Date
Topic and Speaker(s)
Archived Materials

Tuesday

April 8, 2025

Topic: “Research with Real-World Data: Analytical Challenges and Opportunities”

Speaker: Michelle D. Shardell, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Epidemiology & Public Health
Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences
Director, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics 
Epidemiology and Public Health 
University of Maryland School of Medicine|
Director, Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) Biostatistics Core, University of Maryland, Baltimore|
Co-Director, Biostatistics and Informatics Core
Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore|

PowerPoint with Audio

Shardell_Flyer

Tuesday

February 11, 2025

Topic: “Use of Real-World Data for Epidemiologic, Comparative Effectiveness, & Health Research: Leveraging the OptumLabs® Data Warehouse

Speaker: Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

Associate Professor
Associate Division Chief for Clinical Research,
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition,
Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine|
Director of Precision Medicine and Population Health,
University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing|
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Health Policy and Management
University of Maryland School of Public Health

Presentation recording and slides available upon request. Please email ICTR-Navigator@umaryland.edu

 

McCoy_Flyer

Tuesday

December 3, 2024

Topic: “Leading Multicenter Clinical Trials: Where can you find support?

Speaker: Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH

Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research
Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation
Professor of Medicine
Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
John Hopkins University

PowerPoint with Audio

Ford_Flyer

Tuesday

October 8, 2024

 

Topic: “Bio Security and the Next Pandemic

Speaker: Robert R. Redfield, MD 

Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Co-founder, Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Former:
Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Medicine and
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Director and Robert C. Gallo, MD Endowed Professor
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Seminar Video

Redfield_Flyer

Tuesday

June 4, 2024

Topic: “The My Healthy Maryland Precision Medicine Research Initiative

Speaker: Alan R. Shuldiner, MD 

John L. Whitehurst endowed Professor of Medicine
Director, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vice President, Regeneron Genetics Center Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

PowerPoint with Audio

Shuldiner_Flyer

Tuesday

March 12, 2024

Topic: “Walking the fine line between Human Subjects Research and Non-Human Subjects Research (NHSR) when engaging the community in research

Speaker: Julie Doherty, DM, MSN, RN, CIP, CCEP 

Assistant Vice President, Research Compliance
Office of Accountability & Compliance 
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Speaker: Jan E. Martinez, MS, CIP, CLSSGB (she/her)

IRB Manager
UMB OAC/HRPO/IRB
University of Maryland, Baltimore

PowerPoint with Audio

Martinez_Doherty_Flyer

Tuesday

February 13, 2024

Topic: “The University of Maryland-Institute for Health Computing: A Premier Learning Health System for All of Maryland

Speaker: Bradley A. Maron, MD, FAHA

Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine,
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland, Baltimore 
Executive Co-Director,
University of Maryland-Institute for Health Computing
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center
University of Maryland Medical Center

PowerPoint with Audio

Maron_Flyer

Tuesday

December 12, 2023

Topic: “Patient-Centered Research: Increase Access and
Impact of Clinical Research and Trials to Reduce Health Disparities”

Speaker: Praduman Jain (PJ), Founder and CEO
Vibrent Health

Principal Investigator (PI)
Participant Technology Systems Center (PTSC)
Chair, Data Security Board
NIH Precision Medicine Initiative

NIH All of Us Research Program

PowerPoint with Audio

Jain_flyer

Tuesday 

November 14, 2023

Topic: “Creating a centralized social media service to raise awareness about research opportunities and to grow our volunteer registry at the University of Michigan”

Speaker: Lisa Connally, BS, CCRP  

Participant Recruitment Program Lead
Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)

PowerPoint with Audio

Connally_flyer

 

Tuesday 

September 12, 2023

Topic: NHLBI Catalyze Program: Providing Bridge from Basic to Clinical Research”

Speaker: Paul Shapiro, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Associate Director, ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core, University of Maryland, Baltimore 

PowerPoint with Audio

Shapiro_flyer

 

Tuesday

July 11, 2023

Noon - 1 pm

Topic: Navigating the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: Tools, Strategies, and Best Practices”

Speakers: Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodriguez, MSI, and Amy Yarnell, MA, MLS, Data Services Librarians, Center for Data and Bioinformation Services, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore

PowerPoint with Audio

Yarnell and Fraticelli_flyer

Tuesday

May 9, 2023

Noon - 1 pm

Topic: “Research with Impact! Dissemination and  Implementation(D&I) Science to Inform Clinical Care and Prevention Strategies: from Data to Action”

Speaker: Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH
Professor and Executive Director, Behavioral Health Research Team, Data and Implementation Science DatAction! 

Director of the Center on Drugs and Public Policy University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Director, ICTR Dissemination & Implementation Core

Co-Director, ICTR Informatics Core, University of Maryland, Baltimore

PowerPoint with Audio

Shaya_flyer

Tuesday

March 14, 2023

Noon - 1 pm

Topic: Overview of Drug Development and UMB Resources”

Speaker: Rana Quraishi, Ph.D., Director of UM New Ventures, University of Maryland, Baltimore

PowerPoint with Audio

Quraishi_flyer

Tuesday 

January 10, 2023

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Towards Building a Clinically-Inspired Ultrasound Innovation Hub: Design, Development and Clinical Validation of Ultrasound Probes for Imaging, Therapeutics, Sensing and Other Applications”

Speaker: Amir Manbachi, Ph.D., M.Sc., 

Co-founder and Director: Johns Hopkins HEPIUS Innovation Lab, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer  Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Ultrasound is a relatively established modality with a number of exciting, yet not fully explored applications, ranging from imaging and image-guided navigation to tumor ablation, neuro-modulation, piezoelectric surgery, and drug delivery.  In this talk, Dr. Manbachi will be discussing some of his ongoing projects aiming to address low-frequency neuromodulation, minimally invasive ablation of neuro-oncology and implantable sensors for spinal cord blood flow measurements.     

PowerPoint with Audio

Flyer_Manbachi

 

Tuesday 

November 8, 2022

Noon - 1pm

Topics: Clinical Utility of Testing Symptomatic Women for Both Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) &  Vaginitis” and “Cervical Cancer Screening in the Era of the Covid-19 Pandemic”

Speakers:

Molly Broache, BSN, MSN, WHNP, Associate Director, US Region, Medical Affairs, Becton-Dickinson (BD) Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostics Solutions

Laurence M. Vaughan, PhD, Director, Scientific Affairs, BD Life Sciences-Integrated Diagnostics Solutions

The BD Innovation Center recently opened a state-of-the-art facility at the University of Maryland BioPark that will give students and researchers access to new laboratory space and advanced diagnostic tools.  The center’s goal is to help streamline clinical laboratory workflows and improve patient care by expanding basic diagnostic knowledge, developing new diagnostic capabilities, and shaping the future of diagnostics by allowing students and researchers to provide real-world feedback on early diagnostic concepts. In 1897, Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson founded Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) with a vision to improve outcomes for patients. With more than a century of experience and our global reach, BD leads in patient and healthcare worker safety and the technologies that enable medical research and clinical laboratories.

PowerPoint with Audio

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Tuesday 

September 13, 2022

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Adaptive Community Engagement in Dementia Care Research: Navigating Disease Progression to Collaboratively Advance Science”

Speaker: Michael Lepore, PhD, Professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health Co-Director, Center for Healthy Equity and Outcomes Research, Associate Editor, Public Policy and Aging Report University of Maryland School of Nursing

Dr. Lepore will introduce an overview of challenges faced in maintaining community engagement and tactics used to contend with progressive cognitive impairment experienced by people living with dementia (PLWD) are described, and the impacts of PLWD engagement on the investigator’s research program, including newly funded community based participatory research with PLWD.

PowerPoint with Audio 

Flyer_Lepore

 

Tuesday 

May 10,2022

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland, Baltimore”

Guest Speakers: 

James Hughes, MBA, Senior Vice President & Chief Enterprise and Economic Development Officer, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Philip Robilotto, DO, MBA, Associate Vice President, Office of Technology Transfer, Director, UM Ventures, University of Maryland, Baltimore

 This Enrichment seminar will introduce an overview of the innovation support and funding resources that are now available to researchers and clinicians here at UMB through the Office of Technology Transfer and UMB BioPark.

 

PowerPoint with Audio 

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Tuesday 

March 8, 2022

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Innovative Ways Using Social Media Platforms for Research Participant Recruitment and Participation

Guest Speakers: 

Rachel Blankstein Breman, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor, ICTR KL2 Scholar, University of Maryland School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Jaih Craddock, PhD, MSW, MA, Assistant Professor, , ICTR KL2 Scholar, University of Maryland School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore

 

 

PowerPoint with Audio 

Flyer_Breman_Craddock

Tuesday 

February 24, 2022

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Community Based Participatory Research: Challenges and Rewards”

Guest Speakers: 

Robert E. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Chair, Institutional Review Board University of Maryland, Baltimore, Attending Physician, Hyperbaric and Dive Medicine, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center

Julie Doherty, DM, MSN, RN, CIP, CCEP, Assistant Vice President, Research Compliance, Office of Accountability & Compliance, University of Maryland, Baltimore

 PowerPoint with Audio 

Flyer_Rosenthal_Doherty

Tuesday 

December 14, 2021

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Cardiac MR Evaluation of Myocarditis in Student Athletes after COVID-19 infection: A multi-institution experience”

Guest Speaker: Jean Jeudy, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Imaging Informatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Imaging,Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine,University of Maryland Medical Center. 

Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, there was growing concern that competitive athletes may be at risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) during training and competition after exposure to COVID-19. Members of University of Maryland College Park and University of Maryland School of Medicine are part of a multi-institution effort to evaluate the prevalence of myocarditis among student athletes and determine the utility of different screening strategies, particularly the use of cardiac MRI.

 

PowerPoint with Audio 

Flyer_Jeudy

Tuesday 

October 12, 2021

Noon - 1pm

Topic: Science of teams and Community-Based Participatory Research: practical strategies for managing teams towards engaged research”

Guest Speaker: Michael Rosen, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Public Health & Nursing Principal Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Associate Director for Team Science, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Interim Director for Research and Innovation, JHSOM Simulation Center.

This Enrichment seminar will introduce the high impact research is done increasingly by teams, working across disciplinary and organizational boundaries to integrate diverse perspectives and expertise. However, managing these teams and building strong relationships between partners is challenging. This talk presents frameworks and tools for using the science of teams to inform your approach to building and managing effective research collaborations. Principles and tools will be introduced and analyzed in interactive case discussions.

 

PowerPoint with Audio 

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Tuesday

August 10,   2021

Noon - 1pm

Two Topics:
"Data to Action Research: A Precision Approach to Population Health" 
Presented by: Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH, Professor and Executive Director, Behavioral Health Research Team Data and Implementation Science DatAction! Director of the Center on Drugs and Public Policy University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Co-Director, ICTR Informatics Core, University of Maryland, Baltimore

and  

"Real-world Data Resources Available to UMB investigators: ICTR Support, PHSR Datasets & PRC’s Core Services

Presented by: Abree Johnson, MS, MBA, Director of Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC) Data Analytics University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

 

PowerPoint with Audio

 

Flyer

 

Tuesday 

June 8, 2021
Noon -  1pm
Topic: "The TL1 scholarship: Advancing excellence in clinical translational research and leadership

Guest Speaker(s): Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, Director, TL1 Program, UMB Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) 

This UMB ICTR Enrichment seminar introduces the basic aspects of the TL1 program which provides predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows with one to two years of support to learn about translational principles, complete a focused didactic training on clinical research, and conduct mentored research. It concludes with an overview of past three years of TL1 program at the University of Maryland throughout a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.

 

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Tuesday 

April 27, 2021
Noon - 1 pm

 

Topic: “Learn More About NIH Career Development (K) Award Programs and the NIH CTSA KL2 Program”

Guest Speakers: 

Dr. Christy Chang, Director of the UMB ICTR Director, NIH CTSA KL2 Mentored Career Development Program

Dr. Marey Shriver, Director of the UMB SOM Research Career Development Program

Sponsored by the UMB ICTR

PowerPoint with Audio

Flyer

Tuesday 

February 9, 2021
Noon - 1 pm
Topic: “Biostatistics, Why, When, How?”

Guest Speaker: Dr. Soren Bentzen, Director of the Biostatistics Core, UMB Institute for Clinical & Translational Research

Quantitative biomedical research is increasingly a team science, requiring the expertise and skills of collaborators from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Biostatisticians bring to the team a strong foundation in statistics, mathematics, and computational methods, augmented by domain-specific knowledge of biomedical science. This presentation will discuss why or when a biomedical researcher may want to seek biostatistical collaboration/support for a research project and how to access the available support offered by the ICTR as well as other mechanisms.

Sponsored by the UMB ICTR

PowerPoint with Audio

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Tuesday

December 1, 2020

3 pm – 4 pm

Topic: “Where the Cloud Meets the Ground: Democratizing Health Data to Improve Community Health Equity”

Guest Speaker: L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University School of Medicine

Discussion will include a novel approach to democratize health system data, advancing efforts to investigate and address the social and environmental determinants of health as well as to improve community health equity.

Co-Sponsored by UM School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and the UMB ICTR

PowerPoint with Audio

Flyer

 

 

 Tuesday

October 13, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm

ICTR Drug Discovery and Development Core and Applications to Research

Speakers: 

Paul Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland (UMB) School of Pharmacy (SOP); Associate Director, Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core, UMB Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR);

James E. Polli, Ph.D., Professor and Ralph F. Shangraw/Noxell Endowed Chair in Industrial Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics, UMB SOP, and Director, ICTR DDD Core.

Drug discovery and development requires a range of activities (e.g. compound assessment, bioanalysis, formulation/pharmacokinetics). This presentation will describe the services available within the ICTR Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Core (i.e. computer-aided drug design, clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics, mass spectrometry, and drug formulation). In addition, examples of DDD non-clinical research, as well as clinical research conducted through the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), will be presented.

 

PowerPoint with Audio

PowerPoint Presentation

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 Tuesday 

August 11, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Getting Connected to your Data – A Reproducible Workflow for Data Wrangling

Speaker: Jean-Paul Courneya, MS, Bioinformationist and Data Scientist, UMB HSHSL

Wrangling. Munging. Data Sanitation. These and other names describe an aspect of the data analysis life cycle typically thought of as boring and unglamorous, but which occupies the majority of time spent during a data analysis project. The time you spend in preparing your data for analysis, while crucial, cuts into the time available for using software to produce a visualization, calculate a statistic, or run a favorite machine learning algorithm. The goal of this seminar is to provide a reproducible workflow for performing your own data wrangling. I will suggest methods to help you to:  1) get to know y​our data, 2) cultivate habits that will help you to spend less time on wrangling, and 3) optimally prepare your data for the output you're interested in producing.

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PowerPoint Presentation with Audio 

 

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Tuesday

June  2, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm 
Leveraging Informatics Services at UMB to Make the Most of Your Research Funding

Speaker: Zachary Dezman, MD, MS, MS

Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Attending Physician and Vice-Chair, Research Committee
University of Maryland Medical Center – Midtown Campus
Deputy Director, Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Center (CTRIC)
Staff Scientist, Research HARBOR, University of Maryland, Baltimore

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce some of the informatics tools and services available to all UMB faculty. It will be directed towards trainees and early-stage researchers from all the UMB schools. We will focus on three services:  the Research HARBOR, TriNetX, and REDCap. We will provide an overview of each, along  with some tips and tricks to improve the quality of your next research project while making it faster, easier, and cheaper.

Event Flyer

PowerPoint Presentation with Audio 

 

Tuesday 

April 14, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm
 “Should There be an App for That? Tips for Success in Funding and Developing Digital Technology-Based Interventions

Speaker: Cindy M. Schaeffer, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine

There is great interest in how digital technologies, such as mobile phone apps, wearables, and games, can improve health outcomes and the patient experience. However, the technical ability to digitize an intervention, in and of itself, is likely not sufficient justification for obtaining funding. Other factors, such as market feasibility, user engagement, and integration with existing technologies, must also be considered. This seminar will provide tips for how to propose and design digital tools that are user-centered, grounded in science, and likely to truly improve existing clinical practices. Trends in digital health technology design, such as use of gamification and artificial intelligence capabilities, will also be discussed.

Event Flyer

PowerPoint Presentation

 

Tuesday,

February  11, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm

“Data Science; Tools to Drive Implementation & Dissemination Research Impact”

Speakers:

Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH, Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research; Program Chair, Drugs and Devices Collaborative (D2C), University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Co-Director UMB ICTR Informatics Core 

Cynthia Baur, PhD, Endowed Professor and Director, Horowit

It takes 17 years to turn 14% of original research findings into benefit for patients.  Promising research results do not automatically or easily translate into programs, interventions, and clinical practices that improve health, resulting in a gap between research and practice – also known as the valleys of death. The science of implementation and dissemination is an emerging, multidisciplinary field that aims to improve the relevance and uptake of research-based knowledge in real-world settings. 

FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION

Using the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Knowledge-to-Action framework, Drs. Fadia Shaya and Cynthia Baur illustrate how to think about implementation and dissemination from the beginning of the research process and how implementation and dissemination science can help accelerate effective clinical practice and inform future research.   z Center for Health Literacy at University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health

 

Event Flyer

PowerPoint Presentation with Audio

Dr. Fadia Shaya's PowerPoint

Dr. Cynthia Baer's PowerPoint

 

Tuesday

December 10, 2019

12:00 – 1:00 pm
An Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks with an Application to Denoising EEG”

Speaker: Tim Oates, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Center for Cybersecurity, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

In this presentation, Dr. Tim Oates will introduce GAN architectures, describe how they are learned, and present a number of example applications, including generating "fake" people.  Dr. Oates will also review some recent work done in his lab using GANs to denoise EEG data.

Dr. Oates’ research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and natural language processing. He recently held a Post-doc position at the MIT Laboratory 

Event Flyer

PowerPoint Presentation with Audio 

 

Tuesday

October 8, 2019

12:00 – 1:00 pm
“UM Ventures, Baltimore”

Speaker:

Phil Robilotto, DO, MBA, Director, UMVentures, Baltimore, Associate Vice President, UMB Office of Technology Transfer, Office of Research and Development

“A Tale of Entrepreneurship at the UMB BioPark— Founding and Successful Exit of a Billion Dollar Company”

Speaker: 

Marco Chacon, PhD, Former Assistant Vice President, Industry Alliances, UMB Office of Research and Development, Founder and Former Chairman of Paragon Bioservices, Inc., Founder & CEO of IRAZU Biodiscovery, LLC., and Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland Foundation 

Event Flyer

PowerPoint Presentation with Audio 

Tuesday

August 13, 2019

12:00 – 1:00 pm

"Opportunities for Healthcare Research Using Administrative Data: An Introduction to IQVIATM Health Plan Claims Data" 

Speakers: Susan dosReis, PhD and Eberechukwu Onukwugha, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Pharmacy

Event Flyer

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Q&A Session