Events

Knowing what is OK: Recruiting participants for clinical research at UCI

Part 2: Recruiting through the community
Speakers: Joshua Grill, PhD, Adrijana Gombosev, MS, Dara Sorkin, PhD, Robynn Zender, MS, Pamela Pimentel, RN, and Monique Daviss

Physician Scientist and Clinical Investigator Enhancement Program: Interdisciplinary Paths Lecture Five

Topic: Interdisciplinary Paths for Clinical Investigators with the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention. Presentations by: Dr. Lisa Grant Ludwig, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Population Disease Prevention. The opportunities involving public health prevention, early diagnostics, and local community involvement will be presented. Dr. Dele Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH, Professor and UC Presidential Chair. Involvement in global health and development, toxic environmental pollution, and ecology and health will be emphasized.

Boundary-Crossing Skills for Research Careers: Navigating Mentorship

Join us for a candid conversation with Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Chris Gibbons, MD, MMSc, BIDMC, on how to cultivate mutually beneficial relationships with mentors and the opportunities that arise from these relationships. Speakers will discuss how to engage with leaders in your organization, benefits of building a diverse network of mentors, and strategies for cultivating productive relationships with mentors.

UCI Conte Center Seminars: Alcohol & the Adolescent Brain

Speaker: Susan Tapert, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Environmental Racism and Injustice in the 21st Century: The Role of Community-Engaged Science for a Greener, More Equitable Future

Speaker: Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health.

UCI Conte Center Seminars: The Impact of a Poverty Reduction Intervention on Infant Brain Activity

Speakers: Sonya Troller-Renfree, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Teachers College, Columbia University and Greg J. Duncan, PhD, Distinguished Professor, UCI School of Education.

Cardiovascular Health Disparities Workshop

The goal of this workshop is to bring together faculty, staff, and trainees at UCI with shared interests in this area to share perspectives, approaches, and recent advances. We hope to stimulate collaborations and inspire future large grant proposals to establish UCI’s leadership in this critical, emerging area. Please email Naomi C. Chesler, PhD (nchesler@uci.edu) by October 8 with your interest in attending, names of others whose attendance would add value (collaborators, trainees), and your willingness to give a short presentation on your expertise in this area.

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series: G-Protein/Beta Arrestin-Coupled Receptors: A Tale of Two Transducers

Speaker: Nobel Laureate Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD
The UCI School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to bring together influential leaders from healthcare and academia to share their insights, experience, and anecdotal stories with our faculty, staff, students and community members. The program features a series of speakers: representing innovation in basic sciences, advances in clinical medicine, and developments in clinical research.

Developing MASI: An mHealth Intervention to Improve Treatment Adherence among Adolescents with HIV in South Africa

Speaker: Marta Mulawa, PhD; Assistant Professor of Nursing and Global Health & Duke University School of Nursing
We are in the process of iteratively customizing MASI through in-depth interviews and app-testing with adolescents with HIV in Cape Town. A pilot randomized controlled trial to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of MASI on adherence and social support is planned to begin March, 2022.

Adolescent to Adult Bridge (A2B) Panel Discussion

CHOC will bring together the best in Southern California — the transition care leaders, engineering students, engineering professionals, bizdev experts, entrepreneurs, clinicians, medical students, clinical support teams and creatives — to learn about this clinical need, understand the challenges and transition themes and remove barriers to reduce this gap. This virtual event is free for students and $25 for faculty, allowing CHOC to issue CME.