Richard Cooper, MD, is the ITM’s Loyola University Affiliate Leader. Richard is the director of the ITM’s Learning Healthcare System Cluster, where he oversees the development and dissemination of ITM’s healthcare design and delivery resources. As a professor of medicine and cardiology and chairman of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Loyola, Richard’s research …
Sean P. David, MD, SM, DPhil is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago and he is Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Program Director for Translational Science in Outcomes Research at the NorthShore University HealthSystem. He is a family physician and a clinical and translational scientist whose NIH-funded work focuses on health equity in precision medicine and primary care. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, and he completed his residency at Dartmouth, and received his public health, translational science, and leadership degree training at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Oxford, and Harvard Business School, respectively. He is engaged in numerous research, educational and research leadership activities at NorthShore and the University of Chicago including the NorthShore Center for Personalized Medicine (PMed), and the University of Chicago Department of Family Medicine Steering Committee on Academic Integration, and he leads the Outcomes Research Health Equity Research Seminar and directs the Primary Care & Population Health Investigators Group (PCPH). Dr. David is the NorthShore site leader for the Institute for Translational Medicine 3.0 grant. He is also a side leader for the ITM Community and Collaborations, Career Development, and Training Clusters.
Denise Angst, PhD, RN, is the ITM’s Advocate Health Care Affiliate Leader. Denise is Vice President of Research and leads Advocate’s engagement in number of ITM clusters including Community and Collaboration, Research Capacity, and Learning Health Care Systems. At Advocate, Angst directs the Advocate Research Institute comprised of 4 regional research centers and over 70 research staff across Chicagoland and southern Illinois. The Institute provides centralized operations, consultation, support and training to investigators, and serves as a central point of contact to accelerate collaborations with academic and industry partners. Angst has spent over 25 years in clinical and translational research, and her own research has centered on the impact of chronic conditions on children and families, illness management and decision making. Angst developed and led the Achieving Excellence in Clinical Research conference, which attracts participants from around the Midwest and has been running for 14 years. She previously served as vice-chair of the Advocate Health Care IRB, and is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Clinical Research Committee.
It takes on average 14 years for a discovery to make it into your pharmacy. One of the biggest slowdowns is a lack of participants for the clinical trials that are required first. The Trial Recruitment and Innovation Office (TRIO) works to speed up that timeline by providing tailored user-centered design consulting to researchers who are having trouble recruiting participants in their studies. ITM’s local office feeds into a national Trial Innovation Network that offers consultations and services for multi-center clinical trials and studies.
An ITM investigator exploring how lay people who normally offer emotional and physical support to women in labor could help women undergoing abortions is expanding her research with the support of a grant that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded her this fall. …