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Monthly News & Opportunities | |
January 10, 2025 | Vol. 2 #1 | | |
CNTR IS OFFICIALLY FIVE YEARS OLD THIS YEAR! | |
It’s hard to believe, but the Coalition for National Trauma Research is celebrating its Five-Year Anniversary in 2025!
CNTR began in 2014 as a coalition of five research and surgical societies working together to advocate for federal trauma research funding. But it wasn’t until 2020 that the National Trauma Institute formally reorganized to become CNTR, establishing a new Board and articulating a broader mission.
Since then we've grown to 25 member organizations reaching more than 232,000 multidisciplinary trauma research and care professionals and members of the survivor community. We've diversified our portfolio of funded projects, built a suite of essential investigator resources and developed a prioritized trauma research road map to close gaps and save lives.
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Chest Wall Injury Society is CNTR's Newest Member
CWIS joins CNTR as a Stakeholder Member this month! With a mission to optimize the operative and non-operative care of patients with chest wall injury, CWIS includes trauma, cardiothoracic and and orthopedic surgeons, as well as physicians assistants, nurses, physical therapists and other allied professionals.
We're excited about the opportunity to partner with CWIS on some multidisciplinary projects!
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Help us take this coalition to the next level by supporting these essential activities:
- Travel awards and scholarships for early career investigators
- Proposal-writing and investigator support
- Staff training
- Compensation for patient partners
- Advocacy efforts
CNTR's new cumulative giving society is structured so that you earn a commemorative lapel pin when you reach $500 and you can direct your donations to the programs you care about most when you reach the Leadership Circle. Give one time, or set up a recurring donation!
THANK YOU TO OUR BRAND NEW DONORS!
- Andrew Bernard, MD
- Pamela Bixby, MA
- Jeannette M. Capella, MD
- Vanessa Ho, MD, PhD
- Kevin Schuster, MD
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ATS and TSACO Partner on Series: "What Patients Need to Know"
The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Education Committee is partnering with the American Trauma Society to improve the quantity and quality of freely available online patient educational resources specific to acute care surgery issues.
The upcoming series of articles to be published in the open access journal TSACO will be written at the patient level with input from patients, trauma survivors, and their families.
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Apply for an EAST Scholarship to Attend the ACS Leadership & Advocacy Summit in Washington, DC, April 5-8, 2025
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Leadership & Advocacy Summit is a three-day conference aimed at providing comprehensive, specialized sessions focused on effective surgeon leadership. Attendees also visit congressional offices after participating in interactive advocacy training, during which they learn skills intended to maximize visit impact.
EAST is awarding two scholarships of up to $2,000 to include summit registration and travel and lodging reimbursements.
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Penetrating Brain Injury Consortium Seeks Level 1 Centers
Researchers at the University of Chicago, Uniformed Services University, Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center, and Data for Comm,on Good are creating a consortium of civilian Level 1 trauma centers that have a high volume of patients with penetrating brain injury (PBI) and existing research infrastructure to collect biospecimens, imaging, and other study data.
CNTR is recruiting three Level 1 trauma centers to participate. To be considered, complete the site survey by March 1, 2025 at the QR code or at bit.ly/pTBISiteSurvey.
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CNTR INVESTIGATOR RESOURCES | | | |
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Online Delphi surveys are a convenient and rigorous method for groups of experts to anonymously answer questionnaires, receive feedback representing the group response, discuss, and revise answers in order to arrive at consensus on important issues.
CNTR staff is skilled at question design, survey development, administration and analysis. Let us help you build a Delphi survey within your next consensus-development project!
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National Burn Awareness week is February 2-8, 2025
The American Burn Association has developed a variety of resources focused on the theme of risk reduction in living spaces. Visit the National Burn Awareness Week site at the link below for fact sheets, videos, graphics, details on the poster contest and more!
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Visit the CNTR booth at EAST in Tucson Next Week!
We're highlighting new services, encouraging use of the National Trauma Research Repository, and sharing upcoming opportunities. Hope to see you there!
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