The NIH Collaboratory is using its popular ePCT Grand Rounds platform for a special webinar series on diversity in pragmatic clinical trials.

In this Friday’s session—“Diversity in the PCT Ecosystem – How Do We Develop a Pipeline of Diverse Investigators and Leaders in PCTs?”—Dr. Lesley Curtis, co–principal investigator of the NIH Collaboratory Coordinating Center, will host a panel of investigators for a discussion about strategies for developing a diverse pipeline of researchers and leaders in the field of pragmatic clinical research.

The panelists will include:

• Dr. Marie Bernard, deputy director of the National Institute on Aging and acting NIH chief officer for scientific workforce diversity
• Dr. George Mensah of the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Dr. Natalia Morone of Boston University, principal investigator of OPTIMUM, an NIH Collaboratory Trial

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 30, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.

The complete diversity workshop series includes:

• June 4, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Planning for Diversity: Stakeholder Engagement and Site Selection to Maximize Diversity (Gloria Coronado, PhD; Julie Fritz, PhD, PT; Amanda Petrik, MS; David Wetter, PhD, MS; Moderator: Wendy Weber, ND, PhD, MPH)
• June 25, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Meeting Participants Where They Are: Outreach, Trust, and Consent to Maximize Diversity (Jonathan Jackson, PhD;  Judith Schlaeger, PhD, CNM, LAc, FAAN; Stacy Sterling, DrPH, MSW, MPH; Moderator: Emily O’Brien, PhD)
• July 16, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Maximizing Diversity in PCTs:  What Can We Learn From Implementation Trials? (Amanda Midboe, PhD; Anne Trontell, MD, MPS; Moderator: David Chambers, DPhil)
• July 30, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Diversity in the PCT Ecosystem: How Do We Develop a Pipeline of Diverse Investigators and Leaders in PCTs? (Marie Bernard, MD; George Mensah, MD; Natalia Morone, MD, MS; Moderator: Lesley Curtis, PhD)
• Podcast available August 9, 2021: Summary Expert Panel Discussion (David Chambers, DPhil; Lesley Curtis, PhD; Emily O’Brien, PhD; Wendy  Weber, ND, PhD, MP; Kanecia Zimmerman, MD; Moderator: Robin Boineau, MD, MA)

All sessions are free and open to the public; no registration is required. Recordings will be archived on the Grand Rounds website.