Seq #2 Wednesday, March 21, 2007
1:00 PM-3:00 PM Ernest N. Morial Convention Center 283-284, Symposium - Joint with ADEA
Dental School Participation in the NIH Clinical Translational Science Awards (CTSAs)

Sponsored by: NIDCR, NIH and NCRR
Description: In 2003, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, convened a series of meetings to chart a "roadmap" for medical research in the 21st century. Itidentifies the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, & re-engineering the clinical research enterprise. The NIH recently announced the launch of a national consortium that will transform how clinical & translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently & quickly to patients. This new consortium, funded through Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), begins with funding 12 academic health centers (AHCs) throughout the nation. The CTSAs are the first systematic change in the US approach to clinical research in 50 years. The CTSAs will serve as discovery engines that will improve health care by applying new scientific advances to real world practice. the CTSAs are expected to develop new approaches to reach underserved populations, local community organizations, & health care providers to ensure that health care advances are reaching the people who need them. The CTSA consortium is led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the NIH. Total first year funding for the awards announced to date are approximately $100 million. When fully implemented in 2012, the initiative is expected to provide a total of $500 million annually to 60 academic health centers. Lawrence Tabak, Director of the NIDCR will give a brief overview of the NIH Roadmap initiative with an emphasis on how dentistry can participate in the Roadmap initiatives. Andrea Sawczuk will provide n overview of the Roadmap CTSA initiative & Bruce Pihlstrom will moderate a panel discussion of representatives from CTSA awardees with a view towards informing the oral health research and educational community about the ways in which the dental community has successfully participated in this initiative.
Chairperson: B.L. PIHLSTROM
 
0002  1:00 PM NIH Roadmap Program
L. TABAK, Natl Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Rsch NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, USA
  1:10 PM Overview of the CTSA Initiative
A. SAWCZUK, National Center for Research Resources, Bethesda, MD, USA
  1:45 PM Panel discussion of dental school representatives of successful CTSA awardees
B.L. PIHLSTROM, NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, USA
  2:00 PM Panel Discussion
  • Thomas Braun, University of Pittsburgh
  • Caroline Damsky, University of California, San Francisco
  • Joseph Fiorellini, University of Pennsylvania
  • Catherine Flaitz, University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston
  • Sreenivas Koka, Mayo Clinic
  • Ira Lamster, Columbia University
  • Cyril Meyerowitz, University of Rochester
  • Ronald Sakaguchi, Oregon Health Science University

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