2013 Joint Summits Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Birds-of-a Feather sessions are informal sessions for professionals to mingle and share experiences.

TBI Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Tuesday, March 19
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

TBI-BOF-01: Big Research Data
Room: Cyril Magnin I
N. Anderson, University of Washington

Characteristics of biomolecular data differentiate it from other classes of data commonly found in EHRs, and challenges of management and integration into healthcare settings reflect increased use of often propietary instrumentation. Extending these data to translational research environments faces challenges of storage, transport and provenance issues, and will require adoption of scientific computing models found both in industry and beyond health sciences.

TBI BOF-02: Ethical Foundations – and Challenges – of Trusted Broker Systems
Room: Cyril Magnin II
K. Goodman, R. Fiore, University of Miami

The evolution of trustee models for coordination and management of privacy and consent issues has yet to produce a widely agreed-upon governance structure. Standards are sorely needed to address questions of secondary use, opt in/opt out and other challenges of digital translational bioscience.
 

CRI Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Thursday, March 21
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

CRI-BOF-01: Data Management and Coordinating Centers
J. Bonner, Michigan State University

Participants will discuss common and emergent informatics issues related to the management, staffing, leadership, and strategic planning of data management and coordinating centers (for multi-site studies or research networks.) This session will build up topics from BOF sessions and posters from past CRI summits.

CRI-BOF-02: Research Use of EHR/Clinical Data
B. Delaney, Kings College; A. Das, Dartmouth; S. Liaw, University of New South Wales

This session will explore the use of EHR to support research. The particular focus will be Patient registries - looking at reliability and accuracy of deriving registers from EHR and assessing/managing the quality of the associated information so that it is fit for purpose.

CRI-BOF-03: Defining Workflows in Investigator-initiated Clinical Trials
B. LaSalle, University of Utah

Participants will discuss and articulate common workflows in the lifecycle of investigator initiated research, including: pre-clinical activity (e.g., study design, contracts, regulatory, & training), trial conduct (e.g., recruitment, enrollment, randomization, unblinding, safety issues, biospecimen collection, termination), and post-trial (e.g., data verification, validation, data sets, analysis, statistical analysis plan, CONSORT). In addition, participants will identify informatics issues during this life cycle, including what can be generalized or standardized for use in future trials.

Friday, March 22
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

CRI-BOF-04: Electronic Data Capture (EDC) and Electronic Case Report Forms in Clinical Trials
V. Huser, NIH; J. Bonner, Michigan State University

In this session we will 1.) Solicit requirements for an EDC system (e.g., Redcap) from research informaticians, 2.) Identify and discuss standards they consider relevant, and 3.) Describe their existing systems (commercial, open source, or home grown). This discussion will lead to a qualitative paper about the current state of the art in EDC systems for CRI.

CRI-BOF-05: Organizational Leadership around CRI, Including CRI Role Definitions
P. Embi, The Ohio State University

This session will revisit topics from last year's BOF, and explore various approaches to organizational leadership around CRI, including emerging roles and the definition of CRIO positions at multiple institutions.