Webinar Series Research Articles

923-P: Benefits of Electronic Consultations (E-Consults) in Improving Diabetes Care within a Safety-Net Health System

Timely access to diabetes specialty care is often limited by resources, especially within a safety-net health system serving a large under/un-insured and ethnically diverse patient population. Implementation of a diabetes electronic consultation (e-consult) service offers several potential benefits, including timely access to diabetes specialists’ input, improvement in patients’ glycemic control, decreased need for in-person referral or visit (a potential benefit to patients and providers) , and an opportunity to support primary care providers with targeted education. We performed a retrospective electronic medical record review of completed diabetes e-consults within a 3-year period (2018-2021) at a large safety-net health system in Dallas, TX to determine the effectiveness of e-consult service. A total of 277 e-consult encounters were completed for 266 patients (age 52.8±12 years, 65% female, 46% Hispanic, 56% Caucasian, 39% Black, 91% with type 2 diabetes) . The average specialist response time following an e-consult request was 2 days, with recommendations fully or partially implemented for 78% of the e-consults. For the 145 patients with reliable hemoglobin A1c (HgbA1c) data at baseline and within 6 months, the HgbA1c improved from an average of 10.1±2.1% to 9.3±1.8% (paired t-test, p=<0.05) , with an average HgbA1c change of -0.7±1.8%. Only 51% of these patients were subsequently referred for in-person diabetes clinic visit. Moreover, review of the e-consults questions helped identify common knowledge gaps in diabetes care among the primary care providers, and led to the development of monthly educational webinar series for primary care providers. In conclusion, implementation of diabetes e-consult service improved timely access to diabetes specialty care as well as patients’ glycemic control, and also created an educational opportunity to improve overall diabetes care within a large safety-net health system. Disclosure F.Gunawan: None. S.Ajaz: None. L.Meneghini: Employee; Sanofi. U.Gunasekaran: None.

Creating Openings for Co-Theorizing

This article is derived from a webinar series conversation titled, “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry.” During the webinar sessions the panelists, Dr. Fikile Nxumalo and Dr. Eve Tuck, discussed the ways in which their philosophical orientations contribute to how they enact inquiry as co-theorizing.

Economics of Soil Health: Farmer Experiences Across Systems

AbstractThe purpose of this article to provide detailed economic evidence of how soil health management practices can be profitable across cropping systems and geographies of the United States. We do this by providing more details of six farms that come from four larger studies developed and implemented at the Soil Health Institute to evaluate economic benefits of farmers adopting soil health management systems. The Assessing Soil Health Series is part of a larger Soil Science Society of America webinar series produced in partnership with The Soil Health Institute and sponsored by The Walton Family Foundation. Earn 0.5 CEUs in Soil & Water Management by reading the article and taking the quiz at https://web.sciencesocieties.org/Learning‐Center/Courses.

Nutrition in lifecycle education on the COVID-19 pandemic era

Providing balanced nutrition in the life cycle is important to improve the immune system for disease prevention, especially in the Covid-19 Era. The study showed that balanced nutrition has not been fully applied due to a lack of knowledge. As a promotive and preventive agent for preventing the transmission of Covid-19. Students majoring in public health and alumni of public health play an important role and should be supported with update information based on the recent health situation. This community service aims to increase the knowledge of students and alumni about fulfilling balanced nutrition in every life cycle in the Covid-19 era. This community service activity was carried out in the form of a Nutrition in Lifecycle Series webinar which was held three times with various theme including nutrition for pregnancy, breastfeeding, children and adolescents in the Covid-19 era. Evaluation of this activity was carried out through pre-test and post-test and participants' satisfaction. It showed that there is an increase in the pre-test and post-test scores in this webinar series and all participants are satisfied with this webinar series. It is hoped that this activity can continue with various other interesting themes as a means of upgrading knowledge for students and alumni of the public health department.

MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations: Essential Considerations for Current Management of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations: Essential Considerations for Current Management of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Meaningful patient and public involvement in digital health innovation, implementation and evaluation: A systematic review.

IntroductionThe importance of meaningfully involving patients and the public in digital health innovation is widely acknowledged, but often poorly understood. This review, therefore, sought to explore how patients and the public are involved in digital health innovation and to identify factors that support and inhibit meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI) in digital health innovation, implementation and evaluation.MethodsSearches were undertaken from 2010 to July 2020 in the electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus and ACM Digital Library. Grey literature searches were also undertaken using the Patient Experience Library database and Google Scholar.ResultsOf the 10,540 articles identified, 433 were included. The majority of included articles were published in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, with representation from 42 countries highlighting the international relevance of PPI in digital health. 112 topic areas where PPI had reportedly taken place were identified. Areas most often described included cancer (n = 50), mental health (n = 43), diabetes (n = 26) and long‐term conditions (n = 19). Interestingly, over 133 terms were used to describe PPI; few were explicitly defined. Patients were often most involved in the final, passive stages of an innovation journey, for example, usability testing, where the ability to proactively influence change was severely limited. Common barriers to achieving meaningful PPI included data privacy and security concerns, not involving patients early enough and lack of trust. Suggested enablers were often designed to counteract such challenges.ConclusionsPPI is largely viewed as valuable and essential in digital health innovation, but rarely practised. Several barriers exist for both innovators and patients, which currently limits the quality, frequency and duration of PPI in digital health innovation, although improvements have been made in the past decade. Some reported barriers and enablers such as the importance of data privacy and security appear to be unique to PPI in digital innovation. Greater efforts should be made to support innovators and patients to become meaningfully involved in digital health innovations from the outset, given its reported benefits and impacts. Stakeholder consensus on the principles that underpin meaningful PPI in digital health innovation would be helpful in providing evidence‐based guidance on how to achieve this.Patient or Public ContributionThis review has received extensive patient and public contributions with a representative from the Patient Experience Library involved throughout the review's conception, from design (including suggested revisions to the search strategy) through to article production and dissemination. Other areas of patient and public contributor involvement include contributing to the inductive thematic analysis process, refining the thematic framework and finalizing theme wording, helping to ensure relevance, value and meaning from a patient perspective. Findings from this review have also been presented to a variety of stakeholders including patients, patient advocates and clinicians through a series of focus groups and webinars. Given their extensive involvement, the representative from the Patient Experience Library is rightly included as an author of this review.

Developing Clinically Relevant Dissolution Specifications (CRDSs) for Oral Drug Products: Virtual Webinar Series.

A webinar series that was organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Biopharmaceutics focus group in 2021 focused on the challenges of developing clinically relevant dissolution specifications (CRDSs) for oral drug products. Industrial scientists, together with regulatory and academic scientists, came together through a series of six webinars, to discuss progress in the field, emerging trends, and areas for continued collaboration and harmonisation. Each webinar also hosted a Q&A session where participants could discuss the shared topic and information. Although it was clear from the presentations and Q&A sessions that we continue to make progress in the field of CRDSs and the utility/success of PBBM, there is also a need to continue the momentum and dialogue between the industry and regulators. Five key areas were identified which require further discussion and harmonisation.

Collaboration and continuous learning

Collaboration and continuous learning

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education: Taking on Austerity

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education: Taking on Austerity

DkNET Hypothesis Center: A Hub for FAIR Data, Online Resources and Hypothesis Generation

Discovering and learning how to use fast‐growing publicly available online bioinformatics and data resources can be challenging for bench scientists. The NIDDK Information Network (dkNET; https://dknet.org) is an open community resource information portal for biomedical researchers supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). dkNET helps researchers find resources relevant to their research and provides up‐to‐date information on new tools, services, and mandates to support reproducible science. To help bench scientists utilize available online bioinformatics tools, dkNET has launched a “Hypothesis Center”(https://dknet.org/hypothesis‐center) that brings together tutorials for a collection of online tools to assist researchers in exploring datasets and utilize online analytics and visualization tools. Our goal is to help researchers not only follow the step‐by‐step tutorial but also gain more understanding about these online tools, how to interpret the results, and encourage researchers to combine and/or reuse more online resources. Based on the questions and examples that a researcher has selected, the system suggests tool(s) and detailed tutorials based on specific use cases. For example, the Hypothesis Center phenotype‐genotype analytics module utilizes tools from the Signaling Pathways Project (SPP), a FAIR knowledgebase that allows researchers to ask questions across thousands of annotated transcriptomic and ChIP‐Seq datasets, and the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (MMPC), that provides information on mammalian phenotypes associated with specific gene manipulations in mouse models. The Hypothesis Center also provides information on tools and tutorials from external resources, including resources such as the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) and the Type 1 Diabetes Knowledge Portal, that enables browsing, searching, and analysis of human genetic information linked to type 1 diabetes and related traits. To evaluate whether the approach of the Hypothesis Center can help educate researchers on using online resources more efficiently, we conducted beta testing with 15 students ranging from undergraduate to graduate. Students were new to the specific online bioinformatics tools represented and were asked to use the Hypothesis Center to learn how to use these tools. Feedback about usability and learning experience was collected to help improve the Hypothesis Center. Students found that the Hypothesis Center was helpful in learning to use a new bioinformatics tool and suggested that integrating additional tools and modifying the tutorial selections based on the knowledge level of the users could benefit trainees. To increase awareness of publicly available resources, dkNET also hosts a webinar series introducing helpful resources and promotes these resources via social media channels and YouTube. Through detailed tutorials in the Hypothesis Center and associated webinars, dkNET has created a virtual training environment that can assist researchers in finding and learning how to use online resources to support their research, breaking down barriers to the utilization of bioinformatics tools by bench researchers, and improve the utility of publicly available bioinformatics resources.

The Analysis of Social Impact of Indonesia Teaching Fellowship (ITF) Teacher Training Program By Ruangguru and Bakti Kominfo in Sorong Using the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Method

Indonesian Teaching Fellowship (ITF) teacher training program by Ruangguru and BAKTI Kominfo is a form of contribution from the private sector and the government in improving the quality of education, especially in Sorong, West Papua. This study is to determine and analyze the impact of the program through the Social Return on Investment (SROI) method. The ITF program in Sorong Regency targets 3 main aspects, namely pedagogy, personality, and social. To improve pedagogic abilities, the program provides learning modules through the Ruangguru application as well as online discussions with facilitators; to improve teacher personality, the program provides teacher motivation and personality training by trainers, psychological webinar series, and counseling services; and to improve social skills, the program carries out structured social assistance offline, this activity produces teachers who are ready to go into their communities so that they can expand the impact of the program in Sorong itself. Based on the impact assessment of the ITF program, an SROI Ratio of 1:2.62 was obtained, meaning that for every investment of Rp.1, - an impact or benefit of Rp.2,62 is obtained. Social impact analysis through the SROI method is needed for the sustainability of the ITF program in the future.

The Analysis of Social Impact of Indonesia Teaching Fellowship (ITF) Teacher Training Program By Ruangguru and Bakti Kominfo in Sorong Using the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Method

Indonesian Teaching Fellowship (ITF) teacher training program by Ruangguru and BAKTI Kominfo is a form of contribution from the private sector and the government in improving the quality of education, especially in Sorong, West Papua. This study is to determine and analyze the impact of the program through the Social Return on Investment (SROI) method. The ITF program in Sorong Regency targets 3 main aspects, namely pedagogy, personality, and social. To improve pedagogic abilities, the program provides learning modules through the Ruangguru application as well as online discussions with facilitators; to improve teacher personality, the program provides teacher motivation and personality training by trainers, psychological webinar series, and counseling services; and to improve social skills, the program carries out structured social assistance offline, this activity produces teachers who are ready to go into their communities so that they can expand the impact of the program in Sorong itself. Based on the impact assessment of the ITF program, an SROI Ratio of 1:2.62 was obtained, meaning that for every investment of Rp.1, - an impact or benefit of Rp.2,62 is obtained. Social impact analysis through the SROI method is needed for the sustainability of the ITF program in the future.

Delivering surgical education: a specialist surgical society and undergraduate student collaboration.

Currently, the delivery of the undergraduate medical curriculum includes various teaching, learning and assessment strategies. Self-directed learning is an important aspect of this mix and includes the use of resources, sometimes not provided by the parent University, in the student's own time to enhance the student's knowledge, skills and professional practice. Societies aimed at a particular specialty contain a pool of professionals that can provide undergraduate students with opportunities for further self-directed learning, development of specialty-specific core skills and exploration of research interests. This may then enhance and enlighten the students' approach to a particular orthopaedic problem and reinforce the curriculum they are studying while providing an understanding of current areas of debate that are not part of the curriculum at present. The collaboration of postgraduate societies with undergraduate students in developing and implementing undergraduate engagement strategies is of benefit to undergraduate education, the specialty society and the collaborating students. We explore the planning and implementation of an interactive webinar series run by the British Indian Orthopaedic Society in collaboration with undergraduate students. We provide a case study of a surgical specialty society engaging with undergraduate students with synergistic effect. We pay particular attention to the benefits accrued by the specialty society and the student collaborators by this joint effort.

Delivering surgical education: a specialist surgical society and undergraduate student collaboration

Currently, the delivery of the undergraduate medical curriculum includes various teaching, learning and assessment strategies. Self-directed learning is an important aspect of this mix and includes the use of resources,...

Economics of Soil Health: Contributions of Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping

AbstractData from 100 farmers indicate increased net farm income as a result of adopting soil health practices. Soil health practices are marginal changes from conventional production methods with most seasonal activities and inputs remaining unchanged. Changes in management do require considerations for local soil and climate. Transitioning to soil health systems can be a gradual process, and it may take many years to achieve full benefits of reduced inputs and increased productivity. The Assessing Soil Health Series is part of a larger Soil Science Society of America webinar series produced in partnership with The Soil Health Institute and sponsored by The Walton Family Foundation. Earn 0.5 CEUs in Soil & Water Management by reading the article and taking the quiz at https://web.sciencesocieties.org/Learning‐Center/Courses.

504 A Model for Introducing Biomedical Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Concepts to Research Faculty

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Use an easily accessible medium to educate life science researchers and academic innovators interested in the commercialization of academic research at the University of Michigan (UM). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Life science research investigators and academic innovators interested in research commercialization and technology development from across the state of Michigan were invited to attend the Idea to Impact: The Translation & Commercialization of Academic Research webinar series, presented by Fast Forward Medical Innovation at the University of Michigan. The webinar series outlined the significance and critical milestones of developing novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health innovations, as well as essential collaborations with industry partners to translate a research-based idea into a product of impact. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: 113 investigators and innovators from 28 different institutions, organizations, and companies, registered for the webinar series. Results (N=24) of an evaluation immediately following each webinar revealed that 100% of respondents strongly agreed or agreed that the series was effective in helping them to identify and describe commercialization resources, including funding, education, and mentorship, available at the University of Michigan and within the state. Participants stated that they “loved the practical information” “shared” and that the series was a “great overview that inspired a lot more questions.” The Fast Forward Medical Innovation team was then able to consult with participants to connect them with additional resources. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: The data suggests that easily accessible and digestible commercialization education can make navigating the academic entrepreneurial ecosystem easier for investigators and innovators. The recorded webinar series, Idea to Impact: The Translation & Commercialization of Academic Research, serves this purpose.

Stakeholder Engagement: Bridging Research and Policy to Improve Measurement and Dental Care for Children in Medicaid.

Stakeholder Engagement: Bridging Research and Policy to Improve Measurement and Dental Care for Children in Medicaid.

Development of an Open-Access Webinar Series on Pathways for Global Surgery Engagement for Applicants to US Residency Programs.

Global surgery (GS) training pathways in residency are unclear and vary by specialty and program. Furthermore, information on these pathways is not always accessible. To address this gap, we produced a collection of open-access webinars for senior medical students focused on identifying GS training pathways during residency. The Global Surgery Student Alliance (GSSA) is a national nonprofit that engages US students and trainees in GS education, research, and advocacy. GSSA organized nine one-hour, specialty-specific webinars featuring residents of surgical specialties, anesthesia, and OBGYN programs. Live webinars were produced via Zoom from August to October 2020, and all recordings were posted to the GSSA YouTube channel. Medical students moderated webinars with predetermined standardized questions and live questions submitted by attendees. Participant data were collected in mandatory registration forms. A total of 539 people were registered for 9 webinars. Among registrants, 189 institutions and 36 countries were represented. Registrants reported education/training levels from less than undergraduate education to attending physicians, while medical students represented the majority of registrants. Following the live webinars, YouTube recordings of the events were viewed 839 times. Webinars featuring otolaryngology and general surgery residents accrued the greatest number of registrations, while anesthesia accrued the least. Medical students at all levels demonstrated interest in both the live and recorded specialty-specific webinars on GS in residency. To address the gap in developing global surgery practitioners, additional online, open-access education materials and mentorship opportunities are needed for students applying to US residencies.

When a Crisis Opens New Academic Perspectives: The New Webinar Series of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group

For over 10 years, the academic journal Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore has regularly published news on the activity of The Ritual Year Working Group (RY WG), a group of international scholars with shared interests in ritual activities, customs and festive celebrations throughout the yearly calendric cycle, an affiliate of the International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF – Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore). This includes reviews of the annual WG’s conferences, reviews of panels organised by the WG at important congresses in the field of ethnology and folklore, and releases of new books. In addition, the journal has dedicated several special issues to topics addressed by the various academic meetings of the WG, reuniting studies written by its members (Fournier & Sedakova 2015; Sedakova & Vlaskina 2016, etc.). This article sheds light on the drastic changes that the academic world was recently confronted with during the Covid-19 pandemic, and on how the RY WG met the challenges of this new reality; it shows how a crisis can also open new possibilities.

Training and mentorship as a tool for building African researchers' capacity in knowledge translation.

As one of the main knowledge producers, researchers can play an important role in contributing to efforts that bridge the gap between knowledge, policy and practice. However, for researchers to play this role, they need knowledge translation (KT) capacities that many typically lack. Furthermore, research has confirmed that little is known on KT training approaches for LMICs researchers and their effectiveness. This paper seeks to contribute to filling this knowledge gap on KT training approaches for LMIC researchers by assessing the effectiveness of a training and mentorship intervention to build African researchers’ KT capacity. We conducted KT training and mentorship for 23 early and mid-career researchers from 20 universities in sub-Saharan Africa. This comprised a 5-day intense residential training workshop, followed by a 6-months mentorship. A pre- and post-training test was used to assess the immediate effect of the workshop. The intermediate effect of the training following a 6-month mentorship was assessed by the number of researchers who completed policy briefs during this period and those who participated in the webinar series conducted during this period. Overall, the aggregate average point change in the self-reported learning between the pre-training and the post-training survey was 1.9, which demonstrated the effectiveness of the training workshop. This was confirmed by a 33.7% increase in the aggregate average percentage of participants that responded correctly to questions assessing topics covered in the training between the pre-training and the post-training survey. During the mentorship period, 19 of the 23 researchers prepared and submitted complete drafts of their policy briefs within two months after the training. Fewer (4) researchers revised and submitted final policy briefs. More than half of the trained researchers participated in the webinars conducted in the first three months of the mentorship, whereas less than half of the researchers participated in the webinars conducted in the last three months. KT training and mentorship can be an effective intervention for addressing researchers’ KT capacity gaps. For sustainability, KT training and mentorship need to be integrated in graduate training programmes in universities so that future LMIC researchers leave training institutions with the KT capacities they need for influencing policy and programme decisions and actions.