[IEEE-bhpjobs] May 31-June 1, NIH Roadmap Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks - National Leadership Forum

[esther L]

NIH ROADMAP INVENTORY AND EVALUATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS 
(IECRN) NATIONAL LEADERSHIP FORUM



May 31 and June 1, 2006

DoubleTree Hotel

Rockville, Maryland

(No registration fee, webcast available)



The National Leadership Forum will present findings from the 
NIH-sponsored Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks 
(IECRN) in the areas of management and governance; network operations; 
information technology; data management; financial practices; 
recruitment and retention; and training and professional development. 
The forum will also provide a venue for attendees to critically review 
and discuss the IECRN survey and best practice assessments. Goals of the 
National Leadership Forum include:



--Engaging opinion leaders from the clinical research network community 
in building a common framework for discourse and dialogue on the NIH 
Roadmap initiative;



--Supporting cross-network exchange in the clinical research network 
community; and



--Providing a springboard to ongoing dissemination of information and 
practice models to the clinical research network community.



SPEAKERS

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. - Director, National Institutes of Health David 
Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. - National Health Information Technology 
Coordinator, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services



REGISTRATION AND WEBCAST

The forum is open to the public and registration is free.  Registration 
will be limited to the first 500 participants due to room capacity. 
Please register early.  The plenary sessions will be simultaneously 
webcast. Attendees will have opportunities to provide input into 
findings and best practice models used by the NIH Roadmap Initiative in 
its ongoing discussion of re-engineering the clinical research enterprise.



TARGET AUDIENCE

Principal Investigators, Epidemiologists, Behavior Scientists, Clinical 
Study Coordinators, Pharmacists, Biostatisticians, Clinicians, Data 
Managers, Bioinformatics and Information Technologists



INFORMATION

Information on the IECRN National Leadership Forum along with 
registration and webcast information can be found at 
http://www.clinicalresearchnetworks.org/forum.asp



For more information on the IECRN and the NIH Roadmap, visit these Web 
sites:



Inventory and Evaluation of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN) - 
http://www.clinicalresearchnetworks.org/background.asp



NIH Roadmap - http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/index.asp



Sign Language Interpreters will be provided. For reasonable 
accommodations, please contact Dr. Jody Sachs at 301 435-0233 or by 
email at js1001p at nih.gov by April 17, 2006.  For TTY callers, please 
call the above number through the Federal Relay Service at 1 (800) 877-8339.



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The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research is a series of far-reaching 
initiatives designed to transform the Nation's medical research 
capabilities and speed the movement of scientific discoveries from the 
bench to the bedside. Additional information about the NIH Roadmap can 
be found at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov.



The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research 
Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the 
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal 
agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational 
medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures 
for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and 
its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.





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