ICTR Focus June 2016 Newsletter
In This Issue
  • New Einstein-Montefiore Faculty Research Profiles
  • The NYC Clinical Data Research Network obesity projects
  • Mentoring leads to successful careers
  • Funding opportunities 
Maximize your Research Presence 
The newly updated Research Profiles is available for our faculty members to view funding opportunities based on their research fingerprint, search for faculty based on their grants, publications and interests, and have a public personal research profile available to researchers all over the world. All faculty should have received an e-mail inviting them to log on to Research Profiles. If you missed this e-mail, please click here.                                                   
 
The NYC-CDRN Focuses on Obesity 
The New York City Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN), funded by PCORI, uses city-wide data to advance patient-centered research. The NYC-CDRN is currently working with New York academic health centers on two observational studies on obesity:

The first project is a study of the long-term effects of antibiotics prescribed in early infancy on subsequent childhood development and obesity, led at Einstein-Montefiore by Carmen Isasi MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. 

The second study aims to find the short and long-term outcomes related to bariatric surgery in adults and adolescents, led at Einstein-Montefiore by Jenny Choi, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director, Bariatric Surgery at Montefiore. This study  will involve 10 of PCORnet’s CDRNs including 53 healthcare organizations and more than 60,000 bariatric patients, with 50 percent gastric bypass, 10 percent gastric banding, and 40 percent sleeve gastrectomy procedures. This study will also include more than 900 adolescent bariatric patients (the largest adolescent cohort ever) and more than 17,000 patients with diabetes.   
Surviving a Clinical Trial Monitoring Visit 
The next Lunch & Learn: Surviving a Monitoring Visit, Audit and Inspection, will focus on best practices and how to prepare & what to expect when undergoing a Monitoring Visit, Audit, or Inspection. This program will take place on Thursday, May 26th at 12pm in the Clinical Research Center Conference Room in the Moses Research Tower, 4th Floor. To learn more and RSVP, click here.              
MRI Physics Course Shines
Michael Lipton, MD, PhD, Associate Director of the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center has been finding success in his popular course on MRI Physics. This course, "Introducing MRI" is given twice annually, and presents an engineering approach to the basics of physics in regards to MRI technology. 
Mentoring in Clinical-Translational Research
Aileen McGinn, PhD and her colleagues, including Dr. Ellie Schoenbaum at Einstein, recently published a paper demonstrating the correlation between mentorship and success for clinical and translational researchers, based on a cross-sectional survey of those who had completed masters degrees in CTSA or K30 Clinical Research Curriculum supported programs. To view this article, click here.                                                                                                     
Funding Opportunities 
Einstein-Montefiore Research in the Headlines 
Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research