Events

E.g., 07/05/2020
E.g., 07/05/2020

  • NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp: Building a Strong Foundation for Funding Success

    Monday, July 13, 2020 to Tuesday, July 14, 2020
    11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
    Online Event
    • Mailman School of Public Health
    Summer 2020 dates: Live-stream, online training July 13-14, 2020; 11:00am - 6:00pm EDT

    Federal grants, particularly from the NIH, provide a critical means of support for academic research programs. Despite the importance of this support in advancing both research and researchers’ careers, training in how to obtain grants is uneven at best.

    This training gap leaves many researchers struggling to learn as they go, which can introduce significant stress, delay the time to a successful application, and impact their overall productivity.

    The good news is that training and hands-on practice can enable you to conquer grant writing, increase your chances of receiving funding, and devote more time to moving your scientific goals forward.

    The 2-day NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp: Building a Strong Foundation for Funding Success will provide comprehensive training that supplies researchers with the tools to write persuasive, effective grant proposals.
    Through a combination of seminars, discussions, examples, and hands-on activities, and a particular focus on navigating between-the-lines on how to tailor your proposals to grant reviewers, this training will orient you to all aspects of the academic funding process (i.e., grant writing and grantspersonship), including:

    -How to identify and apply for the right funding opportunities with the NIH (and beyond);
    -How to position your research and yourself to make reviewers your research advocates;
    -How to target your application to the right place at the right time; and
    -How to write clearly, effectively, and persuasively when telling your scientific story.
    -The workshop will begin with a live online seminar 2-3 weeks before the in-person program to introduce the fundamentals of drafting the Specific Aims page—that oh-so-important project overview that can ‘make or break’ the reviewers’ perception of the application.

    The in-person portion of the workshop will cover critical topics that help you package your proposal for maximum impact:

    -What the Aims page captures, why it’s so important to get it right, and how to tackle it
    -A comprehensive introduction to NIH funding announcements and award mechanisms: What to apply for, how to apply
    -Merit review: Understanding who, what, why, and how enables you to frame your application
    -Principles of good communication: How to ‘sell’ yourself and your science
    -Elements of good writing: Remembering and applying the rules you learned in 7th grade
    -Psychology of grant review
    -Tackling resubmissions for ultimate success

    Attendees will leave the boot camp with:

    -A foundational understanding of the NIH granting process and how it pertains to public health research
    -Hard-copy reference materials for information retention & review
    -A refined Aims page
    -A refined NIH Biosketch

    One round of written feedback for a Specific Aims page will be made available to all attendees for 3 months after the workshop, at no additional cost, further solidifying the workshop concepts into practical skills.

    Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.

    PREREQUISITES AND REQUIREMENTS
    No prior experience in preparing or submitting NIH grant applications is necessary. However, each participant should be prepared to share and work on an NIH Specific Aims page and an NIH biosketch. Participants who have not previously written an NIH-style Aims page and/or biosketch will have an opportunity to draft their page and receive initial feedback ahead of the on-site workshop. There are no other prerequisites to attend the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp.

    SCHOLARSHIPS
    Training scholarships are available for the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp.

  • Writing Letters of Support for Faculty and Mentees

    Tuesday, July 14, 2020
    4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    This workshop will help participants write a succinct and powerful recommendation letter for promotions, new opportunities, and awards.

  • The Exposome Boot Camp: Measuring Exposures on an Omic Scale

    Thursday, July 23, 2020 to Friday, July 24, 2020
    10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    Online Event
    • Mailman School of Public Health
    Summer 2020 dates: Live-stream, online training July 23-24, 2020; 10am EDT - 5pm EDT

    There are many challenges to capturing the complexity of exposures in an individual across the lifetime and their potential health effects. Traditionally, environmental health studies have focused on assessing risks related to a single exposure at a time, yet in reality we are constantly exposed to multiple exposures at the same time. To advance environmental health research and positively impact human health through recommendations and policy, we need to incorporate omics data that capture all chemical species detectable in human plasma over the life course. The exposome offers this framework and can be viewed as the environmental complement of the genome.

    This two-day intensive boot camp integrates the principle concepts of exposomics and the untargeted approaches of measuring endogenous and exogenous chemical exposures on an omic scale as we step through the tools and techniques currently available to analyze the exposome. Led by a team of expert scientists in the rapidly growing field of exposomics, the boot camp will integrate seminar lectures with hands-on computer lab sessions to put concepts into practice. Emphasis will be given to leveraging existing resources from ongoing studies and initiating new investigations. The afternoon lab sessions will provide an opportunity to work hands-on with real data. Participants will learn and practice data handling, cleaning, and basic analysis of exposomics data.

    By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the following topics:

    -Principles of exposomics
    -Concept ideation and study design
    -Laboratory methods and instrumentation platforms for analysis
    -Data extraction and cleaning with emphasis on peaks and feature tables
    -Pathway data analysis and identification databases
    -Data visualization and network interpretation
    -Study design advantages and pitfalls
    -Emerging exposomic topics and laboratory platforms

    Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.

    PREREQUISITES AND REQUIREMENTS
    This training is designed to accommodate investigators with varying experience levels in R. Both beginner and advanced data manipulation during lab sessions will be available, with all material and additional resources available after the training.

    -Each participant must have an introductory background in statistics

    -Each participant is required to have a personal laptop with R downloaded and installed prior to the first day of the workshop as all lab sessions will be done on your personal laptop. R is available for free download and installation on Mac, PC, and Linux devices.

    -The Boot Camp will use data sets in R, therefore participants must have a basic understanding of this platform prior to attending the Boot Camp.

    If you have any specific questions about R and R studio in the context of The Exposome Boot Camp, please email us.

  • Mentoring in the Virtual World: Building and Maintaining Relationships

    Monday, July 27, 2020
    4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    This seminar for full professors will be a structured discussion followed by a virtual happy hour.

  • Authentic Leadership: Leading in the Time of a Crisis

    Tuesday, July 28, 2020
    3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    At this session, Warren Ng, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, will discuss:
    Self and social awareness: how to harness your emotional intelligence to help your team
    Ways of using validation to support and motivate your team
    Impact of decision and task shifting fatigue on you and your team
    Addressing ethical/moral distress

  • Mendelian Randomization Boot Camp: A Practical Guide to Study Design and Implementation

    Monday, August 3, 2020 to Tuesday, August 4, 2020
    10:00 PM to 5:30 PM
    Online Event
    • Mailman School of Public Health
    Summer 2020 dates: Live-stream, online training August 3-4, 2020; 10:00am - 5:30pm EDT

    This two-day intensive boot camp integrates motivation for Mendelian randomization studies, statistical concepts, genetic considerations, and practical examples to design, implement and interpret a Mendelian randomization analysis. Led by a scientist with several award winning papers on Mendelian randomization combined with extensive expertise in epidemiology, the workshop will integrate seminar lectures with hands-on computer sessions to put concepts into practice. Emphasis will be given to leveraging existing publicly available resources (data, tools and packages) as well as indicating the scope for new studies. The afternoon lab sessions will provide an opportunity to work hands-on with real data. Participants will learn and practice all the steps required for a successful Mendelian randomization analysis using publicly available data, including identifying suitable data sources, data extraction, data alignment, assumption checking and sensitivity analysis.

    By the end of this Mendelian Randomization training, participants will be familiar with the following topics:

    -Principles of Mendelian Randomization
    -Implementation options
    -Suitable publicly available data sources
    -Data interpretation and handling
    -Data analysis
    -Sensitivity analysis
    -Study design advantages and pitfalls
    -Emerging Mendelian randomization techniques
    -Use of MR-Base

    Investigators at all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate.

    PREREQUISITES AND REQUIREMENTS
    -Each participant is required to bring a personal laptop as all lab sessions will be done on your personal laptop. Your laptop must have the capability of reading a 900Mb file into R.

    -The Boot Camp will use data sets in R, therefore it is required that each participant has previous experience using R. If you have any specific questions about R and R studio in the context of the Mendelian Randomization Boot Camp, please email us.

    -Each participant must have the latest version of R and R studio downloaded and installed prior to attending the Boot Camp.

    INSTRUCTOR
    Mary Schooling, PhD, Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at CUNY School of Public Health

    SCHOLARSHIPS
    Scholarships are available for the Mendelian Randomization Boot Camp.

  • Nuts and Bolts of Sponsored Projects Financing

    Thursday, September 3, 2020
    8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Thursday, September 3, 8:00-9:30 on Zoom

    This course provides an overview of finance and related topics in relation to sponsored projects. We will discuss the principles that guide the rules and regulations of sponsored projects. Major topics include: budgeting principles, effort, CARE model, Facilities & Administrative costs (a.k.a. IC, Indirect cost, overhead…), and finance & accounting nomenclature.

    We will introduce the Research Administration team and discuss our roles & responsibilities.

  • Developing the “The Thing You Do”/Academic Identity

    Tuesday, September 15, 2020
    8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    This presentation focuses on how to develop a main area of expertise for recognition and academic advancement. Attendees should expect to learn how to define the “thing you do” and gain practical strategies for making time for goals.

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancers and Genetic Testing

    Monday, October 5, 2020
    (All day)
    TBD
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    This course is designed for gastroenterologists, GI surgeons, medical and surgical oncologists, genetic counselors, geneticists, gynecologists, pathologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, cancer registry coordinators, and any other professionals involved in the care of individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes.

    This conference will provide an interdisciplinary educational forum to disseminate new knowledge on the identification and management of individuals and families with a genetic susceptibility to the development of gastrointestinal cancers. This conference will describe the clinical presentation, genetic basis, and cancer risks associated with inherited cancer syndromes and integrate familial cancer risk assessment, genetic testing approaches, assessment of actionable of test results, and genetic risk counseling. Didactic and case-based presentations from Columbia University and other experts in the evaluation and management of inherited gastrointestinal cancers syndromes will be featured. The goal is to improve detection of GI cancer syndromes, understand related cancer risks, and optimize strategies for the prevention and early detection of cancers to minimize morbidity and mortality. This course will aid healthcare providers with implementing the best and most current evidence into their routine care for patients and families with inherited GI cancer syndromes.

    At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:
    Identify and diagnose hereditary gastrointestinal syndromes
    Describe the associated cancer risks and surveillance strategies for inherited gastrointestinal cancer syndromes, including Lynch, polyposis, gastric cancer and familial pancreatic adenocarcinoma
    Describe the surgical approaches for the management of inherited gastrointestinal cancer syndromes for treatment and risk reduction
    Present novel approaches to screening and outcomes of cancer surveillance programs in high risk individuals
    Discuss the integration of genetic screening and testing results into clinical care
    Discuss the utility of next generation sequencing technologies through multigene panel testing and tumor testing
    Describe the impact of multigene panel testing to diagnose and manage inherited GI cancer syndromes
    Recognize the impact of germline genomics on therapeutic options in oncology practice

  • Establishing Evaluative Evidence - Assistant Professors

    Monday, October 12, 2020
    12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
    Online Event
    • College of Physicians and Surgeons
    This presentation discusses the types of evaluative evidence and scholarly products, and outlines how to demonstrate impact and quality improvement.

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