ICTR Enrichment Series
Upcoming Events
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3 pm – 4 pm |
Topic: “Where the Cloud Meets the Ground: Democratizing Health Data to Improve Community Health Equity” Guest Speaker: L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University School of Medicine Discussion will include a novel approach to democratize health system data, advancing efforts to investigate and address the social and environmental determinants of health as well as to improve community health equity. Co-Sponsored by UM School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and the UMB ICTR |
See Flyer for Zoom Webinar information |
Past Events
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“ICTR Drug Discovery and Development Core and Applications to Research” Speakers: Paul Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland (UMB) School of Pharmacy (SOP); Associate Director, Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core, UMB Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR); James E. Polli, Ph.D., Professor and Ralph F. Shangraw/Noxell Endowed Chair in Industrial Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics, UMB SOP, and Director, ICTR DDD Core. Drug discovery and development requires a range of activities (e.g. compound assessment, bioanalysis, formulation/pharmacokinetics). This presentation will describe the services available within the ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core (i.e. computer-aided drug design, clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics, mass spectrometry, and drug formulation). In addition, examples of DDD non-clinical research, as well as clinical research conducted through the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), will be presented. |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“Getting Connected to your Data – A Reproducible Workflow for Data Wrangling” Speaker: Jean-Paul Courneya, MS, Bioinformationist and Data Scientist, UMB HSHSL Wrangling. Munging. Data Sanitation. These and other names describe an aspect of the data analysis life cycle typically thought of as boring and unglamorous, but which occupies the majority of time spent during a data analysis project. The time you spend in preparing your data for analysis, while crucial, cuts into the time available for using software to produce a visualization, calculate a statistic, or run a favorite machine learning algorithm. The goal of this seminar is to provide a reproducible workflow for performing your own data wrangling. I will suggest methods to help you to: 1) get to know your data, 2) cultivate habits that will help you to spend less time on wrangling, and 3) optimally prepare your data for the output you're interested in producing. |
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“Leveraging Informatics Services at UMB to Make the Most of Your Research Funding” Speaker: Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology The purpose of this presentation is to introduce some of the informatics tools and services available to all UMB faculty. It will be directed towards trainees and early-stage researchers from all the UMB schools. We will focus on three services: the Research HARBOR, TriNetX, and REDCap. We will provide an overview of each, along with some tips and tricks to improve the quality of your next research project while making it faster, easier, and cheaper. |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“Should There be an App for That? Tips for Success in Funding and Developing Digital Technology-Based Interventions” Speaker: Cindy M. Schaeffer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine There is great interest in how digital technologies, such as mobile phone apps, wearables, and games, can improve health outcomes and the patient experience. However, the technical ability to digitize an intervention, in and of itself, is likely not sufficient justification for obtaining funding. Other factors, such as market feasibility, user engagement, and integration with existing technologies, must also be considered. This seminar will provide tips for how to propose and design digital tools that are user-centered, grounded in science, and likely to truly improve existing clinical practices. Trends in digital health technology design, such as use of gamification and artificial intelligence capabilities, will also be discussed. |
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“Data Science; Tools to Drive Implementation & Dissemination Research Impact” Speakers: Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH, Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research; Program Chair, Drugs and Devices Collaborative (D2C), University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Co-Director UMB ICTR Informatics Core Cynthia Baur, PhD, Endowed Professor and Director, Horowit It takes 17 years to turn 14% of original research findings into benefit for patients. Promising research results do not automatically or easily translate into programs, interventions, and clinical practices that improve health, resulting in a gap between research and practice – also known as the valleys of death. The science of implementation and dissemination is an emerging, multidisciplinary field that aims to improve the relevance and uptake of research-based knowledge in real-world settings. FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION Using the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Knowledge-to-Action framework, Drs. Fadia Shaya and Cynthia Baur illustrate how to think about implementation and dissemination from the beginning of the research process and how implementation and dissemination science can help accelerate effective clinical practice and inform future research. z Center for Health Literacy at University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“An Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks with an Application to Denoising EEG” Speaker: Tim Oates, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Center for Cybersecurity, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) In this presentation, Dr. Tim Oates will introduce GAN architectures, describe how they are learned, and present a number of example applications, including generating "fake" people. Dr. Oates will also review some recent work done in his lab using GANs to denoise EEG data. Dr. Oates’ research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and natural language processing. He recently held a Post-doc position at the MIT Laboratory |
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
“UM Ventures, Baltimore” Speaker: Phil Robilotto, DO, MBA, Director, UMVentures, Baltimore, Associate Vice President, UMB Office of Technology Transfer, Office of Research and Development “A Tale of Entrepreneurship at the UMB BioPark— Founding and Successful Exit of a Billion Dollar Company” Speaker: Marco Chacon, PhD, Former Assistant Vice President, Industry Alliances, UMB Office of Research and Development, Founder and Former Chairman of Paragon Bioservices, Inc., Founder & CEO of IRAZU Biodiscovery, LLC., and Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland Foundation |
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
"Opportunities for Healthcare Research Using Administrative Data: An Introduction to IQVIATM Health Plan Claims Data" Speakers: Susan dosReis, PhD and Eberechukwu Onukwugha, PhD Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Pharmacy |
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