ICTR September 2018 Newsletter                             
In This Issue

  • New Career Development Program
  • New Biorepository and Biomarker Core Administrator
  • Save the Date: Lifespan Research Event
  • NYC Clinical Data Research Network Renewed
  • Einstein-Montefiore Research in the Headlines
  • CFAR Pilot Project RFA Released
  • Spotlight on Success
Learning Health System Research Career Development Program
Under the leadership of Drs. Diane McKee , Chinazo Cunningham , and Michael Rinke , a Center of Excellence in Promoting LHS Operations and Research at Einstein/Montefiore (EXPLORE) will begin to solicit candidate scholars in the next few weeks. EXPLORE will engage and build upon a strong education and training infrastructure at Einstein, and the innovative informatics and value-based care delivery infrastructure at Montefiore to create this novel career development program in learning health systems research. Sponsored by AHRQ and PCORI, the program is designed to encourage Scholars to work on projects that are identified as high-priority topic areas for Montefiore’s Quality and Improvement and Performance Team, that is led by Dr. Peter Shamamian . 
New Translational Core Administrator
The ICTR welcomes Jeff LaFleur as the new Translational Core Administrator. Prior to joining the ICTR, Jeff's experience at Einstein-Montefiore included a position with the Almo Laboratory/Macromalecular therapeutics facility (Biochemistry) and with the Cancer Center. J eff will be overseeing the Biomarker Analytic Research Core  (BARC) and  Biorepository , Directed by Dr. Daniel Stein. We welcome Jeff to the ICTR and wish him success in his new role as Translational Core Administrator! To learn more about our cores, click here .
Lifespan Research Event on October 3rd
The Lifespan Core of the ICTR, directed by Drs. Carmen Isasi and Rick Kaskel, in conjunction with the AOA Medical Student Honor Society present the Lifespan Research Event , which will take place on October 3rd in Price 151 (LeFrak Auditorium) beginning at 10am. The keynote speaker will be Manish Arora BDS, MPH, PhD, FICD , the Edith J. Baerwald Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His talk is entitled "Time and Health".

Dr. Arora’s research focuses on effects of prenatal and early childhood chemical exposures on life-long health trajectories. He is known for his work on biomarkers that utilize human deciduous and permanent teeth to reconstruct the timing of exposure to various harmful chemicals and essential nutrients, and biological response to those environmental factors. His methods are being applied to the study of outcomes that are national health priorities, including autism, schizophrenia, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).

To view the flyer for this event, click here .
New York Collaborative Clinical Data Research Network Renewed
The Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) of New York City has been renewed as a Tier 1 site for the Patient Centered Research Foundation (PCRF). Now called INSIGHT, the NYC-CDRN generates a large volume of robust, high-quality patient data from a unique collaboration of more than 20 partners, including the Montefiore Heath System and all the other academic health centers in NYC. The NYC-CDRN now contains deidentified health data on 10 million New Yorkers. Parsa Mirhaji MD, PhD has been named as the new Einstein-Montefiore site PI and Chief Technical Officer for INSIGHT.
New CRTP Course: Introduction to Data-driven Healthcare Science
The Clinical Research Training Program is offering a course titled, "Introduction to Data-Driven Healthcare" on Friday mornings from 8-10am, led by course directors Michoel Snow MD, PhD and Glen Ferguson PhD . Drs. Snow and Ferguson are members of the Center for Health Data Innovations, and in the departments of Radiation Oncology, and Medicine, respectively. This course is an exploration of the modern healthcare informatics pipeline, highlighting core components within the context of real-world applications. Through a mix of discussion and case-based learning, each class will examine steps along the pipeline, how they fit into the larger informatics framework, as well as an analysis of their implementation based on real-world projects. Some steps include: clinical decision support, patient cohort selection, ethics of model building, and artificial intelligence and machine learning within healthcare. After completing this course, students will be able to design complete informatics pipelines to use within their own research. For the final project, teams of students will be expected to propose new domain-specific informatics pipelines.

There are limited slots available and registration will be on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in any of the courses please send an email to  crtp@einstein.yu.edu  by Thursday September 6, 2018 .
Save the Date: NYC RING Convocation Features UK Health Leader
The 2018 NYC RING (Research and Improvement Networking Group) Convocation of Practices will be held on Thursday, December 6th at 4:30pm at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Tarrytown, NY and is presented in conjunction with the Montefiore Hudson Valley Collaborative. This event brings together NYC RING participating clinicians, researchers and investigators from throughout partner sites as they showcase the wide variety of practice-based research and quality improvement activities being conducted, and to discuss opportunities for collaboration.

The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Helen Becan, OBE, Chief Transformation Officer, UK National Health Service . Dr. Bevan is a senior leader and change agent in the English National Health Service (NHS) and has been at the forefront of many NHS improvement initiatives that have made a difference for thousands of patients and staff who care for them.

To learn more click here .
Shared Facilties & Cores Supports Investigators
T he Albert Einstein College of Medicine supports a broad array of Shared Facilities and Cores designed to advance the research efforts of Einstein investigators. These Shared Facilities and Cores are operated by experienced personnel to provide researchers with access to a wide array of techniques and services requiring expensive instrumentation, specialized facilities and/or a high degree of expertise to perform. They are administered by various Einstein Centers and Departments.

Check out the Shared Facilities & Cores website to search for research services, access iLab, and more here .
Einstein Will Publicize Your Publications
Do you have news of published papers, grants, honors and other achievements that you want to promote to internal and/or external audiences?

Make sure to reach out to the entire Einstein editorial team by emailing  notification@einstein.yu.edu .
Research in the Headlines
Funding Opportunities
Spotlight on Success
Einstein-Montefiore investigators continue to succeed in obtaining funding. Some of these investigators with new grant awards are:

Michelle Gong MD , Professor, Departments of Medicine (Critical Care) and Epidemiology & Population Health, Chief of Research, Division of Critical Care, Britta Will PhD , Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine (Oncology) and Cell Biology, and Sridhar Mani MD , Professor, Departments of Medicine (Oncology), Molecular Pharmacology, and Genetics.
Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research