Our next Clinical Research Education Series (CRES) will cover the topic, "Exploring Conflict of Interest." The event will take place Thursday, March 26, 2015, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Seattle Children's Research Institute in downtown Seattle. Doug Diekema, MD, MPH, of Seattle Children's will broaden...
The University of Washington's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, in collaboration with the Friends of Alzheimer’s Research, is funding pilot research awards related to the Center’s theme of Precision Medicine for the Molecular and Clinical Complexity of Alzheimer’s Disease. ADRC's long-term vision is to develop the knowledge...
Are you looking for a way to more effectively collect and manage your study data? Research teams across the world are turning to Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a free, rapidly evolving web tool for researchers in the translational domain, for just this reason. In this month's...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences is offering interactive, two-hour group trainings to academic, scientific, business, and medical leaders who want to expand their abilities to present in a convincing and effective manner. These sessions will take place on April 9, 2015, at UW Medicine South...
REDCap projects often have multiple stakeholders, each with a different area of interest or focus for the project. The REDCap proficiencies of these stakeholders can also vary, which poses challenges when you are trying to provide a high-level overview of how you are constructing the...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today the launch of Data QUEST, an electronic health record data-sharing network designed to offer researchers access to research datasets. Data QUEST spans community-based primary care practices in the states of Washington and Idaho, which allows researchers to...
Health-related scientific discoveries are often relegated to bookshelves after publication rather than being applied in clinical settings. The Group Health Research Institute (GHRI), in collaboration with the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, is seeking to bridge this gap between discovery and actual clinical practice with...
A unique fellowship experience training in nephrology and endocrinology got Dr. Ian de Boer, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, interested in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its wide range of metabolic abnormalities. These dual interests in have converged in his latest...
As an Emergency Radiologist at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Dr. Ken Linnau sees a number of high-energy trauma cases each year that include a broken pelvis. These patients are at risk for severe internal bleeding if the break disrupted nearby arteries, so the recommended...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today that its TL1 Multidisciplinary Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program is now accepting applications from students in all six University of Washington Health Science schools for its summer-long cohort. The first part of the application is due March...