CLIC Education Clearinghouse
The CLIC Education Clearinghouse is a centralized space where the CTSA community can find and share a variety of education and translational workforce development resources from the CTSA consortium, searchable by learning domains, tags (keywords), target learners, and more. Each entry presents a detailed profile of the resource so that users can efficiently choose a resource that’s right for them.
CONDUITS NEWS
Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) collaborated on two COVID critical needs projects with funding from the CTSA
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, interdisciplinary teams at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) collaborated on two COVID critical needs projects with funding from the CTSA. The teams of scientists at Mount Sinai and RPI with complementary expertise...
Impact of COVID-19 on training and career development: Feedback from our KL2 Scholars, TL1 Trainees, and PORTAL Students
New York City has been at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. At its peak, with over 6300 new cases and 590 deaths per day in New York City, Mount Sinai hospital underwent unprecedented changes to manage the enormous surge in COVID-19 patients. Many of our KL2 and...
“Insights to Inspire” Supporting early-career trainees and scholars with Dr. Janice Gabrilove
Registration for the July 29th kick-off webinar for the Insights to Inspire (I2I) 2020 series is now open. Insights to Inspire (I2I) 2020 highlights those CTSA hubs who have made improvements in their Careers in Clinical Translational Research metric. The first...
COVID Related ConduITS/ORS Response
The ConduITS Institute for Translational Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program for the Mount Sinai Health System established in 2009 with funding from the National Institutes of...
Preliminary Case Series Leads to New Questions About the Disease Progression of COVID-19 in Patients with Blood Clots in the Lung
A small, preliminary case series led by physicians at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that five severely ill patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus responded to the blood-clot-busting drug tPA when it was introduced as a life-saving measure. This...
TRAINEE CORNER
Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth A. Spencer, MD obtained her degree in Neuroscience from the College of William and Mary and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from Eastern Virginia Medical School before her pediatric residency at UCLA and fellowships at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine in...
Manish Jha
Manish Jha, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) with expertise in the conduct of clinical trials and clinical experience in providing care to patients with treatment-refractory psychiatric...
Harvard’s Leadership, Communications, and Mentoring Webinar Series Available
Harvard's recent series, “Building a Successful C/T Research Career,” invited participants this past April through May to learn from leading Harvard faculty and community members the foundational skills to build a successful career in clinical and translational (c/t)...
Daniel Bu
Daniel Bu: Using health policy simulation models to forecast the health and economic impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. Microsimulation models (MSMs) for health outcomes simulate individual event histories associated with key components of a disease process;...
Dagmar Hernandez-Suarez
Dagmar Hernandez-Suarez, MD, MSc., joined the TL1 postdoctoral STTEP-UP Initiative in Science and Medicine program as a PGY3 Internal Medicine resident. Co-Mentored by Stuart Scott, PhD, MSCR, an Associate Professor, ISMMS Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences...