scholarly journals 2017 Sowing the “CEED”s of a more diverse biomedical workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (S1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Colleen A. Mayowski ◽  
Kaleab Z. Abebe ◽  
Natalia E. Morone ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
Wishwa N. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Leaky Pipeline ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) promotes success and helps seal the “leaky pipeline” for under-represented background (URB) biomedical researchers with a purposefully designed program consisting of a monthly seminar series, multilevel mentoring, targeted coursework, and networking. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Over 10 program years, we collected survey data on characteristics of CEED Scholars, such as race, ethnicity, and current position. We created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED during that time using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Since 2007, CEED has graduated 45 Scholars. Seventy-six percent have been women, 78% have been non-White, and 33% have been Hispanic/Latino. Scholars include 20 M.D.s and 25 Ph.D.s. Twenty-eight CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB students. Compared with matched URB students, CEED graduates had a higher mean number of peer-reviewed publications (9.25 vs. 5.89; p<0.0001) were more likely to hold an assistant professor position (54% vs. 14%; p=0.004) and be in the tenure stream (32% vs. 7%; p=0.04), respectively. There were no differences in Career Development Awards (p=0.42) or Research Project Grants (p=0.24). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool. Further efforts are needed to assist URB researchers to obtain grant awards.

scholarly journals Sowing the “CEED”s of a more diverse biomedical workforce: The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Kaleab Z. Abebe ◽  
Natalia E. Morone ◽  
Colleen A. Mayowski ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
Wishwa K. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Career Education ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

AbstractPurpose:The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The importance of fostering the careers of fledgling underrepresented background (URB) biomedical researchers is evident in light of the national and local scarcity of URB scientists in biomedical research. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) was designed to promote career success and help seal the “leaky pipeline” for URB researchers. In this study, we aimed to quantify CEED’s effect on several key outcomes by comparing CEED Scholars to a matched set of URB ICRE trainees not enrolled in CEED using data collected over 10 years.Method:We collected survey data on CEED Scholars from 2007 to 2017 and created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. Poisson regression was used to compare the rate of publications between CEED and non-CEED URB trainees after adjusting for baseline number of publications.Results:CEED has 45 graduates. Seventy-six percent are women, 78% are non-White, and 33% are Hispanic/Latino. Twenty-four CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB trainees. Compared to matched URB trainees, CEED graduates had more peer-reviewed publications (p=0.0261) and were more likely to be an assistant professor (p=0.0145).Conclusions:Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool.

scholarly journals A Multi-Pronged Approach to Diversifying the Workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Rubio ◽  
Colleen Mayowski ◽  
Marie Norman
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The University ◽  
Minority Serving Institutions

The biomedical workforce continues to lack diversity, despite growing evidence demonstrating the advantages of diverse teams in workplaces for creativity and innovation. At the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education, we have taken a multi-pronged, collaborative approach to enhance the diversity of our trainees and scholars. We started by implementing a program for postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty, the Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program. We then built on this program and created a sister program for medical students (CEED II). These two programs were intended to build a local community of diverse researchers. Following the success of these programs, we extended our efforts and pursued federal funding to establish other programs. Our first funded program was designed to teach leadership and career coaching skills to mentors who are committed to mentoring people from diverse backgrounds, the Professional Mentoring Skills Enhancing Diversity (PROMISED) program. We then partnered with minority serving institutions to create a fellowship in translational research skills training, Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS), training in patient-centered outcomes research, Expanding National Capacity in PCOR through Training (ENACT), and a year-long fellowship to work with a specific mentor at Pitt, the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Fellowship (TL1). With recognition that much work remains to be done, we believe these programs represent a small but positive step toward diversifying the biomedical workforce.

Advisory Committees in Biomedical Research and Training

2017 ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Argentina Ornelas
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
And Training

Biomedical Research Training falls under the umbrella of Graduate Education at higher education institutions. The extent that advisory committees play in such training is not well documented, as these change from institution to institution. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the guiding federal agency that provides the bulk of financial support to biomedical research institutions, provides input in training and workforce development based on the research of their internal advisory committees. Discussed is the background of advisory committees in guiding graduate education and the roles of advisory committees in biomedical research education and training. Discussed are the roles of advisory committees at various levels of biomedical research education and training, from funding agencies (NIH), to advisory committees guiding training programs and delivering trainee advice at individual institutions. Discussion of the challenges in establishing advisory committees to develop a productive biomedical research workforce will ensue, as we shift from educational training to workforce development.

scholarly journals Review Essay: Enlightenment Lost?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Walter C. Clemens Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Sturm Und Drang ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
The University

Lost Enlightenment and Polymaths of Islam, each analyzing a different but linked period of Central Asian civilization, is each a masterwork of scholarship. Each author, now at a different stage in his academic career, has put to good use a bevy of languages to unveil the achievements of societies and ways of life smothered by the Sturm und Drang of life including great power aggressions. S. Frederick Starr has led Soviet as well as Central Asian research institutes based in Washington, D.C. He was the first director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, now affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Institute. James Pickett is Assistant Professor of Eurasian History at the University of Pittsburgh. Each author has done research in Russia and Central Asia.

Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Bonnie Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Storage Mechanism ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The University

AbstractI first heard of blockchain technology at a conference in 2017 when Christopher Wilmer, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Managing Editor of Ledger, [1] gave a presentation on the technology. While he did mention Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with which the technology was originally associated, Wilmer’s talk explained how his journal uses blockchain for proof-of-publication. He commented that as a data-storage mechanism, “blockchains are well-suited to be used in scholarly publishing because they are extremely resilient, tamper-proof, practically indestructible databases; there is no single point of failure or cost of operation; and there is an incontrovertible proof-of-publication date, even across countries and institutions whose incentives are not aligned (which is sometimes a point of contention for scientists racing to discover cure/new theorem/etc.)” [2].

Sino-U.S. partnerships in research, education, and patient care: The experience of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 1150-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Levine ◽  
Margaret C. McDonald ◽  
Charles E. Bogosta
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
The University

Development of a Biomedical Research Workforce Through the Support of Advisory Committees

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Argentina Ornelas
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Development ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Educational Relationships ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
Training Demands ◽  
And Training

Workforce development has not always been a set goal in biomedical research education and training. The highly-specialized training in biomedical research has often focused on the development of academic focused scientists, however, in the past 20 years this has been observed as unsustainable. A discussion ensues of the key areas of improvement to develop a sustainable biomedical workforce, and improve dispersion of diverse talent in all areas of biomedical research training (academic, industrial and government). The roles of advisory committees in biomedical research education and training demands that these be extended to additional venues to improve workforce challenges as individuals leave the training phase. Involvement of stakeholder roles in training opportunities by opening collaborations with training institutions opens venues for improvements in educational relationships, and workforce improvements. This chapter will also address the value of biomedical research (VOBR) and discuss recommendations to address workforce diversity and development.

Virgins As a Risk Group the Representation of Suicide

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
David Roy
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The University

From Autothanasia to Suicide–Self-killing in Classical Antiquity, by Anton J. L van Hooff, is published by Routledge, London (£35, 306 pp., 1990). This is the first book by this author who is a senior lecturer in ancient history at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. Suicide over the Life Cycle, edited by Susan T. Blumenthal and David J. Kupfer, is published by American Psychiatric Press, Washington. DC (£55.95, 799 pp., 1990). Dr Blumenthal is Chief of the Behavioural Medicine Unit and former head of the Suicide Research Unit in Maryland. Dr Kupfer is Professor and Chairman at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Youth Suicide, edited by Peter Cimbolic and David Jobes, is published by Charles A. Thomas, Illinois ($26.75, 122 pp., 1990), Dr Cimbolic is Director of the Counselling Centre at the Catholic University, and Associate Professor of Psychology. Dr Jobes is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University,

scholarly journals 3219 Integration of Undergraduate (US) and Graduate (GS) Students and Faculty (F) in Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) in Puerto Rico: The University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) and Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC) Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (s1) ◽  
pp. 72-72
Author(s):  
Rubén García García ◽  
Maria E González Méndez ◽  
José R. Moscoso-Álvarez ◽  
Mildred I Rivera Vázquez ◽  
Efraín Flores-Rivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Title V ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Cooperative Project ◽  
The University ◽  
Level 2

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The Title V Cooperative Project of the UPR-MSC and UCC has demonstrated that educational interventions in CTR are very effective in fulfilling the objective of promoting awareness, stimulate interest and increase the knowledge, skills and opportunities, to US, GS and F (participants) in CTR. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The training sessions (TS) offered through the Title V initiative have become an engine for the involvement in CTR for participants from higher education institutions island-wide. TS consisted of cycles –level 1 and 2–: Research Education Towards Opportunities (RETO,I,II) and Mentorship Offering Training Opportunities for Research (MOTOR,I,II), ending in the formation of the Clinical and Translational Mentoring Teams (CTMT)s, in which participants, paired by their research interests, were mentored by a well-established CT researchers in their research project, to be developed in the Intensive Development and Experiences in Advancement of Research and Increased Opportunities (IDEARIO). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Up to date, 4 TS-level 1 and 2 TS-level 2 were offered. Eighty (80) participants completed level 1, distributed: 42 (52.5%) US in RETO, 21 (26.25%) GS and 17 (21.25%) F in MOTOR and 17 participants completed level 2, distributed: 4 (23.52%) US in RETO, 6 (25.29%) GS and 7 (41.17%) F in MOTOR. From which, 15, with 8 CT researchers, formed 5 CTMTs in different research areas – cardio, neuro, liver, renal, Zika–. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: US, GS and F were integrated in the active process throughout educational levels for their development in CTR.

scholarly journals A generation at risk: Young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
The Us ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

A number of distressing trends, including a decline in the share of key research grants going to younger scientists, as well as a steady rise in the age at which investigators receive their first funding, are now a decades-long feature of the US biomedical research workforce. Working committees have proposed recommendations, policy makers have implemented reforms, and yet the trajectory of our funding regime away from young scientists has only worsened. An investigation of some of the major factors and their geneses at play in explaining the increasing average age to first RO1 is presented. Recommendations related to funding, peer review, career paths, and the university–government partnership are provided.

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