Please join us for the NEIU 25th Annual Student Research & Creative Activities Symposium to be held on Friday, April 14, 2017. One hundred sixty-five student projects will be presented with over 280 students participating as Presenters and Co-authors. To review a PDF copy of the Symposium’s program, please click on SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM-2017.

We hope that you will attend the Symposium. This is not only an opportunity for presenters but also for other students to gain interest in conducting research and creative activities. Perhaps you will be inspired to present your own project at the next year’s symposium. Please mark April 14 on your calendar and join us for this exciting event.

The Center for Community Health at Northwestern University is facilitating an upcoming Spanish Internal Review Board (IRB) Human Subjects Protection CIRTification Training that is open to ARCC and CCH partners to attend.

The session has been specifically designed to meet the needs of community partners participating in community-engaged research projects and will be conducted entirely in Spanish language.

Certification lasts for two years and is accepted by the IRBs at Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University, Rush University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois-Chicago. The pertinent details are as follows:

DATE: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
TIME: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Enlace Chicago, 2756 S Harding Ave, Chicago, IL 60623

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please RSVP by January 17^th with Josefina Serrato [email protected]

PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES SEMINAR

“Genetics of breast cancer risk in Latinas”

Wednesday, January 4, 2017, 3:30 – 4:45 PM

Medical Center AMB W229

Guest Speaker: Elad Ziv, University of California San Francisco, Department of Medicine

Webpage URL http://health.bsd.uchicago.edu/
Contact Name: Cheryl Martinez
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone: 4-3126

Please join ISGMH for the Lecture Series “Current Issues in LGBTQ Health”, featuring Jesus-Ramirez-Valles discussing his new book, Queer Aging.

As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men’s responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men’s approaches to friendship, caregiving, romantic and sexual relationships, illness, and bereavement is upending conventional wisdom regarding the aging process, LGBTQ communities, and the entire field of gerontology.

Queer Aging comprises scholar Jesus Ramirez-Valles’ probing conversations with 11 racially and economically diverse representatives of this pioneering generation of gay men-the gayby boomers. Through candid, first-person narratives, Ramirez-Valles’ subjects reflect on their varied experiences as late career professionals, retirees, AIDS survivors, caregivers for ailing partners, and witnesses to profound social and cultural change. Framed within a larger introduction to both Queer Theory and its history, these reflections provide context for understanding the aging arc and experience of older gay men.

Spanning sociology, history, cultural studies, and social work, Queer Aging will be a vital resource for students as well as health professionals who serve the gay community and communities of color.

Implementation science provides a multidisciplinary framework and set of rigorous methods to promote the integration of scientific evidence into healthcare practice, policy, and research. Implementation science seeks to improve population health by increasing system level adoption, wide-scale delivery, and sustainment of evidence-based interventions in communities and organizations. Beginning with this introductory presentation and continuing through this coming year, we will present a series of workshops to help investigators, clinicians, public health professionals, community members and other stakeholders understand how implementation science can advance their own healthcare practice, policy, or research.

In this first introductory workshop, we will present and illustrate some of the basic terminology, approaches, and methods used in implementation science. Illustrations focus primarily on evidence-based HIV preventive interventions, but because implementation science focuses on producing generalizable knowledge, the material is applicable to all areas of healthcare.

ATTEND FROM REMOTE LOCATION:

To join via Browser:
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To join via Phone:
+1.408.740.7256 or +1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)
Meeting ID: 274088775

PRESENTERS

C. Hendricks Brown, PhD
Director, Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM)
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Juan Villamar, MSEd
Executive Coordinator, Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

J.D. Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Nanette Benbow, MAS
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Third Coast Center for AIDS Research Scientific Working Group

New Connections is hosting a webinar on “Research Grant Application Resubmissions” on Tuesday, November 15 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET.

Registration opens today and will close at 5:00 pm ET, Thursday, November 10, 2016 or when we receive the first 50 registrants. 

You will be notified of your registration status and receive the information needed to join the webinar on or before Monday, November 14, 2016. 

Overview of the Webinar:

After submitting a grant application, you learn about the funding decision and are provided with a summary statement of reviewer critiques. For most of us, the grant application will not be funded on the first try and we are left with the possibility of resubmitting the grant for a second round of reviews. A number of questions arise: How can I interpret the score (or lack of a score)? Should I resubmit? How should I respond to the reviewer comments? How can I strengthen my application for resubmission?

In this webinar, Dr. Margarita Alegría and Dr. Benjamin Cook will provide suggestions and recommendations for resubmitting research grant applications. Reviewers’ comments can be numerous, difficult to address and/or understand, and at times conflicting. Building off of decades of experience applying and securing grants for projects in mental health care disparities and health services research, sitting on study sections, and ad-hoc review committees for federal and foundation grant applications, and providing consultation on the direction of extramural funding for federal and foundation organizations, Drs. Alegría and Cook will offer suggestions about how to work with program officers and incorporate reviewer comments to modify and improve the grant application.

For this webinar, Drs. Alegría and Cook have selected two grant applications that are in the resubmission stage written by New Connections network members and will provide advice on improving the grant application and responding to reviewer comments.

You must register for the webinar. Registration opens today and will close at 5:00 pm ET, Thursday, November 10, 2016 or when we receive the first 50 registrants.  You will be notified of your registration status and receive the information needed to join the webinar on or before Monday, November 14, 2016.  To register for the webinar, please follow this link:  Webinar Registration   Please direct all inquiries regarding the webinar to [email protected].

Margarita Alegría, PhD is the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Alegría is currently the PI of four National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research studies: the International Latino Research Partnership; Effects of Social Context, Culture and Minority Status on Depression and Anxiety; Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders; and Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Disorders. She is also the PI of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) project: Effectiveness of DECIDE in Patient-Provider Communication, Therapeutic Alliance & Care Continuation. Dr. Alegría has published over 200 papers, editorials, intervention training manuals, and several book chapters, on topics such as improvement of health care services delivery for diverse racial and ethnic populations, conceptual and methodological issues with multicultural populations, and ways to bring the community’s perspective into the design and implementation of health services.

Benjamin Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Director of the Health Equity Research Lab, Senior Scientist and Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University and is a health services researcher focused on improving quality of treatment for individuals living with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. He also has a particular focus on improving methods of measuring and understanding underlying pathways of healthcare disparities, and implementing these methods using national datasets and healthcare system electronic health records.  He has been PI of NIH R03 and R01 studies, and is currently Principal Investigator of an AHRQ R01 grant identifying the diffusion of comparative effectiveness research across racial/ethnic minority populations, a PCORI grant to improve understanding of treatment preferences among racial/ethnic minorities with depression and diabetes, and co-PI of a NIMHD R01 assessing the impact of changing Medicaid primary care provider payment on disparities in mental health care.

Women with disabilities are 22% less like to get screening mammograms than their non-disabled peers.  The barriers to breast cancer screening are many.   ScreenABLE Saturday is celebration of women’s health.  The centerpiece of which will be free accessible cancer screening for women with disabilities.

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Will provide the opportunity to learn about issues surrounding health disparities and health equity among socioeconomically diverse communities. Introduce health literacy as a means of intervention to improve patient outcomes, and promote strategy and skill building in the area of cultural competence.

Medical Education Day is our annual celebration of outstanding teaching and scholarship by faculty, housestaff and students. The event features workshops, innovative didactic presentations, and awards for teaching and educational research.

6th Annual Feinberg Medical Education Day

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Please be sure to register for this event.

For a conference brochure with a full schedule of events and detailed session descriptions, click here.

Keynote Lecture

David P Sklar, MD, Editor in Chief of Academic Medicine and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico HSC, will deliver the 6th Annual Medical Education Day keynote lecture. Click here for more information on Dr. Sklar’s lecture.