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21 Aug Researcher Spotlight: Featuring Nathan White

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Dr. Nathan White, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington and Attending Physician at Harborview Medical Center, is guided by the philosophy of identifying a problem and then attacking it from all angles. This philosophy is serving him well in his...

21 Aug Studies Examine Fecal Transplant Treatments for Crohn’s

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Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), also known as a stool transplant, may soon be a treatment option for children afflicted with Crohn’s disease thanks to the work of a researcher at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Crohn’s is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that is often accompanied by a...

13 Aug REDCap Tip of the Month: Spanish Characters

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While the majority of REDCap users conduct their research in English, there are a number of projects that target Spanish-speaking participants. The Spanish language contains a number of special characters that often do not display properly on participant’s web browsers. When this occurs, the characters in...

11 Aug RoMP Ethics Study Project Videos Released

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The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today the release of the three videos that have been developed to support the study, “Attitudes about the Ethics of Research on Medical Practices (RoMP).” The RoMP ethics study, which is a collaboration between ITHS and Spectrum at...

22 Jul NIH Accepts ITHS Abstract for Poster Presentation

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The Institute of Translational Health Sciences has been selected to present its new Research START (Study and Trial Accelerator for Research Teams) project at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) workshop on the Enrollment and Retention of Participants in NIH-funded Clinical Trials. The workshop, which...

11 Jul ITHS Launches RoMP Study Website

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The Institute of Translational Health Sciences announced today the launch of new website focused on the study, “Attitudes about the Ethics of Research on Medical Practices (RoMP),” which is a collaboration between ITHS and Spectrum at Stanford University. The RoMP study is assessing the ethical...

02 Jul REDCap Tip of the Month: Survey Notifications

Posted at 14:58h in REDCap Tip of the Month

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Have you launched an active survey, but don't want to spend time checking REDCap to see if you have received new responses? An easy solution to this scenario is to set up REDCap’s “Survey Notification” function. By enabling this function, you will receive an automatic email that...

24 Jun Echo-Hawk Receives 2014 Standing Ovation Award

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Abigail Echo-Hawk (pictured), Tribal Liaison for the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 2014 Bob Roseth Standing Ovation Award by the University of Washington Professional Staff Organization. This award is designed to honor UW professional staff members who have a high impact...

18 Jun ITHS Provides Development Training to Alaska’s Southcentral Foundation

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The Institute of Translational Health Sciences recently completed a three-day in-person training session in Anchorage, Alaska, for the investigators and research support staff at Southcentral Foundation’s Research Department. The training, which was led by a team from the ITHS Research Coordinator Core, presented attendees with topics that...

16 Jun ITHS Gene and Cell Therapy Lab Services Available to Region

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As the National Institutes for Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awardee for the five-state WWAMI region, the Institute of Translational Health Sciences supports researchers at the University of Washington, Fred Hutch, Seattle Children’s, and elsewhere with their NIH-funded research. This support includes offering the infrastructure,...