Last chance to register! - Only a few spots remain! Deadline: Today
2019 FEED Conference - Friday, 3/22 from 8 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. in the Emory 1599 Building. This event provides an exciting half-day CME-accredited program full of learning opportunities for faculty at all levels.
Register | Flyer | Read more
Research Resources 101 - Lipidomics Core
Thursday, 3/21 at noon in the SOM 170A. This monthly workshop is presented by Eric Ortlund, PhD (Department of Biochemistry). The objectives are: - To gain an appreciation of lipid metabolites and the challenges of measuring them
To understand the capabilities to measure lipid metabolites at Emory To discuss experimental design considerations for targeted and untargeted lipid/metabolites
Register | Read more
Reminder: Call for Abstracts - The 6th Annual Health Services Research Day
Deadline to submit: Friday, 3/15. Health Services Research Day is Wednesday, 5/15 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in SOM 110. Karen Joynt Maddox MD, MPH (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Social Work- Washington University School of Medicine) serves as the keynote speaker for this exciting event. This event celebrates ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research activities across the state of Georgia. Register | Agenda | Read more
Need help navigating the Department of Medicine Research Administration Service (RAS) Unit? The DOM RAS Unit has issued a one-page document to assist you in working your way through the grant submission process starting with pre-award. Download PDF
Emory LITS Scholarly Communications Office
The Emory University Scholarly Communications Office (SCO) offers a variety of services for Emory faculty, staff, and students. The SCO also coordinates and supports three open access repositories and offers funding to make Emory authors’ research available in eligible open access venues. Read more
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities
ResMed Foundation - clinical research grant
Deadline: Friday, 3/15 The Foundation's key mission is to promote novel research as well as public and physician awareness of sleep-disordered breathing, with a primary focus on positive airway pressure therapies and ventilation-based treatments. Read more Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Initiative on Tuberculosis (TB) research: Regional prospective observational research for Tuberculosis RePORT India RFP
Deadline: Monday, 3/18 CRDF Global is accepting proposals on behalf of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology to fund a single network of multiple clinical research sites addressing an array of TB biomedical and clinical research of importance to India and abroad. Read more Summer research education experience program (R25 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Friday, 3/22 The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. Read more Pediatric Research Alliance 2019 Pilot Grants
Deadline: Monday, 4/1 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Award (FOA) is to stimulate new research projects, build new collaborators, and increase extramural funding for pediatric research. Proposals should be aimed towards generating preliminary data for subsequent extramural grant applications. Read more International Society for Infectious Diseases - research grants
Deadline: Monday, 4/1 ISIDs research grants are one of the Society's signature programs and are instrumental in fulfilling ISIDs commitment to funding researchers from countries which bear the greatest burden of infectious disease. Read more Research on the health of women of understudied, underrepresented and underreported (U3) populations An ORWH FY19 administrative supplement (admin supp clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Monday, 4/8 The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research focused on the effect of sex/gender influences at the intersection of several social determinants, including but not limited to: race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education, health literacy and other social determinants in human health and illness. Read more Mechanisms underlying the contribution of sleep disturbances to pain (R01 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply The purpose of this FOA is to encourage mechanistic research to investigate the impact of sleep disturbances on pain. The mechanisms and processes underlying the contribution of sleep and sleep disturbances to pain perception and the development and maintenance of chronic pain may be very broad. Read more The Kenneth Rainin Foundation -
Synergy Award
Deadline: Monday, 9/16 The Kenneth Rainin Foundations Synergy Award is designed to encourage collaboration among health researchers from across disciplines to advance the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). It funds groundbreaking or unconventional methodologies, whose risky outlook is justified by the possibility of a major breakthrough. Read more
Frederic Rahbari-Oskoui (Renal Medicine) received funding for a subcontract for the University of Minnesota for a project entitled, “Blood pressure and kidney function - SPRINT vs. electronic health record data.” Laura Plantinga (Renal Medicine), Sam Lim, Cristina Drenkard (Rheumatology), Stephanie Garrett (General Medicine/Geriatrics) received funding for a R01 from the NIA for a project entitled, “Burden, correlates, and outcomes of poor cognitive and physical functioning in the lupus population.” Molly Perkins and Alexis Bender (General Medicine/Geriatrics) received funding for a subcontract from Georgia State
University for a project entitled, “Meaningful engagement and quality of life among assisted living residents with dementia.” Arezou Khosroshahi (Rheumatology) received funding from Lilly USA, LLC for a project entitled, “A phase 3, multicenter study to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of baricitinib in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.” Camille Vaughan (General Medicine/Geriatrics) received funding from the Georgia Research Alliance for a project entitled, “MapHabit.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 3/07 at 8 a.m. in Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar “There’s no place like home: Finding a... motel for human plasma cells – a lab-made survival niche" (Doan Nguyen)
Monday, 3/11 at 9 a.m. in Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: “Genome-wide metabolic modeling for optimization of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes” (Melissa Lambeth Kemp, PhD, Georgia Tech)
Monday, 3/11 at 5 p.m. in Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
Endocrine Conference: (Gregory Zora, MD)
Tuesday, 3/12 at 5 p.m. in School of Medicine, Room 170A
Renal Grand Rounds: (Serena Bagnasco, MD, John Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Recent Notable Publications
Greg Martin (Pulmonary)
Martin GS, Bassett P. “Crystalloids vs. colloids for fluid resuscitation in the intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis." J Crit Care. 2019 Apr;50:144-154. Read more Dave Murphy, Greg Martin (Pulmonary), Raymund Dantes (Hospital Medicine)
Rhee C, Zhang Z, Kadri SS, Murphy DJ, et al. “Sepsis surveillance using adult sepsis events simplified eSOFA criteria versus sepsis3 sequential organ failure assessment criteria.” Crit Care Med. 2019 Mar;47(3):307-314. Read more Vin Tangpricha, Ellen Michalski, Moon Lee, Thomas Ziegler, Supavit Chesdachai, Wendy Hermes, Jessica Alvarez (Endocrinology)
Tangpricha V, Lukemire J, Chen Y, Binongo JNG, et al. “Vitamin D for the Immune System in Cystic Fibrosis (DISC): a double-blind, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.” Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 Feb 22. pii: nqy291. Read more Thomas Ziegler (Endocrinology)
Gundogan K, Akbudak IH, Bulut K, Temel S, et al. “Thiamin status in adults receiving chronic diuretic therapy prior to admission to a medical intensive care unit: A pilot study.” Nutr Clin Pract. 2019 Jan 15. Read more
Would you like to highlight a recent notable publication?
Pediatric Research Alliance - “Electronic health record usability and safety: Research, policy, and implementation”
Friday, 3/8 at noon in Egleston Classroom 5-7. Raj Ratwani, PhD, (Director, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare- MedStar Institute for Innovation | MedStar Health Research Institute) and Naveen Muthu, MD (Instructor, Clinical Informatics Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) serve has keynote speakers for this event. Register | Read more
March K-Club; “Rigor and transparency to enhance reproducibility”
Monday, 3/11 at noon in Egleston Classrooms 5-7. This monthly seminar series will feature Marvin Whiteley, PhD (Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center- Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar) as the keynote speaker. He will be joined by some of his trainees to share their perspectives on the importance of learning and applying these concepts in their research careers. Register | Read more
Sex-specific cardiovascular health and medicine conference
Tuesday, 3/12 from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in Hurst Conference Room - E450. This session will address the following topics:
1. Heart and Breast Cancer: Minimizing cardiotoxicity of cancer treatment (Susmita Parashar, MD)
2. Sex-specific differences in peripheral artery disease (Rebecca M. Leleiko MD)
Read more (PDF)
Pediatric Research Grand Rounds - “Transplant access in the southeast and pragmatic trials to improve access”
Wednesday, 3/20 at 8 a.m. at Egleston Classroom 5. Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH (Director of Health Services Research, Associate Professor Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery - Emory University) serves as the keynote speaker for this event. Read more Register Now! Clinical Research Boot Camp 301
Tuesday, 4/23 from 8 a.m to 4:15 p.m. in Cox Hall Ballroom. The CRB series continues with a full day workshop focused on statistics. This event will provide information on the basis of statistics and statistical resources at Emory as well as hands-on excercises with the free and open-source R statistical software package. Register | Read more Save the Date! 2019
Internal Medicine Resident Research Day
Tuesday, 4/30 at noon in the Emory University Hospital Auditorium (2E). This annual event showcases our residents’ research achievements and celebrates the collaborative efforts between residents and dedicated faculty. The poster session will take place in the School of Medicine lobby from 4-6 p.m. Read more
Ketino Kobaidze
Division of Hospital Medicine
What is your professional background? I graduated from Tbilisi Medical School, worked as a physician at Infectious Disease Hospital in Tbilisi during a large diphtheria outbreak and collaborated with CDC/Atlanta
on a field epidemiology investigation. Later, I was offered a job at CDC where I conducted laboratory investigations. I joined clinical medicine in 2001.
In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I am a hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine. My mentor is Dr. Daniel Hunt. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
I am interested in clinical epidemiology research pertinent to hospitalized patients. I have a special interest in infectious diseases processes, especially healthcare associated infections and how to prevent and eliminate them. What do you like most about Emory?
I like Emory for its championing of education, interest in international projects, and research advances pertinent to clinical practice. I also like the collegiality across Emory. What is your favorite book, movie, or TV show?
My favorite book is Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. My favorite movie is Doctor Zhivago, and I like ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy hanging out with family and friends, hiking, reading books, and watching movies.
"What's Up" is brought to you by the Emory University Department of Medicine's Research Community.
View the DOM Research website here.
|