Dr. Gabbe discusses his recent tour of the new CCTS.
Hi! As an academic medical center, we know that patient care, education and research all play an important role in the unique way we are improving people’s lives.
A few weeks ago, I attended the open house for an important component of our research mission, our Center for Clinical and Translational Science – or CCTS as you may have heard it called. I’m in the Center today and I’d like to share a few highlights of the work they’ve done and they’re doing.
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science is the academic home for the administration of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. The Center provides a range of services for faculty conducting translational and human subject research, moving research from the “bench” to the bedside, and then from the clinical setting to the community. It offers guidance in planning and conducting research projects as well as assistance in sharing results with our community to improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Rebecca Jackson is the principal investigator for the CCTS, and co-principal investigators include Dr. William Malarkey and Dr. John Barnard of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. There are 20 program directors and co-directors that come from varied scientific and educational backgrounds, including faculty from each of the seven Health Sciences colleges -Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Optometry, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine and Dentistry and the College of Engineering. Ohio State is unique in having all of the health sciences and the University on a single campus. You can see that this co-location of our colleges enhances our opportunities for collaboration and strengthens our commitment to work as ONE university.
The CCTS offers many resources for our researchers including access to programs to assist with biomedical informatics, biostatistics and project development, study design, participant recruitment, research ethics and regulatory support, pilot project funding opportunities, educational programs and community engagement as I mentioned before. Technology cores include drug discovery and animal models among others. The Clinical Research Centers at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital are both fully staffed, human-subject research units with expertise available to assist researchers. In fact, the 2 institutions will now accept approval of research protocols by each other’s institutional review boards or IRBs.
The CCTS is a tremendous resource for our research community and I’d encourage researchers to visit the Center in person here on the second floor of the Prior Health Sciences Library or you can visit the web site at CCTS.osu.edu for more information.
Before I close, I’d also like to invite you to a Grand Rounds that will take place October 14 from 1-2 p.m. in the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute Auditorium. The event is titled “First Do No Self-Harm: Understanding and Promoting Physician Stress Resilience” it will be presented by Dr. Charles Figley of Tulane University. This program is sponsored by the OSU Stress, Trauma and Resilience Program.
This presentation will help all healthcare professionals understand and prevent burnout and compassion fatigue. And, it will provide strategies for improving your own personal well being. Our healthcare teams here at Ohio State work so hard to improve people’s lives every day and I hope that you can take this opportunity to learn more about how you yourself can stay well while you helping others.
Well, have a great week.