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27 Jan SUGAR Study Seeks Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Strategies in Kidney Disease
Ian De Boer, MD, MS 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 project, SUGAR: Study of Glucose and Insulin in Renal Disease....
27 Jan Implementing Innovations into Community Practice
This program will prioritize and implement high potential innovations into practice. 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 their new initiative, “Implementing...
29 Jan ITHS Launches Tool to Harness Primary Care Data for Research
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 conduct research in more generalizable and distributed populations than is often possible with health data....
11 Feb REDCap Tip of the Month: Leveraging the Codebook
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 project’s variables. One solution to this challenge is to leverage the Codebook that is already...
17 Feb ITHS to Host Public Speaking Workshop on April 9
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 Lake Union in Seattle. Participants at the session will learn and practice, with personalized...