The Delaware CTR ACCEL Program

Tech Talk: Integrating Multiscale modeling and Machine Learning In Computational Medicine
2025-03-06 12:00 (America/New_York) | Microsoft Teams
Thursday March 6, 2025 from 12:00-1:00pm
Virtual Teams Presentation
Computational models have revolutionized our understanding of complex biological systems. These models typically fall into two categories: multiscale models and machine learning models. Multiscale models, grounded in the fundamental principles of physics and chemistry, can dissect the intricate causalities in disease progression. In parallel, machine learning models, based on rich datasets, have yielded unique insights into complex pattern recognition within these systems.
In this talk, Dr. Deng will demonstrate how multiscale models are developed to probe disease-mediated changes in blood dynamics. She will also show how various machine learning models, with a focus on deep learning, are designed to enhance accurate prediction, optimize treatment plans, and distill extensive knowledge of different diseases.
To conclude, she will discuss the pivotal factors—such as age and sex—that are critical to customizing treatments in the realm of precision medicine, and to synergistically integrate multiscale modeling with machine learning to enable the design of more comprehensive personalized medicine.
Meet the Speaker

Yixiang Deng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer & Information Sciences University of Delaware
Yixiang Deng is an assistant professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard, with a joint appointment at the MIT Department of Biological Engineering. Her research focuses on integrating multiscale modeling and machine learning to probe the mechanisms of diseases and the effectiveness of therapeutics. Before joining the Ragon Institute, she completed her Ph.D. in the School of Engineering at Brown University in 2021 and a B.Eng. degree in Engineering Mechanics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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Work supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number U54-GM104941 (PI:Hicks) and the State of Delaware.

JIN Presentation: Geriatric pharmacoepidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic: Future directions and applications at the University of Delaware
2024-12-05 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Geriatric pharmacoepidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic: Future directions and applications at the University of Delaware
Presented by Dan Harris, PhD, University of Delaware

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Young Children With or At Risk for Developmental Delays
2024-12-12 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Young Children With or At Risk for Developmental Delays
Presented by Michele Lobo, PT, PhD, University of Delaware

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Innovative Discovery Series - Diet Composition in Early Infancy: Impact on energy balance, weight status, and other health outcomes
2024-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Microsoft Teams
The early nutritional environment plays a crucial role in optimizing growth, developing a palate for a healthy diet, and reducing risks for disease. While human milk is the gold standard for infant nutrition, by 4 months of age >50% of US infants are fed infant formula, either alone or to supplement human milk. As a group, infants who feed infant formula are more likely to experience rapid weight gain, weigh more, and are at greater risk for obesity, than are breastfed infants. However, the composition of formulas varies; thus, formula-fed infants are not a homogeneous group. This presentation will review findings from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that investigated the effects of two commercially available, isocaloric formulas with different macronutrient compositions, on weight gain, energy balance mechanisms, gastrointestinal microbiota, and subsequent diet in healthy, formula-fed infants.
Learn more
When: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 – Noon – 1:00 P.M.
Where: Virtual Presentation through Microsoft Teams

JIN Presentation: Open Q&A!
2024-12-26 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Open Q&A Time!
Bring your questions, comments, and discussion topics. We’ll discuss whatever the teams brings up!

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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Register Now for JIN-CARE 2025!
2025-01-16 16:30 - 19:00 | Embassy Suites Newark/Wilmington South, 654 South College Avenue, Newark, DE, 19713, United States
Please register for our annual JIN-CARE dinner and awards event on Thursday, January 16, 2025!

What: JIN-CARE (Junior Investigators Network – Career Advancement and Research Exchange) night, complete with dinner and awards!
When: Evening of Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 4-7:30pm
Where: Embassy Suites by Hilton Newark/Wilmington South, 654 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware (near STAR campus)
Why: To network, mingle, eat, and celebrate our accomplishments from 2024
Who: All JIN members, new and old
Cost: Free to all JIN members!

REGISTER HERE before registration ends on December 20, 2024.

Meeting Agenda:

4:00pm-5:00pm: Networking
5:00pm-6:00pm: Focus Groups
6:00pm-7:30pm: Dinner, Awards, and Networking

Seema S. Sonnad Mentor of the Year Award
We are also asking for nominations for the Seema S. Sonnad Mentor of the Year Award.
Please go to the registration link to nominate your favorite mentor. Attendance at the event is not required to submit a nomination.
Please provide your nominee’s name and share why you believe they should be acknowledged. Feel free to highlight the qualities they exhibit that showcase their exceptional mentorship. You may nominate anyone you feel is an extraordinary mentor for you; they do not have to be a Primary PI.
To help with your decision, below are some of the criteria that may make a good mentor:

Helps to set concrete goals and helps you achieve these goals
A good listener who also communicates clearly
Provides honest feedback that is not demeaning
Does not micromanage through unrealistic expectations and demands
Defines people by their strengths and potential rather than limitations
Respects their trainees as a peer rather than a cheap pair of hands

Past Recipients:

2016 – Melinda Duncan, PhD, University of Delaware
2017 – Andy Kolb, MD, Nemours Children’s Health
2018 – Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, ChristianaCare Health Services
2019 – Anne Kazak, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health
2020-2022 – hiatus due to COVID-19
2023 – Melissa Alderfer, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health

Use the below QR code or link to register and/or nominate a Mentor of the Year!

https://www.de-ctr.org/redcap/surveys/?s=9NKDXWF3JMCKXJY8

We hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Mentoring@de-ctr.org.

JIN Presentation: Integrating Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning in Computational Medicine
2025-02-13 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Integrating Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning in Computational Medicine
Presented by Yixiang Deng, PhD, University of Delaware

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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Innovative Discovery Series - Design Thinking: An Applied Introduction for Researchers
2025-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Microsoft Teams
This presentation will provide an overview of design thinking and user-centered design strategies. There will be an emphasis on integrating these approaches into applied research, including intervention design and pilot studies. Several examples will be utilized to provide practical, real-world insight into how researchers can leverage these approaches to innovate, improve their programs of research, and maximize impact.
Learn more
When: Tuesday, February 257, 2025 – Noon – 1:00 P.M.
Where: Virtual Presentation through Microsoft Teams

JIN Presentation: Predatory Publishing
2025-02-27 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Predatory Publishing”
Presented by Susan Harnett, MLS, AHIP-D, Nemours Children’s Health

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: About Me: Alejandra Perez Ramirez
2025-03-06 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“About Me: Alejandra Perez Ramirez”
Presented by Alejandra Perez Ramirez, MPH, Nemours Children’s Health

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: Adapting DBT-A for Minoritized Youth in Juvenile Justice
2025-03-13 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Adapting DBT-A for Minoritized Youth in Juvenile Justice”
Presented by Lian Liu, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: Enabling next-generation proteomics and precision medicine with E3technology
2025-03-20 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Enabling next-generation proteomics and precision medicine with E3technology”
Presented by Yanbao Yu, PhD, University of Delaware

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: Gene expression differences in fat: new targets to combat obesity?
2025-03-27 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Gene expression differences in fat: new targets to combat obesity?”
Presented by Ibra (Drew) Fancher, PhD, University of Delaware

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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Tech Talk: Data linkages for pharmacoepidemiology: Case study on effects of shingles vaccination in older adults
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Microsoft Teams
Thursday April 3, 2025 from 12:00-1:00pm
Virtual Teams Presentation
In April’s TechTalk, Daniel Harris, Ph.D., will describe how he links and uses large health administrative datasets to conduct pharmacoepidemiologic studies. His presentation will be focused on insights from an industry-funded grant to investigate the real-world effectiveness of the recombinant herpes zoster vaccine in nursing home residents. By the end of his presentation, you will be familiar with health administrative data sources in the US, methods for data linkages, and advanced causal inference strategies in pharmacoepidemiology.
Meet the Speaker

Daniel Harris, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, EpidemiologyUniversity of Delaware
Daniel Harris, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Delaware. As a pharmacoepidemiologist, Dr. Harris’s research focuses on the use, safety, and effectiveness of drugs and vaccines among older adults

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Work supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number U54-GM104941 (PI:Hicks) and the State of Delaware.

JIN Presentation: Plagiarism pitfalls and best practices
2025-04-24 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
“Plagiarism pitfalls and best practices”
Presented by Kristina M. Flathers, MLIS, Nemours Children’s Health

Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

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JIN Presentation: Exploring the impact of cholinergic signaling on the engraftment of donor hematopoietic stem cells
2025-07-10 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Exploring the impact of cholinergic signaling on the engraftment of donor hematopoietic stem cells”
Presented by Ellen Fraint, MD, Nemours Children’s Health

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JIN Presentation: Acceptability and feasibility of a shared decision-making intervention for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease
2025-07-31 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Acceptability and feasibility of a shared decision-making intervention for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease”

Presented by:
Aimee Hildenbrand, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health

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JIN Presentation: Encouraging Non-Violent Behaviors of Youth
2025-08-07 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Encouraging Non-Violent Behaviors of Youth”

Presented by:
Michelle Ratcliff, DMFT, LSW
Delaware State University

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JIN Presentation: Pediatric Precision Emergency Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Bronchiolitis and Early Childhood Asthma
2025-08-14 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Pediatric Precision Emergency Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Bronchiolitis and Early Childhood Asthma”

Presented by:
Andrea Rivera-Sepulveda, MD, MSc
Nemours Children’s Health

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JIN Presentation: The Impact on Youth of a No-Cost After-School and Summer Youth Program on Physical Activity Levels, Overall Food Security, and Healthy Eating
2025-08-21 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“The Impact on Youth of a No-Cost After-School and Summer Youth Program on Physical Activity Levels, Overall Food Security, and Healthy Eating”

Presented by:
Cynthia Newton, MPA, PhD
Delaware State University

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JIN Presentation: Day-to-day Associations Between Sleep and Socioecological Stressors in Family Contexts
2025-08-28 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Day-to-day Associations Between Sleep and Socioecological Stressors in Family Contexts”

Presented by:
Lauren Covington, PhD, RN
University of Delaware

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JIN Presentation: INBRE Pilot Project Award RFA Discussion
2025-09-04 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“INBRE Pilot Project Award RFA Discussion”

Presented by:
Anjana Bhat, PT, PhD
University of Delaware

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JIN Presentation: Ripple Effect of Parental Anti-Obesity Medication Use on Child Health
2025-09-11 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Ripple Effect of Parental Anti-Obesity Medication Use on Child Health”

Presented by:
Isa Granados, PhD, MS
Nemours Children’s Health

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Registration is Open for the Responsible Conduct of Research Training!
2025-09-15 - 2025-09-16 | Microsoft Teams
Registration is Open for the Responsible Conduct of Research Training!

Responsible Conduct of Research Training
The Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course is designed to promote the practice of ethical science. The rapid growth of scientific knowledge, the increasing complexity and pace of research, and the influx of scientific trainees with diverse backgrounds have resulted in a need for continuing education on the highest standards of scientific conduct within medical settings. This course provides advanced training for investigators, trainees, and research staff in federal regulations, institutional policies and procedures, and the norms and standards of research behavior. This course assists both new and experienced investigators as they strive to safeguard the integrity of the research process.
This course provides training consistent with the current policies of the National Institutes of Health (NOT-OD-22-055) regarding instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research. The topics included parallel those originally developed, revised, and approved by the Scientific Directors of the National Institutes of Health and the NIH Committee on Scientific Conduct and Ethics.
This course is required for trainees and investigators on NIH-funded grants every four years as per the policies of the NIH (NOT-OD-22-055). To obtain credit for completing this course as a requirement of the NIH, NIH trainees are required to attend the full 8 hours of this 2-day training live.
D A T E
Part 1:
Monday, September 15, 2025
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Part 2:
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
L O C A T I O N
Virtual via Microsoft Teams
R E G I S T R A T I O N F E E S
Nemours Children’s Health Associates – Complimentary
Students (With proof of enrollment) – $25
All others – $75
A C C R E D I T A T I O N
In support of improving patient care, Nemours Children’s Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
Nemours Children’s designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing
Nemours Children’s Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Professions
A certificate of participation will be provided to other healthcare professionals requesting credits. Please check with your accreditation board to make sure they accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement(s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME to grant ABS credit.
Register online at CE.Nemours.org or scan the
QR code.

Q U E S T I O N S
Contact Tinessa Calllinan, Office of Continuing Medical Education, at tinessa.callinan@nemours.org.

JIN Presentation: Promoting Youth Wellbeing Through Targeted School-Based Intervention
2025-09-18 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“Promoting Youth Wellbeing Through Targeted School-Based Intervention”
Presented by Brittany Zakszeski, PhD, University of Delaware

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JIN Presentation: HEALTH (Health Engagement Access Learning Teaching Humanity) for All
2025-09-25 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“HEALTH (Health Engagement Access Learning Teaching Humanity) for All”

Presented by:
Heather M. Milea, MSN and Christine Sowinski
University of Delaware

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JIN Presentation: Christopher Martens, PhD presents his latest research
2025-10-02 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“TBD“

Presented by:
Christopher Martens, PhD
University of Delaware

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Tech Talk: Meta Data Analysis
2025-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Microsoft Teams
Thursday October 2, 2025 from 12:00-1:00pm
Virtual Teams Presentation
Meta-Data Analysis is a powerful statistical method that synthesizes findings across multiple studies to derive more precise and generalizable estimates of treatment effects. In addition to pooling odds ratios to evaluate categorical outcomes, this method also enables estimation of continuous outcomes—such as mean changes and their confidence intervals—across diverse study populations. Meta-analysis increases statistical power, enhances clinical interpretability, and allows quantification of heterogeneity using metrics like I² and τ². This talk provides a comprehensive overview of meta-analytic techniques, including data preparation, calculation of pooled estimates for both binary and continuous outcomes, exploration of subgroup effects, and interpretation of results using forest plots and summary tables. Drawing from recent real-world comparative effectiveness studies in medicine and public health, this session will illustrate how incorporating newly available studies can update pooled evidence, and how summary findings can directly inform clinical decision-making and health policy evaluation.
Meet the Speaker

Zugui Zhang, PhD
Director of BiostatisticsChristiana Care Health Systems
Dr. Zugui Zhang is director of biostatistics at iREACH, ChristianaCare and Fellow of American Heart Association. He received an MS in statistics from Arizona State University and his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Iowa. He joined ChristianaCare in 2007 and has been Director of Biostatistics since 2017. He holds appointments as Affiliated Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Delaware and Thomas Jefferson University. He has worked extensively on large, international, multi-center, randomized clinical trials and observational studies.

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Work supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number U54-GM104941 (PI:Hicks) and the State of Delaware.

DE CTR ACCEL Community Research Exchange 2025
2025-10-06 08:00 - 14:40 | ChristianaCare – John H. Ammon Medical Education Center, 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Rd, Newark, DE, 19713
DE CTR ACCEL Community Research Exchange 2025
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
When: October 6, 2024 8 AM to 2:40 PM
Where: ChristianaCare – John H. Ammon Medical Education Center
Address: 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Rd, Newark, DE 19713
Register Here!
View Full Details (PDF)
Agenda (PDF)
The day will begin with a keynote speaker, followed by local panel experts and research presentations. After lunch, participants will have the opportunity participate in two breakout sessions.
***NEW THIS YEAR! Attendees may submit abstracts for consideration at our Poster Presentation. We invite abstracts that align with the conference theme, particularly those with a community component. Please see the attached Call for Poster Abstracts for further details and submission link.
For any questions please contact: CCHS-Ireach@ChristianaCare.org

JIN Presentation: Suzanne McCahan, PhD presents about REDCap
2025-10-09 09:00 - 09:30 | Microsoft Teams
Please join us at our JIN Touchbase call each Thursday at 9am. This is a great opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, and hear a guest presentation from a member or friend of the JIN. All are welcome!

This week’s guest presentation will be:
“REDCap“

Presented by:
Suzanne McCahan, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health

The Microsoft Teams link is included below under “Website”.

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