CTSA Consortium Organization and BERD

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CTSA Consortium Organization and BERD

• Iris Obrams, MD, MPH, PhD
• Division for Clinical Research Resources
• National Center for Research Resources
• November 20, 2008

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Topics

• Update on the overall CTSA mission
• Update on governance and organization
• Strategic planning process
• BERD organization and planning
• Regional and collaborative networks

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CTSA mission statement
The goal of the Clinical and Translational
Science Award (CTSA) program is to transform the
local, regional and national environment for
clinical and translational science, thereby
increasing the efficiency, quality and speed of
clinical and translational research.
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Consortium governance organization
Governance Manual available at http//ctsaweb.org/
Docs/CTSA_Governance_Manual.pdf
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CTSA governance

• CTSA Consortium Steering Committee (CTSA PIs with
  NIH representatives) with an Executive Committee
• Child Health Oversight Committee
• Four Strategic Goals Committees
• Additional committees for each key function
  across the consortium (e.g., BERD, Research
  Education, Biomedical Informatics, Regulatory
  Affairs, etc).

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Major areas of planning activity

• Governance operations/executive group size,
  delegated powers
• Promoting consortium activities supplements and
  funding announcements
• Strategic goals

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CTSA Strategic Goals 1 and 2

• CTSA strategic goals (1 and 2) and subgoals
• 1. Enhancing national clinical and translational
  research capability
• Clinical research management
• Research infrastructure
• Phenotyping
• 2. Enhancing the training and career development
  of clinical and translational scientists

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CTSA Strategic Goals 3 and 4

• CTSA strategic goals (3 and 4) and subgoals
• 3. Enhancing consortium-wide collaborations
• National resource inventory
• Data sharing
• Social networking
• 4. Enhancing the health of our communities and
  the nation
• National model for community engagement
• Public health policy

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BERD organization and leadership
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CTSA BERD Activities

• Face-to-face meetings in Rockville May and
  November 2007 and November 2008 probably to be
  coordinated with major statistical meeting
• Monthly calls
• CTSA-led BERD sessions at major statistical
  meetings
• Task Forces
• BERD Online Resources and Education
• BERD Evaluation Metrics

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BERD Strategic Planning and Goal-Setting Process

• Possible new task groups
• Best Tools and Practices in Biomedical Research
• Methodological Research in Translational Science
• Administration and Tracking of Core Services
• Design of Data and Safety Monitoring Plans
• CTS Education Components for Biostatisticians

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Encouraging and enhancing collaborations NIH
opportunities
Announcements encouraging CTSA collaborations

• NIDA Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Services
  Research with the Clinical and Translational
  Science Awards Consortium
• NHLBI Data Coordinating Center for the NHLBI
  Asthma Network (AsthmaNet)
• NIMH Novel NeuroAIDS Therapies Integrated
  Preclinical/Clinical Program
• NCRR Institutional Development Awards (IDEA)
  Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence

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CTSA Creating regional networking opportunities
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
University of Chicago
Oregon Health Science University
WA
University of Rochester
ME
MT
ND
VT
OR
NH
Yale University
WI
University of California, Davis
MN
MA
ID
NY
Weill Cornell Medical College
SD
MI
CT
WY
RI
University of Iowa
University of California, San Francisco
Columbia University
NJ
PA
Rockefeller University
NE
IA
NV
OH
IN
DE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
IL
UT
Stanford University
MD
CO
WV
VA
KS
MO
CA
KY
NC
TN
AZ
OK
AR
SC
The Scripps Research Institute
NM
GA
AL
MS
TX
LA
AK
FL
Washington University in St. Louis
HI