Events and Seminars
Monthly seminars showcase pilot investigators and experts in designing and evaluating patterns of change in health trajectory research. For details, contact the Project Coordinator, Mary Findorff (find0003@umn.edu). Note: Since February 2008, most seminars are available in video, MP3 and PowerPoint handouts. Prior to this time, the seminars are available in video by clicking on the name of the seminar. We recommend that the presentations be viewed using either Internet Explorer (PC) or Firefox (Mac). 2009-2010 Seminars Seminar: How to Make a Succinct Case for Your Study [MP3] (123 meg)
Presenter: Elizabeth Tornquist, MA, FAAN
Date: October 8, 2009
Description: This presentation focused on the new condensed page limits for NIH proposals, and how to make a compelling case for your study to grant reviewers.
Seminar: Publishing Your Work [MP3] (98 meg)
Presenter: Elizabeth Tornquist, MA, FAAN
Date: October 8, 2009
Description: This presentation provided tips for publishing that are useful to faculty and students (including student papers, dissertations, and presentations). Seminar: Using HLM to Model Trajectories: Adolescent Behavior as an Example from Developmental Science [Video] [Handouts]
Presenters: Barb McMorris, PhD; Elizabeth Lando-King
Date: October 22, 2009
Description: This presentation included an introduction to Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) for individual growth curve modeling, basics regarding modeling change in behavior at multiple levels, including advantages/disadvantages of this model, and examples from adolescent survey data to illustrate models of individual change over time. Seminar: Statistical Collaboration: Working with Statisticians from Start to Finish, and Essentials of Data Management [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenters: Kay Savik, MS; Olga Gurvich, MA
Date: November 12, 2009
Description: This presentation focused on the first meeting with a statistician; responsibilities of statistician vs. investigator; making decisions on the type of analyses; overview of database set-up and choice of software; IDs, names, format and codebooks; and data security. Seminar: Reporting Adverse Events: What, When, How? [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Cynthia R. Gross, PhD
Date: December 3, 2009
Description: This presentation included a description of current approaches for monitoring and classifying adverse events in drug, device, and behavioral clinical trials. Seminar: Comparative Effectiveness Research [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Shalini Kulasingam, PhD
Date: January 21, 2010
Description: This presentation included an overview of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), and discussed why there is a need for CER, priority CER topics, study designs
for conducting CER, and examples of CER studies. Seminar: Preliminary Work Supporting an R01 Research Grant [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Donna Bliss, PhD
Date: February 17, 2010
Description: This presentation included a review of aspects of preliminary work and their contributions to proposals per previous proposal instructions and page limits; examined review comments regarding preliminary work of recently funded grants; examined current criteria used for review of NIH grants, and discussed the role and use of preliminary work given criteria, new instructions, and new page limits. Seminar: Health Over Time: Longitudinal Design and Models in Nursing Research
Presenters: Melissa Avery, PhD; Tondi Harrison, PhD; Patricia Painter, PhD [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Date: March 25, 2010
Description: This presentation included pilot investigators describing their P20 pilot study projects: Dr. Melissa Avery focused on exercise interventions for gestational diabetes management in American Indian women; Dr. Tondi Harrison focused on evaluation of kangaroo care for newborns with congenital heart disease; and Dr. Patricia Painter focused on exercise interventions for wound healing in people with end-stage renal disease. Seminar: From Proposal to Publication
Presenter: Elizabeth Tornquist, MA, FAAN [MP3]
Date: April 30, 2010
Description: This presentation included a discussion on writing involved in planning, conducting, and reporting research; tips on preparing proposals; and interpreting research for other researchers, practitioners, and the public.
2008-2009 Seminars Seminar: Modeling Change in Health Status: Patterns of Health Over Time [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Susan J. Henly, PhD
Date: September 24, 2008
Description: This presentation included a discussion on understanding growth, stability and decline in health status, and statistical description of health trajectories.
Seminar: Writing Grant Proposals: Getting It Done [MP3]
Presenter: Elizabeth Tornquist, MA, FAAN
Date: October 8, 2008
Description: This presentation included a discussion on making a compelling argument for a proposed study, and creating a timeline for efficient proposal completion.
Seminar: Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Care [Handouts] [Video]
Presenter: Robert Kane, MD
Date: October 22, 2008
Description: This presentation included definitions around health care that change with a chronic disease context; areas of practice that could be changed to improve chronic disease care; and barriers to achieving better chronic disease care. Seminar: Revising & Resubmitting an NIH R01 Application: Exercise Training to Reduce Claudication: Arm Ergometry versus Treadmill Walking [Handouts] [MP3] [Video]
Presenter: Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD
Date: November 19, 2008
Description: This presentation summarized the process of designing and submitting an R01; reviewing the summary statements; and revising and re-submitting the grant.
Seminar: Consent & Assent Issues Common to Vulnerable Populations Across the Lifespan [Handouts] [MP3] [Video]
Presenters: Jeffery P. Perkey & Andrew Allen, IRB Research Subjects' Protection Programs
Date: December 10, 2008
Descripion: This presentation included history of research using vulnerable populations, federal regulations and policies, principles of consent and assent, guidelines of inclusion of children, considerations when defining 'vulnerable', and the consent process. Seminar: Keeping the Passion Alive: Making the Right Turn [Handouts] [MP3] [Video]
Presenter: Geraldine Padilla, PhD, Associate Dean for Research and Professor, UCSF, School of Nursing
Date: February 19, 2009
Description: This presentation included a discussion on when changing one's career is necessary to keep the ideas sparking, creative juices flowing, and passion for discovery energized. Changing from a focus on quality of life outcomes in adults with cancer to studying hepatitis B inoculation of newborns in the Philippines was challenging and rewarding. Seminar: Quality of Life: What Are We Measuring? [Handouts] [MP3] [Video]
Presenter: Geraldine Padilla, PhD, Associate Dean for Research and Professor, UCSF, School of Nursing
Date: February 20, 2009
Description: This presentation included a discussion on quality of life (QOL) as a key outcome measure of short- and long-term impact of disease, treatment, style of care, and all manner of personal, social, environmental, and medical factors. Focus was on determining whether QOL instruments do a good job of measuring well-being in diverse groups, across cultures, and throughout the illness trajectory.
Seminar: Using the Trajectory Perspective to Advance Nursing Science [Handouts] [MP3] [Video]
Presenters: Roberta Jorgensen, Rozina Bhimani, Jill Guttormson, Sarah Stoddard, PhD Candidates in Nursing, and Susan J. Henly, PhD
Date: March 12, 2009
Description: This presentation by nursing PhD students included a description of patterns over time related to fatigue in chronic liver disease, spasticity in upper motor neuron disease, sedation during intervention care with ventilator support, and hopelessness among adolescents living in poverty. The speakers commented on advancement of nursing science using the health trajectory perspective and methods. Seminar: How Early Is Early? Early Initiation of Risk Behaviors Among Inner City Adolescents and Its Impact on Later Behavioral Trajectories [Handouts]|[MP3]| [Video]
Presenter: John Bolland, PhD, Professor and Research Chairholder, University of Alabama
Date: April 30, 2009
Description: This presentation included a discussion on very early initiation (ages 10 and 11) of risk behaviors among inner-city adolescents, and impacts associated with trajectories of these behaviors through adolescence. 2007-2008 Seminars Seminar: Modeling Longitudinal Trajectories of Emotional Distress in Dementia Caregivers
Presenter: David L. Roth, PhD
Date: September 6, 2007 Seminar: Theory-Based Model Development: Psychological Functioning Among Refugees
Presenters: Cheryl Robertson, PhD and Kay Savik, MS
Date: September 19, 2007
Seminar: Community Prevention Trials: Mobilizing Communities to Promote Health
Presenter: Russell Luepker, MD, MS, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Date: October 17, 2007 Seminar: Reading and Planning Randomized Trials through the Writing Lens: The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT)
Presenter: Susan J. Henly, PhD
Date: November 21, 2007 Seminar: Pilot Study Design Issues [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Karla Ballman, PhD, Chair, Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Date: February 20, 2008
Description: This presentation provided an overview of statistical considerations for pilot studies. Issues discussed included study design, selection of endpoints, estimation, sample size/power, and analytical techniques. Seminar: Intervention Fidelity [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Dean, School of Nursing, Yale University
Date: March 6, 2008
Description: This presentation discussed the definition of intervention fidelity, how it is measured, and how it is accounted for in nursing and behavioral intervention studies. Examples from a program of research were used to illustrate these issues. Seminar: Adherence Strategies and Measurement in Clinical Trials [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
Date: April 10, 2008
Description: This presentation included definitions, significance, challenges, measurements, strategies and recommendations on adherence strategies and measurement in clinical trials. Seminar: Retention Issues and Strategies in Longitudinal Studies [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Presenter: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
Date: April 10, 2008
Description: This presentation included an overview and discussion regarding why retention of research participants is important, the impact of lost to follow-up or poor adherence, and strategies to retain participants in studies. Event: School of Nursing Research Day [Video] [MP3] [Handouts]
Keynote Speaker: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
Date: April 11, 2008 2006-2007 Seminars Seminar: Launching Year 2 Pilot Studies and Beyond
Presenters: Pilot Investigators Linda Halcón, PhD, Cheryl Robertson, PhD, and Ruth Lindquist, PhD
Date: September 20, 2006
Seminar: Creating Interdisciplinary Research Teams
Presenters: Joseph Gaugler, PhD (Psychology and Nursing), Margaret Moss, DSN, RN, JD (Policy, Geography, Nursing and Law), Jayne Fulkerson, PhD (Psychology, Public Health, Nursing) and Craig Weinert, MD (Clinical Medicine and Nursing)
October 18, 2006 Seminar: Obesity Prevention in Schools: Current Role and Future Practice of School Nurses
Presenter: Pilot Investigator Martha Kubik, PhD
Date: November 15, 2006
Seminar: Describing Patterns of Change with Random Coefficient Models
Presenters: Robert Cudeck, PhD, Ohio State University, Psychometric Methods Group, and Susan J. Henly, PhD, MCHTR Methods Director
Date: December 20, 2006 Seminar: Evaluating an Intervention: Beyond Randomized Trials
Presenter: Timothy R. Church, PhD, SPH Division of Environmental Sciences
Date: January 17, 2007
Seminar: Studying the Dynamics of Co-Morbidity: A Growth Mixture Approach
Presenter: Ross Macmillan, PhD, Director, Life Course Center
Date: February 21, 2007 Seminar: Safety Monitoring: Issues and Responsibilities
Presenter: Cynthia R. Gross, PhD, MCHTR Data and Safety Monitoring Director
Date: March 21, 2007
Seminar: Mentoring Others for Successful Research Careers
Presenter: Janet Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, P30 Director, Center for Reducing Risks in Vulnerable Populations, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: April 19, 2007
Seminar: How to Do It All: Balancing Multiple Responsibilities as a Faculty Researcher
Presenter: Janet Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, P30 Director, Center for Reducing Risks in Vulnerable Populations, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: April 19, 2007
Event: Keynote Speech, School of Nursing Research Day
Keynote Speaker: Janet Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, P30 Director, Center for Reducing Risks in Vulnerable Populations, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing
Date: April 20, 2007
Seminar: Lost in Time: The Person in Nursing Research
Presenter: Susan J. Henly, PhD, MCHTR Methods Director
Date: May 16, 2007 Information about our 2005-2006 seminars is available.
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