In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Runar Solberg of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health will present “Methodological Insights and Lessons Learned From Conducting a Pragmatic Randomized Trial on Surgical Face Masks.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, August 16, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Solberg is a research scientist in the Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Greg Simon and Susan Shortreed of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) will present “Does Starting Buprenorphine Prevent Suicidal Behavior? What Trial Should We Emulate?”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, August 9, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Simon is a senior investigator at KPWHRI and a research professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington. He is a member of the leadership team for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center and was the principal investigator for the Suicide Prevention Outreach Trial (SPOT), an NIH Collaboratory Trial. Shortreed is a senior biostatistics investigator at KPWHRI and an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Adrian Hernandez of Duke University will present “Precision Health to Population Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Gene Editing Therapies.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, August 2, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Hernandez is a professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine and the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is a co–principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Gregg Fonarow of the University of California, Los Angeles, will present “Interventions for Optimization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 26, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Fonarow is the Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science at UCLA, director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, and codirector of the UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Brendan Everett and Deborah Wexler of Harvard Medical School will present “Lessons From PRECIDENTD: A Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trial.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 19, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
The PRECIDENTD study (Prevention of Cardiovascular and Diabetic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes) is comparing SGLT2 inhibitors and a GLP-1 receptor agonist to treat type 2 diabetes among patients with or at high risk for heart disease. Everett is an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Wexler is an associate professor of medicine and chief of the diabetes unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Miguel Hernán of Harvard University will present “Causal Estimands: Should We Ask Different Causal Questions in Randomized Trials and in the Observational Studies That Emulate Them?”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 12, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Hernán is the Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and the director of the CAUSALab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Researchers at the CAUSALab generate, analyze, and interpret data to support decision-makers in making better decisions about what works in medicine, public health, and policy.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Fatima Mirza of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University will present “Using ChatGPT to Facilitate Truly Informed Medical Consent.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, June 28, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Mirza is chief resident in the Department of Dermatology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Reto Auer of the University of Bern will present “Efficacy and Safety of Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Keeping a Trial on a Polarizing Topic Running Under Regulatory and Epidemic Changes.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, June 21, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Auer is an associate professor in primary health care and the head of the Substance Use Unit in the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He is also an adjunct physician at Unisanté, the University Center for Primary Care and Public Health.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Russell Rothman of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Jason Block of Harvard Medical School will present “The NIH COvid-19 and Diabetes Assessment (CODA) Study: Leveraging PCORnet for a Novel Cohort Study.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, June 7, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Rothman is a professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and health policy, the Ingram Professor of Integrative and Population Health, and the senior vice president for population and public health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also serves as the director of Vanderbilt’s Institute for Medicine and Public Health. Block is an associate professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School, a faculty member in the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a general internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Shruti Gohil of the University of California, Irvine, will present “The INSPIRE Abdominal and Skin/Soft Tissue Infection Trials: Intelligent Stewardship Prompts to Improve Real-Time Empiric Antibiotic Selection for Patients.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, May 31, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.
Gohil is an assistant professor of medicine and the associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. She is the lead investigator for INSPIRE, an NIH Collaboratory Trial.
