CAREER DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING ACTIVITIES DURING PROPOSED AWARD
This proposed career development award will provide the necessary training and protected time to successfully execute the
proposed research projects and acquire new skills regarding multi-level modeling, survey development, analysis of health
communication, health behavior, child adherence, and intervention development. No more than 25% effort each year will be
devoted to clinical and teaching activities.
Objective
Responsible
conduct of
research
Course (C); Presentation/Publication (P); Task (T)
C/seminar: ethics grand rounds
C: ethics in clinical science
C: research ethics, biomedical science
AIM 1
T: extract EHR data
Clinical practice T: clean and perform descriptive analyses
elements
C: multi-level modeling (two courses)
T: perform multi-level modeling analysis
P: present findings/write manuscript on clinical practice elements
AIM 2
T: recruit pediatricians and collect surveys
Communication C: health survey research
methods and
T: analyze baseline pediatrician surveys
content
T: recruit participants, record visits, and collect baseline measures
P: present findings, write/submit manuscripts on baseline communication data
C/tutorial: Roter Interaction Analysis Training (Baltimore)
T: code recordings and determine inter-rater reliability
T: collect one-year follow-up measures/surveys
T: clean and analyze data
C: cross-cultural clinical research course
P: present findings, write/submit manuscripts on one-year communication data
AIM 3
C: clinical research courses (two courses)
Pilot
T: develop pilot intervention and submit protocol to IRB
intervention
T: recruit pediatricians, pilot intervention, and collect data
T: clean and analyze data
P: present findings, write/submit manuscript on pilot intervention
Apply for R01 T: develop effectiveness intervention trial (grant application)
Mentor(s)
Flores (F)
F
F
Barlow (B), F
B, F
F
B, F
B, F
B, F, Wiebe (W)
F,W
B, F, W
B, F, Roter (R), W
B, F, R, W
R
F, R, W
B, F, R, W
B, F, R, W
F
B, F, R, W
F
B, F, R, W
B, F, W
B, F, R, W
B, F, R, W
B, F, W
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Coursework. Ethics courses - See Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (Section 5). Multilevel Modeling. University
of Kansas. Five-day intensive training on designing multilevel studies and analyzing hierarchically-organized data, including
estimating/interpreting random effects, multi-parameter tests, cross-level interactions, and modeling longitudinal data. Multilevel
Models for Binary Responses. University of Bristolonline. Includes examining latent variables, random intercept/slopes, clustering effects. Health survey research course: Developing
and Validating Measures in Clinical Research. UTSW. Survey design, development, and validation. Cross Cultural Clinical
Research. UTSW. Strengthens skills in cross-cultural competencies necessary to design/implement research in diverse
populations. Clinical-Trials Research: From Proposal to Implementation: UTSW. Topics include recruitment, monitoring patient
safety, data collection, and analysis. Advanced Clinical Research Design & Analysis. Pre-specifying primary/secondary outcomes;
surrogate measures; analysis of incomplete data; minimizing bias and flaws in study design.
For more information on this timeline, please refer to Dr. Turer’s K23 grant application.