jennifer lyon, ms, mlis, ahip - supporting clinical research
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AMIA Joint Summits on Translational ScienceLibrary-based Support for Clinical and Translational Research: The InformationistTRANSCRIPT
Supporting Clinical Research
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
Library-based Support for Clinical and Translational Research: The Informationist
Jennifer A. Lyon, MS, MLIS, AHIP
Clinical Research Librarian
UF Health Science Center Libraries
March 10, 2011
http://www.research.ufl.edu/research/pdf/dsrannual2010.pdf
UF Health Science Center
Six Academic Colleges
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Dentistry
Veterinary Medicine
Public Health & Health Professions
Shands Healthcare
Two Teaching Hospitals•852 Beds Gainesville•696 Beds Jacksonville
Cancer Hospital
Children’s Hospital
Level I Trauma Centers
5 Major Research Institutes
• UF Clinical & Translational Science Institute
• McKnight Brain Institute
• UF Genetics Institute
• Shands Cancer Center
• Institute on Aging
• Emerging Pathogens Institute
• Founded in 2008 • Provides over 40 services to UF&Shands researchers
– Phase I Clinical Trial Unit
– Clinical Research Center
– Core Laboratory Services
– Project ‘Navigators’ (consultant services)
• Provides various educational programs– KL2 and TL1 awards
– Research Coordinator Certificate Program
– MD-PhD Training
– MSCI
About the HSC LibrariesHealth Science Center Library (Gainesville)
11 Liaison Librarians •7 Subject Specialists
•4 Functional and Subject Specialists)
– Consumer Health and Community Engagement
– Distance Education
– Bioinformatics
– Clinical Research
Borland Library (Jacksonville)
•3 Librarians (Including Clinical Librarian starting Mar 15, 2011)
Librarians hold full tenure-track faculty status;
5 new hires in 2010: doubling size of Biomedical Health & Info Services Dept.
The Clinical Research Librarian
• Library competed for funding• UF Provost re-designated position for CTSI support• Hired July 23, 2010• Liaison to
– CTSI
– Emergency Medicine
– Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine
• Functions as cross-disciplinary expert in clinical research
Developing a New Role: Challenges
• No ‘role models’
• Complexity of clinical research
• High learning curve – Multiple Agencies and Regulations
– Unique to each institution
– New vocabulary (IRB, RAC, IND, DSR, RKRS…)
– Complex web of relationships to develop
Developing a New Role: Opportunities
• CTSI members involved in hiring committee • UF highly invested in clinical & translational
research• Other librarian-involved research collaborations in
development• Library expanding clinical services & support for
EBP• Previous 8 years experience in Emergency
Medicine facilitates new ED research collaborations at UF
CTSI Integration
• Serve in CTSI Regulatory Knowledge & Research Support (RKRS) Group
• Collaborate with RKRS members on studies/grants
• CTSI requested library instruction in academic course
• CTSI added literature searching services to RKRS portal
• Participation in CTSI Strategic Planning Retreat
• Representing UF on national CTSA Research Networking Committee
• Representing UF on national REDLOC committee
About the RKRS
CTSI Regulatory Knowledge & Research Support program
Develop a guided, single ‘pathway’ for clinical investigators to move from ‘idea’ to completed clinical study
Clinical Research Center
Institutional Review Board
Research Administration &
Compliance
Dept. of Sponsored Research
Office of Technology Licensing
Dental Research Unit
REDCap Data Capture/Management
Quality Assurance
Research Subject Advocacy
Biostatistics
BioRepository
Health Science Center Library
Research Ethics Project
RKRS-facilitated Research Team
Focus: Conflict of Interest in UF College of Medicine
Team Members:
•UF COM’s Conflict of Interest Officer
•RKRS program director
•REDCap services director/biostatistician
•Health and Science Communications doctoral student
•CTSI research project manager
•Clinical Research Librarian
Manuscript in submission process
Teaching
• Instructor in the CTSI’s credit-bearing course “Introduction to Clinical and Translational Research” (summer 2010, 2011)
• Taught literature searching skills to CTSI MD-PhD students fall 2010
Research Networking
• Representing UF on the CTSA’s national Research Networking Committee
• Participating on the VIVO Outreach Team at UF
Beyond the CTSI
• Emergency Medicine
• Brain Cancer Patient/Caregiver Education
• NIH Public Access Policy Services
• Support for Systematic Reviews
• In-house Training for Librarians
Emergency Medicine Research
• Joined research team of Dr. Latha Stead, ED Chief of Clinical Research. – Collaborating on systematic & structured reviews
• Providing training for ED research associates
• Providing mediated literature searches for ED faculty
• Serving as liaison librarian for Emergency Department– Attending resident teaching conferences
– Providing training for residents & faculty
– Selecting library materials
– Developing LibGuide for Emergency Medicine e-resources
Brain Tumor Patient Education
• Supporting library colleague on an interdisciplinary study of the information needs of brain tumor patients and their caretakers
• Collaborative team led by Dr. Erin Dunbar of the McKnight Brain Institute
NIH Public Access Project
• Leading a team of librarians • Developing library support services
– Creating materials including a LibGuide
– Creating prepared presentations
– Identifying UF departments not fully compliant
– Collecting information on Publisher’s PMC policies
– Investigating the value of providing ‘third-party submission’ services
Systematic Reviews
• Attended a 2.5 day workshop on writing Systematic Reviews at U. Pittsburgh
• Training Colleagues
• Expanding library services to patrons– Classes– Consultations– Collaborations
Future Goals
• Increase support for investigators writing IRB protocols
• Develop relationship with IRB
• Develop further opportunities for clinical research collaborations
• Train librarians in evidence-based practice
• Support and develop point-of-care clinical librarianship services and leverage on these to increase involvement in clinical research
In Conclusion
• The role of a librarian (“informationist”) specializing in clinical research is both innovative and exciting.
• There are huge opportunities and significant challenges ahead as we develop this new position
• This will serve as a role model for other libraries supporting clinical and translational research in the future