The June CCTST Grand Rounds, held on June 21, 2019, featured Jack Kues, PhD, Director of the CCTST Center for Improvement Science (CIS), Associate Dean for Continuous Professional Development at University of Cincinnati (UC), and Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at UC. 

Dr. Kues presented: “Pursuing Transdisciplinary Research: What Does It Mean and How Do I Do It?”

Brief Overview: Transdisciplinary research is widely accepted as the future of studying complex problems. This presentation provides an overview of models of transdisciplinary research methodology and a discussion of how to create an environment that supports and promotes this type of research.

Target Audience: Physicians, healthcare practitioners, researchers, community health advocates

• Click here to watch the presentation.

• Click here for a PDF of the presented material.

CCTST members, Drs. Cole Brokamp and Andrew Beck, have established the Geospatial Research Accelerator for Precision Population Health (GRAPPH), a shared research facility and hub that works to democratize the use of geospatial methodology and data.  

Termed “geomarkers”, these data include community- and individual-level exposures and characteristics, such as substandard housing, greenspace, air pollution, poverty, and crime. Substantial infrastructure investment and methodological development in conjunction with meaningful community engagement and partnership is taking place in order to harness the full potential of these data to predict and prevent adverse health outcomes.

GRAPPH is housed within the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) in the Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology (DBE) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and currently provides support through both the CCTST consulting and BERD voucher system and as a budgeted component of extramural funding across the Academic Health Center for research, clinical, and quality improvement projects that utilize geospatial data and methods.

Please contact Cole Brokamp if you are interested in learning more about the data and services that GRAPPH provides.

Our congratulations goes out to ACRC Co-Director, Timothy Pritts, MD, PhD! Professor in the Department of Surgery, Dr. Pritts was recently announced as the recipient of the College of Medicine Office of Research Service Award 2019. A general and trauma surgeon and chief of the Section of General Surgery, Pritts has mentored more than 30 medical students, surgical residents and post-doctoral fellows. Also, he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and reviews, and he and his team have given more 200 presentations and invited talks globally. Read more.

Congratulations to ACRC partner, Stacey Ishman, MD, co-recipient of the College of Medicine’s “2019 Excellence in Mentoring Award”. This award is an honor presented for the third year by the UC COM’s Office of Student Affairs to recognize faculty who provide outstanding mentoring for medical students. Ishman is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and surgical director of the Upper Airway Center at Cincinnati Children’s. Her research is centered on outcomes in adults and children after treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. Nominations from medical students noted her dedication to providing research opportunities and career guidance.

Congratulations to ACRC partner, Laura Ngwenya, MD, PhD, and the UC Neurosurgery Department for the success of the first UC Neurotrauma Symposium! The symposium was held on May 11 at the new UCGNI building. Speakers and attendees noted that the quality/importance of the talks and the overall impact of the syposium was great. Presentations will be posted soon.

The ACRC ‘Challenges & Risks in Acute Care Research’ seminar on April 1, 2019 was well-received, with over 45 researchers across the AHC and evaluations in the ‘very good’ to ‘excellent’ range. Thank you to our speakers and participants for the success of this learning and networking experience focused improving outcomes in the acute care setting.