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New SOP for SOM Principal Investigators

March 10, 2023

Dear SOM Clinical Research Community,   If you have the responsibilities of a Principal Investigator or Sponsor/Investigator, please be sure to login to PaTS to review the SOM SOP 301.1, Performing the Responsibilities of the Principal Investigator and complete your attestation no later than 5/2/2023.   The CRSO will host two informational sessions to provide … Read more

NIH Training on the NIH Common Data Element Repository

March 7, 2023

All, The NIH is hosting a training class on the NIH Common Data Element Repository on March 29, 2023.  From the NIH flyer: Do you want to standardize the data you collect so it can be easily shared with colleagues and other researchers? Have you been awarded a grant that requires the use of common … Read more

New SOM SOP Issued

March 2, 2023

Dear SOM Clinical Research Community, The CRSO is excited to announce that SOM SOP 301.1, Performing the Responsibilities of the Principal Investigator, has been issued. The SOP will take effect on 4/3/2023 and applies to all human subjects research led by SOM investigators. If you have created your PaTS profile and indicated that you have … Read more

NRP: Hyperdrive Information for Go Live March 6 & 27

February 20, 2023

Dear Wonderful Research Community!   Look what’s coming to a workstation near you……….. ISD has been working on a new project that will go live in a few weeks regarding how users access Epic. When you currently click the Epic@UNC icon, it utilizes what is called Hyperspace. Epic is trying to migrate a lot of … Read more

Annual SOM Clinical Research Staff Satisfaction Survey

February 15, 2023

Dear SOM Clinical Research Community,   A primary objective of the SOM CRSO is to understand the needs of the clinical research workforce and develop resources, tools, and broad initiatives to support personnel and operations. One key source of information that enables us to understand experiences and perspectives of the clinical research workforce is responses … Read more

NRP: Survey Request: Enhancing Inclusion of Spanish-speaking Participants in Research

January 17, 2023

Survey Request: Enhancing inclusion of Spanish-speaking participants in research   Over the past decade, North Carolina’s Latino/a/x population has grown by 40%, the largest numeric increase of any racial/ethnic group in the state and faster than the growth of this population nationwide (23%). Despite this growth, Latino/a/x and other marginalized ethnic groups are vastly underrepresented … Read more

NRP: New Epic@UNC Research Workflow for Pending Orders

January 11, 2023

Greetings Research Community, Epic@UNC Research is excited to announce a new, easier workflow for research coordinators to prep orders to be signed by Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators. Instead of providers having to hunt for a pended order inside an encounter, they will now receive an Epic Inbasket message. The orders will not be actionable until … Read more

Important Update: Clinical Research Monitor Vaccine Requirements (NRP Listserv)

December 19, 2022

IMPORTANT UPDATE Due to REDCap’s recent URL change (…”rc1…”), the Attestation Survey pathways have also changed. Please utilize the following links to each of the surveys going forward: Confidentiality Attestation Immunization Attestation As a reminder, you can access the associated policy here: COVID-19 Immunization of Healthcare Personnel

Resource Hub: Bloom Process Mapping Tool

December 14, 2022

Completing all the steps to initiate an industry-sponsored trial can be daunting. Requirements vary depending on study characteristics and knowing what steps to complete in what order can be confusing and lead to misdirected effort. To assist study teams in navigating this process, we have developed an innovative graph database tool that accounts for dependencies between steps to create customized and comprehensive study initiation process maps.