The University of Washington was announced today as the initial testing ground for Amazon Catalyst, which will offer funding for promising exploratory research to UW-affiliated applicants....
Residents of two rural Idaho towns now have access to pharmacy services thanks to Dr. Rex Force, an ITHS WPRN steering committee member, and his team at the Idaho State University Foundation. ...
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences was announced as a winner of two Platinum- and two Gold-level 2015 MarCom Awards in digital media for its website....
Dr. Inoue and Dr. Aizawa plan to use the insights gained from the visit to help build an inter-institutional research ethics consultation service repository in Japan....
Looking to increase clinical research study enrollment? An ITHS research coordinator shares his top tips for recruiting study participants and why research coordinators should not be afraid of marketing....
Researchers from the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute are studying how education, counseling, and take-home Naloxone kits impact opioid overdose numbers....
Frequent users of REDCap can run into challenges differentiating one project from another as their project list grows. This issue most often occurs when they have multiple projects with similar names or went through multiple iterations to develop a single project.
To address this issue, REDCap...
Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey, Co-PI of ITHS and a UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s pediatrician, has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ramsey is a worldwide expert in cystic fibrosis clinical care and research....
Dr. Dennis Turk is leading a multi-site clinical trial examining treatment options for patients with fibromyalgia. When Dr. Turk encountered recruitment challenges, he was able to work with ITHS to boost his monthly recruitment numbers by 95% with the help of biomedical informatics....
In this Q&A, Michael Donahue shares a number of study recruitment tips he has learned over the course of his 15-year career as a research coordinator....