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Story Summary: Each of the appointed leaders will hold a shared primary appointment in the TSI and in their respective departments. Services include enhanced regulatory support, research design and analysis, ethics consultation, and clinical trials management resources. D. , professor and vice chair for research in Family and Community Medicine, will bring together community organizations, faculty and health care providers to build public trust in research and facilitate research on relevant community questions. This includes both formal degree-granting programs as well as targeted research education experiences. Specialized CentersBiomedical Research Informatics, led by J. Jeffrey Carr, M. D. , professor of radiology/radiologic sciences, will work with the other TSI programs and centers to transform existing clinical, research and educational informatics operations to support translational science in a relevant and comprehensive fashion. As such, the center integrates with the overall institutional informatics and information services operation under the direction of Sheila Sanders, vice president for information services and chief information officer at Wake Forest Baptist. The center will also continue to support innovative research opportunities through pilot research initiatives and collaborative symposiums, and by offering technical expertise on primate-related research. Genomics & Personalized Medicine, led by Eugene R. Bleecker, M. D. , director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, professor of genomics and personalized medicine, of translational science, of pediatrics, and of public health sciences, and Thomas H. Davis Professor of Medicine in the Internal Medicine Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases. The center will also provide a key role in support of investigators, providing educational programs, clinical genomics trials aimed at predicting patient response to therapy, personalizing therapy, and designing preemptive and new strategies. The Population Science & Research Design Center will build upon the extensive expertise of the Division of Public Health Sciences and will provide proficiency and support in the areas of statistical methods and design, population genetics and multi-center study coordination, working closely with the Clinical & Translational Research Facilitation Program to help implement evidence-based approaches to address local clinical health care needs. Keywords:Contact InformationAvailable for logged-in reporters onlyDescriptionThe Wake Forest University Translational Science Institute (TSI) has announced a number of organizational changes….Read the Full Story

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