CTSI Discovery Radio received a Gold award recently in the Milwaukee Press Club’s annual Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism contest. The show’s October 2020 episode titled, The Epidemiology of Disease: COVID 19, took the top honor for Best Pandemic Story in Audio in the Pandemic Showcase Categories...
Breast cancer affects more American women than any other type of cancer. But the overall incidence and mortality rates don’t tell the whole story about breast cancer, leading to a large-scale study aiming to discover reasons for these significant disparities. Learn about...
Our CTSI Discovery Radio podcast has received two additional national awards from the 38th annual Healthcare Ad Awards program for 2020. Specifically, our March 2020 podcast (episode #71), “Breathtaking: The Serious Risks of Vaping” won a Gold Award and our January 2020 podcast (episode...
Millions of American struggle with something essential for life: Breathing. This is due to a lifelong respiratory disease known as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD. Learn about the battle to breathe with COPD, including real-life experiences of those who have it, inside this...
Welcome to CTSI Insider, the newsletter of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin. In this issue you will find news and announcements, including upcoming opportunities and events, and research trainings, as well as an overview of services available to support you....
The CTSI is an innovative infrastructure to support and advance research, education, and training in clinical and translational sciences. Our integrated “Cores” and “Functions” work together to facilitate your needs. This quarter we present the CTSI Evaluation and Continuous Improvement (CI) and Quality...
We now have approved COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. Although some people may be hesitant to get vaccinated, discover how and why these vaccines are safe and effective in protecting us against the COVID-19 coronovirus. Later, visit a vaccination clinic as someone receives their dose…and...
The overall goal of the START TL1 Program award is to increase the number of well-trained clinician-scientists who can lead the design and oversight of future clinical investigations critical to transforming the translational process so that new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered...
As part of CTSI’s Clinical and Translational Science Award 3.0 that was funded last year, the Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTCS) Program drives a coordinated inter-institutional granting mechanism to stimulate, evaluate, and fund pilot and collaborative clinical and translational research. ...
The CTSI Child Advancement Network (CAN) has been working collaboratively with our healthcare community sector partner, Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Family Health Center, to share Vroom literature and information. ...
The CTSI Community Science Café Program, led by Dr. Orsolya Garrison, DrPH, MPH, is an essential part of CTSI’s Trilateral Mutually Learning Ecosystem (healthcare system, research enterprise, and the community), with the community participating as equal partners from onset and throughout the translational research process....
The CTSI “All of You” Community Health Education Series began in 2020 as a way for the community engagement staff and faculty of the MCW/CTSI All of Us Research Program to share evidence-based health information virtually....
The 153 second-year medical students who participated in this year’s Summer Academic program for Medical Students (SAMS)/Medical Student Summer Research Training Program (MSSRP) displayed their project accomplishments during the 2020 Medical Student Research Virtual Poster Session. ...
CTSI is accepting applications for our Master’s and Certificate Programs in Clinical and Translational Science. Both programs will begin in Fall 2021. Both program curriculums were recently updated to align with advances in the field of Clinical and Translational Science (C&TS) and include 4 emphasis tracks....
CTSI established the Child Advancement Network (CAN) as a broad-based, comprehensive, and innovative approach to child health and empowering families via partnerships, advocacy and collaborations aimed at advancing the wellbeing of children across domains of health....
A critically important national, multi-institutional clinical trial is underway, and the CTSI is part of it, all in the hopes of finding an effective treatment today and perhaps in the future. Learn about the CONTAIN COVID Convalescent Plasma clinical trial, inside this edition of CTSI...
Learn how you can be included in shaping the future of health care for you, your family, your community, and generations to come by joining us for an All of Us Research Program virtual event....
Pancreatic cancer. The mere mention of it makes us fear the worst. But while it is an aggressive form of cancer, we know more about its biology than even a decade ago, including recent groundbreaking research that could lead to more discoveries. Learn...
The Clinical & Translational Science Institute of Southwest Wisconsin’s CTSI Academy continues its CTSI Spotlight Seminar Series with a four-part Biostatistical Presentation. The seminars will take place the 2nd Friday of each month....
Clearly, we see that 2020 was a year filled with stories of research and discovery through translational science… including several public health crises, ranging from gun violence impacting our local community, to a vaping epidemic injuring our national community, to an unprecedented coronavirus pandemic plaguing...
