TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2024

Plenary Speakers

Wednesday, April 20

 

  • Keynote + Award Presentation
  • Topic: Challenges to Translating Science to Action in a Public Health Emergency
    • Presenter: Sonja Rasmussen, MD, MS
    • Bio: Sonja Rasmussen, MD, MS, is Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions. In this role, she serves as a clinical geneticist and as director of UF’s Precision Health Program. Dr. Rasmussen recently joined UF after 20 years at the CDC in Atlanta. While at CDC, she served in leadership roles during several CDC responses to public health emergencies, including 2009 H1N1 influenza, H7N9 influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Zika virus. 

      Dr. Rasmussen is an author on >270 peer-reviewed papers and is the lead editor of The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual, released by Oxford University Press in 2018.
       
    • More details to be announced soon.
Thursday, April 21

 

  • Keynote + Award Presentation: Translational Science and Community Health: Impact and Implications
  • Topic: Education/Team Science, Health Equity and Community Engagement 
    • Presenters:
      • Primary: Elizabeth Cohn, RN, PhD, Associate Provost for Research, Hunter College
      • Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Director, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities
      • Muredach Reilly, MD, Director, CTSA Columbia University
      • Tabia Akintobi, PhD, MPH, Professor of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
    • Description: The Principals of Community Engagement is the seminal text on Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The text is updated and revised every decade. In 2021 a national group of experts in Community Engagement undertook the revision and the result will be released in the third quarter of 2022. We present the updated findings, the revision of the Principals in light of the renewed interest in the authentic engagement of communities, and the current challenges in introducing and maintaining Trust and Transparency in Translational Science. In this session lead authors of the Principals and a new CTSA Director who has recently turned their large, academic medical center CTSA toward engagement will discuss Translational Science and Community Health: Impact and Implications. We will review the major changes to the text, and discuss thought examples how what has been necessary to meet the current moment we are in Engagement, Implementation, Dissemination and Translational Science and engagement of communities in research.

    • Learning Objectives:

      • Participants will be able to list the ten Principles of Community Engagement
      • Participants will be able to identify the ways in which community involvement can strengthen research
      • Participants will identify the steps necessary to increase engagement in their CTSA
Friday, April 22

 

  • Keynote + Awards Presentation: Translating to Health Justice
    • Presenter: Philip Alberti, PhD
    • Bio: Philip Alberti, PhD is the Founding Director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice at Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). As the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy and the Founding Director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice, Philip M. Alberti, Ph.D., sparks, supports and contributes to community driven, multi-sector efforts that build the evidence-base of programs, policies, practices, and partnerships to eliminate health inequities. Prior to joining AAMC in 2012, Dr. Alberti led research, evaluation, and planning efforts for a Bureau within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that works to promote health equity between NYC neighborhoods.  He holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and was a Fellow in the National Institute of Mental Health Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program. 

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