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Scientist Highlight: Kevin Alexander (SAGE)
In this week’s Scientist Highlights, we congratulate Kevin Alexander, MD, for receiving the Stanford KL2 Mentored Career Development Program Award by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Alexander became a Stanford Aging and Ethnogeriatrics (SAGE) RCMAR Scientist in 2020. Learn more about Dr. Kevin Alexander. Visit the Stanford Aging and Ethnogeriatrics (SAGE) RCMAR Center website.
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Webinar Recording: Planning for Compliance with CONSORT Requirements in Clinical Trials
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) were developed to insure consistent and comprehensive reporting of data from clinical trials. On February 19th, Nina Harawa, PhD, MPH, reviewed those standards in order to aid investigators in setting up their data collection protocols in a manner that will ensure future compliance with these standards.
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UCSF RISE Call for Applications
Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) is an all-expenses-paid training opportunity for junior faculty who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. RISE is designed to train competitive scientists and enhance the diversity of the biomedical research workforce. The program involves a two-week RISE Summer Institute, focused on implementation science and career mentoring, which is hosted…
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NIH Grant Opportunity
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI, similar to a PA), Research to Address Vaccine Hesitancy, Uptake, and Implementation among Populations that Experience Health Disparities. NOT-MD-21-008, R01. Note that this is not specific to aging populations, but they are an appropriate population focus.
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NIH -funded LAUNCH to enhance early faculty career success
New NIH-funded faculty development program, Leading the Advancement of Underrepresented Neuroscientists for Change (LAUNCH). The goal of LAUNCH is to enhance early faculty career success and success in obtaining NIH or equivalent funding. It begins with a Summer Institute from July 12-23, 2021, followed by a 2-day Mid-Year Meeting and second Summer Institute in 2022. The deadline to…
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Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Older Adults into Research
Strategies for recruiting and retaining older adults in research. Guest editors and co-directors of the Coordinating Center, Drs. Lourdes Guerrero and Steven P. Wallace have assembled articles to advance research and interventions that addresses emerging topics and methods related to Alzheimer’s and related dementia research among diverse older adults to reduce health disparities. Most articles are from…
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Scientist Highlight: Collette Adamsen (NERC)
In this week’s Scientist Highlights, we feature Collette Adamsen, PhD, who became a Native Elder Research Center (NERC) RCMAR Scientist in 2019. Dr. Adamsen is the director of the National Resource Center on Native American Aging at the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks, North Dakota.…
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Webinar Recording: Race and Racism in our Research
On January 15th, Keith C. Norris, MD, PhD, presented an overview of the issues of race and racism in research in a RCMAR Coordinating Center-sponsored webinar. In his talk, Dr. Norris discussed ways forward for conducting and reporting research practices that include race/ethnicity with a sensitivity to the use of race/ethnicity as a proxy for…
