On September 12, 2018, NIH held a Workshop on Single IRB (sIRB) Resource and Infrastructure Development. The workshop focused on successful strategies and lessons learned for modifying and enhancing institutional IRB infrastructure for single IRB review of multi-site studies. Use the buttons below to view the agenda, watch the recording, or access additional information including presenter biographies, sIRB policies and resources, and links to watch individual sessions from the workshop. [button url="https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/sIRB_Agenda.pdf" size="medium" color="blue" target="

The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC) is soliciting applications for Pilot/Exploratory Project Grants (PEP) and Junior Faculty Career Development Awards (CDA). Please note that this will be the last year of the Pilot/Exploratory Project Grant Program due to NPCRC’s expansion of CDA funding opportunities in 2019. These RFAs are limited to applications that focus on palliative care research projects for seriously ill patients and their families in one or more of the three specific areas: Exploring the relationship of pain and other distressing symptoms to quality and quantity of

Please join your colleagues on October 11th at the 4th Annual Quality Matters Conference, a half-day virtual conference focused on timely issues related to quality of care in palliative care. Co-sponsored by AAHPM, CAPC, NPCRC, PCQN, and GPCQA, the conference will feature twelve national experts, including Plenary Speaker Dr. Jennifer Temel. Last year we had over 800 clinicians, researchers, and administrators join and expect over 1000 this October. Registration for the conference is free to all participants and registrants will receive 4.25 of complimentary CME/ANCC from Duke University

The 2018 National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research will take place October 11-12, 2018 in San Diego, CA. This meeting will host academicians, clinicians, and students from across the country and world working to advance palliative care. A truly multi-disciplinary event, professions represented include nursing, social work, psychology, speech language pathology, medicine, ethics, chaplaincy, and more. Share your research, find new pedagogical, and/or clinical advances, and network with colleagues. This year’s theme is Quality in Palliative Care: Fusing Education

This NCI-funded intensive 6-day workshop will provide an overview of fundamental methods, such as study designs, qualitative and survey methods, and approaches to data analysis in supportive oncology research. Over the course of the workshop, participants will write a complete study protocol under the direct mentorship of expert faculty in the field of supportive oncology. Participants will continue to receive assistance after the workshop from their workshop mentors to help in the implementation of their studies at their home institutions. Essential workshop topics include: creation of

Presented by Monica Taljaard, Ph.D. Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | 11:00 a.m.–12:00 noon ET The stepped wedge cluster randomized design has seen a rapid increase in popularity over the past decade. It is different than the conventional parallel arm cluster randomized design in that all clusters (e.g., communities, schools, or hospitals), rather than half, receive the intervention. This presentation will: Explain the unique characteristics of the stepped wedge cluster randomized design and its implications for sample size calculation and analysis. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of stepped

We are pleased to announce that the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the 2018 PCRC Investigator Development Pilot Program is now available: http://palliativecareresearch.org/funding/funding-opportunities/pilot-funding. Eligibility: Eligible applicants are any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to