NIH Awards Supplement Grant to Northwestern, UChicago, and UIC to Expand...
The Chicago CTSA institutions – The University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University — and partners will create the Community-Engaged Research Team Support (CERTS)...
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Closing the 30 Million Word Gap: A cochlear implant surgeon steps out of the...
Two-year old Joshua Ryan Keys has a small device tucked into the pocket of a specially designed shirt. It looks like a pedometer, but instead of steps, it counts words. The automated Language...
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Diabetes Management Starts at the Store: Innovative diabetes program is...
Standing in the middle of aisle two, Hattie Mullen stared at her own clenched fist realizing it was only one cup of rice or pasta. Mullen looked back at diabetes educator Marla Solomon, RD, CDE, who...
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Researchers Transform Food Drive Into Diabetes Education Forum
Grocery carts clanked against the rows of metal chairs as more than 200 people rummaged for seats at the Keep Loving Each Other (K.L.E.O.) Community Family Life Center, located at 119 E. Garfield...
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In-school Immunizations: Infectious Disease Expert Is Designing A Sustainable...
Clusters of children who are not immunized raise the chances of school-based outbreaks of serious, preventable disease such as measles and whooping cough. On the South Side of Chicago, at least a...
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The Play’s the Thing
Doriane Miller, MD, was sitting in an exam room, recording the medical history of the young man sitting in front of her. When he told her he’d been shot in the past, she put her pen down. “What...
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Internship provided through ITM partnership program helps one student...
One of the best things about education is that you can always pick up right where you left off. But that option can also make it hard to finish what you started. After three years at Northern Illinois...
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3 Tips for Building Relationships in the Community You’d Like to Study
It’s important to take the time to build a number of relationships with the residents of the community you’re proposing to study. Whether it’s a pilot study proposal, or a larger grant-funded study,...
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Creating an Echo: Program equips South Side providers with specialized health...
Daniel Johnson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Section of Academic Pediatrics; Associate Chair, Clinical Services; and Director, Practice Based Research Network in the ITM Community...
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Following Through: Utilizing ITM resources to conduct community-based research
John Schneider was sitting in a section meeting, listening to ITM Director Julian Solway describe the various funding mechanisms and resources available to UC investigators through the ITM, when he...
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Read the March 2013 ITM Investigator Today!
The ITM Investigator is a quarterly e-newsletter that provides clinical and translational researchers with the latest information on funding opportunities, educational opportunities, and physical...
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New York Times Features Research of ITM Investigator Dana Suskind, MD
There’s no instruction manual for parenting, but researchers like Dana Suskind, MD, hope to give parents an idea of how their speaking and reading habits might affect their children’s future. The New...
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ITM Community Cluster Leader Chosen to Serve on PCORI Advisory Panel
Doriane Miller, MD, has been appointed to serve a one-year term on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Advisory Panel on Addressing Disparities. Miller is an associate professor of...
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The MENTOR Program: Providing opportunity, promoting diversity
After years of researching health disparities, one thing Karen Kim, MD, Professor of Medicine (pictured right), knows for sure is this: diversity among clinical or translational researchers isn’t just...
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Powering Up: An ITM Leader teams up with the Chicago White Sox to battle...
One of the best things about translational medicine is having the opportunity to watch it grow from its beginnings in bench research or program design, to widespread dissemination or implementation....
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Science They Can See
Pritzker medical students are providing hands-on science lessons to South Side kids with the aid of an ITM Community Mini Grant Alisha Ranadive was walking down the hallway at Sherman School when she...
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Pilot Awardee Update: UChicago Crime Lab Reduces Youth Violence And Secures...
Students participate in a deep breathing exercise as they learn about self-control and relaxing during their weekly BAM session at a Chicago Public School. Photo by Robert Kozloff/University of...
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Pilot Awardee Update: ECHO-Chicago Expands Its Geographic Reach And Training...
Andrew Aronsohn, MD, (L) leads an ECHO-Chicago telehealth session about hepatitis C with transplant pharmacist Lindsey Pote, PharmD, BCPS (R). Photo by Sara Serritella. By Sara Serritella Patients who...
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Pilot Project Becomes Finalist In Social New Venture Challenge, Forms Nonprofit
Kohar Jones, MD, (L) and Greg Van Hyfte (R) rehearse for their GoodCity Chicago presentation in June. Photo by Sara Serritella. By Sara Serritella An ITM Pilot Project led by Kohar Jones, MD, and...
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C3 Hosts Fall Community-Engaged Research Symposium
C3 attendees fill the room at Rush University Medical Center on Oct. 10. Photo by Chartay Robinson/University of Chicago. By Sara Serritella About 200 researchers and community members attended the...
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