Current Events Calendar

UPCOMING EVENTS

CTSI Lunch Lectures 4th Monday of the Month on Zoom:

  • May 13, 2024 - Laura Damschoder, MPH, MS, Research Investigator, Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research and Lead Developer, Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).

All Pitt/UPMC researchers, clinicians, and students with an interest in implementation science are invited to attend an in-person luncheon, seminar, and meet the expert event to wrap up our monthly 2023-24 D&I speaker series, Getting Your Research Beyond ‘Bench to Bedside’: Dissemination and Implementation in Research and Practice

Location: University Club, Ballroom B (lunch will be provided)

Tentative Agenda:

  • 11:00-12:00 Seminar and Q&A
  • 12:00 - 12:45 Buffet Lunch
  • 1:00 - 1:45 Workshop Your CFIR Questions session (open to all)
  • 2:00 - 3:00 Junior Investigators Roundtable (open to all)

Please note that this link (https://ctsi.arlo.co/register?sgid=561f5e6682674590b741a611113e8fd1) is to register for the seminar and luncheon ONLY.  If you would like to attend either or both workshop(s), please email Lisa at lisa.lederer@pitt.edu.

Mentoring Pods - 2nd Thursdays from 9-10am on Zoom. 

CTSI/ICRE HCD Brown Bag Lunch Series  - learn more and sign up!

Most Pitt DISC events are virtual. For Zoom information and questions please contact: Angie Phares (pharesa@pitt.edu).


PAST EVENTS

2023-2024

4/22/24: Lucy Savitz, MBA, PhD, Professor Health Policy and Management at the Pitt School of Public Health: The Interrelationships between Quality Improvement, Learning Health Systems and Implementation Research. (PDF Slides)

3/25/24: Monica Perez-Jolles, MA, PhD from University of Colorado Anschutz: A pragmatic tool for use in Implementation Research. (PDF Slides) References: Haack 2020, Cabassa 2013, Alden 2018

2/26/24: Bijal Balasubramanian from UTHealth Houston Implementation Science Institute: Accelerating Translation of Healthcare Innovations by Blending Quality Improvement and Implementation Research (PDF Slides)

1/11/24:  Bonny Rockette-Wagner, PaTH's Director of Research, and Autumn Boyer, Trilougue's Director of Operations discussing pathways to PCORI-funded research at Pitt.

11/27/23: Beth Skidmore and Elizabeth McGuier from Pitt talk about their DISPA projects (McGuier PDF)

11/9/23   Lucy Savitz from the Pitt Public Health School "At the Intersection of Quality Improvement (QI), Implementation Science (IS), & Health Services Research (HSR)" (PDF)

10/23/23: Jamie Ducar, chair of the Pitt Community Engaged Scholarship Forum: Building engaged research partnerships through community collaborative relationships (PDF)

10/2/23: Bryan Weiner, U of Washington in Seattle: Optimizing Implementation in Research and Practice: Addressing Three Grand Challenges (pdf slides)

9/19/23 - Thomas Radomski, MD, MS-  Evaluating Opportunities to Decrease Low-Value Prescribing (EVOLV-Rx)

9/8/23 SIRC City and DISC SOCIAL EVENT.  Pins Mechanical 5:30-7:30.  Met for games and drinks!   


PAST EVENTS 2022-2023

10/24/22     David Goodrich, EdD, MS, MA        The QUERI roadmanp for nativating implementation and QI (PDF)

11/28/22     Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD        Making it local while sharing it globally: Adaptation and fidelity (recording)  (PDF)

12/8/22       Jay Huguley, EdD

1/12/23       Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH              Making the connection between health equity and sustainability in Implementation Science

1/23/23 - Will Evans, PhD CCC-SLP.  Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh  https://aphasiarecoveryconnection.org/

2/9/23 - Zylphia Ford

2/27/23       CFIR 2.0 (recording) PDF

                   Shari Rogal, MD, MPH (University of Pittsburgh Co-Director, Implementation Cores, VAPHS CHERP, DISC, CTSI)

                   Matt Chinman, PhD  (University of Pittsburgh Senior Implementation Scientist, VAPHS CHERP, RAND)

3/27/23       Measuring for meaning: Innovative qualitative/mixed methods (recording) (PDF)

                   Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD (Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado)         

4/24/23 12:00 - 1:00pm   Developing engaging mental health digital interventions for and with rural-living LGBTQ youth

Cesar Escobar-Viera, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)   

5/22/23     11:30am - 2:00pm (Monday)  Wrap-Up event for lecture series.  David Chambers, D .Phil, Deputy Director for Implementation Science in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)