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. However, registration via Compass is required. Review upcoming seminars in the accordions below and then visit the Compass Login page to register.
Seminars are divided into those of general interest and those offered by the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) Program.
There are currently no BERD seminars scheduled. Please check back regularly for updates.
Past seminars
Slides and course materials from all seminars are available in the accordions below. A complete list of video recordings are available via the public OCTRI Research Forum Echo 360 channel.
Recruitment Planning: The Foundation for Clinical Trials and Grant Development
May 23, 2019 Slides
Study Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria: Scientific Ideals vs Real World
Apr. 18, 2019 Slides
Medical Record Recruitment Tools
Feb. 26, 2019 Slides
Clinicaltrials.gov - Registration (Part 1), Maintenance and Results Reporting (Part 2)
Dec. 13, 2018 (Part 1) Slides Investigator Help Sheet
Jan. 17, 2019 (Part 2) Slides
Subject Injury Policy, Identification and Reporting
Nov. 13, 2018 Slides
Flowchart: Subject Injury Reporting for Industry Sponsored Studies
Flowchart: Subject Injury Reporting for Non-Industry and Investigator Initiated Studies
Turning a Research Proposal into a Protocol
May 28, 2015 Slides
Including Special Populations in Your Research
Apr. 28, 2015 Slides
R and RStudio: Introduction to R and RStudio
Sept. 24, Mar. 7, and Feb. 26, 2019 Slides, Resources, and Exercises
R and RStudio: Data Wrangling in R (Parts I and II)
May and Apr. 2019 Slides, Resources, and Exercises
R and RStudio: Reproducible Reports with R Markdown
Jul. 18 and Sept. 26, 2019 Slides, Resources, and Exercises
Understanding and Interpreting Regression Analysis
Nov. 28, 2018 Slides
The Command Line Without Tears: Using Exacloud for Large Datasets and Annoying Tasks (Parts I and II)
Jan. 9 and 16, 2019 Slides and Resources
Meet your Data where it Lives: Scraping the Web
Apr. 3, 2019 Slides and Resources

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