Diabetes + Innovation 2012

When:
September 23-25, 2012
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, VA

Mission:
The diabetes epidemic demands a powerful response from leaders in the diabetes community, nationally and globally. By bringing together the best minds across payers, providers, industry, government, research, prevention and treatment, Diabetes Innovation 2012 will act as a powerful marketplace of ideas, partnerships and collaboration to provoke thought, innovation and action that address the cost, productivity and quality of life impact of diabetes on our society.
Diabetes Innovation 2012 will provide a powerful foundation for sustained focus and excitement for advancement in all facets of diabetes prevention, treatment and payment reforms –from social media and gaming to translational research breakthroughs to mobile patient technologies and everything in between.
The Diabetes Innovation 2012 and Joslin Diabetes center issues a challenge to key leaders to be the catalyst for new partnerships, practical and affordable solutions, and hope in our common goal of a future without diabetes, its complications and co morbidities—and with billions of dollars in savings.

Website:
For more information, and to register visit:
http://www.joslin.org/diabetesinnovation2012.html

What Makes Research Ethical?

August 8, 2012
12:00 pm - 1:00pm

Moore Auditorium, McDonnell Science Building
4565 McKinley Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110

Presented by:
Samuel Klein, MD, Danforth Professor of Medicine
"Metabolic Normal and Metabolically Abnormal Obesity"

Janet McGill, MD, Professor of Medicine
"6-Month, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel-group Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of a New Formulation of Insulin Glargine Lantus both plus Mealtime Insulin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with a 6-month Safety Extension Period"

Jason Keune, MD, MBA, Ethics Certificate, Chief Resident in General Surgery, Article Highlights Ira Kodner, MD, Solon & Bettie Gershman Professor of Surgery, Program Facilitator

CNE will be awarded. Attendance at this session counts towards the RCR required educational training hours. Registration is required: http://hrpohome.wustl.edu/study_team/education/ethics_series.aspx.
 

2012 Disparities Partnership Forum

Overcoming Disparities: Diabetes Care in High Risk Populations

October 22-23, 2012
The Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

For four years, the American Diabetes Association has convened a forum that provided a platform to address the severe onset of Type 2 diabetes in high-risk populations. In 2012, the Association will be holding its 5th Disparities Partnership Forum, entitled Overcoming Diabetes: Diabetes Care in High Risk Populations.

The goal of this year's Forum is to collaborate with partners to address the disparity of cultural competency, health literacy and health equity in health care, specifically populations at highest risk for Type 2 diabetes, i.e., African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, American Indian/Alaskan Natives, Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, older adults, women, low income and uninsured persons.

Who should attend?
Healthcare professionals
Students
Community health educators
Academicians
Community leaders and lay people
Public health practitioners and officials
Policy makers and analysts
Government officials
Researchers
Program administrators
Patient advocacy groups and voluntary health organizations

Additional information:
http://www.diabetes.org/in-my-community/programs/partnership-forum/2012-disparities-partnership.html

NIH mHealth Training Institute

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with mHIMSS, will host the NIH mHealth Training Institute at the 2012 mHealth Summit on December 1^st and 2^nd. The mHealth Institute is designed to provide behavioral and social scientists tools to successfully add mobile health technologies to their research in a collaborative team environment with mentorship from leaders in the fields of engineering, medicine and the behavioral and social sciences.

This two-day Institute will provide participants with an overview of the central multidisciplinary aspects of mobile and wireless research. The training will follow a project from conception through dissemination led by a panel of experts.  Participants will be involved in didactic sessions targeting major cross-cutting research issues and interdisciplinary team exercises developing mHealth research projects.

A limited number of scholarships, sponsored by the mHealth Summit, are available for early career researchers.

Registration:     In your mHealth Summit registration, request the NIH mHealth training Institute. Please note that there is an additional mHealth Summit fee of $100.00 to attend the training.

Space is limited to 50 attendees and will be based on first come first serve basis 

·         Attendees of the training institute must also be registered to attend the mHealth Summit

Registration for the training institute opens on Monday, August 20th, 2012.

Website:

http://www.mhealthsummit.org/

Institute:

Saturday, December 1	10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday, December 2	9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

WU-CDTR & NCAI Scholar Pre-Conference Workshop

The Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop at the 2012 Native Research Network Conference. 

Ensuring Diabetes Research Makes a Difference in Native Communities: Using Policy, Translation, and Culturally-Based Science to Strengthen Community Health – NCAI Policy Research Center in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for Diabetes Translation Research and funded by NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Malia Villegas, Ph.D

For more details about the Native Research Network Conference, please visit their website: 

http://nativeresearchnetwork.org/2012%20National%20Conference.htm

International Diabetes and Depression Conference, October 9 - 10, 2012

Purpose: The International Conference on Diabetes and Depression is a multidisciplinary meeting focused on the co-morbidity of these two significant chronic conditions. The primary goals of the conference are to a) present results of current research related to the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of co-morbid diabetes and depression and b) identify important research gaps and opportunities that are likely to lead to improved care and outcomes for co-morbid diabetes and depression. The meeting will include expert speakers, discussants, and panelists from the United States and other countries.

Logistics:

·         Dates:  October  9-10, 2012 at the Dulles Hyatt, 2300 Dulles Corner Blvd., Herndon, Virginia, USA 20171.

·         Meeting Co-Chairs:  Norman Sartorius and Sherita Golden

·         Planning Committee:  Wayne Katon, Irwin Lucki, Richard Holt, Larry Cimino,  Mary de Groot, Christine Hunter and Peter Muehrer

·         Registration site: http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/News/Calendar/DiabetesDepression12.htm

NIH Announces New Online Resources for Behavioral and Social Science Research Methods

See copy of NIH press release below.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) <http://obssr.od.nih.gov/index.aspx>

For Immediate Release: Friday, March 23, 2012

CONTACT: OBSSR Office of Communications, Ann C. Benner, 301-594-4574, <e-mail:annb@nih.gov>

               

NIH LAUNCHES ONLINE RESOURCE ON BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHODS

A Web-based interactive anthology will provide psychologists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists with the latest research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease.  The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource(http://www.esourceresearch.org/), called e-Source.

Because behavioral and social scientists hail from widely varying disciplines from political science to social work research, there was a need for a central resource for current, high quality behavioral and social science research methods.  With contributions from international experts, this anthology provides authoritative answers to methodological questions and sets quality standards for the research community.

The goal of the program is to demonstrate the potential of behavioral and social science research, focusing on applying research findings to public health activities and the potential to enhance biomedical research.  It is also a useful training resource for biological scientists, providing them with a basic foundation for collaborations with behavioral and social scientists.

"The behavioral and social sciences research community has long needed an easily accessible, low-cost central resource for standardized methods," said Dr. Robert M. Kaplan, director of OBSSR.

Behavioral and social science has broad appeal and impact, and the program was developed to reach a wide audience of researchers, within the NIH, nationally and internationally. The Web-based interactive collection consists of 20 interactive chapters with new features including a discussion forum and enhanced note-taking capabilities. The twenty chapters cover a range of topics, but are accessible to all users, including those with limited familiarity of concepts such as how to conduct a qualitative analysis. The concepts are supported with interactive exercises and a full set of references linked to abstracts in Pubmed(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), a library of citations for scientific journals.

The program includes chapters under five major categories relevant to behavioral and social science. "Setting the Scene" introduces major concepts in design and planning of social and behavioral science research. "Describing How" addresses methodologies used to explain how something occurs (for instance, learning how a disease is distributed in a population by conducting a survey or an observational study). "Explaining Why" provides guidance on qualitative methods appropriate for describing why something occurs. "What Works" explores research methods that can evaluate whether one treatment is better than another and whether there are cost differences (for example, a brand drug versus a generic medication). "Emerging Issues" addresses challenges in behavioral and social science research.

Several features engage the user and promote sharing, including a discussion board, a notes feature to save content and share it with others, and a function which allows the user to print a page or a chapter as a PDF.  Unlike a printed textbook, the site has been developed with the expectation that it will provide a foundation of methods, but also evolve as new issues emerge.  Future topics may include the effects of living in a particular neighborhood, the impact of differences in language and lifestyles, and the science of writing questions.

                                                                                    

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) opened officially on July 1, 1995. The U.S. Congress established the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in the Office of the Director, NIH, in recognition of the key role that behavioral and social factors often play in illness and health. The OBSSR mission is to stimulate behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH and to integrate these improving our understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease. For more information, please visit <http://obssr.od.nih.gov>.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit <www.nih.gov>.

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