Consultations & Advice

• Request access to the grant library

• Data analysis
• Epidemiological expertise
• Manuscript and grant preparation
• Methodology for community-based studies
• Survey research and practice
• Survival analysis and adaptive designs

• Cohort size estimation
• Cohort identification based on electronic health record (EHR) data
• Generation of condition-specific patient populations for study recruitment / chart review

• Inpatient services
• Outpatient services
• Mobile research unit (off-site services)
• Protocol implementation
• Data collection
• Human subject protection
• Metabolism and nutrition research
• IRB process
• Information for grant proposal

Learn more about the CTRCs.

• Access to resources for community-partnered research
• Assistance with recruitment and data collection
• Community outreach assistance from multilingual staff members
• Finding partnership opportunities with healthcare providers or other researchers
• Identify funding for community-partnered research projects
• Networking opportunities for community and academic investigators
• Support for analysis of community-partner data
• Trainings, symposia and workshops to deepen and promote academic-community collaborations

• Develop and review data and safety monitoring plan
• Review data and safety monitoring plan
• Adverse event and incident reporting

• Pros and cons of data management options
• REDCap consultation

Learn more about REDCap.

• Disseminating research results
• Implementation research
• Improvement science research
• Collaborations with health care systems and organizations

• Drug discovery process
• Target discovery and validation
• IND enabling studies
• Process mapping
• Project management
• Decision trees
• Strategic planning

• Clinical dataset creation
• Chart abstraction using REDCap
• Extracting electronic health record (EHR) data into REDCap

Learn more about REDCap.

• Good clinical practices
• One-on-one ethics consultations
• Responsible conduct of research courses

• Develop new research organization design leveraging CTSI infrastructure to strengthen applications
• Develop evaluation design, improvement plans, and metrics
• Evaluation consultations to internal and external partners
• Design and deployment of survey instruments, data processing, analysis, and reporting
• Measurement and monitoring of scientific productivity and impact

• Manuscript preparation
• Grant preparation

• Incorporating community-engaged research, health services research and patient-centered research
•        perspectives into grant proposals
• Advice on study design and implementation
  

• Grant editing and proof reading
• Biosketches
• Letters of support
• Creating templates and documents
• Project management
• Meeting scheduling
• Multi-site coordination

Learn more about CTSI Grants Submission Unit.

• Instruments and methods to measure health status, access and barriers to care, quality of care
• Methods in analysis of use, cost and cost-effectiveness
• Methods for survey research
• Analyses of data stratified by geography, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status
• Analyses of large data sets
• Data on subpopulations in Los Angeles County
• Comparative effectiveness research
• Grant preparation
  

• Quantitative and qualitative research methods

• High-throughput sequencing data analysis (mRNA, DNA, methylation)
• Microarray data analysis
• Proteomics (mass-spec, Lumenix)

• Access REDCap
• Email-triggered web-based surveys administered with WISE

Learn more about REDCap.

• Monitor studies
• Review data collection forms

• One-on-one consultations for core voucher applications
• Referrals to research core resources
• Assistance in the development of new technologies into core services

• Conflicts of interest
• Clinical trials registration
• Consultations for review-reliance IRB for multi-institutional submissions
• Post-approval regulatory oversight (PARO)
• Regulatory review
• Regulatory requirements

• Data analysis protocols
• Manuscript and grant preparation
• Study design and power analysis