Evansville retreat focuses on “real world” data, adolescent mental health
On August 14, the Indiana CTSI put the spotlight on its partners at Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville for a research retreat. The event was combined with the annual Patrick J.V. & Margaret B. Corcoran Lecture series, an endowed lectureship honoring the founding director of the southwest region’s medical campus.
The agenda focused on the intersection of data and mental health. The presenters included researchers, medical students, and community partners. Many of the presentations highlighted Evansville’s unique research research contributions, activities, and facilities in “real world evidence” (RWE) and mental health, including the Mary O’Daniel and Bill Stone Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
This year’s Corcoran Lecture, “The Benefits and Risks of ADHD Medication: Evidence from Real-World Practice,” was delivered by Brian D’Onofrio, PhD, the Sharon Stevens Brehm Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU-Bloomington.
Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to engage with research locally and around the state through research presentations and a poster session. Several research talks and posters highlighted work by medical students using the recently-launched IU School of Medicine-Evansville RWEdataLab, a new research platform for analyzing de-identified electronic health records from millions of patients across the United States.
Kosali Simon, PhD, followed with an introduction of the Research Data Commons, an ambitious new project at IU which will enable the discovery, access, utilization, and sharing of new research data.
RWEdataLab will be added to the Research Data Commons later this fall.
The winners of the poster competition were:
- Sebastian Castillo (presenter) and Niki Messmore for their project, “Assessing Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Programs and Factors of Disclosure Rates”
- Keegan Leek (presenter), Meagan McNicholas, Michael S. Roscoe, and Arthur L. Chlebowski for their project, “Postoperative Depression Correlated with Obesity in Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Patients Following Total Joint Arthroplasty Operation Using Real World Database.”