Monthly News & Opportunities

February 14, 2025 | Vol. 2 #2

Design for Implementation Conference is Next Week

Year 2 of the Design for Implementation: The Future of Trauma Research & Clinical Guidance is February 19-20, 2025!

While Year 1 focused on generating consensus around the barriers to and facilitators for improved guidance, Year 2 participants will assess the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of clinical guidance and will review and test the beta version of a guidance dissemination application.

Interested trauma care providers and clinical guidance leaders are invited to attend the meeting virtually at no cost.

CNTR Working with University of Chicago to Improve Penetrating TBI Outcomes

Service members at the frontlines of world conflicts will have a better chance at survival, thanks to a $6.67M research award from the Department of Defense through the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) to the University of Chicago. The project, titled "Neurotrauma Training Program for Military Providers: Bridging Gaps in Deployed Neurosurgical Capability and Improving Wartime Readiness" was selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) for the MTEC Military Prototype Advancement Initiative (MPAI).

Over the next three years, investigators will create a program that includes didactics, simulation-based, cadaveric, and hands-on training for non-neurosurgeons. They will also create a consortium of four civilian Level 1 trauma centers with a high volume of patients with PBI, creating a data, imaging, and biospecimen repository.

CNTR’s role in the project includes identifying clinical study sites (see site survey below), managing all aspects of the multi-site study, and convening a workgroup of subject matter experts to develop basic common data elements and standard terminology for penetrating TBI studies.

Utah Surgeon Partners with CNTR on Access to Care Project

In a new project funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Engagement Grant, Marta McCrum, MD, trauma surgeon-scientist at the University of Utah, seeks to address the disparities in post-trauma recovery that plague those who live outside metropolitan and suburban areas.

The project, titled “Building Capacity for PCOR/CER by Engaging Rural Trauma Survivors and their Recovery Communities,” will first convene a diverse community of stakeholders to include rural trauma survivors and their families, surgeons and physicians involved in trauma patient care, therapists, social workers and advocacy groups. They will identify gaps in existing research and then prioritize these topics for future research proposals.

CNTR’s role is to assist with patient and family recruitment and engagement throughout the course of the project.

Trauma care providers in rural settings are encouraged to help recruit patients--for a downloadable flyer, click below.

Download Patient Recruitment Flyer

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 Common 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.

CNTR Presents on the NTRR at the TRC4 - UT System Trauma Research Symposium

During the first scientific session of the statewide conference, CNTR research analyst Nick Medrano presented "Using the National Trauma Research Repository for Data Collection and Secondary Analyses." The presentation is part of CNTR's ongoing effort to encourage widespread use of the NTRR for the benefit of the trauma research community.

The audience included civilian and military trauma surgeons and researchers, University of Texas (UT) System executives, and state legislative staff members.

The Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4), a UT System initiative, is funded by the Board of Regents and the Texas legislature and promotes the conduct of cutting-edge trauma research in the state of Texas and across military branches.

Learn More about TRC4

CNTR INVESTIGATOR RESOURCES

New CNTR Research Fellow Supports Clinical Guidance Repository Efforts

CNTR is excited to welcome Gabriela Zavala Wong, MD, as our research fellow. Dr. Wong is a Peruvian research physician focused on enhancing access to quality surgical care in low-and middle-income countries. She has been assisting Dr. Lacey LaGrone and the CNTR team to execute the Design for Implementation conference and develop the prototype clinical guidance repository that will be tested during this year's conference.

At the 2024 AAST meeting, she presented a poster on her systematic review of global trauma clinical guidance. Dr. Wong's deep knowledge of issues surrounding accessibility, relevance and appropriateness of guidance in resource-constrained environments informs the current development of the repository.

More information about the Trauma Clinical Guidance Repository will be available following the DFI conference.

Annual JHU VTE Symposium is March 7, 2025

The 17th annual VTE Symposium features keynote speaker Allison Burnett, PharmD, PhC, CACP. She is the president of the Anticoagulation Forum, a nonprofit organization that educates clinicians about optimized stewardship of anticoagulant therapies.

The conference is entirely online, running from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST, and free to all! To review the agenda and access the live stream, visit: Hopkins.org/VTE or click the link below.

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Thank You, New Donors!

Joining our Friends of CNTR Giving Society last month are the following companies and individuals.

Acera Medical
Kimberly Davis, MD
Ronald Stewart, MD

Friends of CNTR support an array of activities that build our capacity. Thank you for helping to advance the CNTR mission!

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