UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
March 25th – 3:30pm to 4:15pm – Works In Progress presented by Courtney Collins, MD
April 1st – 4:00pm to 5:00pm – SHARP Grand Rounds presented Elizabeth Cooksey, PhD
WebEx Call-in Number – (614) 688-7800
Access Code – 730 762 306
Meeting Link – https://osumc.webex.com/osumc/j.php?MTID=m143b1068b56723fe947e88fdd1ab1958
NEWS
- Funding Opportunity Announcement
The NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), with the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to invite applications from investigators who strive to expand their research trajectories through the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in the areas of basic psychological processes, sociological processes, and/or biomedical pathways—expertise that is beyond and enhances their current areas of expertise. The program will support career development experiences and a small-scale research project that will provide experienced investigators with the scientific competencies required to conduct independent research projects that more thoroughly investigate interrelationships among behavioral, biological, endocrine, epigenetic, immune, inflammatory, neurological, psychological, and/or social processes. Eligible candidates are independent investigators at mid-career faculty rank or level.
This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects.
The FOA is expected to be published in Spring 2020 with an expected application due date in Spring 2021. For more information, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-076.html
- Trans-NIH Health Disparities Interest Group
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is seeking broad public input on important new directions for health-related behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR). Specifically, OBSSR requests your input on research directions (see RFI): that will support the achievement of the scientific priorities in the OBSSR Strategic Plan 2022-2026 (see current strategic plan) and that will advance or transform the broader health impact of BSSR. OBSSR is interested in focusing on research directions that are trans-disease and cross-cutting in nature and address critical gaps in the field.
The role of OBSSR is to coordinate and promote BSSR research across the NIH and assist NIH Institutes and Centers in developing research and training resources to advance the field. OBSSR supports a broad range of BSSR disease, condition, population, and setting specific priorities across the NIH covering the spectrum from basic to implementation science research.
OBSSR would like input on the most important or cutting-edge, trans-disease research directions that would accelerate progress in these three strategic priority areas:
- Synergy in Basic and Applied BSSR
OBSSR is committed to advancing cross-cutting approaches that stimulate health-related research on the fundamental processes that influence behavior and social systems. This includes facilitating the translation of basic BSSR findings into pathways to improve individual and population health and using intervention or population-based research findings to inform meaningful new fundamental research questions.
Ideas could include emerging basic BSSR areas that are promising for application to human health; basic BSSR findings that are ready for translation to promote health behavior change; or study of novel processes or mechanisms that influence behavior and social systems that would enhance the impact, reach, or durability of behavioral interventions.
- BSSR Resources, Methods, and Measures
The future of an efficient and integrated approach to BSSR requires the development and application of innovative research resources, measures, and methods.
Ideas could include new research resources, tools or infrastructure that are needed to accelerate BSSR; promising new methods and measures that should be used more widely in BSSR; or research domains or constructs that require improved measurement to advance BSSR.
- Adoption of Effective BSSR in Practice
There is often there is a significant time lapse between the publication of research findings that demonstrate the efficacy of a prevention or healthcare strategy and when these approaches are adopted in practice and delivered to individuals, families, communities, and organizations. Research is needed to facilitate more rapid, effective, and widespread uptake and sustained implementation of BSSR findings to improve healthcare and public health.
Ideas could include methods to develop and test interventions that are designed with eventual dissemination and implementation factors in mind; research that is needed to accelerate the implementation of effective interventions; or approaches to encourage more rigorous evaluation of interventions, programs, or policies that are already being implemented.
To ensure consideration, responses must be submitted by midnight (ET) March 29, 2020 through OBSSR’s crowdsourcing website. Once your IdeaScale account is created and you are logged in, you can submit an idea, browse and respond to ideas that have already been submitted, and vote for other ideas.
Please forward this information to your colleagues or other contacts who may be able to provide feedback and inform OBSSR’s three strategic priorities and important new directions.
If you have an inquiry, please contact Farheen Akbar at Farheen.akbar@nih.gov or 301-496-9165.
- NCI Webinar – “Untangling D&I Grant Reviews with the People Who Chair Them”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLz5hlGSdE&feature=youtu.be
- Dr. Carmen Quatman – TEDxColumbusWomen Talk
TEDx is often celebrated for bringing together some of the world’s best movers, shakers and thinkers. In December, Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD, assistant professor – clinical of Orthpaedics at the College of Medicine, shared her story at TEDxColumbusWomen, an independently organized event to empower girls and women using the TED conference format.
After her own traumatic knee injury that left her unable to navigate her home, Dr. Quatman recovered and became an orthopedic trauma surgeon with an emphasis on geriatric care. Watch her talk on the work Ohio State is doing to harness community paramedicine to help older adults age safely in their own homes.
- National Death Index Linkage- Reimbursement Announcement
Beginning January 1, 2020, through an agreement between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, (NCHS), NIH will reimburse the NCHS National Death Index (NDI) for the costs of NIH-supported investigators to link their research databases with the NDI for the research aims supported by the NIH. For more information, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-057.html
- Surgical Disparities Research- Funding Announcement
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations. While the goal is to better understand and explore effectiveness of clinical intervention approaches for addressing surgical disparities, this initiative will also seek to identify multi-level strategies at the institutional and systems level. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-20-079.html
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From the NIA Director’s blog
NIA is off to another monumental start: Our FY2020 budget indicates continued congressional support for our work that is enabling unprecedented advances, including efforts to combat Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Specifically, this year’s budget includes a 3.3 percent increase in NIA’s general appropriation plus an additional $350 million designated for AD/ADRD, bringing NIA’s total budget to $3.5 billion and the NIH-wide spending target for AD/ADRD to $2.818 billion.
- NIMHD 10th Anniversary Scientific Symposium: Innovations to Promote Health Equity
Join us as we celebrate 10 years as an institute of the National Institutes of Health! Recent news coverage on topics such as maternal mortality, medication ineffectiveness, vaping and diet-related cancers reflect both the acknowledgement of disparities in health and health care and the urgent need to ensure that all populations are fully engaged in biomedical research. Leading researchers investigating these, and other salient topics will help crystalize and further explore our current knowledge about the determinants of health and their impact on minority health and health disparities.
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET (Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.)
Location: NIH Main Campus, Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), Ruth Kirschstein Auditorium
This symposium will provide an opportunity to discuss research ideas about how innovations in reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities, persons of disadvantaged socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities, and underserved rural residents can improve the future of minority health and ensure an equal opportunity to live long, healthy, and productive lives for all populations.
Register to attend the symposium in person here. The symposium will be available on NIH Videocast and archived for those unable to attend in person.
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Save-The-Dates: 2020 Health Disparities Research Institute
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from August 3-7, 2020, in Bethesda, MD. The online application system will open in early February 2020! The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising early-career minority health and health disparities research scientists and to stimulate research in disciplines supported by health disparities science.
The program will feature:
- lectures on minority health and health disparities research
- mock grant review
- seminars and small group discussions
Institute participants will also have the opportunity to engage in sessions with NIH scientific staff involved in health disparities research across the various NIH institutes and centers.
Please note that applications will only be accepted from extramural scientists who meet NIH’s Early Stage Investigator (ESI) eligibility criteria. NIH and HHS staff, including persons doing fellowships/training at NIH or an HHS agency, are not eligible to apply.
Visit the HDRI webpage to learn more about the target audience, eligibility, selection criteria, and how to apply.
For questions or more information, email HDRI@nih.gov.
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WE HAVE THE NASS!
This month, SHARP received a download of the 2016 NASS dataset. Sampled from the State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD), HCUP’s NASS can be used to create national estimates of major ambulatory surgery encounters performed in hospital-owned facilities. Major ambulatory surgeries are defined as selected invasive, therapeutic surgical procedures that typically require the use of an operating room and require regional anesthesia, general anesthesia, or sedation (i.e., surgeries flagged as “narrow” in the HCUP Surgery Flag Software).
Key features of the 2016 NASS include:
• Data from 2,718 hospital-owned facilities located in 33 States and the District of Columbia, approximating a 59-percent stratified sample of U.S. hospital-owned facilities performing selected ambulatory surgeries
• Data on clinical procedures and diagnoses, disposition of the patient, expected source of payment, and total charges, as well as geographic, hospital-owned facility, and patient characteristics
• A focus on encounters with at least one “in-scope” ambulatory surgery: an invasive, therapeutic procedure with relatively high procedure volume, a substantial share of procedures in the hospital outpatient setting, and reliable reporting from hospital-owned facilities
• A supplemental file that provides information on out-of-scope procedures performed during these encounters
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY SUCCESSES
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.
