http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/3568 CCTS Master Calendar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15956625 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15956625 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:00:00 CST Speaker: Yves A. Lussier, MD, FACMI, Professor of Medicine and of Engineering, Clinical Research Information Officer (CRIO) and Assist. Vice President for Health Affairs, Director, Institute for Interventional Health InformaticsTitle: "Genome-wide Network Models as Underpinning Mechanisms of Personal Therapeutics" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16321048 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16321048 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:00 CST Guest Speakers: Sergey Neckrysh, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief of Spine Surgery Section, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago and Krysztof Siemionow, MD, PhD, Asst. Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Illinois at ChicagoTitle: "Update on Surgical Treatment of Primary and Metastatic Spine and Spinal Core Tumors"Lunch will be provided http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/12910406 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/12910406 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:30:00 CST Speakers: Benjamin Avner and Joseph ZapaterTitle: TBALUNCH WILL BE SERVEDFor more information contact Irene Ziaya at (312) 413-7316 or iziaya1@uic.edu http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16693190 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16693190 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:00:00 CST Speaker: Dr. Scott C. Blanchard, Associate Professor, Deparment of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeTitle: "Imaging molecular machines at the single-molecule scale"Host: Dr. Miljan Simonovic, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of MedicineMolcular systems exhibit dynamics overa broad range of length and time scales that are critical to function. Our laboratory's goal is to develop and implement single-molecule fluorescence-based methods that inform on these processes for the purpose of delineation the order and timing of conformational events in order to better understand biological and pharmacological regulation. In this lecture, efforts in the areaof protein synthesis catalyzed by the bacterial ribosome will be discussed in the broader context of enabling aspects of this biophysical approach. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16041459 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16041459 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST Speaker: Paul Estabrooks, PhD, Professor of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTitle: "Integrated-Research Practice Partnerships to Promote Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Weight Control"All interested physicians, researchers, post-docs, students and technicians are invited to attend this seminar.Hosted by the Cancer Center Population Health, Behavior and Outcomes Program http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16454038 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16454038 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:30:00 CST The UIC College of Nursing will hold its Annual Nursing Research Day on Friday, Mar 2. Keynote speaker:Terri Weaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean, College of Nursing http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14681941 Announcement http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14681941 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:30:00 CST http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15491766 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15491766 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:30:00 CST Speaker: Vijay Khiani, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases oand NutritionTitle: "Advances in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in the Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)"Learning Objectives:Review new findings of the comparative/clinical effectiveness and safety in gastroesophageal reflux disease, including evidence of clinical efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of drug theraph;Explain the use of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease;Identify gaps in the evidence and what additional research needs to be conducted.TARGET AUDIENCE: This educational program has been designed for a multi-disciplinary audience of pharmacists, physicians, scientists, allied health professionals, and trainees, including pharmacy/medical students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows.Lunch will be provided. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15494594 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15494594 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST VA Database and Methods Cyber Seminar Series The VIReC Database and Methods Cyber Seminar Series assists VA researchers in accessing and using VA databases for research. Faculty from VIReC and guest lecturers present these informational seminars to assist VA researchers in accessing and using VA databases for research. The objectives of this series are to:Become aware of research that has used VA dataLearn about 'best practices' in using VA databasesUnderstand approaches for using specific data in evaluating outcomesUnderstand limitations of secondary data for specific concepts and outcomesSeminars are held on the first Monday of the month from 12 noon - 1 PM (CT). http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14465524 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14465524 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:00:00 CST Cancer Research Forum and Poster Prize CompetitionAll faculty, fellows, students and investigators are invited to present posters on cancer-related research in basic, clinical and translationalareas of investigation.Keynote Address: Genomics of Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Breast Cancer and Endocrine ResistanceKeynoteSpeaker: Benita Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois and College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and a world renowned expert on nuclear hormone receptors, especially estrogen receptors and their actions in breast cancer and reproductive tissues.Prizes for best posters: 3 Student Awards of $500 each and 3 Post-docAwards of$500 each. All UI Graduate orUndergraduate Students and Fellows* are eligible. Abstract submission deadline: February 20, 2012.For more information, visit: http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=506244&pageId=15020443 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/8283604 Announcement http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/8283604 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST REACH Professional Development Workshop Series: "UIC Biorepository: Why? How? Where? When? You" As part of a CCTS initiative, the UIC Biobank is being re-established to address the needs of campus clinical and translational researchers. The new facility will house both tissue and non-tissue samples, and will eventually be coupled to information from the Research Data Warehouse, thereby providing genomic and clinical data to campus researchers. Bernie Santarsiero, PhD Research Professor, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and the Dept of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy Administrative Coordinator of Translational Resources, CCTS March 6, 2012 Room 2175 COMRB 12noon-1pm. Lunch will be provided. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14540920 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14540920 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST Speaker: Nancy A. Speck, PhD, Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PATitle: "Runx1-CBFbeta Function in Hematopoietic Cell Formation"Host: Kishore Wary http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16640830 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16640830 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:30:00 CST You are cordially invited to the 25th Annual Clinic and Research Day at the College of Dentistry, Thursday, March 8, 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.Keynote Speech at 1:00 p.m. ; ?Salivary Biodiagnostics in Oral and Systemic Diseases? with Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole, PhD, President, American Association for Dental Research; Alvin L. Morris Professor of Oral Health Research, Director of the Center for Oral Health Research and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Dentistry, Univeristy of Kentucky.Program includes basic science and clinical research poster presentations, clinical case competitions, and dental product vendor exhibits.Poster Sessions: 8:30a.m. ? 12 Noon Buffet Lunch: 12 Noon CaseCAT Presentations: 2:15p.m. Awards Ceremony at 3:15 p.m.For more information, please contact: Dr. Phillip Marucha, Associate Dean for Research, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago. Or visit: http://go.uic.edu/CRDay. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/448915 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/448915 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/10464307 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/10464307 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:30:00 CST Please join us for a series of monthly seminars (third Thursday) focused on topics related to wound healing and tissue regeneration. The seminar series will feature presentations highlighting the latest research in the basic science and clinical aspects of wound repair and tissue regeneration. Light lunch will be served. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15990570 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15990570 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:00:00 CST ResearchMatch, brought to UIC investigators by the CCTS, now has Researcher Training on the Web! Learn about how this national registry can be used in recruitment for your clinical research. Please register for the training by clicking on this link: https://student.gototraining.com/rt/8665119536011522560. The training can be attended more than once. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the training. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14459868 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14459868 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:00:00 CST Howard Ozer, MD, PhD, Director, will present. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14555195 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/14555195 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:00:00 CST Please join the College of Pharmacy for its 3rd annual Research Day. The Day's lecture will be presented by Dr. William fenical, Distinguished Professor of Oceanography and Pharmaceutical Science, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.As usual, the Research Day will also include poster presentations by our students, opportunities to network with our alumni judges and an awards ceremony. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16032964 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/16032964 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CST Speaker: William Fenical, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Oceanograph and Pharmaceutical Science from Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of OceanographyTitle: "Marine Microbial Anticancer Agents Select for Novel Intracellular Targets" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15644382 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3568/15644382 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:00 CDT Speaker: William Hersh is Professor and Chair in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)Title: Secondary Use of Clinical Data from Electronic Health Records: The TREC Medical Records TrackAbstract: The growing use of the electronic health record (EHR) to document clinical care provides new opportunities for other beneficial uses of EHR data. These include biomedical research, quality measurement and improvement, and public health surveillance. In this talk, Dr. William Hersh will provide an overview of the motivations, techniques, and challenges for secondary use of EHR data. He will go into further detail on research in this area, including discussion of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Medical Records Track, a challenge evaluation that uses a large test collection of de-identified records to identify patients who might be eligible for clinical studies.Bio: William Hersh is Professor and Chair in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, OR. Dr. Hersh is an innovator and leader in the field of biomedical and health informatics. He received his BS in Biology from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1980 and his MD from University of Illinois Chicago in 1984. After completing residency training in internal medicine at University of Illinois Hospital in 1987, he completed a Fellowship in Medical Informatics at Harvard University in 1990. He then joined the faculty of the OHSU School of Medicine, where he rose through the ranks to Professor and became the inaugural Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology that was launched in 2003.Dr. Hersh is known for his research in several areas. His earliest and still most productive area has been information retrieval (IR), where he has authored over 125 peer-review scientific papers as well as published the book, Information Retrieval: A Health & Biomedical Perspective, which is now in its third edition published by Springer. Dr. Hersh has also played leadership roles in several large IR challenge evaluations, including the TREC Genomics Track, the ImageCLEF Medical Image Retrieval Task, and the TREC Medical Records Track.Another area of research that Dr. Hersh has pursued is informatics workforce development. This derived from his work in developing educational programs in the field at OHSU, and has helped secure federal funding to increase the workforce as well as establish clinical informatics as a new medical subspecialty approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Hersh is also active in clinical research informatics, providing various leadership roles in informatics in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical & Translational Research Award (CTSA) Program.Dr. Hersh is also known for his innovation and leadership in biomedical and health informatics education. He directs the OHSU Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, which is one of the largest in the country. The program trains future researchers through its PhD and postdoc master's program as well as future practitioners through its master's and certificate programs. He spearheaded the delivery of the latter programs via distance learning. Dr. Hersh also partnered with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) to launch the 10x10 ('ten by ten') program, which has provided a detailed introduction to informatics for over 1200 health care and other professionals.Dr. Hersh is also providing leadership in two projects related to developing and expanding the health information technology (HIT) workforce to achieve 'meaningful use' of electronic health records under the stimulus bill. One project funds 148 students in the OHSU program over three years, while the other develops curricula for community college programs for shorter-term programs. The latter has resulted in a national HIT curriculum that is available to all educators and not just community colleges.Dr. Hersh has won numerous awards for his innovations. Most prominent among these are the OHSU Faculty Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for his educational accomplishments in 2007 and the AMIA Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics in 2008. Dr. Hersh has also been named to the Modern Healthcare Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in 2010 and 2011.