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Faculty Career Development Series

Career Development Series

The ITHS Career Development Series consist of monthly lectures and workshops designed to provide junior faculty and investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.

Topics

Topics are selected based on an annual needs assessment.

Example topics include:

  • How to Write an NIH K Award
  • Making the Most of your Mentor Relationship
  • Mastering Public Speaking as a Researcher
  • Communicating your Findings Visually
  • What really happens in an NIH Study Review

Where can I find a CDS event?

ITHS partners with several UW campus and WWAMI regional partners to ensure we reach and engage the translational workforce with each series. CDS events occur across the main UW campus, in the UW Medicine South Lake Union building, and are often captured on video and edited for online distribution to our regional partners. Many of our offerings are also broadcast live as webinars to allow for flexible viewing opportunities. Check out the calendar for specific upcoming event topics and locations.

Click here to watch past seminar recordings.

Upcoming and Past Events

Nov
7
Thu
Facilitating Meetings @ Online Event
Nov 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Get much more out of your meetings and take a giant step towards improving team engagement and functionality. Team meetings are where much of the team decisions and interactions occur. Using a few tools and strong facilitation can increase contribution and reduce ineffective conflict and increase psychological safety.

This is the second session of the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply 2 primary tools for team meetings.
  2. Understand 2 facilitation techniques.

Schedule of Activities

12:00–12:05pm – Welcome, Overview, Introductions
12:05–12:55pm – Presentation and Q&A
12:55–1:00pm – Thank You and Feedback Survey

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About the Speaker

Jennifer SprecherJennifer Sprecher is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching.

Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical. Sample facilitations include strategic planning, building collaborations, designing and developing new services, products and processes, implementing process improvements, implementing research studies and creating new research centers. She has worked extensively in the past few years within the arena of team science and applying team concepts to innovative development and research teams.

Before the UW School of Nursing, Ms. Sprecher focused exclusively on health research in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, also within the University of WA. Prior to the UW, she spent 7 years as Executive Director of the Washington State Quality Award (WSQA), a Baldrige-based non-profit organization. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Ms. Sprecher has been working with process improvement for over 25 years using continuous process improvement methods including Lean, Lean-Sigma, Plan Do Check Act and 6S (5S workplace organization combined with Safety) and Total Quality Management.

Ms. Sprecher has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s of Science in Management Systems, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an International Coaching Federation ACC-certified Leadership Coach.

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Nov
19
Tue
Measurement Development and Evaluation: A Brief Overview, Tips, and Lessons Learned @ Online Event
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Description

In this presentation, you will learn about considerations for creating and evaluating self-report measures. Content covered will include types of validity and reliability relevant to patient-reported outcome measures, common mistakes to avoid, review of reflective v formative latent constructs, overview of types of analyses for psychometric evaluation, and minimally important difference metrics.

This session is designed for people with any level of measurement experience. Beginners are welcome!

At the end of the presentation, there will be an optional extra 30 minutes for folks who are working on measures and want to discuss their projects.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

  • Recognize common types of validity and reliability
  • Distinguish between formative and reflective constructs
  • Describe two ways to evaluate Minimal important difference (MID)

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Schedule of Activities

12:00-12:05pm – Welcome/Introduction
12:05-1:00pm – Presentation and Discussion
1:00-1:30pm – Optional opportunity for attendees to share projects

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About the Speaker

Brittany Blanchard, PhDBrittany Blanchard, PhD (she/they) is a licensed clinical psychologist with advanced training in psychological methods and evaluations. She is an Assistant Professor, Director of the Population Health Analytics Team (P-HAT), and Director of the NIMH-funded P50 ALACRITY Center Methods Core in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the UW SOM. She is currently supported by the NCATS-funded ITHS KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program, for which her research and training focus on integrating harm reduction practices into primary care for patients who use stimulants and/or opioids. She is also supported by multiple grants from NIMH, PCORI, and the CDC, as well as the NIDA Loan Repayment Program. She is a faculty member in the Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center and the Harborview Injury and Prevention Research Center (HIPRC).

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