Advance RI-CTR hosts a variety of seminars, trainings and events to support early investigators throughout Rhode Island. Many of these are recorded, and a sampling is shared below. To access all of our video content, check out the Advance RI-CTR YouTube Channel, which houses a fully searchable repository of videos for your viewing convenience.
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Advance RI-CTR offers a dynamic line-up of research talks and topic-area discussions from clinical and translational investigators and experts in Rhode Island, and beyond.
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Our Qualitative Methods and Informatics and Implementation Science (I2S2) Seminar Series are recorded and available to watch online.
Seminar Series
Advance RI-CTR offers a dynamic line-up of research talks and topic-area discussions from clinical and translational investigators and experts in Rhode Island, and beyond.
The Advance RI-CTR Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series showcases clinical and translational research from across Rhode Island. This series features the best of both worlds: outstanding science from expert investigators across the translational spectrum, alternating with Advance RI-CTR's awardees, presenting their early research. Seminars are held virtually, September-May, on the second Thursday of each month from noon to 1pm ET. Please check back as we continue to add seminars.
Upcoming Seminars
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Sarah Arias, PhD: "Using Computational Approaches and Electronic Health Record Data for Suicide Research"
Laura Korthauer, PhD: "Setting the stage for the cultural adaptation of a multidomain behavioral intervention for dementia prevention in middle-aged Latino/as"
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP: TBD
Previous Seminars
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Gaurav Choudhary, MD: "Pulmonary Hypertension: Definition, Epidemiology and Novel Therapeutic Targets"
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Maria Steenland, PhD & Ben Brown, MD: “Access to long-acting reversible contraception removal services among Medicaid-covered postpartum women”
Kathryn Grive, PhD: Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. "Effects of maternal cancer therapy on daughters' ovarian health and fertility potential"
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Joanne Wilkinson, MD: “Diabetes Health Equity for Urban Latinx Populations”
Thaís São-João, PhD, MSN, RN: "Commerical Fishermen in RI: A Pilot Study on Cardiometabolic Health and Productivity"
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Susan Cu-Uvin, MD: "The Global Burden of HIV/HPV Related Cancers"
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Ari Pelcovits, MD: “Indolent Lymphoma and the Tumor Microenvironment: Novel Insights from Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis”
Patricia Zadnik Sullivan, MD: "Exploring the heterogeneity of primary versus recurrent chordoma"
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
William E. Van Nostrand, PhD: “Molecular insights into the pathogenesis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy using novel rat models”
Please check back as we continue to add seminars.
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This Seminar Series has concluded for 2024.
Sponsored by Advance RI-CTR, Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence (BRIDGE), and Brown Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH), this 6-part series explores implementation science, its methodology, and application. Local and national experts share talks on implementation strategies, economic evaluation in implementation science, implementation policy, health equity, community engagement, and global implementation science. These seminars take place Tuesdays at noon between October 8th and November 19th.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Brittney van de Water, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC: “Applying the systems analysis and improve approach (SAIA) and implementation science methods to reduce health inequities and barriers to tuberculosis care in South Africa
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Rosemary Meza, PhD: “Casual pathway diagrams: Understanding how and under what circumstances strategies work"
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Elizabeth McGuier, PhD: "Studying Teams in Implementation Science: Recommendations from a Systemic Review of Teamwork and Implementation Outcomes"
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH: "Applying Implementation Science to Advance Global Health"
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Cara C. Lewis, PhD: "Articulating Implementation Mechanisms to Optimize for Impact, Efficiency, and Equity"
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Ariana Albanese, PhD: "A rapid approach to qualitative analysis"
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The Spring 2023 offering of the Machine Learning for Health Seminar Series has concluded. These three talks explored machine learning, its methodology, and application in biomedicine and health. The purpose of this series is to serve as an introduction to machine learning for researchers, clinician scientists, and others who may be interested in using these methods in their research.
Please see below for the recordings.
Sponsored by Advance-CTR, the Data Science Initiative and the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics
Friday, February 24th, 2023
Chris Schmid, PhD | Adam Levine, MD | Kexin Qu, MSPH: “Validating a Predictive Model”
Publications referenced during presentation:
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
Katie Brown, MSN, RN: “Unsupervised Machine Learning: An Overview of Methods and Case Study in Using Cluster Analysis for Studying COVID-19 Mental Health Outcomes”
Friday, March 14th, 2023
Sarah Brown, PhD: " Assessing Machine Learning Problems for Fairness Before Fitting"
The Informatics and Implementation Science Learning Series (I2S2) covers a breadth of topics around effectively using data and technology to advance biomedical discovery and healthcare delivery. Each seminar features a rotating topic area expert who shares methods, applications, and resources that are aligned with components of a learning health system.
Watch the Spring 2021 Seminars
The series is sponsored by Brown BCBI, the Brown Department of Psychology and Human Behavior Implementation Science Core, RIQI, and Advance-CTR.
Advance RI-CTR, S4 and the Brown Library teamed up for this 2-part series exploring data visualization, its methodology, and application in biomedicine and health. The purpose of this series is to serve as a data visualization introduction for clinicians and others who may be interested in using these tools and methods in their research.
Part 1 from Friday, 4/22
“Data Visualization from 10,000 feet: A Quick Introduction to Visual Communication”
Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator
The Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library
Poised to plunge into data visualization, making the latest-and-greatest fancy interactive extravaganzas? Well, hang on—before pulling out all the tools, let’s take a step back and think about some basic principles of visual perception, design and representation, and communicating to an audience.
Part 2 from Friday, 5/13/22
"What GIS & Spatial Analysis can do for Health Research"
Guixing Wei, Senior GIS Developer and Spatial Scientist
The Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) Population Studies & Training Center
Dr. Wei provides an introduction to GIS, mapping and spatial epidemiology and their applications in health research. A brief survey of common GIS techniques in health applications is presented to showcase how health studies can benefit from spatial perspectives and geo-analytics. During the talk, Wei also introduces S4 and Brown’s GIS infrastructure and their supportive resources to the Brown community.
The Qualitative Methods Series features rotating topic area experts who share their insights and expertise on a range of qualitative methods.
The Spring 2021 Series featured three speakers:
- Aaron J. Horowitz, Co-Founder and CEO of Sproutel, "The Power of Designing with Patients"
- Alexandra Collins, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown SPH, "An Introduction to Rapid Ethnography: Its Applications and Utility in Public Health Research"
- Akilah Dulin, PhD, Associate Professor at Brown SPH, "Applying Concept Mapping Methodology to Understand Resilience Resources among African Americans Living with HIV in the Southern United States"
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Our Qualitative Methods and Informatics and Implementation Science (I2S2) Seminar Series are recorded and available to watch online.