NMRI Annual Meeting

Event Details

In support of the Office of Personnel Management guidance to strengthen our efforts to protect the federal workforce and ensure continuity of operations, NIH is urging that large meetings and symposia organized by NIH over the next 30 days either be held virtually using tele/videoconferencing services, postponed, or cancelled. In accordance with this guidance and to provide adequate notice, the 2020 NMRI Annual Meeting is cancelled.

Background

More than 700 researchers have participated in NMRI workshops in the past decade, and approximately 100+ are active members. The success of the NMRI, a network that is “owned” by its members and supported by the NIDDK, begins with the dedication of senior investigators who mentor and serve as role models for junior investigators. The participation of active members and the recruitment of new members is a primary reason for the Network’s success in the past and the reason for confidence that it will continue to grow in the future.

Important Deadlines

If you meet membership eligibility and is requesting a NMRI Travel Award please be sure to register for the meeting no later than March 16, 2020.

Meeting Registration Deadline: March 30, 2020

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2020

Travel Awards

Limited Travel Awards of up to $600 for eligible members to attend the NMRI Annual Meeting are available. Awards will be given with priority to those that (1) have never participated in a NMRI meeting, (2) are junior faculty up to the Assistant Professor level and (3) are presenters of an abstract at the NMRI Annual Meeting poster session. Limited Travel Awards of up to $1,000 for eligible senior members, Associate Professor and Professor level, to attend the NMRI Annual Workshop is available. Awards to Senior members will be given with priority to those that mentor NMRI members (s).

To see if you qualify for NMRI membership, please complete and submit this Enrollment Form.

American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Travel Awards

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) provides a limited number of travel awards to nephrologists or other researchers conducting kidney related research attending the Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) Annual Workshop to cover travel expenses up to $1,500.00 in accordance with ASN's guidelines. To be considered for an ASN sponsored NMRI travel award, please contact Riley Hoffman, rhoffman@asn-online.org by March 6, 2020.

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)

The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) provides a limited number of travel awards to hepatologists or other researchers conducting liver-related research attending the Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) Annual Workshop to cover travel expenses up to $1,500.00 in accordance with AASLD's guidelines. To be considered for an AASLD sponsored NMRI travel award, please contact AASLD Staff Bette Ann Preston by March 6, 2020.

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Travel Grant

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) provides one travel grant in the amount of $1,500.00 to an early career investigator conducting bone, mineral, or musculoskeletal related research attending the Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) Annual Workshop in accordance with ASBMR guidelines. To be considered for an ASBMR travel grant, please contact Kimberly Durante kdurante@asbmr.org between December 2, 2019 – January 17, 2020.

Agenda

In support of the Office of Personnel Management guidance to strengthen our efforts to protect the federal workforce and ensure continuity of operations, NIH is urging that large meetings and symposia organized by NIH over the next 30 days either be held virtually using tele/videoconferencing services, postponed, or cancelled. In accordance with this guidance and to provide adequate notice, the 2020 NMRI Annual Meeting is cancelled.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Pre-Workshop: Emerging Areas of Research

Location: Ballroom A&B

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Registration

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• NMRI Planning Group Meeting

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

• Welcome and Introduction
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Center

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

• Expert Panel Session
  Moderator: Dr. Bessie Young or Myra Kleinpeter

• Women's Health
  Dr. Wendy L. Bennett, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine


• Men's Health
  Dr. Roland Thorpe, Jr., Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University


• Transgender Research, Special Population
  Dr. Natalie Nokoff, Assistant Professor, TRUE Center for Gender Diversity, Children’s Hospital Colorado

6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

• Expert Speakers Round Table Discussions
  We invite you to join our expert speakers, Dr. Wendy Bennett, Dr. Roland Thorpe and Dr. Natalie Nokoff during the round table discussions.

6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Location: Cordell & Rosedale Room

• Specific Aims Review (Session I)
  (Submit your specific aims to be reviewed by a Senior Investigator)

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

• Reception / Double Tree Lounge

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Location: Ballroom A&B

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

• Registration / Poster Set-up
  Poster Set-up: Arlington & Auburn (3rd fl)

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

• NMRI Oversight Board Meeting

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

• Introductions and Why NMRI?
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Center
  Dr. Lawrence Agodoa, Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

• Healthy People 2020-2030: Did We Learn Anything? What is Next?
  Dr. Dushanka Kleinman, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatics, Associate Dean for Research and Principal Associate  Dean, University of Maryland 

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

• Healthy People and NMRI Advancing the US Public Health: Are We Talking The Same Language?
  Dr. Heather Tarleton, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
  Dr. Cheedy Jaja, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
  Dr. Celeste Farr, Assistant Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
  Dr. Dushanka Kleinman, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatics, Associate Dean for Research and Principal Associate Dean, University of Maryland

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Location: Ballroom A&B

• Networking Session: Collaborations
  & Specific Aims Review (Session II)

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

• Welcome Remarks by the Director
  Dr. Gregory Germino, Deputy Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

• NMRI Participants Group Photo
  Lunch / Networking/ Poster Set-up (pre-ordered lunch)

12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Location: Ballroom A&B

• Lunch time Sessions
  Funding Opportunites Round Table Discussions - Session I (Note: participanst will be able to select another table during session II)

• Table 1 - K Awards
  Dr. Michele Barnard, Deputy Branch Chief, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK
  Dr. Mark Lawson, Professor and Director, University of California, San Diego


• Table 2 - R01 Awards
  Dr. Ann Jerkins, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Reveiw Branch, NIDDK, NIH
  Dr. Rudy Ortiz, Professor, University of California, Merced


• Table 3 - Other Federal Funding Opportunities
  Dr. Francisco Villarreal, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
  Dr. Mark Roltsch, Health Science Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  This table will discuss other federal research funding opportunities mainly those associated with the VA administration and the Department of Defense medical research program.


• Table 4 - Funding on Gender Base Research
  Dr. Roland Thorpe, Jr., Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
  Dr. Wendy L. Bennett, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine


• Table 5* - Community and Faith Base Research Subgroup
  *Location: Fairmont Room
  Dr. Lynda Brown, Chief Executive Officer
  Dr. Marino Bruce, Associate Director, Vanderbilt University
  
  The Community and Faith-Based Research (CFBR) subgroup has two goals for this session; 1) we will poll attendees to determine interest in community-based or faith-based research within CFBR, and 2) we will discuss CFBR organizational structure, leadership, and goals for publications and grants. We only have a limited amount to time accomplish these goals, so we will use multiple communication tools to provide all attendees an opportunity to give input.

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

• Funding Opportunities Round Table Discussions - Session II (Same format as Session I: Switch Tables for Session II)

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

• Concurrent Session

• Mock Study Section - R01
  Location: Fairmont Room
  Dr. Rudy Ortiz, Professor, University of California, Merced
  Dr. Ann Jerkins, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Reveiw Branch, NIDDK, NIH


• Mock Study Section - K Awards
  Location: Rosedale Room
  Dr. Mark Lawson, Professor and Director, University of California, San Diego
  Dr. Michele Barnard, Deputy Branch Chief, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK


• Mock Study Section - R21
  Location: Cordell Room
  Dr. Jose Romero, Associate Physiologist, Harvard Medical School<
  Dr. Ryan Morris, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK, NIH

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

• Break

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

• Concurrent Sessions

• Promotion/Tenure/Advancing to the Next Step
  Location: Ballroom A&B
  Dr. Heather Tarleton, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
  Dr. Bessie Young. Professor, University Washington
  Dr. Absalon Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston
  Dr. Lovoria Williams, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky


• Mid-Career Leadership & Training Opportunities for a Successful Career Advancement- Perspective from the NIH
  Location: Fairmont Room
  Dr. Tracy Rankin, Deputy Director, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Disease, NIDDK
  Dr. Myra Kleinpeter, Associate Professor Tulane University School of Medicine
  Dr. Juan Sanabria, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
  Dr. Francisco Villarreal, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Sex as a Biological Variable
  Location: Ballroom A&B
  Dr. Janine Clayton, Director, Office of Women's Health, NIH 

5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

• Poster and Networking Session
  Location: Arlington and Auburn (3rd fl)

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

• Poster Session I: Clinical/Basic
  

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

• Poster Session II: Translational
  

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Location: Ballroom A&B

• NMRI Dr. Lawrence Y. Agodoa Honorary Lecture Dinner

• Keynote Speaker
• Dr. J. Taylor Harden. Director Emeritus, National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence

Friday, April 24, 2020

Location: Ballroom

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

• Registration

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

• Mentor / Mentee Session
  Location: Ballroom A&B
  If you did not request a Mentor or Mentee, please feel free to use this time for networking over breakfast or to continue meeting with collaborators that you identified.

9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

• Role of Scientific Societies and Professional Organizations

• American Society of Nephrology
  Speaker TBA


• American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
  Dr. Carla Brady, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University


• American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
  Speaker TBA


• American Gastroenterological Association
  Dr. Byron Cryer, Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Diversity & Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center


• American Physiological Society
  Speaker TBA

* Society Travel Award Recipients Group Photos following Presentations

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

• Break

Society Travel Award Recipients Group Photos

Abstract Winners Group Photos and Poster Winners Group Photos

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm

• Scientific Presentations (Abstract Winners)

• Speaker 1


• Speaker 2


• Speaker 3

12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.

• Pre-paid ordered lunch

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

• Cross-Cutting Hot Topic Luncheon:

• Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Disordered Sleep and Obesity
  Dr. Chandra Jackson, Earl Stadtman Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

• NMRI Planning and Oversight Board Reports and Poster Award Winners

• Oversight Board Report
  Dr. Myra Kleinpeter, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine


• Planning Board Report
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Professor, University of Colorado Denver, Anschultz Medical Center

2:00 p.m.

• Adjournment: Wrap-up, Attendees Feedback & Next Steps

Abstracts

In support of the Office of Personnel Management guidance to strengthen our efforts to protect the federal workforce and ensure continuity of operations, NIH is urging that large meetings and symposia organized by NIH over the next 30 days either be held virtually using tele/videoconferencing services, postponed, or cancelled. In accordance with this guidance and to provide adequate notice, the 2020 NMRI Annual Meeting is cancelled.

Submission Deadline

March 16, 2020 (11:59 p.m. EST)

Submitting Abstracts

Abstracts can be emailed to Winnie Martinez as a Microsoft Word document by the deadline date listed above. Please put “NMRI Abstract - (Translational, Basic or Clinical)” in the subject line. Or you may upload your abstract on your registration page. Please indicate a category (Translational, Basic, or Clinical) on top right corner and follow the guidelines below.

Abstract Organization

Organize the body of the abstract as follows:

• Statement of the purpose of the study/program/project;
• Statement of the methods used;
• Summary of the results presented in sufficient detail to support the conclusion
• Statement of the conclusions reached.

Formatting Requirements

Your abstract must conform to the above guidelines, as incorrect formatting could result in disqualification.

• The abstract should be typed single-spaced, type no smaller than 10 point (12 cpi).
• Use a common font (e.g., Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Arial)
• Set the margins to the following using Microsoft Word: Top 1"; Bottom 1"; Left 1.25"; Right 1".
• Abstract should be no more than one page in length.
• The abstract’s title should be typed in CAPITAL LETTERS and should clearly represent the nature of the investigation.
• Title should be followed in lowercase letters by the author’s first and last names, degree, affiliation (if applicable), city, state, and country. Underline the primary author’s name (one primary author per abstract).
• Leave one blank line between the title and the body of the abstract, and between paragraphs.
• Do not indent paragraphs.
• Use of standard abbreviations is desirable (e.g., RBC). Use kg, gm, mg, mL, L, and %. Place a special or unusual abbreviation in parentheses after the full word the first time that it appears.
• Use numerals to indicate numbers except to begin sentences.
• Do not use subtitles (e.g., Methods, Results).
• Simple tables or graphs may be included; however, they must fit within the designated abstract space.
• The abstract file should be saved as: primary author’s last name_first word in the title (e.g., Zucker_Effects).

Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations will be displayed on 4-foot-high by 6-foot-wide poster boards. Pushpins and Velcro will be provided. All presenters must register for the workshop.

Poster winners will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Did the poster have an appropriate organization (layout of the poster -title, sections)?
• Did the introduction reflect why the project is important?
• Was the hypothesis clearly stated?
• Did the researcher use appropriate methods in the study?
• Were the findings in the result section clear and concise?
• Was the discussion consistent with the initial hypothesis?
• Was the conclusion supported by the results?
• Did the researcher specify any limitations and how to address them?