eRoundup for 3/25/11

First Poke, Then Hope

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The American Cancer Society is pleased to announce the Rural Health Community Grant and the Priority Populations Grant. The purpose of both grants is to increase cancer screening through community outreach and education, and coordination with screening services. Grant applications should address breast, cervical, and/or colorectal education and referral to screening. The community partners eligible to apply are hospitals, local health departments, and local community health centers. Contact tammy.williams@cancer.org for more information. Read more…

To further promote the goals of Winship and the ACTSI, resources are being pooled to provide support projects related to biology, genomics, causation, prevention, detection, screening, imaging, treatment and/or cures for cancer. Outcomes required to achieve this goal include follow-on funding, inventions, patent applications, licenses and commercial products. At least one PI must be a member of Winship. The other PI must be permanent faculty in the professorial ranks (assistant, associate, or full) from Emory, MSM or GA Tech. Read more…

Come learn about popular and emerging open source software tools used to manage and analyze Next-Generation Sequencing Software. The presentation will be led by Hao Wu, RSPH assistant professor of biostatistics. Dr. Wu’s work involves developing statistical methods and computational tools for interpreting large scale genomic data from high-throughput technologies such as microarrays and second generation sequencing. Read more…

Recent discoveries have made clear that the role of the cilium is not limited to motility. It is now recognized for its importance in signaling, functioning much like a cellular antenna. Cilia have been identified on nearly every cell type, and mutations in ciliary proteins cause phenotypes as varied as musculoskeletal defects, intellectual disability, and defects in left-right patterning. Come hear from experts in the field as they discuss the broad impact of this fascinating organelle. Read more…

This series provides useful information to improve the quality of clinical research. Courses are held the first Wednesday of each month from 7:00-7:30 a.m. in room 5012, on the 5th floor of Winship Cancer Institute. Read more…

Researchers have found that health information exchanges (HIE) may be a means of eliminating many of the issues that healthcare providers face when sharing data. Furthermore, this system could arm hospitals and other medical centers with complete patient records and provide a single platform for positive patient identification. At the ICF Public Health Breakfast, Dr. Joxel Garcia, MD, President and Dean, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will provide an overview on the current efforts to deploy Electronic Health Records and an HIE in Puerto Rico as well as the public health implications of HIE. Read more…

The Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT²) is pleased to announce the iHT² Health IT Summit at The Westin Peachtree Plaza which will bring together national thought leaders addressing the most pressing issues surrounding healthcare and information technology. Click Here to View the Summit’s Website.

Basic, clinical, and translational researchers are invited to a meeting in Bethesda, MD, designed to identify the issues and challenges surrounding the unique, unmet needs of pelvic pain and sickle cell pain. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about evidence-based research and treatments, and collaborate to identify gaps in knowledge about these pain conditions. ACTSI program director and sickle cell expert Dr. Carlton Dampier will provide the introduction. Read more.

A one hour webinar at 1:00 p.m. sponsored by NSF. Learn More.

Emory’s Department of Biology presents the Rhodes Lectureship by author Paul Ehrlich on April 26, at 4:00 p.m. in the School of Medicine, room 120. Read more…

Transform your ideas into the medical products of tomorrow. The conference explores how to properly document ideas, evaluate marketplace need, prepare and file patents, interact with regulatory bodies, and license ideas. Prototype development and evaluation, product manufacturing, and tips in design and engineering will also be covered. The convention is hosted by GA Tech’s Translational Research Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Science and sponsored by the ACTSI’s Translational Technologies & Resources (TTR) program. Read more…

Sponsored by AMIA, professional organization for biomedical and health informatics, PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health is a consensus-building meeting that features Seth Foldy MD, MPH, FAAFP of the CDC as keynote speaker and five topical tracks (ethics, technical framework, training/workforce development, research/evaluation, and sustainability) in a series of break-out sessions that will result in the next informatics agenda for public health.

William Stead, MD, associate vice chancellor for health affairs, chief strategy and information officer and chief information architect at Vanderbilt University, will present on April 26, at 5:00 p.m. in Emory’s WHSCAB (1440 Clifton Rd.) auditorium. Read more…

The overarching goal of this summit is to bring together key individuals applying systems approaches to research in molecular medicine and its application to the diagnosis or treatment of disease. Sometimes also called personalized medicine, this emerging field is beginning to yield the first fruits of the knowledge of the human genome. The broader goal is also to advance the knowledge of the power of systems biology in basic biomedical research as well as clinical and translational science. Click here for the impressive list of speakers and more information.

NIH's National Center for Research Resources Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program and the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) will sponsor a one-day symposium designed to encourage collaboration and resource sharing among members of the Military Health Service (MHS) and the CTSA consortium. The goal for the AFMS CTSA Collaboration Symposium: Opportunities in Translational Science is to generate collaborative research opportunities and ways to share data resources among the Health Services Data Warehouse, VA, CTSA Consortium, FDA, AHRQ, NIH, and academic research experts. Contact Jody.Sachs@nih.gov for more information. Videocast available: click here to link to the videocast on May 13.

AHRQ announces intent to support individual mentored and independent career-development grants (i.e., K01, K02, K08 grants) to doctorally-prepared clinicians and scientists interested in pursuing research careers related to evaluating and comparing healthcare delivery system designs; developing and evaluating system redesigns; and implementing and disseminating effective, evidence-based design practices. Read more…

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