scholarly journals Situating dissemination and implementation sciences within and across the translational research spectrum - ADDENDUM

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-371
Author(s):  
Aaron L. Leppin ◽  
Jane E. Mahoney ◽  
Kathleen R. Stevens ◽  
Stephen J. Bartels ◽  
Laura-Mae Baldwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation

scholarly journals Action Learning Cohort Series: An Innovative Community-Engaged Approach for Translating Research Into Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Tiffany L. Young ◽  
Lori Carter-Edwards ◽  
Leah Frerichs ◽  
Melissa A. Green ◽  
Kristen Hassmiller-Lich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
The North ◽  
Thinking Strategies ◽  
Prevention Of Hypertension

Cultivating strong partnerships among community and academic stakeholders expedites the translation of research findings into practice and communities by enhancing opportunities for research dissemination and implementation. However, the lack of systematic methods for community stakeholder engagement may decelerate the translational research process. The North Carolina Translational Research and Clinical Sciences Institute implemented an innovative approach to community engagement called the Action Learning Cohort (ALC) Series. The ALC Series, a workgroup extension of a professional conference, used action learning and systems thinking strategies to conceptualize and develop a product aimed at preventing, treating, and controlling hypertension in eastern North Carolina. We evaluated the acceptability and practicality of the ALC Series using survey, focus group, and interview pilot data. Action learning and systems thinking strategies led ALC stakeholders to develop and disseminate The Empathy Building Resource Guide: A Toolkit for Enhancing Patient–Provider Relationships in the Treatment, Management, and Prevention of Hypertension. Stakeholders rated the Series as satisfactory and acknowledged gains in knowledge and desire for engagement with fellow ALC stakeholders beyond the Series. The ALC Series approach is a potentially practical and acceptable model for systematically engaging community stakeholders in translating knowledge into a product that addresses health topics like hypertension.

scholarly journals A team-based translational journal club: Understanding the translational research highway

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
Carol Feghali-Bostwick ◽  
Jillian Harvey ◽  
Carissa Hasseler ◽  
Diana Lee-Chavarria ◽  
Perry Halushka
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Journal Club ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Pivotal Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Science Paper ◽  
Training Grant

AbstractThe mission of the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) is to catalyze the generation of innovative methods and technologies that will enhance the development, testing, and implementation of diagnostics and therapeutics across a wide range of human diseases and conditions.1 NCATS funded a predoctoral TL1 training grant at our institution. We developed a novel team-based Translational Journal Club utilizing three-member teams to find a basic science paper and two clinical study papers that covered a single therapeutic, either a pivotal study or a dissemination and implementation study; one member of the team presented a paper on the above topics in successive weeks. In addition, the trainees attended lectures on: how to design a pivotal clinical trial, dissemination and implementation, and drug development from a basic science discovery through its approval. From these presentations, the trainees appreciated the T0 to T3/4 continuum and its challenges. They also attended sessions on how to present scientific concepts, making them better communicators. The trainees found the Translational Journal club to be very rewarding, illuminating, and providing a much better understanding of the translational research processes required to develop new therapies.

scholarly journals Engagement science: The core of dissemination, implementation, and translational research science

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Meissner ◽  
Linda B. Cottler ◽  
Milton “Mickey” Eder ◽  
J. Lloyd Michener
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Research Prioritization ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Implementation And Dissemination ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractStakeholder engagement is acknowledged as central to dissemination and implementation (D&I) of research that generates and answers new clinical and health service research questions. There is both benefit and risk in conducting stakeholder engagement. Done wrong, it can damage trust and adversely impact study results, outcomes, and reputations. Done correctly with sensitivity, inclusion, and respect, it can significantly facilitate improvements in research prioritization, communication, design, recruitment strategies, and ultimately provide results useful to improve population and individual health. There is a recognized science of stakeholder engagement, but a general lack of knowledge that matches its strategies and approaches to particular populations of interest based on history and characteristics. This article reviews stakeholder engagement, provides several examples of its application across the range of translational research, and recommends that Clinical Translational Science Awards, with their unique geographical, systems, and historical characteristics, actively participate in deepening our understanding of stakeholder engagement science and methods within implementation and dissemination research. These recommendations include (a) development of an inventory of successful stakeholder engagement strategies; (b) coordination and intentionally testing a variety of stakeholder engagement strategies; (c) tool kit development; and (d) identification of fundamental motivators and logic models for stakeholder engagement to help align stakeholders and researchers.

scholarly journals Building capacity for dissemination and implementation to maximize research impact in a CTSA: The University of Wisconsin story

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Quanbeck ◽  
Jane Mahoney ◽  
Kim Kies ◽  
Kate Judge ◽  
Maureen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe report results of an 8-year process of stakeholder engagement aimed at building capacity in Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) research at the University of Wisconsin as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Starting in 2008, annual individual interviews were held with leaders of the Wisconsin CTSA’s community engagement core for strategic planning purposes. Interviews were followed by annual planning meetings that employed a facilitated group decision-making process aimed at identifying and prioritizing gaps in the translational research spectrum. In 2011, the stakeholder engagement process identified D&I as a primary gap limiting overall impact of the institution’s research across the translational spectrum. Since that time, our CTSA has created an array of D&I resources falling into four broad categories: (1) relationship building with D&I partners, (2) D&I skill building, (3) translational research resources, and (4) resources to support D&I activities. Our systematic process of stakeholder engagement has increased the impact of research by providing D&I resources to meet investigator and community needs. CTSAs could engage with leaders of their community engagement cores, which are common to all CTSAs, to adapt or adopt these resources to build D&I capacity.

scholarly journals Situating dissemination and implementation sciences within and across the translational research spectrum

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron L. Leppin ◽  
Jane E. Mahoney ◽  
Kathleen R. Stevens ◽  
Stephen J. Bartels ◽  
Laura-Mae Baldwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Research Translation ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Health Institutions

AbstractThe efficient and effective movement of research into practice is acknowledged as crucial to improving population health and assuring return on investment in healthcare research. The National Center for Advancing Translational Science which sponsors Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) recognizes that dissemination and implementation (D&I) sciences have matured over the last 15 years and are central to its goals to shift academic health institutions to better align with this reality. In 2016, the CTSA Collaboration and Engagement Domain Task Force chartered a D&I Science Workgroup to explore the role of D&I sciences across the translational research spectrum. This special communication discusses the conceptual distinctions and purposes of dissemination, implementation, and translational sciences. We propose an integrated framework and provide real-world examples for articulating the role of D&I sciences within and across all of the translational research spectrum. The framework’s major proposition is that it situates D&I sciences as targeted “sub-sciences” of translational science to be used by CTSAs, and others, to identify and investigate coherent strategies for more routinely and proactively accelerating research translation. The framework highlights the importance of D&I thought leaders in extending D&I principles to all research stages.

scholarly journals Advancing health equity through CTSA programs: Opportunities for interaction between health equity, dissemination and implementation, and translational science

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Yousefi Nooraie ◽  
Bethany M. Kwan ◽  
Elizabeth Cohn ◽  
Mona AuYoung ◽  
Megan Clarke Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Translational Research ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Translational Science ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Apply Research ◽  
Evidence Based Programs ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

AbstractDissemination and implementation (D&I) science is dedicated to studying how to effectively translate and apply research in real-world contexts. There has been increasing interest in health equity within the D&I field to ensure the equitable implementation of evidence-based programs/practices across a range of diverse populations and settings. At the same time, health equity researchers recognize the potential of D&I science to promote the more widespread dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based interventions to address health inequities. The National Center for Accelerating Clinical and Translational Science Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program has been a champion for community engagement and translational scholarship in its mission to improve individual and population health. The overall CTSA infrastructure and resources within and among CTSA hubs are well-equipped to facilitate a health equity focus to D&I across the phases of translational research. This paper proposes a framework that demonstrates the interaction and opportunities between health equity and D&I science and highlights how CTSAs can support and facilitate wider efforts in translational research with a focus on equitable D&I.

scholarly journals The translational sciences clinic: From bench to bedside

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Perry Halushka ◽  
Tammy L. Loucks ◽  
Rechelle Paranal ◽  
Jillian Harvey ◽  
Kristen Briggman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Translational Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Limited Opportunity ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Clinical Interactions

Abstract The mission of the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) is to speed the development of drugs from discovery to approval to dissemination and implementation. The Medical University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute host a NCATS funded predoctoral T32 training grant (TL1) with a focus on translational research. Doctoral (PhD) trainees working at the bench usually have limited opportunity for clinical interactions to gain a clinical perspective on the diseases that are the focus of their dissertation research. To provide TL1 trainees with an opportunity to see how their research could be translated into improved patient care, we developed a mentored clinical exposure experience named the Translational Sciences Clinic. Trainees spend one-half day a week in a clinic related to their basic science research for one semester interacting with patients and clinical mentors and discuss the most recent literature related to the patient’s clinical problem with their clinical mentor. Trainees deemed the rotation to be one of the most rewarding experiences that they had as a part of their predoctoral training. Participating clinical mentors were also very enthusiastic and agreed that they would be willing to mentor similar trainees again.

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