CTSA Informatics Key Function Committee Update

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CTSA Informatics Key Function Committee Update

• Brian D. Athey, PhD
• Co-chair, CTSA Informatics Key Function Committee
• Professor of Biomedical Informatics
• University of Michigan
• Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP),
  Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health
  Research (MICHR)/Clinical and Translational
  Science Awards (CTSA)

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Topics

• Who we are the CTSA Informatics community
• How we work Project buckets and project
  tracking
• Current high priority CTSA Informatics projects
• Newly-awarded Informatics enhancement efforts
  (focus on Volunteer Recruitment Registry Paul
  Harris)
• Newly-awarded informatics pilot projects Elaine
  Collier, NCRR

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38 CTSA Informatics LeadsA whos who of US
biomedical informatics118 Fellows of American
College of Medical Informatics CTSA, NCBC,
CaBIG, Standards Organizations leadersIKFC
Operations Subcommittee elected members in Bold

• UAB - Eta Berner
• Boston -Robert Friedman
• Case Western-Bob DiLaura
• Columbia -Stephen Johnson
• Duke - James Tcheng
• Einstein -Tom Karson
• Emory - Joel Saltz
• Harvard - Isaac Kohane/Shawn Murphy
• Indiana - Marc Overhage
• Johns Hopkins - Harold Lehmann
• Mayo - Christopher Chute
• Northwestern - Rex Chisholm
• OHSU - Bill Hersh
• Ohio State - Phillip Payne
• Rockefeller - Edward Barbour
• Scripps - Nicholas Schork
• Stanford - Henry Lowe
• Tufts - Steve Pauker
• UC-Davis - Kent Anderson

• UCSF - Michael Kamerick
• U-Chicago - Jonathan Silverstein
• U-Colorado - Michael Kahn
• U-Iowa - David Eichmann
• U-Michigan - Brian Athey
• UNC - Jose-Marie Griffiths
• U-Pennsylvania - J. Richard Landis
• U-Pittsburgh - Michael Becich
• U-Rochester - David Krusch
• U-Utah - Joyce Mitchell
• UT-Houston - Elmer Bernstam
• UT-Southwestern - Richard Scheuermann
• UT-San Antonio - Brad Pollock
• U-Washington - Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
• U-Wisconsin - Justin Starren
• Vanderbilt - Dan Masys
• Washington U. - Rakesh Nagarajan
• Weill Cornell - Curtis Cole
• Yale - Perry Miller

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Categories of IFKC projects
Bucket 1 PI -approved cross-consortium projects

• Bucket 2
• Candidates for launch as cross consortium
  projects.
• - Involve other key function and strategic
  goal committees.
• - Leaders create concept sheet with
  deliverables, timelines that is
  understandable CTSA-wide

Bucket 3 - IKFC Interest Groups -
informatics-only activities - Informal Birds
of a feather- On the drawing board
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IKFC Ops Committee Dec, 2008
CTSA Consortium Steering Committee (CCSC)
Informatics Key Function Committee and Operations
subcommittee

• CTSA PI Priorities
• National Clinical and
• Translational Research Capability
• Clinical Research Management
• Research Infrastructure
• Phenotyping-human and pre-clinical
• models
• Training Career Development
• of Clinical/Translational Scientists
• Enhancing Consortium-Wide
• Collaborations Members
• Social Networking
• Inventory of Resources
• Data sharing
• Enhancing the Health of Our

• IKFC Prioritized Projects, Special Interest
  Groups (SIGS), Projects
• Human Study Database
• Project group (Sim and Team)
• Data Repositories (Kamerick)
• Standards Interoperability (Chute)
• Education (Klee, Hersh)
• Collaboration Facilitation (Kahlon)
• Resource Inventory (Becich, Athey
• Team)
• Data Sharing (Silverstein, Anderson)
• Natl Human Subject Volunteer Registry (Harris)

CTSA Strategic Goal Committees
CTSA PI Liaisons
Other Key Function Committees
IKFC Prioritization Process
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Standard Elements of Online Concept Sheets for
Project Tracking

• Title
• Leader
• Project Description
• CTSA Strategic Goals Addressed
• Background/significance
• Project Goals

• Expected Deliverables Outcomes
• Project Timeline Milestones
• Participating Institutions
• Institution roles in project
• Institution contact for project

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Using the CTSA Informatics Wiki for communication
and project tracking a model for other CTSA KFCs?
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Current high priority informatics(cross-network)
projectsaligned with Strategic Goal Committees

• These were evaluated by a survey instrument,
• prioritized by IKFC in a vote, and aligned to PI
• Priorities
• Informatics infrastructure for Research (Social)
  Networking
• Data Sharing Prototype Projects
• Basic Informatics Competencies curriculum
  content for Masters and PhD Clinical Investigator
  training programs

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Recently-funded InformaticsEnhancement Projects
as Administrative Supplements

• CTSA Inventory Resource Web Presence (CIRWP)
  Pittsburgh/Michigan
• National web portal for research volunteers
  Vanderbilt
• Both projects are engaging more than ½ of the
  CTSA sites actively