October 30, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, the CHI-RON Study of Adults With Congenital Heart Defects

Headshots of Dr. Thomas Carton and Dr. Anitha John
Dr. Thomas Carton and Dr. Anitha John

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Thomas Carton of the Louisiana Public Health Institute and Anitha John of George Washington University and the Children’s National Hospital will present “Congenital Heart Initiative: Redefining Outcomes and Navigation to Adult Centered Care (CHI-RON) Study.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 1, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Carton is the chief data and strategy officer of the Louisiana Public Health Institute. John is the medical director of the Washington Adult Congenital Heart Program at the Children’s National Hospital and a professor of pediatrics at George Washington University.

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October 23, 2024: Impacts of Hybrid Remote Work on Retention and Performance, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshot of Professor Nicholas BloomIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University will present “Hybrid Working From Home Improves Retention Without Damaging Performance.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the codirector of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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October 16, 2024: Testing of Behavior Change Interventions, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshot of Dr. Alexander Fanaroff
Dr. Alexander Fanaroff

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Alexander Fanaroff of the University of Pennsylvania will present “Rigorous Testing of Behavior Change Interventions: Lessons From the BE ACTIVE Randomized Clinical Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 18, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Fanaroff is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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October 9, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Early Diagnosis and Treatment of COPD

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Dr. Shawn Aaron

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Shawn Aaron of the University of Ottawa will present “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma and COPD.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Aaron is a professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa and the director of the Canadian Respiratory Research Network.

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October 2, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, a Novel Health System–Public Health Partnership

Headshots of Tyler Winkelman and David JohnsonIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Tyler Winkelman of Hennepin Healthcare and the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, and David Johnson of Hennepin County, will present “Health Trends Across Communities – A Novel Health System-Public Health Data Partnership.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 4, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Winkelman is the division director of general internal medicine at Hennepin Healthcare and the codirector of the Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab at the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute. Johnson is the Health Informatics and Epidemiology program manager for Hennepin County.

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September 25, 2024: Randomizing Entire Countries, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshot of Dr. Tom LietmanIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Tom Lietman of the University of California, San Francisco, will present “Azithromycin for Childhood Mortality: Randomizing Entire Countries.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 27, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Lietman is the Ruth Lee and Phillips Thygeson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, and the director of the Francis I. Proctor Foundation.

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September 18, 2024: Comparing Pragmatic Trials and Effectiveness-Implementation Trials, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Dr. John Fortney

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, John Fortney of the University of Washington will present “Similarities and Differences Between Pragmatic Trials and Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Fortney is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the University of Washington School of Medicine and a senior research career scientist in the HSR Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care
in the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

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September 11, 2024: HARMONIE and a New Approach to Commercial Clinical Trials, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshot of Professor Saul Faust
Professor Saul Faust

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Saul Faust of the University of Southampton will present “The HARMONIE Trial: Reimagining How to Design and Deliver Contract Commercial Clinical Trials.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 13, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

The HARMONIE trial was a pragmatic trial of the effect of nirsevimab on hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus–associated lower respiratory tract infection when administered in healthy infants in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Faust is a professor of pediatric immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Southampton, the director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Clinical Research Facility, the clinical director of the Wessex Local Clinical Research Network, and a NIHR senior investigator.

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September 5, 2024: Pragmatic Trial of Pain Management in a Military Population, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Headshots of Ardith Doorenbos and Diane FlynnIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Ardith Doorenbos of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Diane Flynn of Madigan Army Medical Center will present “Conventional, Complementary, and Integrative Pain Therapies in a Military Population With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Results of a Pragmatic Clinical Trial Using SMART Design.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 6, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Doorenbos is the Harriet H. Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research and a professor of behavioral nursing science in the School of Nursing at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a co–principal investigator of GRACE, an NIH Collaboratory Trial. Flynn is a primary care pain management advisor in the Interdisciplinary Pain Management Center at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington.

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August 21, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Improving Quality of Life in COPD and Heart Failure

Headshots of Dr. David Bekelman and Dr. Lyndsay DeGrootIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot of the University of Colorado will present “Improving Quality of Life in COPD and Heart Failure: Unpacking a Successful Multicomponent Virtual Team Intervention.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, August 23, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Bekelman is a professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC. DeGroot is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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