Upcoming Meetings and Webinars
2021 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting
Nov. 17-19 -- Save the date for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held virtually and will feature plenaries and breakout sessions to frame PCORI’s proposed National Priorities for Health, and will cover topics such as health inequities, COVID-19, and patient engagement. Registration will open soon.
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Past ROCC Meetings and Webinars
NCATS Update Webinar: Launch of Collaborative Data Analytics Platform for Studying COVID-19
This AAMC webinar featured updates from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Joni L. Rutter, PhD, acting director of NCATS, presented details about the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) a partnership, led by NCATS, to create a COVID-19 analytics platform. N3C takes data gathered from electronic health records to build a centralized national data resource that researchers can use to study COVID-19. Dr. Rutter highlighted opportunities for researchers to access N3C data and answered questions about the N3C and other NCATS initiatives.
Clinician Well-Being and Resilience: What the Data Show and How We Move Forward
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As the COVID-19 public health emergency continues, academic clinicians face unique challenges as they juggle clinical, research, and administrative stressors. In this webinar co-hosted by ROCC and the AAMC’s Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS), Dr. Bernard Chang of Columbia University Irving Medical Center discussed the body of research on the results of stress on mental and physical health, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinician well-being. Dr. Chang also highlighted steps academic health centers can take to mitigate the negative impacts of stress across clinical, research, and educational missions. A Q&A session following the presentation was moderated by Dr. Mona Abaza of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Chair of the CFAS Faculty Resilience Committee.Â
Overview of the Final Interoperability and Information Blocking Rules
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Following the enforcement discretion announcements related to the release of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program final rule and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, the AAMC will present the key provisions of these regulations, requirements for providers and health systems, and updated implementation timelines.Â
Topics relevant to AAMC member institutions include: standards related to information blocking;Â updates to the 2015 Edition certification criteria for health information systems;Â new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals regarding electronic notifications; and the requirement that data be accessible through application programming interfaces (APIs).Â
Using Clinical Decision Support to Move Evidence into Practice: A Discussion with AHRQ
February 27, 2019: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) oversees initiatives to improve the quality of care through clinical decision support (CDS). In this webinar, Dr. Edwin Lomotan, Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Informatics for the Health IT Division in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at AHRQ described how the CDS Connect Repository is advancing evidence-based care into practice, presented findings from the project’s first use cases, identified CDS-related funding opportunities available through AHRQ, and highlighted ways stakeholders can contribute to CDS Connect.
The Latest Developments from the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program
This webinar series presented key initiatives happening at the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hub sites, upcoming funding opportunities available through the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and resources for fostering innovation and cutting-edge translational research activities.
Highlighting Academic Medicine's Partnership with the VA
EHR Optimization to Advance Learning Health Systems
October 18, 2017: The AAMC and the Donaghue Foundation hosted the Current State and Future Vision: Making EHRs Work for You summit at the AAMC Learning Center in Washington, DC. The summit brought together approximately 80 participants—among them chief medical officers, chief information officers, chief quality officers and leading researchers from health systems, along with representatives from government agencies, nonprofits, and foundations—to identify opportunities for improving EHR function to support the advancement of learning health systems.
Academic Medicine Investment in Medical Research Webinar
In June 2015, ROCC hosted a free webinar designed to help demystify indirect costs and institutional investment in research. Laura Yaeger, Managing Director from Huron Consulting Group, presented survey results from 46 medical schools concerning their total investment in the research mission. The findings illustrated the key components of institutional investment in research including startup packages and bridge funding. Download Slides (PDF).
Research in Residency Meeting
The AAMC and Research on Care Community hosted a meeting on May 28, 2015 which convened teams from institutions interested in enhancing their residency research experience. The goal of the meeting was to create a customized learning environment, matching learners with experts as a means to gather the information and strategies needed to enhance the research experience of their residency programs. Download the Research in Residency meeting notes (PDF).
- Scholarship and Residency Research: David Sklar, MDÂ (University of New Mexico and AAMC)
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- Preserving Science in Medical Schools: Sustaining Funding, Aligning Investigations, Valuing Teaching: Carrie L. Byington, MDÂ (University of Utah School of Medicine)
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- Implementing a Resident Research Program to Overcome Barriers to Resident Research: Michael Rothberg, MD, MPHÂ (Cleveland Clinic) and Tara Lagu, MD, MPHÂ (Baystate Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine)
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- Bridging the Gap: Supporting Translational Research Careers Through an Integrated Research Track Within Residency Training: Melissa R. Arbuckle, MD, PhDÂ (Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute)
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- Facilitation of Resident Scholarly Activity: Strategy and Outcome Analyses Using Historical Resident Cohorts and a Rank-to-Match Population: Tetsuro Sakai, MD, PhDÂ (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and Rita M. Patel, MDÂ (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
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