Virtual NMRI Annual Workshop

Event Details

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.

2021 NMRI Annual Workshop Featured Speaker

Please join us on April 29, 2021 for Dr. Leon McDougle’s presentation on
“The Art & Science of COVID-19 Vaccine Dissemination”

Dr. McDougle, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine with tenure and Chief Diversity Officer for the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, is the 121st President of the National Medical Association and Chair of the NMA COVID-19 Task Force on Vaccines and Therapeutics, member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group, and member of NIDDK Network of Minority Research Investigators since 2008.

Travel Awards

(For the safety of our speakers and participants the NMRI Annual Workshop will be held virtually. No travel awards will be provided for the meeting.)

Agenda

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 (Times are EST)

Pre-Workshop Activities

12:00 p.m. - 2:10

• Welcome
  Ms. Winnie Martinez, Program Officer, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH
  
  Poster Presentations (Concurrent Sessions)
  
  Poster Session: Basic Research - Breakout Room 1 (12:10 - 1:10 (EST))
  Moderator: Dr. Cheedy Jaja
  
  LaShara Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, DeSales University
  Sharifa Love-Rutledge, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Huntsville
  Tanecia Mitchell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Marcelo Correia, MD, MSc, Ph.D., Endocrinologist, University of Iowa
  Cetewayo Rashid, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
  
  Poster Session: Clinical Research - Breakout Room 2 (12:10 - 1:10 (EST))
  Moderator: Dr. Absalon Gutierrez
  
  Ted K.S. Ng, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Pablo Garcia, M.D., Nephrology Fellow, Stanford University
  Wairimu Magua, Ph.D., Emory University
  Ngozi Mbue, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Texas Woman's University
  Javier Neyra, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Kentucky
  
  Poster Presentations (Concurrent Sessions)
  
  Poster Session: Clinical Research - Breakout Room 3 (1:10 - 2:00 (EST))
  Moderator: Dr. Juan Sanabria
  
  Arthur Owora, Dr.P.H. Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health
  George Vasquez Rios, M.D., Clinical and Research Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  Julia Roncoroni, Ph.D., Counselling Psychologist, University of Denver
  Amaris Williams, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Scholar, OSU Wexner Medical Center
  
  Poster Session: Translational - Breakout Room 4 (1:10 - 1:45 (EST))
  Moderator: Dr. Daisy DeLeon
  
  Marja Hurley, M.D., UCONN Health School of Medicine
  Shilpa Krishnan, Ph.D., Emory University
  

2:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

• Mentor/Mentee Program (Pre-registration required)
  Mentors and Mentee will have an opportunity to meet during assigned time.
• Specific Aims Review (Pre-registration required)
  Specific Aim Reviewer and PI will have an opportunity to meet during assigned time.

Thursday, April 29, 2021 (Times are EST)

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Welcome and Introduction
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  
  Dr. Lawrence Agodoa, Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH

12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. 

• Interactive Parrallel Session I (Pre-select Session)
  
  Breakout Session 1 – K Awards Process
  Dr. Jason Hoffert, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK
  
  This talk will present various career development funding opportunities available to junior investigators through NIH and the NIDDK. A timeline of your application from submission to critique will also be presented.
  
  Breakout Session 2 - R01 Awards
  Dr. James Mack, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, NIH
  
  This session will discuss the process from submission to critique.
  
  Breakout Session 3 - Other Federal Funding Opportunities
  Dr. Francisco Villarreal, Professor, University of California, San Diego
  Dr. Mark Roltsch, Health Science Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  This session will discuss other federal research funding opportunities mainly those associated with the VA administration and the Department of Defense medical research program.
  
  Breakout Session 4 - Funding on Gender Base Research & Health Disparity
  Dr. Roland J. Thorpe, Jr. Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Founding Director, Program for Research on Men’s Health, Deputy Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public 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
  
  This session will discuss panelist’s pathways for research funding focused on gender and or health disparity research.
  
  Breakout Session 5 - Community and Faith Base Research Subgroup
  Dr. Lynda Brown, Chief Executive Officer
  Dr. Marino Bruce, Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
  
  The Community and Faith-Based Research (CFBR) subgroup has two goals for this session; 1) poll attendees to determine interest in community-based or faith-based research within CFBR, and 2) discuss CFBR organizational structure, leadership, and goals for publications and grants. Within this limited amount of time, multiple communication strategies will be used to obtain input.

1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• Break

1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.

• Interactive Parallel Session II (Pre-select Session)
  Session II allows participants the option to attend a different session.

2:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

• Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.

• NIH Mock Study Section Parallel Sessions (Pre-select Session)
  
  Breakout Section 1: Mock Study Section - R01
  Dr. Rudy Ortiz, Professor, University of California, Merced
  Dr. Ann Jerkins, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Reveiw Branch, NIDDK, NIH
  
  Breakout Section 2: Mock Study Section - K Awards
  Dr. Mark Lawson, Professor and Director, University of California, San Diego
  Dr. Maria Davila-Bloom, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK
  
  Breakout Section 3: Mock Study Section - R21
  Dr. Jose Romero, Associate Physiologist, Harvard Medical School
  Dr. Ryan Morris, Scientific Review Officer, Grants Review Branch, NIDDK, NIH

3:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

• The Art & Science of COVID-19 Vaccine Dissemination
  Dr. Leon McDougle, Chief Diversity Officer, Professor, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

• Confronting the Perils of COVID-19 with Science
  
  COVID-19 Research Topics (Pre-Registration Required)
  
  Breakout Session 1: Diabetes and Obesity Risk Factors in Latino Community
  Dr. Absalon Gutierrez, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  Dr. Jose Romero, Associate Physiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  
  Breakout Session 2: Kidney Disease Implications
  Dr. Myra Kleinpeter, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine
  
  Breakout Session 3: Immune and Vascular Systems as Drivers of End-Organ Damage
  Dr. Francisco Villarreal, Professor, University of California, San Diego
  
  Breakout Session 4: Addressing Health Disparities
  Dr. Heather Tarleton, Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
  
  Breakout Session 5: Physical Activity and Diet Protective Findings, Do we have a case?
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Dr. Leon McDougle, Chief Diversity Officer, Professor, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
  

Friday, April 30, 2021 (Times are EST)

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• Introduction
  Dr. Lawrence Agodoa, Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
• Welcome Remarks
  Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

12:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.

• Scientific Presentations (Presentations by Awardees)
  
  Pre-Operative Plasma TNFR1, TNFR2 and KIM-1 and The Association with Death, Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Events in Cardiac Surgery Patients: The Tribe-AKI Study
  Dr. George Vasquez Rios, Clinical and Research Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  
  Patient Factors Associated with the Uptake of Postpartum Diabetes Screening: Studies Among Diverse Women with Gestational Diabetes in an Integrated Health System
  Dr. Susan Brown, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
  
  Prevalence of Hysterectomy: Role of Preeclampsia on Racial Disparity and Diabetes
  Dr. Boubakari Ibrahimou, Florida International University

1:10 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

• Break

1:20 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.

• Poster Presentations
  Poster Session: Translational Research - (1:20 – 2:10 (EST))
  Moderator: Dr. Lynda Brown
  
  Ariana Pichardo-Lowden, M.D., Milton S Hershey Medical Center
  Youssef Roman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth School of Pharmacy
  Juan Sanabria, M.D., Professor, Case Western Reserve University
  Fern Webb, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Florida
  

2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

• Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

• Minority Health and Gender Scientific Research
  Dr. Roland J. Thorpe, Jr. Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Founding Director, Program for Research on Men’s Health, Deputy Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
  Dr. Wendy 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

3:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.

• Updates from the Network of Minority Health Research Investigators
  Dr. Patricia Heyn, Chair, 2021 NMRI Planning Board
  Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  
  Dr. Myra Kleinpeter, Chair, 2021 NMRI Oversight Board
  Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine
  
  Dr. Bessie Young, Chair Elect, 2022 NMRI Planning Board
  Professor, University of Washington
  
  Dr. Marja Hurley, Chair Elect, 2022 NMRI Oversight Board
  Professor of Medicine and Orthopedics, UConn Health
  
  Dr. Shirley Blanchard, Ad Hoc Member, Oversight Board
  Professor, Creighton University
  
  Dr. Virginia Sarapura, Ad Hoc Member, Oversight Board
  Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  
  Dr. Marino Bruce, Co-Chair, NMRI Community and Faith Base Research Subgroup
  Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center

4:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

• Closing Remarks
  Dr. Lawrence Agodoa, Director, Office of Minority Health Research Coordination, NIDDK
  
  Winnie Martinez, Program Officer, Minority Health Research Coordination, NIDDK

Abstracts

Submission Deadline

March 22, 2021 (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 held virtually. Please limit your slides to no more than 5.

• Introduction & Objectives
• Material & Methods
• Results I
• Results II
• Discussion & Conclusion