Online Educational Library

Accelerate the Dissemination and Impact of Your Research Findings

In this workshop, you will learn how to use web-based approaches and social media to accelerate the dissemination and impact of your research findings.

Advice from the Battleground: Inside NIH Study Sections and Common Mistakes on NIH Applications

Appointments and Promotions

USC’s vice dean for faculty affairs explains the criteria and procedures used in evaluating clinical and translational researchers for academic advancement and promotion.

Career Development Seminar Series: Academic Industry Clinical Collaboration - Best Practices

​This 60-minute session uses real-life examples of best practices for Academic-Pharma/Biotech collaboration. We will illustrate examples from both Large Pharma and Biotech Start-up companies.

Career Development Seminar Series: Advancing Well - Building Resilience and Well-being in the CT Workforce

This 2-hour interactive session focuses on building resilience in yourself and your trainees. We will provide practical tips on how to lead in times of uncertainty and how to foster resilience in the workforce.

Career Development Seminar Series: Design Thinking for Innovation

During this 2-hour session, we introduce the principles of design thinking as well as give examples of how and why it is being used today.

Career Development Seminar Series: I Want to Translate My Research, How Can Industry Help Me? - Terri Sebree - Mar. 1 2022

CDSS - I Want to Translate My Research, How Can Industry Help Me? - Terri Sebree - Mar. 1 2022

Career Development Seminar Series: Leadership and Team Building - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.

Participants will learn about Patrick Lencioni’s widely distributed team-building model outlined in The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: A fable.

Career Development Seminar Series: Leadership Development in Medicine

Career Development Seminar Series: Leveraging Racial Equity Data in Research

This webinar discusses leveraging racial data, in research, with equity-minded intentionality.

Career Development Seminar Series: NIH Loan Repayment Programs: The Why and the How

This 60-minute session covers the process of applying for an NIH Loan Repayment Award in a brief didactic. A panel of recent award recipients from Keck and CHLA with then discuss their experiences applying.

Career Development Seminar Series: Rapport with Time

In this two-hour workshop, participants reflect on professional time management, developing personal systems for time and boundary control through activities and discussions, and exploring strategies for better management.

Career Development Seminar Series: Transgender Health

The transgender community faces systemic barriers to health care access, which leads to increased health disparities. Join your colleagues to discuss how to create a more affirming, welcoming environment in research and care.

Career Development Seminar Series: Writing and Disseminating Research for Impact

Clinical Research at Keck School of Medicine of USC

Leaders from various clinical research offices talk about how they help advance clinical research at USC.

Clinical Research Professionals Compliance Training

Community-Engaged Research 101

Approaches and benefits to community-engaged research, including the differences from traditional research and its unique benefits for clinical and translational investigators.

Creating Compelling Infographics

In this workshop, you will learn how to create compelling infographics that help you better articulate your key findings using a data-driven approach.

Developing a Community Advisory Board for Research Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to assist researchers in navigating the processes of developing and establishing a community advisory board (CAB) for their research studies. Practical tips and step-by-step guidelines are provided

Digital & Traditional Tools for Recruitment Toolkit

This toolkit contains proven strategies and tips to help researchers develop a solid plan to recruit and retain study participants.

Digital Scholar Webinar: 21st Century Tools for Sharing Your Science: Video Abstracts and Podcasts, Two Practical Examples and Success Stories

This webinar will highlight two initiatives designed to help scientists disseminate their research: (1) We Share Science, an online platform for science videos (video abstracts), and (2) Parsing Science podcast, the stories behind the science, as told by the researchers themselves.

Digital Scholar Webinar: A method to develop a comic based on your research: From scientists, for scientists, and beyond.

This webinar will describe a simple, flexible framework for translating a complex scientific publication into a broadly accessible comic format.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Accelerating systematic review studies using the online tool Covidence

Literature reviews, in particular systematic reviews, are invaluable to represent the latest and most complete information available on a particular topic or intervention, but they can be time consuming. This webinar explores a digital application called Covidence that is designed to accelerate the systematic review process.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Creating an Effective Study Recruitment Webpage

This webinar will provide practical guidance on using the USC Clinical Studies Directory publishing tool to create a study webpage and on developing effective content so that your study can be found and read.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Crowdsourcing applied to knowledge management in translational research: the Gene Wiki and Mark2Cure

This webinar will cover how crowdsourcing has been successfully used to tackle a number of research projects that require massive human effort. Andrew Su, PhD, will provide a general overview of this field and share practical insights from two case studies.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Developing a professional social media presence on Twitter – Tips and strategies for researchers and academics

This webinar provides social media guidance for researchers and academics who are looking to build a professional, digital presence. Social media case studies, step-by-step instructions for conducting a “digital audit” and recommended tips for social media use are presented.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Digital strategies to find the right journal for publishing your research

This webinar will provide an overview of digital tools and initiatives that help researchers select the right journal for their manuscript to ensure the best chance of article acceptance.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Disseminating Scientific Papers via Twitter: Practical Insights and Research Evidence

The course provides an overview of Altmetrics research and present the challenges – including methods and first results – of classifying Twitter user groups, with a particular focus on identifying members of the general public and measuring societal impact. The course will provide hands-on exercises and instructions on how to analyze by whom, when, and how scientific papers are shared on Twitter.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Disseminating scientific research via Twitter: Practical insights and research evidence

This webinar will provide an overview of using Twitter to reach peers and non-specialist groups, the relationship between tweets and citations, and provide tips for building an academic Twitter presence.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Finding and Accessing Publicly Available Datasets

During this 60-minute webinar we will talk about resources for searching for publicly available datasets, and the process for registering and accessing government data using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health as a model.

Digital Scholar Webinar: HIV and STI Protection through UBESAFE - Geofencing, Contextualized Messages, and Gamification

Join our 60-min webinar on UBESAFE app: Learn smartphone alerts based on context, gamification for engagement.

Digital Scholar Webinar: How Researchers Can Get Science Done Faster Using an R&D Services Marketplace

Watch this webinar to learn how the Science Exchange R&D Services Marketplace can empower researchers to outsource experiments and attract collaborators. Success stories will show how scientists in diverse research areas have used Science Exchange to save time and gain early access to innovation.

Digital Scholar Webinar: How to Get Indexed in International Citation Databases

Citations—often termed as intellectual transactions, acknowledgment of intellectual debts, and conceptual association—are a link between the author’s current study and already published work. It not only provides credibility to the author’s work but also helps funders evaluate the impact of the research study.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Introducing Figshare, a Free Repository where Researchers Can Make all of Their Research Outputs Available in a Citable, Shareable and Discoverable Manner

This webinar will (1) introduce the platform, (2) showcase examples of successful data sharing and its impact, and (3) explain how to best use it for sharing knowledge more quickly and effectively, and for building an online research profile.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Leveraging Medical Health Record Data for Identifying Research Study Participants: Practical Guidance on Using Clinical Research Informatics Applications in Your Research

This webinar will highlight three applications available at USC, CHLA and LA County DHS that assist researchers with identifying prospective study participants.

Digital Scholar Webinar: MedEdPORTAL, a Peer-Reviewed Journal and Online Resource for Teaching and Learning Resources

This webinar will introduce a MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal that allows researchers to leverage existing digital educational materials from other institutions and to get scholarly credit for those materials they share.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Power - Modern Clinical Trial Marketplace

This 60-minute webinar discusses how Power's clinical trial marketplace platform improves patient recruitment by enabling direct connections between patients, sites, and sponsors through a patient-centric, continuous collaboration model, moving away from traditional top-down, vendor-based campaigns.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting Participants Online for Survey and Intervention Research

This webinar will describe lessons learned from a series of studies that used social media websites to recruit U.S. veterans into two survey research efforts and a randomized controlled trial addressing heavy alcohol use. As an increasing number of research studies are moving online, the methods described to reach this typically difficult-to-engage group using the Internet alone can be applied to a number of other populations and research designs.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting study participants online using Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Crowdsourcing has had a dramatic impact on the speed and scale at which scientific research can be conducted. This webinar summarizes what is known about MTurk sample composition and data quality with an emphasis on findings relevant to clinical psychological research. It then addresses methodological issues with using MTurk--many of which are common to other nonprobability samples but unfamiliar to clinical science researchers--and suggests concrete steps to avoid these issues or minimize their impact.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Research Data Sharing and Re-Use: Practical Implications for Data Citation Practice that Benefit Researchers

This webinar will highlight the findings of a recent study on the characteristics of data sharing, reuse, and citation, and it will provide practical recommendations for formalized citation practices that benefit the researchers who decide to do so.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Selecting an Ecological Momentary Assessment Platform - A Tutorial for Researchers

This 60-minute webinar reviews work from the National Institute of Mental Health and Boston Children's Hospital to identify a best-fit ecological momentary assessment (EMA) platform for our research.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Social Media and the 21st-Century Scholar: How Researchers Can Harness Social Media to Amplify Their Career

This webinar will highlight successful case studies that show how scientists and scholars might use social media to enhance their careers and outline five key steps scientists can follow to build and manage your scholarly presence online.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Using alternative scholarly metrics to showcase the impact of your research: An introduction for researchers

Scholarship is increasingly being created, disseminated, and measured on digital and social platforms. If Twitter exchanges, Facebook “saves,” and YouTube hits are the new metrics for tracking scholarship, how are we measuring societal and educational impact and outreach? How can researchers display their research impact using social media on promotion and tenure dossiers? This webinar will discuss altmetrics, alternative scholarly metrics that measure the impact and use of scholarship.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Using electronic Laboratory Notebooks in the academic life sciences: a group leader's experience on how they can make research teams more efficient

Digital technologies are shaping the way experiments are performed, results captured, and findings disseminated. We will explore what electronic Laboratory Notebooks (eLNs) afford biomedical researchers, what they require, and how one should go about implementing such a tool.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Using the research platform TurkPrime to crowdsource data for the health sciences

Crowdsourcing platforms are revolutionizing research by providing a way to collect clinical and behavioral data with unprecedented speed and efficiency. This seminar explores another digital platform called TurkPrime that is designed to support research participant recruitment.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Utilization of Twitter by early career women in academic medicine and science: Suggestions for developing a Twitter network

This webinar will highlight different ways of using Twitter for professional development to obtain the support women in academic medicine and science are otherwise lacking.

Digital Scholar Webinar: What We Can Learn About Successful Citizen Science from Microbiome Research

This webinar highlights how a citizen science approach combined with an open research network helped to collect study samples from more than 20,000 participants, so far. You will learn what it takes to set up, promote and execute a citizen science project.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Word Frequencies Reveal Racial Differences in Clinical Documentation, But Not Their Causes

Half The Picture: Word Frequencies Reveal Racial Differences in Clinical Documentation, But Not Their Causes

Digital Scholar Webinar: Advanced AI Augmented Reality for Treatment of PTSD

This 60-minute webinar shares STARC's work over the past decade on developing advanced immersive augmented reality technology.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Best Practices for Establishing an Effective Online Presence

Learn strategies for promoting your research, publications, conference talks and other efforts.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Breaking Down (Brick) Walls: Switching to Remote, Virtual, & Decentralized Clinical Trials

In this 60-minute webinar, Dr. Tenaerts presents the work of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) and discusses two main topics regarding digital clinical trials: (1) moving ongoing trials to remote and (2) planning for decentralized trials.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Clinicaltrials.gov Registration and Reporting Requirements

This 60-minute webinar covers the basic requirements for registration and results reporting requirements in Clinicaltrials.gov.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Digital Tools for Scaled-Up Qualitative Research

Explore the rationale behind this approach and witness its practical application through empirical examples.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Effective Research Writing - Getting Started and Tips for Successful Collaborations

During this 60-minute webinar, we feature a panel of six productive scholars, ranging from graduate students to professors, who offer tips and strategies for effective research writing.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Effective Use of Academic and Social Media Networks for Endorsing your Publication

This webinar will give a detailed overview of the recommended strategies for effective research promotion on academic and social media platforms and optimizing visibility of the published articles.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Effectively Utilizing Video in Research

Effectively utilizing video can be a challenge as you attempt to communicate specific ideas to your intended audience. This 60-minute webinar explores how video can elevate the presentation of your findings.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Getting Started with Dedoose for Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

This 60-minute webinar will give you an orientation to Dedoose, a qualitative and mixed methods data analysis application. Join Dedoose's Director of Academic Engagement, Dr. Sara Grummert, as she walks you through Dedoose and its collaborative functionality.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Getting to Outcomes: Supporting Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs

This presentation will summarize the Getting to Outcomes approach and its research. In addition, the presentation will show how digital tools have been used to support community organizations.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Giving Back: Strategies for Effectively Communicating Results Back to Research Participants

Digital Scholar Webinar: Giving Back: Strategies for Effectively Communicating Results Back to Research Participants

Digital Scholar Webinar: Online Teaching Practices Buffet: Tools, Strategies, and Materials for a More Inclusive Online Class

In this webinar, you will learn to identify at least one new strategy applicable to online teaching, plan at least one course update to make your online course more inclusive and access customizable recommended materials for course inclusivity.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Open Reproducible Research – Challenges and Opportunities

This presentation introduces basic concepts and issues around reproducibility. It will then provide an overview of existing tools that help researchers publish open reproducible research and which aspects users should consider when selecting the right tool for the own work.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting Research Participants Online Using Reddit

​This 50-minute presentation introduces r/SampleSize, a community on the website Reddit that allows for online participant recruitment without compulsory or immediate payment. It will provide an overview of best practices for recruiting participants on r/SampleSize. It will also compare r/SampleSize to Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a widely used crowdsourcing platform for recruiting research participants.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Selection And Utilization of Wearables for Biosensing in Clinical, Laboratory, And Naturalistic Settings

In this 60-minute webinar, we discuss the development of innovative biosensing technology and its application in psychiatry.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Social and Environmental Determinants of Health (SEDoH) in Clinical Informatics

This 60-minute session informs attendees how social and environmental factors act as determinants of patients’ health.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Social Media as a Platform for Health Behavior Change

Social media as a platform for health behavior change: lessons learned from the CAN Quit (Connecting Alaska Native People to Quit Smoking) study

Digital Scholar Webinar: Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Research

This webinar will introduce open science to a clinical and translational research audience. It will begin by introducing the opportunities and challenges motivating the wider open science movement, such as accelerating scientific discovery, broadening access to scientific knowledge, and irreproducibility. It will then provide an overview of core open science practices for health researchers to adopt. Lastly, it will overview actions other key stakeholders in the scientific ecosystem can take to support open science.

Digital Scholar Webinar: Understanding and using PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews

Education Resource Center Series: Managing Stress in Research Courses through Intentional Course Design: Resolutions for a New Semester

This 90-minute interactive workshop acknowledges the stress affecting students and instructors--particularly related to research courses--as we begin a new semester and provides effective course design practices that can aid in managing that stress.

Education Resource Center Series: Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Diverse Researchers: SC CTSI’s Responsive Approach Using the Racial Equity Tool, PRISM

Education Resource Center Series: Trauma-informed Teaching: Using Best Practices in Course Design to Mitigate the Effects of Trauma among Students

Participants will learn about Patrick Lencioni’s widely distributed team-building model outlined in The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: A fable.

Education Resource Center Series: Writing Questions that Measure What Matters: Best Practices for Designing Multiple Choice Test Questions

Education Resource Center: Busting Myths in Online Education: Faculty Examples from the Field

Education Resource Center: Creating a Welcome Video for Your Research or Teaching

Education Resource Center: Engaging Techniques for Teaching Students & Scholars How to Read Scientific Papers

Education Resource Center: Teaching, Training & Communicating with Those in Science Denial

Education Resource Center: Tips for Collecting High-Quality Qualitative Data

This 2-hour interactive workshop "Tips for Collecting High-Quality Qualitative Data" is based on a unique qualitative research support service offered by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI) core group called Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) and provided by Dr. Rachel Ceasar.

Ensuring quality in clinical trials: monitoring concepts and CRC development training (2018)

Audience members will learn about a readily available, user-friendly, self-paced study module that provides training on essential concepts and practical approaches to monitoring.

Ethics Consultation #1: Dealing with conflicts with your mentor

In this brief dramatization, a young researcher concerned her mentor/supervisor is conducting research in a scientifically improper manner seeks advice from an SC CTSI ethics consultant.

How to Submit a Grant Application and Activate Clinical Studies at USC

In this video, you will learn about the process of submitting a grant application at USC, and the various offices involved throughout the process. In addition, you will learn about what to do after your grant is funded, and how to go about activating and starting your clinical research study.

Introduction to Becoming a Successful Digital Scholar

In this workshop, we will provide an overview of Digital Scholarship and explore examples of scholars who have successfully used digital approaches to advance their research and careers.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research - Session 1

This course introduces the mission and processes of Clinical and Translational Research (CTR). It demonstrates approaches to formulating and writing research questions and hypotheses appropriate to CTR. Online video lectures prepare participants for the course sessions.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research: Bias in Clinical/Translational Research; Analyzing Data and Interpreting the Results - Session 4

In the first section, lectures cover potential sources of bias that can occur at all stages of research, and how to mitigate their impact on findings. The second section focuses on analysis of data in biomedical research, its presentation, statistical testing and conclusions. These lectures prepare students for in-class sessions.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research: Clinical Data for Translational Science Research; Bioinformatics and High-Density Data - Session 3

These online video lectures describe the increasingly rich sources of health data, such as electronic health records, available for scientific investigation by clinical and translational researchers, and introduces the methods and issues surrounding their use. The lecturer also reviews bioinformatic tools and information technologies that leverage high-density experimental data, with a focus on analysis of the human genome.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research: Introduction to Research Ethics - Session 6

This online lecture reviews the history and development of the guidelines and federal regulations addressing ethical considerations associated with clinical and translational research.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research: Statistical Model and Systematic Reviews - Session 5

The first section of this session discusses the process of developing a conceptual and statistical model that can most effectively test a hypothesis. The second section describes the role of systematic reviews of research literature and the statistical meta-analyses designed to collectively assess their findings.

Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research: Study Population and Study Design - Session 2

This course outlines basic concepts and terminology in the design of clinical/translational research projects targeting specific populations, and discusses methods to identify useful study populations within large and diverse cities. These online video lectures prepare students for course in-class sessions.

iStar Training Videos

Video tutorials show researchers how to use iStar, USC's online IRB (Institutional Review Board) application system.

Leverage Science Crowdfunding

In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage crowdfunding to obtain seed funding. Science crowdfunding is an alternative approach that couples storytelling, fundraising, outreach and networking. Scientists in academia and the private sector have already successfully used it to supplement and substitute grants.

Lunch & Learn 4-Part Biostatistics Workshops

Organizing the Design, Marketing, Assessment & Follow-Up for Educational Offerings: A Planning Resource for Webinar & Workshop Facilitators

Overcoming Regulatory Challenges and Building Community Trust for a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Learn more about the FDA and regulatory restrictions related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the challenges in distribution to the general public

Promotora Instructional Video

This video demonstrates promotora training techniques, focusing on lesson 1 of "Su Corazón, Su Vida," and associated research protocol.

PubMed Tutorial

This online lecture and tutorial provides the basics of searching and accessing articles through PubMed, an online database of publications for health and the life sciences.

Regulatory Science Series (2013)

Six lecturers provide in-depth reviews of the federal FDA and other regulations and guidelines that govern all aspects of clinical and translational research on new drugs and biomedical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 1: Introduction (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 2: What do we mean by Quality by Design (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 3: CTTI’s Approach to QbD (2020)

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 4: Developing QbD Tools for Clinical Researchers (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 5: Integrating QbD into Team Science, and Project Management for Research Success (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 6: Applying Design for Six Sigma (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium “Quality by Design in Clinical Trials” Session 7: Wrap-Up (2020)

In this series, we will discuss the principles of quality by design.

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” - Session 1: Introduction

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” - Session 2: Regulatory Aspects of Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” - Session 3: Translational Approach and Use of Stem Cells for Arthritis and Articular Cartilage Restoration

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” - Session 4: Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” - Session 5: The Marriage of Ophthalmology and Bioengineering

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Innovations in Regenerative Medicine Products” Session 6: Target Identification for Gene Therapy + Symposium Wrap-up

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 1 - Welcome (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 2 - Introduction to Clinical Trial Management and Operations (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 3 - Ensuring Documentation and Regulatory Compliance in the Evolving Landscape of Clinical Trials (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 4 - Clinical Trial Communications for Diverse Populations (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 5 - Project Management: Managing Research Studies as Projects… How and Why? (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 6 - A Community Engaged Approach to Recruitment, Enrollment, and Retention of Underrepresented Populations (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 7 - Protecting the Rights of Research Participants: Ethical Considerations & Informed Consent Processes (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 8 - Peer to Peer Panel: Real-World Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Trial Project Management (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: “Keys to a Clinical Trial: Management and Operations” Session 9 - Wrap-Up (2024)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trial Startup Session 1: Introduction/Clinical Research Support Office/Starting Off Right: Elements of Success: A Clinical Trial Site’s Perspective (2016)

In this session, we will discuss how to begin the clinical trial process feasibly and correctly and the importance of such a start, briefly focusing on the clinical trial process in the field of cancer.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trial Startup Session 2: Pre-Award Activities: Contract and Budget/Managing Logistics: Study Drug, Specimen, Space (2016)

In this session, we will discuss the management of logistics and budgeting of clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trial Startup Session 3: Recruiting and Screening Subjects: Marketing, Social Media, and EHR/Interacting with IRB (2016)

In this session, we will discuss how to effectively recruit subjects for a clinical trial and how modern technology and social media plays a role in the recruitment and screening processes of clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trial Startup Session 4: Administering Informed Consents: Special Populations/Panel Discussion (2016)

In this session, we will discuss the significance of informed consent before ending with a panel discussion.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials Hurdles Session 1 and 2 - Challenges of Clinical Trial Management (2015)

In this series, we will discuss how to successfully support and manage clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials Hurdles Session 3 - FDA GCP Inspections (2015)

In this series, we will discuss how the FDA investigators would conduct their GCP investigation.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials Hurdles Session 4 - Trial Master Files (2015)

In this series, we will discuss how to successfully support and manage clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials Hurdles Session 5 - Clinical Trial Data Disposition, Results, and Transparency Group (2015)

In this series, we will discuss how to successfully support and manage clinical trials

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 1: Introduction (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 2: History, Terms/Definitions and Regulatory Requirements (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 3: IRB Reviews on Medical Device Trials (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 4: Quality at the Data Level (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 5: Medical Device Feasibility Clinical Trials – SetPoint Medical Case Study (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 6: Advanced International Trials with Medical Devices (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 7: Auditing of Medical Device Trials (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 8: Gaps and Opportunities in Pediatric Device Trials (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Clinical Trials with Medical Devices Session 9: Wrap Up (2019)

In this series, we will discuss considerations, regulations and resources to utilize when conducting clinical trials with medical devices.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 1: Introduction

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 2: What Do We Mean by Diversity in Clinical Trials?

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 3: FDA Initiatives to Address Diversity in Clinical Trials

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 4: Clinical Trials Participation: Understanding the Needs and Importance of Diverse Populations

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 5: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Clinical Research

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 6: Populations on the Fringe of Clinical Trial Enrollment

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 7: Ensuring Participant Diversity and Engagement During COVID-19

Regulatory Science Symposium: Diversity in Clinical Trials in the Time of COVID-19 Session 8: Wrap-Up

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 1 - Regulatory Considerations (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 2: Gene Therapy Trials and Tribulations (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 3: Clinical Trials for Stem Cell Therapies (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 4: CT Enabling Technologies – Decentralized Clinical Trials (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 5 - Immunotherapy Trials (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Emerging Technologies/Treatments Session 6: Cutting Edge Technologies and Humanitarian Devices (2017)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory considerations for conducting clinical trials in the era of emerging technologies and treatments.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 1: Introduction & Knowledge Quiz (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 2: Investigator’s Responsibilities: Industry Sponsored Trials (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 3: Investigator’s Responsibilities: Investigator Initiated Trials (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 4: Clinical Trial Contracts (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 5: Legal Considerations of Compassionate Use (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 6: Liability and Indemnification (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 7: Privacy and HIPAA (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Legal Aspects of Conducting Clinical Trials Session 8: Wrap Up (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Monitoring and Auditing Session 1: Introduction to Monitoring, Auditing, and FDA Inspections & GCP (2016)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory complexities regarding clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Monitoring and Auditing Session 2: FDA Inspections - Getting Ready (2016)

In this series, we will discuss regulatory complexities regarding clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Monitoring and Auditing Session 3: Auditing GCP Systems for Data Integrity (2016)

In this series, we will discuss data integrity, GCP systems, regulatory framework enforcement, and auditing for data integrity

Regulatory Science Symposium: Monitoring and Auditing Session 4: Sponsor Audits: Data Handling and Reports (2016)

​In this series, we will discuss what a sponsor does with data after a clinical trial finishes at a site, focusing on audits.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Monitoring and Auditing Session 5: Workshop: GCP Audit Process and Checklist Scope (2016)

In this series, you will be asked to develop an audit plan and audit checklist for GCP Compliance.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 1: Introduction (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 2: History, Terms and Definitions (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 3: Patient-Centered Drug Development (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 4: Rare Diseases (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 5: Real World Evidence and Real World Data (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 6: Case Study: From Discovery to Practice and Survivorship (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Patient-Centered Drug Development and Real World Evidence/Data Session 7: Wrap-up (2019)

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 1: Introduction (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 2: Regulatory Requirements (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 3: Safety Reporting in Investigator-Initiated Trials (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 4: Safety Reporting from Other Sources (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 5: Safety Reporting in Industry-Sponsored Trials and Case Studies - Part 1 (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 6: Safety Reporting in Industry-Sponsored Trials and Case Studies - Part 2 (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 7: Adverse Event Reporting (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Pharmacovigilance and Safety Reporting Session 8: Wrap up (2018)

In this series, we will discuss pharmacovigilance and safety reporting in clinical trials. Case studies are presented throughout the series.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 1: Intro/Key Terms (2018)

In this session, we will discuss commonly used terms in clinical trial design and regulatory science.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 2: Evolution of FDA’s View of a Well-Designed Clinical Trial (2018)

In this session, we will discuss how to conduct an effective clinical trial from the perspective of the FDA.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 3: Classic and Novel Designs Used in Regulatory Approvals (2018)

In this session, we will discuss how classic and novel designs are used in regulatory approvals and the benefits and consequences of utilizing these types of designs.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 4: Unique Designs for Medical Device Trials (2018)

In this session, we will discuss how medical device trials are conducted in Europe and the United States and how these trials differ from pharmacological trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 5: Case Studies and Future Trends (2018)

In this session, we will discuss trends in drug development in 2017 and look at case studies that reflect these trends.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Trial Design Session 6: Panel Discussion (2018)

In this session, audience members ask the panel questions concerning real world evidence, the gold standard for devices, adaptive trial design, sample size of control group, and legislation changes in European drug regulations.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 1: Pharmacometrics (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the pharmacometrics of special populations with special emphasis on children.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 2: Clinical Research Support (CRS) Group (2017)

In this session, we will discuss clinical trials at USC and the services available for assistance.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 3 - Study Recruitment: Maximizing Impact (2017)

In this session, we will discuss how to engage populations into effective ways of involvement in clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 4: Research - Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the importance and concerns of dealing with adolescents in clinical trials.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 5: Clinical Research in Pregnant Women and Neonates (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the special population research and behaviour on women and neonates.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 6: Working in Criminal Justice Settings (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the importance and recommendations on the incarcerated population, with the prisoners as research subjects.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 7: Geriatric Subjects and Trials in the Cognitively Impaired (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the research for cognitive impairment outcomes and targets for interventions.

Regulatory Science Symposium: Special Populations Session 8: Regulatory Considerations of Conducting Clinical Trials in Special Populations (2017)

In this session, we will discuss the extrinsic considerations for special populations.

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 2: Basic Statistical Principles: Validity and Sample Size (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 1: Introduction (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 2: Clinical Investigation: Principles from Harmonized Documents (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 2: CTSI Clinical Study Design Types (2023)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 1: Introduction (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 2: From Academics to Industry – A Physician Researcher Perspective (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 3: Clinical Supply Chain Management: Dude, Where’s My Patient Benefit? (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 4: Understanding Clinical Research Management at Academic Institutions (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 5: Roads to the Human Subjects Protection Program (OPRS and IRB) (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 6: Knocking on HR’s Door: Do You Have What it takes to be a CRP? (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Clinical Research Career Pathways” Session 7: Wrap-Up (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 1: Introduction (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 2: What is Digital/AI/Machine Learning? How is It Used? (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 3: Clinical Virtual Reality: Seven Ways that Virtual Reality Will Change the World of Mental Healthcare! (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 4: Regulatory Framework for the Digital World (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 5: Use of AI in Drug Development (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 6: Cybersecurity (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Emerging Technologies in the Medical Device Industry” Session 7: Wrap Up (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 2: Genomics and Regulation (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 3: Genomics and Personalized Medicine – A View from a Drug Development and Regulatory Science Perspective (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 4: Pharmacogenomics Considerations for Clinical Research and Implementation (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 5: Big Data and Genomics (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 6: Applied Genomics and Target Identification (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development:” Session 7: Wrap-Up (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Innovation to Translation: Role of Genomics in Medical Product Development” Session 1: Introduction (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 1: Introduction (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 3: Designing Medical Devices (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 5: CTSI Clinical Study Design Types (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 6: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Clinical Trials (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Make Informed Decisions: Key Statistical Principles to Clinical Trial Design” Session 4: Pediatric Trials (2022)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 3: Good Clinical Practices and ISO 14155 (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 4: From Clinical Data to Clinical Evidence (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 5: Developing Clinical Evaluations (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Principles of Global Clinical Research for Medical Devices” Session 6: Wrap-Up (2021)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 1: Introduction (2023)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 3: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Clinical Trials (2023)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 4: Types and Trends (2023)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 5: Medical Device Trials (2023)

Regulatory Science Virtual Symposium: “Study Design for Clinical Trials: Types and Trends” Session 6: Statistical Challenges of Adaptive and Innovation Study Designs (2023)

Research Ethics Forum: ACCEPT-AI - Encoding Ethical Values in AI/ML Research

This 60-minute forum discusses how ACCEPT-AI can help researchers and developers encode ethical values from the jump, avoiding harmful and embarrassing mistakes.

SC CTSI COVID-19 Vaccine Informational Town Hall

This virtual town hall focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted our local communities and information was shared about availability of vaccines.

Showcasing the Strength of Clinical Research at USC

So You Want to Apply for a NRSA

A tutorial to help pre-doctoral students apply for the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA).

Strategies for Maximizing Participant Recruitment in Clinical Research

Featured in this video: April Armstrong, MD MPH Associate Dean of Clinical Research Professor of Dermatology at Keck School of Medicine of USC Nicki Karimipour, PhD Associate Director of Communications Clinical Research Support at the SC Clinical and Translational Science Institute Katja Reuter, PhD

Successful Research Recruitment: A Toolkit for a Community-Based Approach

This toolkit aims to develop greater capacity and success in research participant recruitment, particularly in the recruitment of underrepresented populations such as ethnic minorities

The Art of Mentorship and Being Mentored

A lecturer outlines strategies to ensure successful academic mentorships in clinical and translational science.

Toolkit for Developing Community Partnerships

This community partnership toolkit outlines the process and approach needed during every phase of community-engaged research including: relationship building, proposal development, project execution and dissemination

Using Social Media Data to Gain Insights into Community Trends

In this workshop, you will learn how to use social media data (social media listening) to gain insights into emerging community needs, trends, and conversations.

Utilize Digital and Social Media Data for Your Research

Today, over 80 percent of Americans seek health information online and nearly 70 percent of all Internet users in the United States use digital and social media. These numbers are increasing, even among diverse and underserved populations. This trend provides huge opportunities for researchers.

Virtual Our Community/Our Health LA: Coping with the Stress of the Coronavirus (en Español)

Virtual REDCap Workshop

In this workshop, you will learn to create and build your database from the REDCap Toolkit, learn to use your database including data entry, retrieval, and scheduling, and more.