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>1324 sites around the world

• >1324 sites around the world

• >65 international sites in 38 countries. (5%)

• CITI Collaborating Centers

• Develop sustainable CITI Programs for the international research community.
• Latin America
• Taiwan
• Japan
• Korea
• India
• Middle East
• Canada

Multi-language Course Site. 11-2007

• Multi-language Course Site. 11-2007

• Updated in 2008 and 2009 to accommodate UTF-8 character sets.

• Languages.

• English
• Spanish (NAID, FIC)
• Portuguese (NAID, FIC)
• Chinese
• Japanese
• French (NIAID)
• Thai (US Army)
• Russian (US Army)
• Korean
• Kartuli (FIC)
• Arabic

CITI International Collaborating Centers

• CITI International Collaborating Centers

• CITI - India Anil Sharma, MD
• CITI - Korea - B.I. Chou Ph.D.
• Caribbean/Latin America/South America – Sergio Litewka , MD
• CITI -Taiwan – Benjamin Kuo, MD /Paul Braunschweiger Ph.D.
• CITI - Japan – Iekuni Ichikawa, MD
• CITI - Canada – Karen Arts, MS - Ontario Institute of Cancer Research.

November 24,25,26

• November 24,25,26

• SRU- Sri Ramachandra University

• Prominent University in Chennai
• More than 43,000 students
• Has Medical, Pharmacy, Nursing and Dental Schools.
• Affiliated with Harvard Medical International

Paul Braunschweiger

• Paul Braunschweiger

• Mansoor Ahmed

• Ram Agarwal

• Anil Sharma

• S.P. Thyagarajan

• Melody Lin

• Chiu Lin

• Jerry Castellano

• Researchers from Academia and industry are invited to discuss content development.

• Over 100 researchers attending 3 day meeting.

• Guest speakers include ICMR officials.

We thank OHRP for their generous support to help start CITI India.

• We thank OHRP for their generous support to help start CITI India.

Update on Collaborations since October 2008– Paul Braunschweiger

• Update on Collaborations since October 2008– Paul Braunschweiger

• CITI International Cooperative Centers

• CITI - India Anil Sharma, MD
• CITI - Korea - B.I. Chou Ph.D.
• Caribbean/Latin America/South America – Sergio Litewka , MD
• CITI -Taiwan – Benjamin Kuo, MD /Paul Braunschweiger Ph.D.
• CITI - Japan – Iekuni Ichikawa, MD
• CITI - Canada – Karen Arts, MS - Ontario Institute of Cancer Research.

Benjamin I. Kuo, MD, DrPH CIP

• Benjamin I. Kuo, MD, DrPH CIP

• Secretariat, Joint Institutional Review Board

Enhancement of CITI Chinese version to be more friendly for non-scientific IRB members.

• Enhancement of CITI Chinese version to be more friendly for non-scientific IRB members.

• Translation of Responsible Conduct Research (RCR) in CITI.

• Set up of Humans Subject Protection Association in Taiwan (HuSPAT) – PRIM&R Taiwan version.

HSR

• HSR

• BioSafety

• International public access

• Lab Animal

• RCR Course.

Overview

• Overview

• Lab acquired infections

• Risk Assessment

• Risk Management

• Work Practices

• PPE

• Engineering Controls

• Lab Design

Eric Cook - Dartmouth U

• Eric Cook - Dartmouth U

• Michael Spath - CUNY

• Andy Cockburn - U. West Virginia

• Marcia Finucane - U. Kentucky

• Norma Epley - ECU

• Jairo Betancourt - U of Miami

• Paul Braunschweiger - U. Miami

• Reviews are due back to the office by 10-1-09.

• Course - ready for the PRIM&R meeting.

Overview

• Overview

• Lab acquired infections

• Risk Assessment

• Risk Management

• Work Practices

• PPE

• Engineering Controls

• Laboratory Design

www.irbtrainining.org

• www.irbtrainining.org

• Training for non-US collaborators on Us funded projects.

• Developed in 2003-2004 through NIH funded “IRB enhancement grants”

• Platform, translation tools and translations.
• Materials in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and French languages

• Move training database CITI platform

RCR

• RCR

• Biomedical
• Social and Behavioral Research*
• Physical Sciences
• Humanities*
• Engineering
• RCR and Science Administrators

The RCR with lab animals

• The RCR with lab animals

• Paul Braunschweiger Ph.D.

• The RCR with human subjects.

• Jason Borenstein Ph.D.

• RC of scholarly activities in the humanities

• Sharon Shriver Ph.D.

• RCR in the social and behavioral sciences

• Dan Vasgird Ph.D.

Hired a science and technology editor to resolve outstanding issues in the CITI RCR modules.

• Hired a science and technology editor to resolve outstanding issues in the CITI RCR modules.

• Comments regarding typos in the modules
• Grammatical errors
• Poor quiz question.

• Deliver is November 14.

• Reviewed and reconciled by December 1, 2009.

• Implemented by 1-1-10

Human subjects

• Human subjects

• Biomedical
• Community Member
• ESCRO
• Social and Behavioral

• Good Clinical Practice

• English
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Chinese
• Thai
• French, not posted.

• HIPS

RCR

• RCR

• Biomedical
• Social and Behavioral Research*
• Physical Sciences
• Humanities*
• Engineering
• RCR and Science Administrators

• Bio-safety and Bio-security

Software update - 8-10-09

• Software update - 8-10-09

• Mike Fallon and the VA software team
• Changes to the code and new hardware - 2,500 concurrent users. (3x increase computing power.)
• “Look Back” utility is now fully functional
• Institutions can give credit for modules completed previously at any time at any institution.
• Improved tools for CITI support staff, and more levels of authoring permissions

Software update

• Software update

• UTF-Character set fully implemented
• Installed: French, Russian and Thai language templates.
• Portal system fully implemented.
• 3 institutions are using the portal system,
• 8 more are being installed.
• Content and registrations and user data from www.IRBTraining.org is being transferred to the www.CITIProgram.org platform.

Software update

• Software update

• CITI Japan- many enhancements
• Learner’s menu updated- less clutter and more relevant info to learner
• A new category of module added to gradebooks- “optional”
• Gradebook simplified- now only one course per gradebook (reduced programming complexity and enhanced site speed)

Hardware 8-10-2009 - ~$33K

• Hardware 8-10-2009 - ~$33K

• 4 new web servers
• 2 new database servers.
• 3Tb back up

At discretion of institution, allow credit for other institution’s modules and coursework.

• At discretion of institution, allow credit for other institution’s modules and coursework.

• Implement method of giving “credit” to employees for didactic training taken outside the CITI web platform.

• Implement an automated method for institutional administrators to assign new coursework to groups or subgroups of learners.

Security question implementation for learners- easier password recovery

• Security question implementation for learners- easier password recovery

• Better tools to translate course and site pages

• More seamless implementation of remote portals

• Migration to Cold Fusion to simplify programming and more easily add new features

Professional time

• Professional time

• 0.7 FTE

• Office Personal

• 9.5 FTE

• Consultants

• Content
• Technical

• Program development

• Meetings

• $230,000

Navigation

• Navigation

• Perceived value

• Utility

• Intentions

• Research Component

• Participation in research
• Mentoring experiences