Join Advance-CTR for the next installment of our highly rated Mentoring Training Program on October 23 and 30 at the Brown University School of Public Health.

This is part one of the two part sessions. Both sessions must be completed in order to receive the certification. 

Faculty who mentor junior investigators are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to grow as a research mentor and connect with colleagues.Participants will learn how to improve their relationships with mentees and become more effective mentors to junior investigators.

This training will be facilitated by Suzanne Colby, PhD, and Michael Mello, MD, MPH, who are trained by the National Research Mentoring Network to facilitate this nationally recognized mentoring curriculum.

This peer-driven program expands mentors’ knowledge through exposure to the experiences of all participants. Attendees will engage with as many mentoring experiences as they would typically handle in a decade.

Faculty who mentor junior investigators who conduct clinical and translational research are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to more senior mentors.

Learn more about the program on AdvanceCTR.org , or click the link above to register. 

Open Access and Scientific Publishing   The landscape of scientific publishing continues to change rapidly, particularly since the emergence of Open Access publishing models. While researchers enjoy a growing array of options to make their work available to other scientists and the general public, the proliferation of competing publishing models and venues can prove difficult to navigate.

This informational session is intended to help both new and established researchers make educated decisions when it comes time to publish their scientific reports and/or data. We will seek to define the different publishing models (e.g., paywall/toll-access and open access), subtypes of open (e.g., green, bronze, gold), evolving copyright and licensing models (e.g., Creative Commons), and manuscript/data repositories. Finally, we will highlight a list of reliable resources containing information about potential venue(s) for various research outputs, including services available to students and faculty via the Brown University Library.

We will be joined by Jason Gantenberg, MPH, PhD Candidate, School of Public Health; Erin Anthony, Biostatistics & Public Health Librarian, Rockefeller Library; and Andrew Creamer, Scientific Data Management Specialist, Rockefeller Library.

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Diagnosis has always been a core part of medical care and recently it has become an important area for research as new studies highlight the frequency and importance of misdiagnosis. Along with this trend, is a rapid growth in diagnostic decision support systems. These have a long history in health informatics primarily designed for physician use, recent systems increasingly target patients. Often termed Symptom Checkers, these web based tools or mobile apps claim to assist in diagnosis and/or triage decisions. In this presentation, he will review the types of symptom checkers available, the potential benefits and risks for patients, and the surprising lack of evaluation studies and evidence of safety. He will also discuss his research in this area and upcoming studies particularly focused on heart disease and emergency care. 

 

HAMISH FRASER, M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.P., M.Sc., FACMI, IAHSI

Associate Professor of Medical Science, Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University

Associate Professor of eHealth, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Dr. Fraser trained in General Medicine, Cardiology, and Knowledge-Based systems at Edinburgh University. He completed a fellowship in clinical decision making at MIT with a focus on diagnostic decision support for heart disease. His work has also focused on developing medical informatics tools for some of the most challenging environments in low income countries. As Director of Informatics at the leading Healthcare NGO Partners in Health, he co-founded and co-leads OpenMRS, an open source EMR project. He was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2006-2015.  

His main academic focus is in the evaluation of medical information systems and understanding the impact of information and communications worldwide. Dr. Fraser also focuses on improvement of care for non-communicable diseases, particularly heart disease. His recent work at Brown University has focused on diagnostic decision support systems for patients with heart disease and emergency care.