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Drs. Josh Niznik and Anna Kahkoska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NCTraCS<\/a> recently announced recipients of the TraCS Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) pilot awards. Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD<\/a> (Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine) and Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD<\/a> (Assistant Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health) received a CTS award for\u00a0Exploring the Utility of Linked Patient Portal Message Data for Translational Science.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the impact statement: “The proposed study will leverage a novel data source with great potential to advance the science of clinical research using real-world data by developing methodological tools to repurpose patient portal messaging data for research and generating novel insights into portal user activity.” Congratulations to Drs. Niznik and Kahkoska on this award.<\/p>\n

Read the full list of CTS awardees on the NCTraCS News page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NCTraCS recently announced recipients of the TraCS Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) pilot awards. Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine) and Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health) received a CTS award for\u00a0Exploring the Utility of Linked Patient Portal Message Data for Translational Science. According to the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106633,"featured_media":69096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2],"tags":[686,674],"class_list":["post-69088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geriatric-medicine","category-news","tag-686","tag-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDrs. 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