ICTR D&I Short Course Materials Available The 2017 Dissemination & Implementation Short Course was held October 11-13. Sponsored by the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, the short course featured national and local experts in the field, who led presentations and interactive sessions on D&I concepts, frameworks, research designs, and implementation strategies. The course …
ICTR-CAP Funding Opportunities Released On November 1st, ICTR-CAP released their 2018 Request for Applications. WINRS has worked with several research teams who have received these grants and would love to work with your team! We help researchers develop strong recruitment and stakeholder engagement sections for grant proposals and partner with research teams to implement these …
Great resource for researchers from PCORI PCORnet® is an innovative, national patient-centered research network funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). This is a collaborative group of networks, including clinical data research networks and patient-powered research networks. One of its major goals is to increase quality and efficiency in research, uniting data from patients, …
WINRS co-directors present at community engaged research conference in DC WINRS co-Directors, Gay Thomas and Betty Kaiser, shared a package of “tips and tools” during a 90-minute “Learning Lab” at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research conference in Washington, DC, September 24-15. The WINRS team drew on their experience consulting on 9 …
Article Published on “The Power of The Personal” We were delighted to have a WINRS story published in the latest issue of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University Press). “The Power of The Personal: Breaking Down Stereotypes and Building Human Connections” is a reflection on our experience since 2010 facilitating meetings between research teams and the CARDS. Over …
Directory of Resources for Researchers Would you like to know more about resources available to researchers at the UW-Madison? The Office of Campus Cores (within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education) recently launched an online directory of resources that might be useful to research teams. You can access the directory …
New and improved informed consent templates from the Health Sciences IRB As every researcher knows, informed consent documents can be confusing and often difficult for participants to understand. It has been our privilege to collaborate with the Health Sciences IRB Informed Consent Working Group (ICWG) over the past two years as they have worked doggedly …
Article on Research Participants’ Expectations for Medical Care The CARDS have reviewed many consent forms, providing useful feedback to researchers on making forms easier to understand. What happens when participants do not understand consent forms or have assumptions that are not addressed? Patients may wonder: Will the research team share test results with me? What …
Short course on stakeholder engagement in June! The Community-Academic Partnerships program of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (ICTR-CAP) is holding a two-day short-course on the topic of engaging patients and stakeholders in research. Engaging Patients and Other Stakeholders in Translational Research: Tools and Best Practices for Research Teams …
Hard-to-Reach Patient Stakeholders: An Engagement Guide (HARPS) Are you looking for resources to help you with patient engagement? Do you want tools that streamline the development of a feasible, effective stakeholder engagement plan? Would you like step-by-step guidance for engaging hard-to-reach patient stakeholders? We can help! Download our free HARPS toolkit, at https://www.hipxchange.org/HARPS HARPS contains a …