized collection of supporting resources about the new policy, effective January 25, 2023.

 

• Application Instructions: These guidelines describe all the elements that you must consider when developing and uploading your data management and sharing plan.

 

• UVM's DMSP Template Document: Research Development has prepared this template with all instructions from the Forms-H SF424 guide; the template includes an outline and prompts to help PIs complete the DMSP form. Also find a growing repository of sample DMS plans from the NIH.

 

• Budgeting: Information on how to budget for data management, storage, and sharing costs.
  • NIH instructions for requesting and justifying costs for data management and sharing.
  • Forms H Template for Budget Justification with instructions and prompts for each line item, including costs associated with data management, storage, and sharing.

 

• UVM Webinar Recording: Covers the basics of the NIH's new policy.

 

• DMPTool: UVM partners with DMPTool, a free service that helps researchers and institutions to create, review, and share high-quality data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements. Log in with your @uvm.edu email address.

 

• Other helpful links and resources include: FAIR Principles; DMS considerations when working with Human Subject Data;  Selecting a Repository

 

We hope you will find these resources helpful in writing your DMS plans. If you have questions or need assistance, please see the Campus Support page.

 

 

Thank you,

Jeralyn

 

Jeralyn Haraldsen, PhD (she/her) | Director

University of Vermont

Research Development

Office of the Vice President for Research

340 Waterman | 85 South Prospect Street

Burlington, VT 05405-0160

P: 802-656-2982 | jeralyn.haraldsen@uvm.edu

 

MS Teams is my preferred platform for video calls.

 

 

FW: Read: New Release of Health, United States, 2020-2021 Annual Perspective

This is a great source of background data on lots of health policy issues. FYI.

Health, United States, 2020–2021, the 44th annual report on the nation's health, is now available on the NCHS website.     About the report Health, United States provides a wide array of trends in health statistics to policymakers, public health professionals, and the public. Starting with the 2020–2021 edition, the Health, United States: Annual Perspective integrates selected analyses from the Health, United States topics released online. The theme for the 44th edition of Health, United States is health disparities.   Selected findings from Health, United States, 2020–2021: Annual Perspective include: Non-Hispanic Black people have higher heart disease death rates than people of other racial and ethnic groups. Health insurance coverage has increased over time, but Hispanic adults are the most likely to lack health insurance and have unmet need for medical care. Males have higher substance use and lower use of health care than females. Adults living below 200% of the federal poverty level are the least likely to have recently seen a dentist. Adults with no high school diploma or GED are more than four times as likely to smoke cigarettes as those with a bachelor's degree or higher. Males die three to four times as often from suicide and four times as often from homicide as females. The rate of new HIV diagnoses increased for non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native people, while the rates of new diagnoses in all other race and Hispanic-origin groups decreased. On Thursday, February 16th, join Health, United States for a live webinar on key findings of the report and updates on program modernization efforts.     National Center for Health Statistics 3311 Toledo Rd   Hyattsville, MD 20782     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd   Atlanta, GA 30329   1-800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)   TTY: 888-232-6348

UVM NNE-CTR Professional Development Core Research Scholars

Dear UVM Researchers,

The UVM NNE-CTR Professional Development Core is pleased to announce an inaugural request for applications for Research Scholars.

The mission of the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research (NNE-CTR) Network’s Research Scholar Program is to support early investigators/ junior faculty in becoming independent investigators leading clinical and translational research programs.

The desired outcome of the program is to enable investigators to write and submit extramural grant applications and scientific publications, with the goal of transitioning to independently funded investigators. This mission is accomplished through financial support, research mentoring, and professional development opportunities for the scholar.

Research Scholar (RS) candidates are:

• UVM faculty and NNE-CTR members with clinical science relevant degrees (e.g., MD, PhD, DO, PharmD, RN).
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• Junior faculty are individuals who are within 10 years of their terminal degree, residency or fellowship, and early investigators are individuals who are aiming for a career in research and/or may be making a career transition into research. 
• The investigator must not yet have received significant independent extramural research funding.

Materials must be submitted no later than 5 pm (EST), Wednesday, February 15, 2023.

Please contact Kimberly Luebbers with any questions regarding your application.

We look forward to your applications.

Best,  Kim and Renee

 

Renee D. Stapleton, MD PhD

Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Director, Medical Student Research

Associate Chair, UVM Institutional Review Board

NNE-CTR Translational Research Coordinator

 

Kimberly Luebbers, MSHS, RN, BSN
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research – Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont 

UVM NNE-CTR Professional Development Core Director

Director, Office of Clinical Trials Research

Administrative Director, Clinical Research Center