Oct. 13 and 14
UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, First Floor
TRI Oktoberfest is a festive gathering consisting of two separate tracks for faculty to learn about TRI clinical trial resources or develop a clinical trial idea.
| Track 1 Resources for Clinical Trials 5-7 p.m. Oct. 13 | Track 2 Clinical Trials Development Program 5-8 p.m. Oct. 13 and 14 |
| This track is for faculty who want to learn about TRI’s clinical research support resources and how to get started with clinical trials. The program will feature short talks from experienced UAMS trialists and TRI staff to demonstrate resources available to faculty to support clinical trials. | This track is a two-phase track for faculty interested in developing small pilot/feasibility studies. (Includes the submission of a Brief Concept Proposal, which are due by Sept. 8, describing a pilot/feasibility study to be evaluated for development.) The program will guide faculty through various stages of clinical trials development. |
Registration is now open!
Register by Sept. 8.
Click to view the Brief Concept Proposal (BCP) sample.
Track 2 participants will receive a REDCap confirmation email upon registering that will provide the template they can download to upload in REDCap.
Questions about Oktoberfest? Contact Krishna Ellington at KVEllington@uams.edu.
Questions about the BCP process? Contact Songthip Ounpraseuth, Ph.D., at STOunpraseuth@uams.edu.
Track 2 Phases
Phase 1
Full-time faculty who are interested in developing clinical trials skills are invited to submit a BCP describing a pilot/feasibility study that would support a future clinical trial. The BCP should focus on obtaining critical data that would need to be collected to support the trial’s feasibility.
Examples of potential pilot or feasibility studies that would qualify for this program include:
- Perform studies to determine the appropriate study population, intervention, or outcome
- Collect information necessary to estimate available populations, attrition rate, or response rate
- Test the feasibility of measuring an outcome or implementing an intervention in the field
- Determine whether adequate adherence to an intervention is achievable
- Standardize and validate survey instruments
- Standardize and test effectiveness of training tools
- Explore community-informed approaches to understanding and addressing the healthcare needs of hard-to-reach populations in an interventional clinical trial
All BCPs will be reviewed in a study section format. During this review, three to four concepts will be selected for further development. All submitted BCPs will receive feedback. Proposals accepted for development will be discussed and expanded upon during Octoberfest. Faculty with selected BCPs will work with senior faculty experts in study design and statistics to develop a future application to one of the existing intramural grants on campus. Faculty whose proposals are not selected for further development are encouraged to attend both nights of Octoberfest to learn about clinical study design and the overall process. Study teams assembled during Octoberfest will continue to meet via Zoom (approximately twice per a month) over the year to prepare an application for submission to any of the following existing pilot grant awards. TRI resources will be leveraged (e.g., research participant identification; recruitment; biostatistics; data management; study coordination) to help support the submission of the pilot grant.
Phase 2
Following completion of the pilot, the formed team will continue to work together to develop a future external grant submission. Development of the external application will involve consultation with the Trial Innovation Network of the CTSA Consortium.
Program Timelines
Aug. 3 – Program announced
Sept. 8 – Registration and submission deadline of one-page concept sheets
Sept. 13 – Study section held
Sept. 14 – Invitations to Clinical Trials Development Program Track 2 released
Oct. 13 – Octoberfest, Night 1 (Tracks 1 and 2)
Oct. 14 – Octoberfest, Night 2 (Track 2 only)