Studying Healthcare as a Network: Does the Analysis Match the Question?

Studying the healthcare system as a network can help researchers uncover patterns of opioid over-prescription or predict how a virus outbreak might overtax a healthcare network. But researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center caution that the type of algorithms used to make these discoveries could provide misleading results.

Announcing the 2017 KL2 Career Development Awardees

This year’s KL2 Mentored Career Development Program awardees are up and running! Their projects include developing a tool to predict which pediatric patients are likely to have unplanned readmission or Emergency Department revisits and evaluating the impact of palliative care consultation on healthcare decision-making for chronic kidney disease patients.

Moxley, a Pioneer in Muscular Dystrophy Research and Care, to Step Down

URMC Department of Neurology founding father Richard (Dick) Moxley III, M.D., is retiring after a career spanning more than four decades.  Moxley has been an important member of the CTSI community, as former director of the Clinical Research Center and co-director of the Pilot Studies Program.

Study challenges longstanding explanation of dental pain

Eastman Institute of Oral Health Professor and former CTSI KL2 Scholar, Xiuxin Liu, D.M.D., Ph.D., recently published a study that provides new insights into how pain is transferred within the teeth and surrounding tissues.

Q & A with Former KL2 Scholar Wakenda Tyler: Balancing Orthopaedic Surgery and Rare Cancer Research

2010 recipient of the CTSI KL2 Career Development Award, Wakenda Tyler, talks about how the award has impacted her career and led to new research directions. As an orthopaedic surgeon, the KL2 award helped her carve out protected time to pursue research on a rare type of kidney cancer.