UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
October 9th – No Meeting
October 16th – SHARP Grand Rounds – Fabian Johnston, MD, MHS
“Dissemination and Implementation Research in Palliative Care”
SHARP Grand Rounds on October 16th will take place in DHLRI 170
NEWS
• Congratulations to Dr. Heena Santry on her selection as a Signature Speaker for Association of Women Surgeons. This very competitive award not only honors Dr. Santry, but also gives her the opportunity to speak at a grand rounds or national meeting. (per Buckeye Bulletin)
• MyChart for Recruitment Now Available
• The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is pleased to announce that Round 8 final data files are now available at www.nhatsdata.org. Updated Sample Person (SP), Other Person (OP), and Tracker files are available in both SAS and Stata formats.
Restricted geographic data for NHATS sample persons (SPs) and their spouse/partners, children, and household members are now available through Round 8. A restricted file with Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC) for Rounds 1 through 8 is available for qualified researchers. A public use file indicating whether a sample person was residing in a metropolitan or non-metropolitan county (based on the RUCC) at the time of interview or during the last month of life also has been updated through Round 8.
Additionally, a restricted tracker file has been updated through Round 8.
Updated documentation, including a revised User Guide, a technical paper on Round 8 weights, revised crosswalk between the instruments and the codebook, and a crosswalk of changes from the beta to final version, can be found on our website http://www.nhats.org.
• Surgical Outcomes Club Annual Meeting – October 27th, 2019
Find out more about the Surgical Outcomes Club Annual Meeting and become a member here.
• Join the Translational Data Analytics Institute for the 2019 Fall Forum on November 6-7, as we explore how the Ohio State community is using big data to solve today’s most complex challenges. Over the course of two days, you’ll hear from distinguished speakers, host interactive lectures / information sessions on data programming and interdisciplinary data analytics research teams, and see how the entire campus community is using big data for good with a morning poster session.
To submit to present your data science and analytics research, click here.
For more information about the TDAI Fall Forum, click here.
• Institute for Population Research 2020 Seed Grant Announcement
Currently accepting applications-Due Oct. 9, 2019
IPR offers seed grants to nurture research projects consistent with IPR’s mission to promote population science research. IPR favors multi-disciplinary collaboration. We especially encourage applications from junior faculty, and from faculty new to population and health research.
Funding for this seed grant program is drawn primarily from our NICHD P2C award. See below for the scientific mission of the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch [PDB]. Priority is given to research which falls within one or more of IPR’s four thematic areas: (i) Sexual and Reproductive Health; (ii) Family Demography; (iii) Mortality and Health over the Life Course; (iv) Migration. If you are unsure if your research fits, you are welcome to discuss with IPR Director John Casterline. See: https://ipr.osu.edu/seedgrants for examples of past IPR seed grants.
Visit https://ipr.osu.edu/events/call-seed-grant-proposals-2020 for more information.
• The NCDB PUF Application is Now Open
The National Cancer Database (NCDB) is pleased to announce that the Participant User File (PUF) application process is now open. The NCDB will accept submissions for site-specific files, which include cases diagnosed between 2004 and 2016. The application period will now be open year-round, except for brief scheduled maintenance or brief updates. The 2017 PUF data is anticipated to be available in early 2020.
One change of note in this release of the PUF is that you will have the option of requesting a technical review of your proposal for feasibility. Although you are not required to request a technical review, we encourage you to do so, especially if you are a new PUF user.
Prior to planning to submit a PUF, you are advised to read the information provided at the NCDB website. A critical information tool for all applicants is the Getting Started Document, which details the variables and their limitations that could impact your proposed study. It is also important to review the PUF data dictionary to ensure that you are able to conduct your proposed study with the variables available.
Applicants are expected to:
- Be added as a PUF applicant with a CoC Datalinks User Name and Password (contact your hospital cancer registrar for assistance)
- Complete a PUF application, including disease site requested, data analyst, co-investigators, study question, analysis plan and other relevant information
- Receive a letter of support from your cancer program’s Cancer Committee Chair. This letter is to be on letterhead and uploaded at the time of submission of your application in order to be reviewed
- Review the American College of Surgeons’ CoC NCDB Participant Use File (PUF) Purpose and Terms of Agreement and Data Use Agreement to determine if any conflicts may arise at your facility or in your intended use of the PUF
- Assess your facility’s IRB policy
PUF applicants will receive files within two weeks after the submission is approved. In order to download the requested files, a Data Use Agreement (DUA) must first be signed electronically. For additional information please visit the PUF website.
Questions regarding the NCDB PUFs or the PUF submission process should be sent to NCDB technical staff at NCDB_PUF@facs.org.
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY SUCCESSES
Multiple functional variants in the IL1RL1 region are pretransplant markers for risk of GVHD and infection deaths
Karaesmen, E., Hahn, T., Dile, A.J., (…), Paczesny, S., Sucheston-Campbell, L.E. 2019 Blood Advances, 3(16), pp. 2512-2524.
Complex hepato-pancreato-biliary caseload during general surgery residency training: are we adequately training the next generation?
Diaz, A., Schoenbrunner, A., Dillhoff, M., (…), Cochran, A., Pawlik, T.M. 2019 HPB.
We pull publication data from Scopus, based on our ORCID list. If you have other publications (i.e. book chapters), or invited lectures, patents, etc. please send to Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu) for inclusion on this list!
ABSTRACT DEADLINES
Send us the names of your favorite meetings! Email to Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu).
DIRECTOR’S OFFICE HOURS
Dr. Strassels’ office hours are every Wednesday from 8:00AM-11:00AM. Contact Scott Chaffee (scott.chaffee@osumc.edu) to schedule a 30 minute block of one on one time with the SHARP Scientific Director.
