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A long-time interest in T cells made immunotherapy research a natural fit for Dr. Rebecca Gardner when she decided to pursue a career in pediatric oncology. Her latest study, Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy, or PLAT, combines these interests to bring new treatments to pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Current therapies for ALL, the most...

Most REDCap users do not conduct their own statistical analysis, instead asking a professional statistician to do it for them. Since HIPAA rules prohibit sending data with personal health information via unencrypted email, a challenge arises in deciding how to get your statistician access to the data in a secure and hassle-free manner. Fortunately, REDCap can serve as an alternative...

Once a REDCap project is moved to production mode, any changes to variable or forms require the approval of the REDCap Administrator. The purpose of this approval step is to prevent accidental data loss or corruption of your data set. Most change requests are quickly approved within one business day, but certain categories require follow up. The three most common...

When: July 29, 2015 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: University of Washington Health Science Building, Room T474

Show Me the Money: Compensation for Participants in Research The CRC Journal Club is a forum for Research Coordinators to review published articles and hear perspectives of others to enhance job skills and practice. Our July 29 meeting will explore the challenges faced when offering...

Sponsors / Supporters Institute of Translational Health Sciences The Institute of Translational Health Sciences offers resources that increase the speed at which scientific discoveries can be translated into treatments and clinical practices that improve health outcomes for patients and communities. More than 6,000 researchers from nearly 200 different institutions across the five-state WWAMI region have collaborated with us to attract...

Data QUEST Partners WWAMI region Practice and Research Network (WPRN) The WPRN is a collaborative group of over 50 primary care practices in the five-state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) committed to research and practice improvement. Its mission is to improve the health and well-being of patients in their communities through the conduct of collaborative research that...

Data QUEST Team Biomedical Informatics Kari Stephens Kari Stephens, PhD, is the Director of Data QUEST and a practicing clinical psychologist and biomedical informaticist with the UW Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education departments. Her research centers on dissemination of evidenced based treatments and pioneering methods in the big data electronic health data space, with special...

Data QUEST, supported by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, is an electronic health data-sharing architecture across community-based primary care practices in Washington and Idaho. Data QUEST is designed to provide access to research datasets generated from electronic medical record systems within our primary care community-based practice partner settings to catalyze both regional and national health discoveries. From cohort discovery...

Efforts to expand translational health research across the five-state WWAMI region received a recent boost with the award of six pilot grants by the Institute of Translational Health Sciences to academic investigators collaborating with regional clinical research networks. The two-year awards, each for $13,000, seek to build partnerships between scientists, clinicians, and communities and expand the dissemination and implementation of...