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Veronica Smith, who directs the UAMS Rural Analysis Community, speaks with Ruiqi Cen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow within the Fay W. Boozman School of Public. Well being.
| Analysis Expo 2022 arrived at a good time for Lisa Jansen, Ph.D., and greater than 100 different researchers eager to study and leverage the quite a few analysis sources obtainable on the
Lisa Jansen, Ph.D., poses with a selfie body in the course of the expo.
College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Arkansas Youngsters’s Analysis Institute (ACRI) and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS).
“I’m a brand new researcher, so I got here to the Expo at the moment to study all of the choices and potentialities which might be on the market,” mentioned Jansen, who joined UAMS in January as an assistant professor within the School of Well being Professions Division of Dietetics and Diet. “I really like with the ability to immediately ask inquiries to the representatives of those providers. It’s higher than simply clicking on a web site, they usually have been nice at serving to me perceive how their providers can profit my analysis.”
Sponsored by the UAMS Translational Analysis Institute and the Division of Analysis and Innovation, the Analysis Expo on Sept. 21 promoted no less than 47 analysis providers and sources. The late afternoon occasion included meals, drinks and door prizes.
Translational Analysis Institute Director Laura James, M.D., informed the group that the occasion has grown from its origins six years in the past to incorporate analysis sources from UAMS, ACRI and CAVHS.
“I’m thrilled with this turnout,” she mentioned. “It’s nice to see everyone right here and really feel the keenness on this room tonight.”
Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D., vice chancellor for the Division of Analysis and Innovation, mentioned she was additionally thrilled that so many colleagues participated, noting that UAMS’ school, employees and college students are hungry for brand new data and improvements that may enhance human well being. Profitable analysis tasks, she mentioned, require the
Nadim Nicolas Ghanem, M.D., visits with Joe Schaffner of the Institute for Digital Well being & Innovation.
help of a giant group of analysis directors.
“They’re the heroes behind the frontline. They work tirelessly behind the scenes serving to researchers with protocols, submissions, compliance, regulatory affairs, fiscal administration, contracts and tech switch,” Ho mentioned. “They’re the bells and whistles of any new analysis endeavor. Analysis Expo 2022 was an important occasion permitting the ‘engines’ to satisfy the ‘bells and whistles.’”
Nadim Nicolas Ghanem, M.D., a first-year fellow within the UAMS/Arkansas Youngsters’s Medical Informatics Fellowship Program, is new to the USA, so having face-to-face conversations with individuals on the expo was particularly precious, he mentioned.
“Seeing all of the obtainable sources for analysis was nice for somebody like me coming from overseas,” Ghanem mentioned. “It was an important day to satisfy new individuals and to study extra in regards to the completely different instruments I can probably use in analysis.”
Zhong Su, Ph.D., MBA, who joined UAMS from the College of Florida in 2021, mentioned the expo was an effective way to achieve institutional data that he wants as a researcher.
“It’s a extremely good alternative for individuals to get all of the completely different facets of research-related data immediately,” mentioned Su, a professor within the School of Drugs Division of Radiation Oncology on the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Most cancers Institute. “You’ll be able to discuss to the individuals immediately, shortly, as an alternative of getting to dig on the web site.”
Zhong Su, Ph.D., talks to Nancy Rusch, Ph.D., and Pam Kahler, representing TRI’s Well being Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coaching Program for postdoctoral fellows.
Su, a medical physicist, mentioned he was comfortable to study in regards to the many sources of help, together with grant funding alternatives, which he plans to pursue as a part of his work with Arkansas’ first Proton Middle. Proton remedy is a state-of-the-art know-how that serves as an alternative choice to standard radiation remedy, utilizing a exactly targeted high-energy proton beam to focus on tumors, usually in hard-to-reach areas, with minimal impression of surrounding wholesome tissue.
Sharon Sanders, Ph.D., MPH, mentioned the expo is useful to her position as analysis program supervisor on the Middle for Childhood Weight problems Prevention primarily based at ACRI.
“As a group engagement particular person, I’m at all times in search of a chance to community with completely different individuals,” Sanders mentioned. “The sources represented right here on the expo might be useful for our researchers on the Middle for Childhood Weight problems Prevention. We wish to ensure that we’ve as many sources and instruments obtainable to them as potential to make them extra profitable.”
For instance, she mentioned the Translational Analysis Institute-supported Middle for Well being Literacy could be a good useful resource for researchers at her middle.
“Like our group engagement program, the Middle for Well being Literacy emphasizes the significance of communication and ensuring that researchers use plain language and keep away from jargon,” Sanders mentioned. “We are going to level our researchers to the Middle for Well being Literacy as a result of that could be a useful resource that will likely be very useful to them.”
Sharon Sanders, Ph.D., MPH.
Jansen pointed to the Middle for Implementation Analysis and Middle for Well being Literacy as examples of newly found useful sources.
“They will help me with scientific trials as I’m setting them up to make sure that they go easily and the methodology is sound,” Jansen mentioned.
Ghanem mentioned he particularly loved speaking with representatives of the Translational Analysis Institute-supported Arkansas Medical Knowledge Repository and from the Institute for Digital Well being & Innovation and BioVentures.
“As a Medical Informatics fellow, that was extra of my area,” he mentioned. “We will analyze UAMS’ information repositories to seek out new patterns and hopefully assist enhance care. And as household doctor, I loved taking part in round with the purpose of care units IDHI needed to supply whereas discovering new alternatives to supply care within the digital period.”
“It was additionally nice to attach with the Institutional Overview Board representatives,” Ghanem mentioned. “It’s at all times vital to make sure that the method goes easily with the IRB. Everybody was very nice, and it was nice to attach with them.”
