OCTRI Research Forum: Your Monthly Clinical and Translational Research Event

Join us each month as we address all things clinical and translational research. We’ll cover issues and solutions to common obstacles in conducting clinical and translational research.
- Enhance your career in clinical and translational research
- Gain practical skills in conducting successful research studies
- Connect with faculty and study staff who share a commitment to translational research
- Acquire knowledge that directly supports research and expands your collaboration opportunities
Do you have a clinical or translational research question or problem? Let us know and we’ll do our best to help during upcoming events! Please submit questions and topic requests to octri@ohsu.edu or call 503-418-9790.
Upcoming seminars
OCTRI offers this seminar series at no cost to researchers at OHSU. Seminars are divided into those of general interest and those offered by the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) Program. You can review upcoming seminars in the accordions below. Compass registration is required for BERD seminars and is encouraged, but not required, for other seminars.
Past seminars
Slides, course materials, video recordings from all seminars are available in the accordions below. A complete list of video recordings is also available via the public OCTRI Research Forum Echo 360 channel. Use the button below to log in.
- Adverse Event Data Management Best Practices
- 10/21/2021 - PART 1 - RECORDING
- 10/21/2021 - PART 1 - SLIDES
- 12/16/2021 - PART 2 - RECORDING
- 12/16/2021 - PART 2 - SLIDES
- Adverse Event Data Coding
- 04/21/2022 - RECORDING
- 04/21/2022 - SLIDES
- Advice for Talking Science to Anyone
- 11/2/2021 - RECORDING
- 11/2/2021 - HANDOUT #1: ELEVATOR SPEECH
- 11/2/2021 - HANDOUT #2: CRAFTING YOUR MESSAGE
- 11/2/2021 - HANDOUT #3: COMMUNICATION PLAN
- Amplifying Patient Voices in Clinical Research through HERN
- 1/27/2022 - RECORDING
- 1/27/2022 - SLIDES
- Assessing Study Feasibility
- 12/12/2019 - RECORDING
- 12/12/2019 - SLIDES
- 12/12/2019 - HANDOUT
- Case Report Form Development
- 2/18/2021 - RECORDING
- 2/18/2021 - SLIDES
- Clinicaltrials.gov
- 3/10/2021 - Common Challenges and Solutions - RECORDING
- 3/10/2021 - Common Challenges and Solutions - SLIDES
- 1/17/2019 - Maintenance and Reporting (Part 2) - RECORDING
- 1/17/2019 - Maintenance and Reporting (Part 2) - SLIDES
- 12/13/2018 - Registration (Part 1) - RECORDING
- 12/13/2018 - Registration (Part 1) - SLIDES
- 12/13/2018 - Registration (Part 1) - HELP SHEET
- Creating a Budget for Individual Research
- 2/24/2015 - SLIDES
- Data Sharing Requirements and Data Use Agreements
- 11/17/2021 - RECORDING
- 11/17/2021 - SLIDES
- Electronic Consent
- 2/18/2020 - RECORDING
- 2/18/2020 and 2/24/2020 - SLIDES
- Excel Gymnastics: Using Excel for Research
- 10/1/2021 - RECORDING
- 10/1/2021 - SLIDES
- Including Special Populations in Your Research
- 6/5/2018 - Including Older Adults in Research: Challenges and Strategies - RECO…
- 4/28/2015 - Research in Pregnancy - SLIDES
- Medical Record Recruitment Tools
- 2/26/2019 - RECORDING
- 2/26/2019 - SLIDES
- Mentored Career Development Awards (K awards)
- 9/30/2021 - Which one is for you? (Part 1) - RECORDING
- 9/30/2021 - Which one is for you? (Part 1) - SLIDES
- 10/13/2021 - Writing Tips (Part 2) - RECORDING
- 10/13/2021 - Writing Tips (Part 2) - SLIDES
- 11/12/2020 - Which one is for you? (Part 1) - RECORDING
- 11/12/2020 - Which one is for you? (Part 1) - SLIDES
- 11/21/2019 - Which one is for you? (Part 1) - SLIDES
- 12/16/2019 - Writing Tips (Part 2) - RECORDING
- 12/16/2019 - Writing Tips (Part 2) - SLIDES
- OHSU Human Subjects Research Start-up Process
- 9/23/2021 - RECORDING
- 9/23/2021 - SLIDES
- 9/23/2021 - HANDOUT
- Optimizing Your Biosketch for Reviewers
- 1/23/2020 - RECORDING
- 1/23/2020 - SLIDES
- Prioritizing your Online Presence for Research Impact
- 2/17/2022 - RECORDING
- 2/17/2022 - SLIDES
- Recruitment Planning: The Foundation for Clinical Trials and Grant Development
- 5/23/2019 - RECORDING
- 5/23/2019 - SLIDES
- Research Across the Bridge: Conducting a Project at VAPORHCS
- 6/21/2022 - RECORDING
- 6/21/2022 - SLIDES
- RStudio Connect
- 10/15/2020 - RECORDING
- 10/15/2020 - SLIDES
- Sex and Gender Considerations in Clinical Research
- 6/22/2021 - RECORDING
- 6/22/2021 - SLIDES
- Study Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria: Scientific Ideals vs Real World
- 4/18/2019 - RECORDING
- 4/18/2019 - SLIDES
- Subject Injury Policy, Identification and Reporting
- 12/16/2020 - RECORDING
- 12/16/2020 - SLIDES
- 11/13/2018 - RECORDING
- 11/13/2018 - SLIDES
- Flowchart: Subject Injury Reporting for Industry Sponsored Studies
- Flowchart: Subject Injury Reporting for Non-Industry and Investigator Initiated…
- Survey Design and Tools
- 1/14/2021 - RECORDING
- 1/14/2021 - SLIDES
- 1/26/2015 (Part 1) - SLIDES
- 3/12/2015 (Part 2) - SLIDES
- Turning a Research Proposal into a Protocol
- 5/28/2015 - SLIDES
- Writing and Presenting a Scientific Conference Abstract
- 12/9/2021 - RECORDING
- 12/9/2021 - SLIDES
- Writing Pilot and Feasibility Studies
- 3/10/2022 - RECORDING
- 3/10/2022 - SLIDES
SERIES on Power and Sample Size
- Planning a Study with P&SS Considerations in Mind
- SLIDES (5/29/2019)
- RECORDING (5/29/2019)
- P&SS for Clinical Trials
- SLIDES (2/18/2021)
- RECORDING (2/18/2021)
- P&SS for Classification and Prediction
- RECORDING (11/10/2022)
- R shiny app for sample size computation
SERIES on Anti-racism in Data and Analysis
- Can Data Be Racist?
- DISCUSSION ARTICLE
- INTRO VIDEO
- SLIDES (11/10/2020)
- RECORDING of original seminar (11/10/2020)
- Reflections on Race and Ethnicity in Epidemiology
- SLIDES (3/2/2021)
- RESOURCES Part 1
- RESOURCES Part 2
- RECORDING (3/2/2021)
- Rethinking Race–Ethnicity: Introducing Novel Survey-Based Measures of Lifetime Experience of Discrimination and Stresspage
- RESOURCES (7/27/2022)
SERIES on R and RStudio
- SLIDES, RESOURCES, AND EXERCISES for all workshops
- Click here for GitHub link
- Introduction to R and RStudio
- Part 1a: RECORDING (9/16/2020)
- Part 1b: RECORDING (9/16/2020)
- Part 2: RECORDING (9/17/2020)
- Reproducible Reports with R Markdown
- RECORDING (9/26/2019)
- Data Visualization with R and ggplot2
- RECORDING (5/20/2020)
Additional BERD topics
- Meet your Data where it Lives: Scraping the Web
- SLIDES AND RESOURCES
- RECORDING (4/3/2019)
- The Command Line Without Tears: Using Exacloud for Large Datasets and Annoying Tasks
- SLIDES AND RESOURCES
- Part 1: RECORDING (1/9/2019)
- Part 2: RECORDING (1/16/2019)
- Understanding and Interpreting Regression Analysis
- SLIDES (11/28/2018)
- RECORDING (11/28/2018)

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