Event

Discuss and develop novel approaches to clinical trials recruitment in a unique collaborative environment.

With ongoing input from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), the University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Award (CTSA) is organizing the second Creative Scientist Workshop. The 2017 workshop will focus on Innovations in Recruitment to Clinical Trials, one of the greatest bottlenecks in clinical and translational science.

The Creative Scientist Workshop is not a standard conference. The facilitated workshop format employs a creative problem-solving approach now being used by NSF, NIH and NCATS to catalyze scientific innovation. Workshop attendees will frame the problem space from diverse perspectives and present and discuss a range of innovative case studies and potential best practices.

Most importantly, our deliberate focus on creative problem-solving is designed to catalyze the generation of promising novel solutions and to promote the early development of innovative, transdisciplinary, multi-CTSA grant proposals to NCATS.

As a participant, you will:

- Learn state-of-the-art approaches from throughout the CTSA network and from experts in completely different fields, such as behavioral economics and marketing
- Share your own experience
- Form new collaborative teams around promising, innovative grant proposals
- Advance the evaluation and dissemination of best practices in clinical trials recruitment

Erin O`Byrne
Email: erinobyr@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-829-2214