CRN News for November 2009

CRN News

CRN Publications

Aiello Bowles EJ, Tuzzio L, Ritzwoller DP, Williams AE, Ross T, Wagner EH, Neslund-Dudas C, Altschuler A, Quinn V, Hornbrook M, Nekhlyudov L. Accuracy and complexities of using automated clinical data for capturing chemotherapy administrations: implications for future research. Med Care 2009 Oct;47(10):1091-7. [View Abstract]

Stopponi MA, Alexander GL, McClure JB, Carroll NM, Divine GW, Calvi JH, Rolnick SJ, Strecher VJ, Johnson CC, Ritzwoller DP. Recruitment to a randomized web-based nutritional intervention trial: characteristics of participants compared to non-participants. J Med Internet Res 2009 Aug 26;11(3):e38. [View Abstract]

Visit the CRN's searchable publications database to see what other project teams have been up to.

Annual meeting of the CRN Cancer Communication Research Center

NEW DATES! The CRN Cancer Communication Research Center will be holding its annual meeting in Denver, CO, and we encourage all interested CRN members to attend. The meeting will be May 12-14, 2010, in the beautiful Magnolia Hotel in downtown Denver. Please add these dates to your calendars now; registration and logistical information will be forthcoming. Questions in the meantime can be directed to Sarah Madrid at sarah.madrid@kp.org. We hope to see you there.

Highlighting CRN researchers

Cheri Rolnick, PhD, MPH and Jody Jackson, RN, BSN are working with the State of Minnesota on a cancer survivorship care plan. Kathy Mazor, EdD participated on a panel on health literacy and verbal interaction at the Health Literacy Annual Research Conference. Dr. Mazor shared an overview of the CRN research project on improving health literacy for spoken health information. Learn more about what's going on in the CRN by reading the CRN Connection!

NCI News

New Series on Survivorship in the NCI Cancer Bulletin

This marks the first in a new series of articles highlighting cancer survivorship. Look for the next article in our survivorship series in an upcoming issue. Read about the Cyclists Combating Cancer, an international support group of people touched by cancer who share a passion for cycling, and about the evaluation of an online tool for creating survivorship care plans. Subscribe to the NCI Cancer Bulletin for free.

caBIG® Population Sciences SIG Upcoming Meeting

As part of the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® initiative, the caBIG Population Sciences Special Interest Group will host its face-to-face meeting in San Francisco on November 18-20. It's open to interested population scientists, and there is no charge to attend (though travel expenses are the responsibility of the attendee). Register online for the meeting.

Evaluating the NCI's Central IRB

Learn more about the costs and benefits of an observational study of the NCI's Central Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Other News

HMO Research Network Conference - abstract deadline extended to Nov. 17

Visit the HMORN Web site to submit an abstract and to learn about guidelines to request ancillary meetings during the conference.

New tool to conduct multi-site research at ResearchToolkit.org

Group Health Research Institute, Wayne State University, and Duke University have developed a new web site tool for more efficient conduct of multi-site research, www.researchtoolkit.org, and to help researchers create and sustain successful multisite research collaborations.

National Conferences

(In chronological order. * = CRN investigators and staff will be in attendance!)

• November 2009
• December 2009
• January 2010
• March 2010
• April 2010

November 2009

American Public Health Association *
Philadelphia, PA
November 7-11, 2009

December 2009

CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
San Antonio, TX
December 9-13, 2009

January 2010

8th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics
January 20-22, 2010
Washington, D.C.
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to September 15, 2009.

March 2010

3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Methods and Measurement
March 15-16, 2010
Bethesda, MD
Proposals are due November 6, 2009; registration deadline is February 12, 2010.

HMO Research Network Conference: Emerging Frontiers in Healthcare Research and Delivery
March 21-24, 2010
Austin, TX

April 2010

Society of Behavioral Medicine 31st Annual Meeting
April 7-10
Seattle, WA

American Association for Cancer Research 101st Annual Meeting
April 17-21, 2010
Washington, DC