The National Library of Medicine Training Center is bringing their PubMed for Trainers course to New York City, October 11 – 23, 2012.  The course requires attendance at all sessions, both online and  in-person:

• Online session:                                                October 11, 2012 (10:00 am – Noon ET)
• Online session:                                                October 15, 2012 (10:00 am – Noon ET)
• Online session:                                                October 18, 2012 (10:00 am – Noon ET)
• In-person session in New York, NY:            October 23, 2012 (9 am – 4 pm ET)

Seating is limited.  For class details and to register, see:  http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/schedule.html.

Our colleagues at PRIM&R have announced two new webinars.  A webinar titled “Data Sharing in Genomics Research:  Participant Attitudes and Ethical Issues,” will take place on Thursday, May 24, from 1:00-2:30 PM ET. A webinar titled, “Introduction to Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs,” will take place on Wednesday, June 20, from 1:00-2:30 PM ET.
http://www.primr.org/Conferences.aspx?id=13079
http://www.primr.org/Conferences.aspx?id=13107.

The Institute of Medicine on Friday posted a new ‘discussion paper’ titled, “Developing a Robust Clinical Trials Workforce,” authored by Drs. Ann Bonham (AAMC’s Chief Scientific Officer), Robert Califf, Elaine Gallin, and Michael Lauer.  Also posted is a related commentary by Dr. Sherine E. Gabriel, “Educating the Workforce for a Transformed Clinical Research Enterprise.”  All the authors are participants in the activities of the IOM Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation and participated in the Forum’s November 2011 workshop to envision a transformed U.S. clinical trials enterprise.
http://www.iom.edu/Global/Perspectives/2012/RobustWorkforce.aspx
http://www.iom.edu/Global/Perspectives/2012/EducatingtheWorkforce.aspx
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Envisioning-a-Transformed-Clinical-Trials-Enterprise-in-the-United-States.aspx.

The Wall Street Journal last week ran a special section on innovations in health care.  Among the articles was a discussion of the use of simulators in medical education.  The collection also featured a discussion with Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps on the wireless revolution that is coming “as the digitication of health care meets the smartphone.”
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/innovations-in-healthcare-04162012.html
http://tinyurl.com/d7kteep
http://tinyurl.com/bmr26yl

The Institute of Medicine has announced a workshop in July on “Assessing the Economics of Genomic Medicine.”  The session will be held July 17-18 at the NAS building in DC:  http://tinyurl.com/89f9lfd.

NSF and NIH will be hosting a webinar for people interested in applying for the recent NSF-NIH BIGDATA initiative entitled “Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA)”:  http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE.  The link also provides access to the solicitation itself and to NIH-specific information.

MLA ’13, will take place on May 3–8, 2013, in Boston, and will incorporate the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), and the 6th International Clinical Librarians Conference.  Submission of papers and posters (using the MLA submission system) will begin earlier than usual because of the lead times needed for international participants.  The 2013 contributed papers and posters submission deadline is May 1, 2012.  Final findings and results may be added to the accepted papers and posters up to 1^st February 2013, so you don’t have to have completed research to submit a paper or abstract.  The same system will be used for submissions to all four parts of the incorporated meeting – MLA, ICML, ICAHIS and ICLC.

The 2013 meeting theme is “One World: Information in an Interdependent World,” which emphasizes global interdependencies in all health-related areas.  “One Health” is meant to encompass not only human and animal health, but also public health, environmental health, climate change, food safety and production, and international health policy.

For access to the online submission process, instructions, and a list of section program themes, see www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/.

What:           The Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) is offering a face-to-face class.

Who:            Max Anderson, Technology Coordinator, Greater Midwest Region

Missy Harvey, Technology & Communication Coordinator, Middle Atlantic Region

When:          Monday, April 23rd, 9:00 am – 1 p.m.

Where:        Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh

3550 Terrace Street, 200 Scaife Hall

Classroom 2

Register:      If you plan to attend, please send an email with the Subject:  Information Anywhere to nnlmmar@pitt.edu by Thursday, April 19th

Details: http://nnlm.gov/training/mobile/

This webcast is being shown at several libraries throughout our region.  Check this list to see if there’s a library in your area and contact them to register:  http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/techtrends/states12.html.

NLM’s new funding announcement offering support for informationists to work on NIH-funded research grants is on the NIH Guide site as of today; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-158.html. These supplements provide funds to researchers who have existing research grants from any of the Institutes listed (NLM,  NCI, NEI, NIA, NIAAA, NIBIB, NIDCD, NIDCR), to pay for adding an informationist to the project. The principal investigator of the grant must apply for this, so our librarian/informationist colleagues in academic settings might want to identify partners of interest and reach out to them to suggest that they apply, or alert people with whom they already work. An easy way to find potential partners would be to use the NIH reporter http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm to search by state and funding Agency.

From the purpose statement:

These administrative supplements provide funds to supported research and center grants in order to enhance the storage, organization, management and use of electronic research data through the involvement of informationists, also known as in-context information specialists.

The purposes of this administrative supplement program are (1) to enhance collaborative, multi-disciplinary basic and clinical research by integrating an information specialist into the research team in order to improve the capture, storage, organization, management, integration, presentation and dissemination of biomedical research data and (2) to assess and document the value and impact of the informationist’s participation.