The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which oversees the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) held by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, recently released its 2012-2013 Annual Report. The report provides an update on the projects, progress, and achievements of the CTSA program...
Dr. Katherine Odem-Davis, a Biostatistician and Research Scientist at the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), has been invited to present at the Society for Clinical Trials 35th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on May 20, 2014. She will be part of a three-person panel that...
Researchers seeking access to clinical data for observational study purposes have historically faced challenges when trying to determine cohort sizes for their investigations. Through the Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ De-identified Clinical Data Repository (DCDR), researchers now have access to a secure, web-based tool that...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today the launch of its new Self-Directed Learning Center. This free online learning repository for translational health sciences is adaptable to individual learning needs and covers domains ranging from research initiation to data analysis and management to professional...
A key component of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences’ Community-Engaged Research and Regional Collaborations program is its Regional Advisory Workgroup. The Workgroup supports ITHS’ regional collaboration efforts, helping ITHS to focus its attention on issues of importance to translational science in the five-state WWAMI...
The Association for Clinical and Translational Science has accepted four abstracts from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) for poster presentation at the Translational Science 2014 Meeting, which will take place April 9 to 11, 2014, in Washington, DC. The accepted abstracts discuss the...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), in partnership with the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research and Fred Hutch, hosted a panel discussion and networking reception for National Institutes of Health K-Award recipients on February 27, 2014. The event, which was the first of its...
Four abstracts from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) were accepted for presentation at the American Medical Informatics Association 2014 Joint Summits on Translational Science. This meeting will take place April 7 to 11, 2014, in San Francisco. The ITHS poster presentations will discuss...
Evaluation & the Health Professions recently published a journal article written by a group of Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) faculty and staff describing ITHS’ hybrid approach to program evaluation. The authors, led by Dr. Craig S. Scott (pictured), detailed their rationale for focusing on...
Rural and underserved populations often do not have opportunities to be involved in the latest healthcare research due to their geographic remoteness and lack of affiliation with academic medical centers. The WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN) seeks to break down these barriers by...