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ForwardPresentation of Research findings. Learning current research studies and findings to benefit clinical practice and patients. Also builds expertise in grant development and advance understanding of Pediatric Research.
- Physician
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistant
- Nurse Psychologist
- Research Scientists,
- Residents and Fellows
- Analyze key methodological and operational challenges in traditional and surgical clinical trials, including issues related to clinical equipoise, recruitment, and generalizability.
- Evaluate how pragmatic and observational trial designs can address limitations of conventional randomized controlled trials, particularly in surgical settings where equipoise may be limited.
- Identify and apply essential design features of pragmatic clinical trials—such as broad eligibility criteria, real-world settings, and patient-centered outcomes—that contribute to generating valid, generalizable, and practice-changing evidence
- Describe key challenges in studying spina bifida, including disease rarity, clinical heterogeneity, variation in management practices, and limitations in the existing evidence base.
- Analyze how variability in patient characteristics and care delivery impacts the design, conduct, and interpretation of clinical research in spina bifida.
- Evaluate the feasibility and value of large-scale, prospective collaborative studies in rare diseases, including the infrastructure, partnerships, and funding required to generate meaningful evidence.
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Chief Scientific Officer, Children’s Research Institute
Associate Section Chief Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
Peter Sommerhauser Chair of Quality, Outcomes and Research
Director, Cardiovascular Research, The Herma Heart Institute
Speakers
Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE
Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Cheers for CHOP Endowed Chair, Clinical Epidemiology of Pediatric Urologic Disease
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Speakers
David Chu, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Urology
Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Planning Committee:
In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all persons in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. It is the policy of the Medical College of Wisconsin to identify, mitigate and disclose the absence or presence of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education.
The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose:
Joy Lincoln, PhD, FAHA
David Chu
Theresa Kump
Jo Ann Callies
The following persons in control of content disclosed the following financial relationships which were reviewed and mitigated via the MCW conflict of interest mitigation process.
| Name | Company | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Gregory Tasian, MD | Alnylam | Consultant |
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