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CTSI Weekly Update

May 20th, 2013

About the Weekly Update

The Weekly Update, produced by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is your source of information about events, collaboration opportunities, career development opportunities and funding opportunities in clinical and translational science. Look for it every Friday. If you have an item you'd like to publicize in the Weekly Update, please contact Nicole O'Dell.

News Items

Featured Event: eRecord Monthly Education Series for Researchers

CTSI Year-Out Student Featured on WXXI

New Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program

NIH SBIR/STTR Conference

Complete Event Listing

Monday, May 20th
9:00 am -5:00 pm Symposium	Nanomaterials Symposium 2013: Frontiers in Materials Science for the 21st Century-Novel Materials for Sustainable Catalysis Full one-day symposium with the overarching theme of innovations in materials science and engineering necessary in order to advance catalytic applications. Keynote speakers will address the problem from several perspectives including discussions of photocatalysis, multifunctional nanoparticle catalysts, materials for water splitting, and novel fuel cell materials. Contributed papers will discuss catalytic materials science research at the University of Rochester and beyond.	Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall (River Campus)
12:00-1:00 pm eRecord Monthly Education Series	Printing From eRecord Easily Come learn how to navigate eRecord faster and more efficiently! New topics discussed every month! This Month: Printing from eRecord easily! Learn about the NEW activity that allows you to print from eRecord easily and more efficiently. Register here.	K-307 Auditorium (3-6408)
2:00-3:00 pm Training	RSRB Online Submission System (ROSS) Training RSRB ROSS training is held the 3rd Monday of every month from 2pm to 3pm. Please Click HERE to sign up.	Saunders Research Building (1.250)
Tuesday, May 21st
4:00-6:00 pm Faculty Development Workshop	Self-Assessment and Self-Monitoring Presented by Ronald Epstein, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry	Louise Slaughter Room (1-9555)
Friday, May 24th
12:00-1:00 pm HSR Seminar Series	Coordinated care in Multiple Sclerosis Presented by Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, MD, Professor of Neurology, SUNY University at Buffalo, Director Jacobs Comprehensive MS Center for Treatment and Research, Jacobs Neurological Institute	Helen Wood Hall (1w-502)
1:00-2:00 pm Training Session	URMC Health Research Website Training Session Attend this training session and learn how to list an open study on the URMC health research website. All URMC faculty and staff are invited, just drop in.	Saunders Research Building (1.402)
3:45- 5:00 pm Networking Opportunity	International Research Collaboration Opportunities Faculty, staff, and research students are invited to attend a networking session with many of the University's key international partners. Senior staff from 12 of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) will discuss opportunities for engagement, both through the WUN and at the bilateral level. For more information, and to RSVP, click here.	Schlegel Hall
Thursday, May 30th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm High Noon at Miner	Massive Open Online Courses: The World's Best Courses for Free The MOOC revolution is making the best teachers and classes available at no cost to anyone with an internet connection. We’ll look at the “big three” MOOCs, how to enroll in a MOOC, and whether you can MOOC your way through college. Plus, we’ll feature sneak previews of some of the more tantalizing MOOCs. Everyone is welcome to this free event. Bring your lunch if you’d like. For more information, contact Linda Hasman at 275-3399 or Valorie Hallinan at 275-6873.	Miner Library
Wednesday, June 5th
7:30 am -4:00 pm Colloquium	Annual Health Professions’ Faculty Development Colloquium Featured plenary speakers will be Pat Croskerry, MD, PhD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University. The colloquium will include workshops on a variety of topics, nteractive sessions and poster presentations by colloquium participants. Click here for the full program information and to register. Please contact the Office for Faculty Development at 276-3782 or via email with any questions.	School of Medicine and Dentistry
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Monday, June 10th
June 10th and 11th, 2013 Workshop	The SUNY ’Conversations in the Disciplines’ Workshop on Creativity and Innovation Could YOU be the next Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Watson and Crick? Is the next big breakthrough yours? With research dollars becoming harder and harder to come by, truly transformational ideas are the wave of the future. This is a workshop hosted by The University at Buffalo to help you reach the future ahead of your peers. Registration deadline is May 24th. Click here to register.	Ramada Hotel and Conference Center 2402 N. Forest Road • Getzville, New York 14068
Tuesday, June 11th
8:00 am -5:00 pm Conference	Effective Access Technology Conference Free all day event highlighting the challenges faced and the solutions developed to create Effective Access Technology at RIT. Register here by June 7th.	RIT Inn and Conference Center
Wednesday, June 12th
8:00 am-12:30 pm SCORE Workshop	5th Annual SCORE Half Day Seminar: Health Research Management for the Study Coordinator This seminar entitled will be presented for those who actively coordinate health research and will address promoting and improving the clinical research experience. Attendees can earn 3.5 continuing nursing education contact hours. A light breakfast fare will be available. For further details and to register please click here by June 5th.	Helen Wood Hall Auditorium (1w-304)
Thursday, June 13th
June 13th and 14th Workshop	Ideas to Innovation Workshop: Stimulating Collaborations in the Application of Resilience Engineering to Healthcare During this two day gathering at the National Academies’ Keck Building in Washington DC, world experts in resilience engineering and resilient health care will present a set of principles and practices that practitioners can leverage in their efforts to improve safety. Click here for the full agenda and registration information.	Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC
Thursday, June 20th
12:00-1:00 PM Lecture	Inaugural Institute for Innovative Education Lecture Presented by Dr. George Thibault, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Dr. Thibault will discuss the current and future state of interprofessional education in the health sciences. Lunch will be provided.	Class of 62 Auditorium
June 20th-June 22nd Functional Genomics Data Society Conference	Translational Genomics: Applications of Genomics to Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment FGED15 will focus on clinical applications of genomics to diagnosis and patient care, cancer genomics, big data & bioinformatics to support clinical diagnostics and patient care, and processing of next generation sequencing data.	Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington
June 20th- June 21st NIH Workshop	NINDS Inspire Workshop The NINDS INSPIRE (Improving Neurological Subject (and Provider) Participation In the Research Enterprise) Workshop is a working meeting with multiple focused roundtable working group sessions challenged with developing practical and practicable solutions, tools, and ideas for overcoming the barriers to efficient recruitment and retention to neurological clinical studies. Click here to register today and to view the agenda. There is no fee for registration but space is limited.	6001 Executive Blvd Rockville, Maryland United States
Friday, June 21st
8:00 am - 4:00 pm Symposium	Justice Involved Women Conference Join us for this exciting conference where researchers, practitioners and policy makers will present their work to disseminate evidence-based practices and interventions for justice involved women. Other discussion topics will include the state of the science, difficulties for informing practice, funding challenges and solutions for justice involved women. Register online here.	Staybridge Hotel, 1000 Genesee Street, Rochester, NY
Thursday, June 27th
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Symposium	3rd Annual URMC Stem Cell Symposium. There will be a full day symposium with posters, prizes, etc. Speakers will include Dr. Sally Temple (Neural Stem Cell Institute, Albany) and Dr. Lorenz Studer (Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYC).	Class of 62 Auditorium
Wednesday, July 3rd
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Wednesday, August 7th
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Wednesday, September 4th
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Monday, September 30th
September 30th-October 4th 9:00 am-5:00 pm Training course	Academic Core Curriculum for Junior Faculty A new week-long course designed to help Senior Instructors and Assistant Professors with clinical responsibilities identify the skills they need for more successful career advancement.	URMC
Wednesday, October 2nd
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Wednesday, October 16th
October 16th-17th International Conference	The 8th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research The conference will present International implementation and Global health health systems research. The key question at the conference is how we can improve health service delivery in low and middle-income countries? Conference registration and calls for poster abstracts are now open. Click here for more information.	Bergen, Norway
Friday, October 25th
9:00 am -4:00 pm Symposium	Undergraduate Research Day Undergraduate Research Day is for Juniors and Seniors within a few hours driving distance from Rochester. Please see our invitation for details!	Class of 62 Auditorium/ Flaum Atrium
Monday, October 28th
October 28th- October 30th NIH Conference	15th Annual SBIR/STTR Conference Thinking about applying to the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Research programs? Or are you a current grantee? The program agenda, registration, and other logistics will be announced in the coming months in both the NIH Guide and on SBIR.NIH.gov.	Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Wednesday, November 6th
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
Wednesday, December 4th
9:00-11:00 am CTSI Research Clinic	ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.	Saunders Research Building (1.201)
January 24th, 2014
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm URMC Symposium	3rd Annual Medical Scientist Research Symposium Featured presenter will be THOMAS R. CECH, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989)	Class of 62 Auditorium and Flaum Atrium