Career Advancement Program for Clinical Research Scholars (CAPS) ORIENTATION

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Career Advancement Program for Clinical Research
Scholars(CAPS)ORIENTATION

• TBS

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Opening Remarks

• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS
• Mayo Professor
• Division of Epidemiology Community Health
• School of Public Health
• CAPS Program Director

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NIH Roadmap and CAPS Program Overview

• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS
• Mayo Professor
• Division of Epidemiology Community Health
• School of Public Health
• CAPS Program Director

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NIH RoadmapGoal

• Goal of K12 NIH Roadmap
• ...to educate future leaders of multidisciplinary
  clinical research and speed the translation of
  research discoveries into improved patient care.

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NIH Roadmap
New Pathways to Discovery
Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise
Research Teams of the Future
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How Did We Get Here?

• Difficulty recruiting and retaining clinical
  researchers
• Rising overhead costs and regulatory demands
• Limitations due to NIH funding mechanisms,
  review, and program structure
• Lack of a viable career pathway deters
  investigators from conducting clinical and
  translational research impedes basic research
  results from entering into clinical practice

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Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research

• The current system of academic advancement favors
  the independent investigator
• Most institutions house scientists in discrete
  departments
• Interdisciplinary science requires
  interdisciplinary peer-review
• Project management and oversight is currently
  performed by discrete ICs
• Interdisciplinary research teams take time to
  assemble and require unique resources

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Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career
Development Program

• Roadmap K12 Program is designed to increase the
  national pool of clinician-scientists from many
  disciplines
• The program differs in its goal by supporting
  career development of the clinical research team
• The clinical research team includes nurses,
  sociologists, pharmacologists, biostatisticians,
  and epidemiologists, in addition to physicians,
  dentists, and other scientists.
• Funding for up to 5 years includes didactic and
  practical training in design, conduct, and
  analysis of clinical research
• Each clinical research scholar may be recruited
  from within a grantee institution or externally
  and has two mentors

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CAPS Program Goals

• CAPS is more than a training program.
• Goals
• to train clinical researchers
• to launch Scholars careers
• to increase the number of interdisciplinary
  researchers who are working together

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CAPS Overview

• Minnesotas Approach
• Core Competencies
• Training Program
• Expectations
• Scholars Mentoring Teams
• MAC
• Shared Resources
• Ombudsman

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Minnesotas Approach

• Faculty Career Development Program
• Executive Committee
• Multidisciplinary Scholars
• Mentoring Teams
• Infrastructure Support
• Research Support
• Evaluation
• Upper Midwest Consortium

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CAPS Core Competencies

• Study concepts
• Study designs
• Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Research funding
• Planning and managing research studies
• Human Subjects Protection and Responsible Conduct
  of Research
• Data collection, management, analysis
• Data interpretation
• Reporting study findings (publications)
• Professional presentation of study results

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Training Program

• MS in Clinical Research or related field
• Additional CAPS courses and seminars
• Career Development seminar (PubH 6309)
• AHC Clinical Research Conference
• Management for Clinical Research (PubH 6572)
• NIH CTSA KL2/K12 Annual Meeting
• Midwest Consortium

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Training Program (contd)MS Clinical Research
(38 cr)

• Fundamentals of Clinical Research (3 cr)
• Epidemiologic Methods I II (3 cr each)
• Biostatistics I II (4 cr each)
• Clinical Trials (3 cr)
• Clinical Research Project Seminar (2 cr)
• Writing Research Grants (2 cr)
• Ethics in Public Health Res Policy (1 cr)
• Thesis Credits Masters (10 cr)
• Electives (3 cr)

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Training Program (contd)Other Masters Level
Degrees

• MS in Health Services Research and Policy
• MS in Clinical Investigation
• MS in Social, Administrative, and Clinical
  Pharmacy - Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
  Track
• MPH in Epidemiology

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CAPS Expectations

• Commit 75 effort to CAPS-related training,
  research, and career development activities (50
  effort for surgical scholars).
• Commit no more than 25 total effort to clinical
  duties, teaching, and departmental administrative
  duties.
• Post and update Career Development Plan, Ground
  rules, Confidentiality Agreement, and Mentoring
  Team interactions on mentor team website.
• Meet regularly with mentoring team.
• Participate in all CAPS-specific activities
  (seminar, conferences, workshops, etc).
• Complete MS degree program (if not completed
  prior to CAPS).
• Register for additional CAPS-specific courses.
• Submit one peer-review article for publication
  per year (exceptions granted for full-time MS
  program students in first K12 year)
• Presentations
• Grant proposal (by end of CAPS period)

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Career Advancement Program for Clinical Research
Scholars(CAPS)

• Introductions

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, Assistant
  Professor, Neurosurgery
• Mentors Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD, PhD,
  Professor, Neuroscience Jon E. Grant, MD, MPH,
  Associate Professor, Psychiatry Kamil Ugurbil,
  PhD, Professor, Center for Magnetic Resonance
  Research Lynn E. Eberly, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Compulsive Behavior in Patients
  with Parkinsons Disease before and after Deep
  Brain Stimulation

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Jason Baker, MD, MS, Assistant
  Professor, Infectious Diseases International
  Medicine, HCMC
• Mentors James D. Neaton, PhD, Professor,
  Biostatistics W. Keith Henry, MD, Professor, UMN
  AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, HCMC Richard Grimm,
  MD, PhD, MPH, Professor, Cardiology/
  Epidemiology Daniel A. Duprez, MD, PhD,
  Professor, Cardiology
• Project Title Small and Large Arterial
  Elasticity and HIV Infection a pilot study

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Monica Colvin-Adams, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Cardiology
• Mentors Daniel J. Garry, MD, PhD, Professor,
  Cardiology
• Daniel A. Duprez, MD, PhD, Professor,
  Cardiology Robert F. Wilson, MD, Professor,
  Cardiology John E. Connett, PhD, Professor and
  Head, Biostatistics Robert Bache, MD, Professor,
  Cardiology
• Project Title Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibition
  and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Sean Elliott, MD, Assistant Professor,
  Urologic Surgery
• Mentors Timothy J. Wilt, MD, MPH, Professor,
  Internal Medicine Beth A. Virnig, PhD, MPH,
  Associate Professor, Health Services Research,
  Policy, and Administration Robert L. Kane, MD,
  Professor, Health Policy and Management Roger
  Feldman, PhD, Professor, Health Policy and
  Management Bradley P. Carlin, PhD, MS, Mayo
  Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title The influence of financial
  incentives on practice patterns and outcomes in
  prostate cancer therapy

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Lynda Polgreen, MD, MS, Fellow,
  Pediatric Endocrinology
• Mentors Anna Petryk, MD, Assistant Professor,
  Pediatric Endocrinology Antoinette M. Moran, MD,
  Professor, Pediatrics Chester B. Whitley, MD,
  PhD, Professor, Pediatrics William Thomas, PhD,
  MS, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
• Research Project To study bone health in two
  related populations children after hematopoietic
  cell transplantation (HCT) and children with
  Mucopolysac-charidosis (MPS) diseases with and
  without HCT and/or enzyme replacement therapy
  (ERT)

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Steven Stovitz, MD, Assistant Professor,
  Family Medicine and Community Health Adjunct
  Faculty, Kinesiology
• Mentors Robert W. Jeffrey, PhD, Professor,
  Epidemiology and Community Health John H. Himes,
  PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and Community
  Health Mark A. Pereira, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Epidemiology and Community Health
  Peter J. Hannan, MStat, Senior Research Fellow,
  Epidemiology and Community Health
• Research Project To study childhood growth
  features which predict adult obesity utilizing
  the CATCH and SOLAR databases

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CAPS 2008 Scholars

• Scholar Fareed Suri, MD, Fellow, Neurology
• Mentors Aaron R. Folsom, MD, MPH, Professor,
  Epidemiology and Community Health Adnan I.
  Qureshi, MD, Professor, Neurology Cavan S.
  Reilly, PhD, MS, Associate Professor,
  Biostatistics
• Project Title Renin-Angiotensin System
  Polymorphisms and Risk of Small Vessel Ischemic
  Stroke Analysis from a Cardiovascular Cohort

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CAPS 2006 Scholars

• Scholar Lisa Chow, MD, Assistant Professor,
  Endocrinology
• Mentors Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD, Professor,
  Medicine
• Michael Garwood, PhD, Professor, Radiology
• Lynn E. Eberly, PhD, Associate Professor,
  Biostatistics
• Project Title Evaluation of Intramyocellular
  Lipid Content (IMCL) in Skeletal Muscle by
  Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• Scholar Sarah A. Cooley, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Adult Hematology, Oncology and
  Transplantation
• Mentors Jeffrey S. Miller, MD, Professor,
  Medicine
• Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD, Professor, Hematology,
  Oncology and Transplantation Chap T. Le, PhD,
  Distinguished Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Natural Killer Cell Receptors

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CAPS 2006 Scholars

• Scholar Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Neurology
• Mentors David C. Anderson, MD, Professor,
  Neurology
• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS, Mayo Professor,
  Epidemiology Community Health Beth A. Virnig,
  PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Health Services
  Research, Policy, and Administration
• David R. Jacobs, Jr., PhD, Professor,
  Epidemiology Community Health
• Project Title Improving Evidence-Based Quality
  of Care in Acute Stroke
• Scholar Peter Milev, MD, PhD, Assistant
  Professor, Psychiatry
• Mentors Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor,
  Psychiatry
• Angus W. MacDonald III, PhD, Assistant
  Professor, Psychology Susanne S. Lee, PhD,
  Assistant Professor and Statistician, Psychiatry
• Project Title Deficits in perceptual
  organization and thought disorder in
  schizophrenia relationships with fMRI functional
  anatomy

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CAPS 2006 Scholars

• Scholar Daniel A Mulrooney, MD, MS, Assistant
  Professor, Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology,
  Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation
• Mentors Joseph P. Neglia, MD, MPH, Professor,
  Pediatrics
• Robert P. Hebbel, MD, Professor, Hematology,
  Oncology and Transplantation James D. Neaton,
  PhD, Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Atherosclerosis in Survivors of
  Childhood and Young Adult Hodgkins Disease
• Scholar Marcie R. Tomblyn, MD, MS, Assistant
  Professor, Hematology, Oncology and
  Transplantation
• Mentors Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD, Professor,
  Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation Mary M.
  Horowitz, MD, Professor, Medicine, Medical
  College of WI John P. Klein, PhD, Professor,
  Biostatistics, Medical College of WI Brent R.
  Logan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics,
  Medical College of WI
• Research Project To design and execute local and
  multi-center trials to advance hematopoietic stem
  cell transplant (HSCT) for management of lymphoma

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CAPS 2006 Scholars

• Scholar Heather E. Vezina, PharmD, Assistant
  Professor, Laboratory Medicine and
  Pathology/Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
• Mentors Henry H. Balfour, Jr., MD, Professor,
  Lab Medicine and Pathology/Pediatrics Richard
  Brundage, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor,
  Pharmacy William Thomas, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Pharmacokinetic and
  pharmacodynamic characteristics of valacyclovir
  (V-ACV) in adults with primary Epstein-Barr virus
  (EBV) infectious mononucleosis (IM)

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CAPS 2007 Scholars

• Scholar David R. Boulware, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Infectious Diseases International
  Medicine
• Mentors Paul R. Bohjanen, MD, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Microbiology and Medicine Edward N.
  Janoff, MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases,
  University of Colorado at Denver James D.
  Neaton, PhD, MS, Professor, Biostatistics Tracy
  L. Bergemann, PhD, Assistant Professor,
  Biostatistics
• Project Title Immune Reconstruction Syndrome in
  HIV-infected Persons in Resource-Limited Areas
• Scholar Adam F. Carpenter, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Neurology
• Mentors Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD, PhD,
  Professor, Neuroscience
• Gareth J. Parry, MD, Professor, Neurology
  Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor, Psychiatry Lynn E.
  Eberly, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Protein markers of disease in
  Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

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CAPS 2007 Scholars

• Scholar Melissa A. Geller, MD, Assistant
  Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's
  Health
• Mentors Amy P. N. Skubitz, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
  Sundaram Ramakrishnan, PhD, Professor,
  Pharmacology Douglas Yee, MD, Professor,
  Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation Chap
  T. Le, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in
  Ovarian Cancer Predicting Tumor Response
• Scholar LAurelle A. Johnson, PhD, Assistant
  Professor, Experimental Clinical Pharmacology
• Mentors Timothy S. Tracy, PhD, Professor,
  Pharmacy
• Pamala A. Jacobson, PharmD, Associate Professor,
  Pharmacy
• Julie A. Ross, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics
  Antoinette M. Moran, MD, Professor, Pediatrics
  Melanie M. Wall, PhD, MS, Associate Professor,
  Biostatistics
• Project Title The effect of childhood obesity on
  phase 1 and phase 2 drug metabolism enzymes

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CAPS 2007 Scholars

• Scholar Ken M. Kunisaki, MD, MS, Assistant
  Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and
  Sleep Medicine
• Mentors Dennis E. Niewoehner, MD, Professor,
  Pulmonary Section, VAMC Allen S. Levine, PhD,
  Professor and Dean, College of Food, Agricultural
  and Natural Resources Sciences John E. Connett,
  PhD, Professor and Head, Biostatistics
• Project Title Micronutrients and Exacerbations
  of COPD
• Scholar Donald R. Nixdorf, DDS, MS, Assistant
  Professor, Diagnostic Biological Sciences,
  Dentistry
• Mentors Eric L. Schiffman, DDS, MS, Associate
  Professor, Dentistry David A. Bereiter, PhD,
  Professor, Dentistry Kamil Ugurbil, PhD,
  Professor, Center for Magnetic Resonance
  Research Noam Harel, PhD, Assistant Professor,
  Medicine James S. Hodges, PhD, MA, Associate
  Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title Functional Imaging of Trigeminal
  Neuropathic Pain

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CAPS 2007 Scholars

• Scholar Jeffrey R. Wozniak, PhD, LP, Assistant
  Professor, Psychiatry
• Mentors Kelvin O. Lim, MD, Professor,
  Psychiatry Monica A. Luciana, PhD, Associate
  Professor, Psychology Pi-Nian Chang, PhD,
  Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Psychiatry Paul
  M. Thuras, PhD, Research Associate, Psychiatry
• Project Title Cerebral white matter effects of
  fetal alcohol exposure A Diffusion Tensor
  Imaging (DTI) study of microstructural brain
  abnormalities and their neurocognitive correlates
• Scholar Fang Yu, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor,
  Adult and Gerontological Health Co-operative
  Unit, Nursing
• Mentors Jean F. Wyman, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA,
  Professor, Nursing Research/Community Health and
  Family Practice
• Maurice W. Dysken, MD, Professor, Psychiatry
  Wei Pan, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
• Project Title The FIT-AD Study /Preserving
  Cognition and Function Through Aerobic Training
  in Alzheimer's Disease

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CAPS Executive Committee

• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS, Mayo Professor,
• Epidemiology Community Health, SPH
• CAPS Program Director
• Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD, Interim Director, OCR
• Professor, Medicine Director, GCRC CAPS
  Co-Director
• James D. Neaton, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics,
  SPH
• CAPS Co-Director

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CAPS Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee

• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS (Chair)
• Linda H. Bearinger, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN
• David M. Brown, MD, Ombudsman
• Barbara A. Elliott, PhD
• Frank A. Lederle, MD
• Bryan S. Michalowicz, DDS, MS
• James D. Neaton, PhD

• Nancy C. Raymond, MD
• Timothy W. Schacker, MD
• S. Charles Schulz, MD
• Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD
• William Thomas, PhD, MS
• Timothy S. Tracy, PhD
• Todd M. Tuttle, MD, MS
• Anne Marie Weber-Main, PhD
• Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD

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CAPS Ombudsman

• David M. Brown, MD, Professor Emeritus,
  Pediatrics/LaboratoryMedicine and Pathology
• Role of Ombudsman
• to provide scholars with feedback and advice
• from outside the program
• to facilitate resolution of program-related
  difficulties and challenges

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CAPS the CTSA

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CAPS Mentoring and Evaluation

• CAPS Mentoring Evaluation Director

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CAPS Mentoring Evaluation

• Why the emphasis on mentoring in this program
• What do we know about effective mentoring
• How the CAPS program facilitates an effective
  mentoring approach
• How the CAPS program evaluated

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Why Emphasis on Mentoring?

• Faculty with mentors demonstrate higher levels
  of success on the following factors
• Research productivity (Bland and Schmitz 1986,
  Byrne and Keefe 2002)
• Professional socialization and interactions with
  colleagues (Corcoran and Clark 1984)
• Salary levels and satisfaction with salary and
  promotion (Melicher 2000)
• Teaching effectiveness, evidenced by declines in
  teaching anxiety and improved student ratings of
  teaching effectiveness (Williams 1991).

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Not all Mentoring is alike

• Effective faculty mentoring is a result of
• Clarity of purpose
• Systematic tasks and activities that the mentor
  and mentee do together not personal chemistry
• Early and enduring mentoring is most beneficial
• Regular meetings of the mentoring pairs/teams -
  which may require nudging
• Using mentors from outside the mentees
  department is very effective
• (Boyle and Boice, 1998)

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CAPS Mentoring Teams

• Mentoring teams include experienced clinical
  investigators
• Teams are multidisciplinary and include a
  biostatistician
• Mentors responsibilities are clearly delineated
• Mentoring process and development of mentees is
  reviewed regularly
• Mentors and mentees participate in training
  workshops
• Online tracking of mentoring process (meetings
  and progress) is provided

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Mentoring Workshops

• Mentoring Workshop
• Scholars attend an initial mentoring workshop
  with their senior mentors and, preferably, one or
  more associate mentors.
• Mentor-to-Mentor Workshop
• Senior Mentors attend a mentors-only workshop to
  provide feedback on the mentoring experience.
• Dates are posted on the CAPS Website as workshops
  are scheduled.
• Next Mentoring Workshop (new Scholars Mentors)
  
• Friday, June 6, 2008 from 100-400 p.m.
• at 142 WBOB

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First Mentoring Workshop for Mentors and
Mentees

• Working session to review
• Mentees career vision, goals, next years
  objectives, and activities
• Mentees incoming strengths and improvement areas
• Mentoring ground rules and confidentiality
  agreements
• Mentoring schedule (team is expected to meet as a
  group at least quarterly)
• Role of each mentor on the team

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Workshop for Mentors Only

• Working session
• to review highlights of Scholars progress
• to review Scholars time distribution
• to discuss mentoring team roles (individual and
  group as a whole)
• to review Scholars satisfaction with mentoring
  behaviors
• to review adequacy of mentoring interactions
• to discuss purpose of multidisciplinary mentoring
  and how best to achieve it
• to share strategies for successful mentoring
• to assess reasonableness of Scholars next years
  goals and timelines
• to identify ways CAPS can better support
  mentoring activities.

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Online Tracking of Mentoring and Career
Development(Optional)Matt Beecher, Informatics
Manager, General Clinical Research Center

• Post career vision, goals, planned strategies,
  and timeline
• Post ground rules and confidentiality agreement
  documents
• Document mentor team meetings
• Document use of Shared Clinical Research Support
  Group (SCRSG)
• Note decisions from meetings, assignments before
  next meeting, and goals for next meeting
• Maintain drafts of projects accessible by whole
  team
• Ease mentor tracking burden
• Aid evaluation without duplication of effort

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CAPS Scholar Agreement

• Requirement
• 75 effort on CAPS-related training, research,
  and career development activities (50 surgical
  scholars)
• Expectations
• Career development plan (post on team website
  within 2 wks of Mentoring Workshop update 2 wks
  prior to scheduled MAC review meetings)
• Ground rules and confidentiality agreements
  (post on team website w/in 2 wks of Mentoring
  Workshop)
• Regularly scheduled mentoring team meetings
  (post schedule and interactions on mentor team
  website - post meetings and action items w/in 2
  wks of each interaction)

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CAPS Scholar Agreement

• Expectations (continued)
• Participate in all CAPS-specific activities
• Complete MS degree program (if not completed
  prior to CAPS) - 9-14 cr in first year maintain
  3.5 GPA
• Register for additional CAPS-specific courses
  (all scholars)
• Peer-review articles (1 per yr - exceptions
  granted to full-time students in first year)
• Presentations
• Grant proposal (by end of CAPS period)

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CAPS Mentor Agreement

• Requirement
• Assure that scholars spend 75 effort on
  CAPS-related training, research, and career
  development activities (50 effort for surgical
  scholars)
• Expectations
• Attend CAPS Orientation and mentoring workshops
• Participate in regularly scheduled mentoring team
  meetings
• Senior Mentor provides accountability for
  scholars work and coordination of team - plans
  meeting agendas with Scholar to address research
  and career mentoring topics
• Complete written mentoring ground rules and
  confidentiality agreements with scholar
• Assist scholar with career development plan
  components including annual goals and objectives
  with specific strategies and timeline

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CAPS Mentor Agreement

• Expectations (continued)
• Approve career development plan components and
  subsequent changes (posted on mentor team
  website)
• Monitor scholars career development, CAPS
  activities, and mentoring interactions - review
  team website entries monthly
• Assure that scholar is receiving support and
  resources from home department
• Provide information for semi-annual program
  evaluation of mentoring activities
• Develop plans for grant submission
• Benefits
• Mentor funds for CAPS-related activities
  including travel, continuing education, CAPS
  research project support, or salary redistribution

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CAPS Baseline and Year-End Quantitative Evaluation

• Evaluation
• Data collection at the beginning of the program
  and abbreviated follow-up at the end of each year
  as well as ongoing mentoring tracking
• Scholar Clinical Research Appraisal Inventory
• Scholar Department/Division Culture
• Scholar Discipline Identification
• Mentor Discipline Identification
• Scholar and Mentor Consent form

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Baseline Evaluation Forms

• Evaluation is a CAPS requirement
• Baseline forms - complete and return to CAPS
  Administrative Specialist (forms are posted on
  CAPS website)
• Consent form - grants permission to use
  evaluation data for research purposes

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CAPS Scholar Qualitative Evaluation

• At 6 months, 1 year, and then annually, a MAC
  Evaluation Subcommittee reviews
• Clinical Schedule (protected time)
• Overall Weekly Schedule (time management)
• MS Degree Program
• Current Research
• Career Development
• Mentoring Team Interactions
• Connections in Professional Field
• Use of Shared Resources
• Overall CAPS Satisfaction
• Completion of Evaluation Forms
• Clinical Research Skills Development

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Biostatistician Mentors in CAPS

• James D. Neaton, PhD, MS
• Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of
  Public Health
• CAPS Co-Director

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Biostatistician MentorsGeneral Goals

• Work with you and the other mentors as part of a
  multi-disciplinary team
• Learn about your field and area of research
• Advise/teach biostatistical topics relevant to
  your research
• Convey the value of early biostats mentor
  involvement re project design, data collection,
  and problem resolution
• Discuss potential role of biostatistician mentors
  on future grants

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Biostatistician Collaborators Will Work With You
To

• Formulate study questions
• Develop study implementation plans
• Interpret data
• Determine the next question

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CAPS Benefits Administration

• Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS
• CAPS Program Director

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CAPS Benefits

• Salary and Benefits - commensurate with rank and
  position (75 effort 50 for surgical scholars)
• Tuition and program application fee for up to 14
  cr/sem and 6 cr/summer session
• Travel funds for annual NIH-sponsored CTSA/K12
  Meeting for Scholars, Upper Midwest Consortium
  meeting, and professional meetings (up to
  2,500/year)
• Research funds (up to 25,000 per year)
• Mentor funds (up to 10,000 per year/team)
• CAPS Award is renewable annually (3-5 years)

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Benefits Administration

• Salary
• Salary is paid through scholars departments
• (departments cross charge K12 grant)
• Tuition
• Full tuition coverage for scholars in MS programs
  (e-mail Student Accts Receivable page to CAPS
  Coordinator each semester)
• Scholars not in MS program apply for Regents
  Scholarship (non-degree student information and
  form are posted on CAPS website)
• Required course textbooks and software are
  covered by CAPS (SAS forms on CAPS website)

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Benefits Administration (continued)

• Travel
• Complete CAPS Travel Authorization (TA) form (on
  CAPS website) submit to CAPS Coordinator prior
  to travel
• Check GSA per diem when completing TA (link
  posted on CAPS website)
• Complete Employee Expense Worksheet (on CAPS
  website) and submit with original receipts after
  travel (internet charges are not allowed by K12
  grant)

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Benefits Administration (continued)

• Research Funds
• Complete Research Funding Application (on CAPS
  website)
• Complete NIH budget and justification
• Contact Coordinator re equipment order forms
• Submit forms electronically to the CAPS
  Coordinator with IRB approval/renewal letter
• Include electronic signatures or send a signed
  hard copy to CAPS Coordinator at EpiCH, 300 WBOB
• For subsequent year renewal requests, submit NIH
  budget and justification electronically and the
  most recent IRB approval/renewal letter

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Benefits Administration (continued)

• Mentor Funds
• Review policy re use of mentor funds (on
  Mentoring page of CAPS website)
• Each Scholars team decides how to divide funds
• Mentor funds may be used for professional travel,
  continuing education, CAPS research project, or
  salary redistribution
• Submit forms to the CAPS Coordinator as early in
  each budget year as possible

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MS Program Application

• Submit choice of MS program to CAPS Program
  Director for approval
• Apply to program (see SPH website and Graduate
  Studies Coordinator for information)
• Attend the SPH Orientation
• Maintain contact with Major Coordinator and
  Advisor
• Refer to Student Guidebook throughout program
• Register for course load as outlined in plan
• Maintain cumulative GPA of 3.5

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Public Information

• Scholars name
• Photo
• Biosketch
• Area of study and research interest
• Disclosed in press releases, program reports, web
  pages, and similar documents

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Notification of Changes

• Scholars are required to immediately notify
• CAPS Director in writing of
• Changes that preclude meeting award requirements
• Acceptance of similar award with duplicate
  benefits
• Changes in course load
• Changes in clinical responsibilities
• Changes in teaching load
• Withdrawal from degree program

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Leaves of Absence

• Requires written request to CAPS Program Director
• Requires approval of CAPS Program Director
• Maximum, if approved, is 2 months of unpaid
  absence

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Clinical Research Shared Support
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CAPS Contacts
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Introductions

• EpiCH Support Staff

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CAPS Coordinator

• Terri Tharp, MPH
• tharp_at_epi.umn.edu
• 612-626-8882

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MS Clinical Research Major Coordinator

• Andrea Kish, MS
• kish_at_umn.edu

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EpiCH Accounting

• Keith Coyer
• CAPS Accountant
• coyer001_at_umn.edu

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Administrative Support

• Jill Anderson
• Administrative Specialist
• anderson_at_epi.umn.edu
• Janelle Willard
• Executive Secretary
• willard_at_epi.umn.edu

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