Research Week Kicks off October 21

Join UC Health and the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center in celebration of Research Week 2013: October 21-25. Mark your calendars now for a week full of research-focused events.

Monday, October 21

Research Week 2013 Kickoff Celebration
11 a.m., UC Medical Center Lobby
Hear remarks from leadership and patients impacted by clinical research. Awards to top researchers and/or programs will also be presented at this opening event.

Show Me the Money 
1 to 2 p.m., University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (G005G)
Find out who funds research studies and trials and get tips for finding these sources. Register online or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

Manage Your Research Identity
2 to 3 p.m., University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (G005G)
Learn to manage your research identity using unique author identifiers. This course will provide an overview of ORCID, My ResearcherID, and the Scopus Author ID. Register online or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

Tuesday, October 22

UC Health Research Day
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Café area across from Starbucks
Network with other researchers and staff to learn more about key research infrastructure in place at UC Health and the university. Nearly 20 programmatic posters will be on display. Participants include representatives from the Clinical Trials Office, Research Administration, the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training, Investigational Drug Services, and the EPIC Research Group, among others.

Data Management Planning
1 to 2 p.m., University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (G005G)
Get introduced to the importance of data management with tips for creating a data management plan and an overview of tools in the library to help with the process. Register online or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

Wednesday, October 23

Does the Evidence Support It?
8 to 9:55 a.m., UC Medical Center Staff Development Area*
Examine, through game-show format, common clinical practice and determine if the evidence presented supports it. Two different "Does the Evidence Support It?” sessions will be held (8:20 a.m. and 9:10 a.m.). Continental breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.

IOM Report on the Future of Nursing
10 to 10:50 a.m., UC Medical Center Staff Development Area*
Review research supporting the Institute of Medicine Report "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.”

Solving Problems with Interprofessional Teams
10:55 to 11:55 a.m., UC Medical Center Staff Development Area*
Hear from the principal investigator of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) interprofessional research project.

*The UC Medical Center Staff Development Area is located on the first floor of UC Medical Center. Enter the administrative hallway and turn right. Follow to end and look for signage.

Cincinnati Partnership for Nursing Research Retreat
1 to 5 p.m., UC College of Nursing (Invitation only)

Thursday, October 24

Academic Health Center All-Star Scientific Poster Session
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., CARE/Crawley Atrium
Submit a poster for this medical campus-wide scientific poster session. Researchers across the Academic Health Center are invited to participate. Posters must have been presented at a regional, national or international meeting in the past year. You may also generate on your own a poster from an oral session presented in the past year. A "Gallery of Excellence” will display the most impactful and/or award winning posters. Refreshments will be provided. Email Danielle Cornwall at cornwadm@ucmail.uc.edu for a link to the poster submission form or Register online.

Discovering Datasets
1 to 2 p.m., University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (G005G)
Learn out about data repositories including government data sets, figshare and Dryad. Register online or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

NCBI Tools
2 to 3 p.m., University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library Electronic Classroom (G005G)
Get information and training on the use of biomedical and genomic information databases of the National Center for Biomedical Informatics (NCBI). Register online or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

Friday, October 25

Brain Injury and Epigenetics: How Do We Advance the Science at UC?
Rieveschl Auditorium, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies
>>Full Symposium Agenda (PDF)
This day-long symposium focuses on the epigenetic, neurological and cardiovascular factors affecting brain injury and stroke. Roger Pancoast Simon, MD, professor of neurology and neurobiology at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD, vice chair for research and academic affairs in the psychiatry department at McGill University, will present keynote addresses focused on endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms in the brain, and how, at the molecular level, life experience can affect gene function. UC experts in brain injury, stroke, epigenetics and cardiovascular disease will present speed sessions on their research, which will open to broader scientific discussions to encourage cross collaboration. Continuing education credit is available for this event. RSVP by Oct. 21 to dama.ewbank@uc.edu.


Support for Research Week 2013 comes from UC Health and the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, as well as a grant from the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training.

If you have trouble accessing links above to register for UC Libraries courses, visit http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/home.aspx or email lauren.mills@uc.edu.

To access registration for the Scientific Poster Session, visit http://redcap.research.cchmc.org/surveys/?s=nk5BGU.

Questions about Research Week should be directed to Wendy Newman at wendy.newman@uchealth.com or Dama Ewbank at dama.ewbank@uc.edu.