The ICTR Office of Recruitment and Retention (ORR) will hold a lunch lecture on Multi-Site Trial Recruitment and Retention at 12:00 p.m. in Broadway Research Building (BRB) 181 on Thursday, November 19, 2009. Lee Swartz, MBA, will be the presenter.

Ms. Swartz coordinates a multi-site study examining the long-term health effects of a weight loss intervention in older, obese, type 2 diabetics. As a study coordinator at Johns Hopkins for more than 20 years, she has also worked on the Research Coordinator Training Program and on a variety of investigator-initiated studies in Pediatrics and Epidemiology.

RSVP to RHsu6@jhmi.edu if you plan to attend. Lunch will be provided.

The ICTR would like remind everyone of the importance of using the new E-Verify system as outlined by Dean and CEO Edward D. Miller in the all-faculty email reprinted below:

If you are a faculty member who is or may be in the future a principal investigator of a federal contract, we want to inform you of new university procedures for verifying the identity and authorizing employment of current employees hired after Nov 6, 1986, and assigned to a federal contract, as well as all new university employees.

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Applications are now being accepted for the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholars (KL2) Program, which supports the clinical research training and career development of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty dedicated to a career in clinical investigation.

• You are invited to attend an information session on November 11, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. in the 2024 Building, Room 1-500Q.
• The deadline to submit your completed application is December 4, 2009, by 5:00 p.m. To apply, please visit jhcrs.jhmi.edu.

For information regarding eligibility, funding, and requirements, please visit our website at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/clinicalresearchscholars.

ICTR Deputy Director Charles M. Balch, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Oncology and Dermatology, is the honored recipient of the 2009 Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research.

The ACCC Board of Trustees and membership presented the award to Dr. Balch on September 24, 2009, in recognition of his "extensive research, leadership, and commitment to individuals with cancer."

Last fall I initiated the Clinical Research Management Database to help me understand what factors are making it easier or harder for us to conduct clinical and translational research within the Johns Hopkins SOM and SON. As part of this process, we systematically selected a sample of recent IRB-approved protocols for more in-depth assessment. We have had nearly 300 responses to the survey (nearly a 75% response rate), and I appreciate the many comments from faculty. I thought you might be interested in some of the main findings from the survey:

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The Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) Skills Building Workshop" is being offered on October 22, 2009. This unique course is designed to address key concepts in data and safety monitoring of clinical trials.

For more program, registration, and CME information, go to http://www.hopkinscme.edu/CourseDetail.aspx/80022873.

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The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at Johns Hopkins is requesting applications for the next round of Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) Program grants.

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As an NIH-funded Institute dedicated to the improvement and advancement of research, the ICTR would like to encourage everyone to support the "Research Means Hope" campaign as advocated by Dean and CEO Edward D. Miller in the all-faculty email reprinted below:

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