USCIITG

Program

NOVEMBER 18, 2008
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	Mission, Administration, and Governance Chair: J. Perren Cobb, MD
9:00 AM—9:10 AM	Opening Remarks Jeremy M. Berg, PhD
9:10 AM—9:30 AM	Why a United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group?
9:30 AM—9:45 AM	Structured Discussion
9:45 AM—10:00 AM	Break/Refreshments
	Forging a Critical Alliance: State-of-the-Nation Chair: Eileen Bulger, MD
10:00 AM—10:20 AM	Role of Professional Societies Charles B. Cairns, MD
10:20 AM—10:40 AM	Structured Discussion
10:40 AM—11:00 AM	Role of Research Networks Jeffrey Upperman, MD
11:00 AM—11:20 PM	Structured Discussion
11:20 AM—11:50 AM	Role of Federal Agencies Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD Panelists: Bob Rappaport, MD Center for Drug Evaluation Research, FDA Chad M. Heilig, PhD Human Research Protection Office, CDC Barbara B. Mittleman, MD Office of Science Policy Analysis, NIH
11:50 AM—12:00 PM	Structured Discussion
12:00 PM—1:00 PM	Lunch
	Investigator-initiated, Hypothesis-testing Chair: Debra Schwinn, MD
1:00 PM—1:20PM	The Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator's (PALISI) Network Adrienne G. Randolph, MD
1:20 PM—1:40 PM	Emergency Care Research –What type of clinical trials? Timothy J. Coats, MD
1:40 PM—2:00 PM	Structured Discussion
2:00 PM—2:15 PM	Break/Refreshments
	Clinical Projects: Oral and Poster Presentations Chair: J. Perren Cobb, MD
2:15 PM—2:30 PM	Irshad Chaudry, PhD
2:30 PM—2:45 PM	Paul Checchia, MD
2:45 PM—3:00 PM	Mario Deng, MD
3:00 PM—3:15 PM	Bradley Freeman, MD
3:15 PM—3:30 PM	Ognjen Gajic, MD
3:30 PM—3:45 PM	Michael Makley, MD
3:45 PM—4:00 PM	Closing Comments Anthony Suffredini, MD
4:00 PM—5:30 PM	Clinical Projects: Poster Presentation Attended Poster Reception / Refreshments

NOVEMBER 19, 2008
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	Ethics: Exception to Informed Consent Chairs: Charles B. Cairns, MD, and Nina Gentile, MD
9:00 AM—9:20 AM	Exception from Informed Consent in Resuscitation Research Michelle Biros, MD
9:20 AM—9:40 AM	Practical Aspects of Implementing Studies using Exception from Informed Consent under Emergency Circumstances Tom P. Aufderheide, MD
9:40 AM—10:00 AM	Adding Insult to Injury: The Case for Ethics Training and Certification of Clinical Investigators in Critical Care Settings Edward Greg Koski, MD, PhD
10:00 AM—10:20 AM	Emergency Research Consent Waiver: An IRBs Perspective Anthony M. Perez
10:20 AM—10:50 AM	Structured Discussion
10:50 AM—11:10 AM	Break/Refreshments
	Biorepositories Chair: Polly Parsons, MD
11:10 AM—11:30 AM	Challenges of Leveraging Industry, Academic, Government Collaboration: The PREVENT-IV / GENE-MAGIC Story John H. P. Alexander, MD
11:30 AM—11:50 AM	Organization and Operation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program's Biospecimen Repository Mary Brophy, MD, MPH
11:50 AM—12:10 PM	Logistical Considerations for Establishing, Maintaining & Growing a Repository L. Mark Consentino, DPM, PhD
12:10 PM—12:40 PM	Structured Discussion
12:40 PM—1:40 PM	Lunch
	Databases and Bioinformatics Chair: Hector R. Wong, MD
1:40 PM—2:00 PM	Personalized Medicine: A Manhattan Project Jeffrey R. Balser, MD, PhD
2:00 PM—2:20 PM	Integrative Biomedical Informatics as a Means to Accelerate Clinical and Translational Research Brian D. Athey, PhD
2:20 PM—2:40 PM	Medical Terminology Standards and Why They Are Important Kin Wah Fung, MD
2:40 PM—3:10 PM	Structured Discussion
3:10 PM—3:25 PM	Closing Comments J. Perren Cobb, MD
3:25 PM—3:40 PM	Break/Refreshments
3:40 PM—5:30 PM	Clinical Projects: Small Group Discussion