The Advance-CTR Translational Research Seminar Series gives Pilot Projects recipients, Mentored Research scholars and other clinical and translational researchers the opportunity to present their work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting. Presentations, followed by feedback, allows presenters the opportunity to refine and strengthen their research progress.
The spring schedule for the Advance-CTR Seminar Series is below. Seminars are available to attend in person, or watch remotely via Zoom.
Spring 2019 Seminar Series:
| May 9, 2019 |
Brown Molecular Medicine, 70 Ship Street, Room 107 12-1 p.m. |
Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD: "An In Vivo Study of Treprostinil, a Prostacyclin Analog, in the Prevention of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury to the Kidney"
Kathryn Demos, PhD; Jessica Unick, PhD; and David Williams, PhD: "Memory Bias of Affective Responses to Physical Activity: A Novel Intervention Target for Increasing Physical Activity"
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| June 13, 2019 |
Providence VA Medical Center, Building 35 Conference Room 12-1 p.m. |
Orestis Panagiotou, MD, PhD; and Tom Trikalinos, MD, PhD: "Computational Health Services Research to Identify Use of Low-Value Care in Rhode Island"
Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, PhD: "Medicare Advantage Plan Choice and Selection among Vulnerable Seniors"
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2018-2019 Seminars:
| September 13, 2018 |
University of Rhode Island |
Ashley Buchanan, DrPH, and Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD: "New Methods to Evaluate the Effects of Opioids in Provider-Based Networks"
Diane DiTomasso, PhD, RN: "Post-Partum Mothers' Experiences with Newborn Weight Checks in the Home" |
| October 11, 2018 |
Rhode Island Quality Institute |
Shira Dunsiger, PhD, and Beth Bock, PhD: "Exploring Second-to-Second Exercise Intensity and Disease Risk Outcomes"
Thomas Serre, PhD: "Automating Pathology with Deep Learning" |
| November 8, 2018 |
Women and Infants Hospital |
Mari Mori, MD, and Ece Uzun, PhD: "Identification of Gene Pathway Involved in Phenotype Modification of Pompe Disease"
Cara Mathews, MD: "Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer and other GYN Malignancies" |
| December 13, 2018 |
Brown School of Public Health |
Karen Bulock, PhD: "Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact: A Translational Commercial Development Program for Brown Biomedical Technologies"
Judy Kimberly, PhD: "Evaluation Is Dating, Burgers, and Spaghetti Sauce" |
| January 10, 2019 | Rhode Island Hospital |
Megan Ranney, MD; Francesca Beaudoin, MD, PhD; Brandon Marshall, PhD; and Elizabeth Samuels, MD: "ED Smart Notifications: Real-time Predictive Modeling of At-Risk Emergency Department Patients"
Annie Gjelsvik, PhD, and Adam Sullivan, PhD: "Translating an Area-Based Socio-Economic Deprivation Index into Clinical Practice" |
| February 14, 2019 | Warren Alpert Medical School |
Michael Paradiso, PhD, and Michael E. Migliori, MD: "Development of a Visual Prosthetic for the Blind"
Ou Chen, PhD, and Steven Toms, MD: "Development of Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Nanoprobes to IL13R2α for Specific Labelling of Glioma" |
| March 15, 2019 | Butler Hospital |
Claire Blevins, PhD, and Ana Abrantes, PhD: "The Development of a Personalized, Real-time Intervention for Substance-Using Emerging Adults Leaving Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization" Valentin Antoci, MD, PhD: "Modification of Orthopaedic Biomaterials with Osteolysis Inhibitors and Osteoconductive Peptides" |
| April 11, 2019 | Brown Molecular Medicine |
Hector Lopez-Vergara, PhD: "Towards Testing the Cross-Cultural Validity of Dual-Process Models of Alcohol Use"
Kirsten Langdon, PhD: "Novel Digital Health Intervention to Promote Engagement in and Adherence to Medication-Assisted Treatment" |