In this episode, our host, McKenzie Ritter, Associate Director for Education and Training and Director of the ATLAS Program for the CTSC, sits down with Mary Dolansky, PhD, Co-Lead for the Workforce Development Team and Associate Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. McKenzie and Mary discuss ongoing developments in workforce development, research education, and how we're building the future of the Research Support Profession.

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In this episode, our host, Jerry Tribout, Research Participant Recruitment Manager for the CTSC, sits down with Erika Trapl, MD, Director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Jerry and Erika will discuss a critical aspect of clinical research, recruitment. They will focus on strategies for building trust and ensuring that recruitment efforts are effective and inclusive. Plus, learn more about the resources the CTSC offers for research recruitment.

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Become a CTSC Member

Learn more about the Northeast Ohio  REDCap

Learn more about Sparc

Hosts: Jerry Tribout, Research Participant Recruitment Manager for the CTSC

Craig Jarrett, MD sits down with David Kaelber, MD CTSC of Northern Ohio Informatics Module Lead to discuss the intersection of informatics and translational science. Learn more about how systems like Epic, Cosmos, TriNetX, and Lyceum are used in research and provide insights into health trends and medical discoveries.

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Become a CTSC Member

To learn more about Sparc

To learn more about Cosmos

To learn more about TriNetx

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In this episode our host, Sue Marasco, PhD, Assistant Director of Research Programs and Proposal Development for the CTSC sits down with Umut Gurkan, PhD, CTSC Annual Pilot Lead and Wilbert J Austin Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. They discuss CTSC funding opportunities and the collaborative efforts that have advanced Dr. Gurkan's research and international clinical studies on sickle cell disease.

Plus, learn more about the CTSC's Annual Pilot funding as well as other funding opportunities available through the CTSC.

In this episode our host, Gelise Thomas, JD, MS, Director of Research Health Equity for the CTSC sits down with the Yvonka Hall, MPA, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition. Yvonka tells us stories about her life, her motivation behind the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, applying lived experience to effective community engagement and impacting health equity, her Long COVID research with Dr. Grace McComsey, work with the CTSC, and more!

Plus, learn more about the CTSC's Community Engaged Research Team.

“I want to help you just as much as you can help me. And I think that that's part of the most effective community engagement, is that at the end, the community has helped me as much as I have helped them.”

-Yvonka Hall

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In our first episode of From Research to Real Life, CTSC Principal Investigator, Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA, and Executive Director, Shannon Swiatkowski, MS, MHcM, give us a proper introduction to the CTSC and the resources available to researchers and community members including funding and training opportunities.

Plus, learn how to access all these services through our featured service: Research Navigation offered by our Assistant Director of Research Concierge Services!

“... The best way [to describe Translational Science] probably is to say we're doing research to improve the research process and make every research study easier to do.” - Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA

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• Become a CTSC Member

Hosts: 

• Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA, Vice Dean of Translational Research and Principal Investigator, Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio, Case Western Reserve University

S1E1 6.2024

Introducing From Research to Real Life - a podcast brought to you by the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio