PMID- 18646341
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080923
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1049-510X (Print)
IS  - 1049-510X (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 2 Suppl 2
DP  - 2008 Spring
TI  - Addressing health disparities through multi-institutional, multidisciplinary 
      collaboratories.
PG  - S2-161-7
AB  - The national research leadership has recently become aware of the tremendous 
      potential of translational research as an approach to address health disparities. 
      The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research 
      Network (RTRN) is a research network that supports multi-institutional, 
      multidisciplinary collaboration with a focus on key diseases and conditions for 
      which disproportionately adverse racial and ethnic health disparities exist. The 
      RTRN is designed to facilitate the movement of scientific advances across the 
      translational research spectrum by providing researchers at different 
      institutions with the infrastructure and tools necessary to collaborate on 
      interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects relating to specific 
      health outcomes for which major racial/ethnic disparities exist. In the past, the 
      difficulty of overcoming the restrictions imposed by time and space have made it 
      difficult to carry out this type of large-scale, multilevel collaboration 
      efficiently. To address this formidable challenge, the RTRN will deploy a 
      translational research cluster system that uses "cyber workspaces" to bring 
      researchers with similar interests together by using online collaboratory 
      technology. These virtual meeting environments will provide a number of tools, 
      including videoconferences (seminars, works in progress, meetings); project 
      management tools (WebCT, Microsoft Share Point); and posting areas for projects, 
      concepts, and other research and educational activities. This technology will 
      help enhance access to resources across institutions with a common mission, 
      minimize many of the logistical hurdles that impede intellectual exchange, 
      streamline the planning and implementation of innovative interdisciplinary 
      research, and assess the use of protocols and practices to assist researchers in 
      interacting across and within cyber workspaces.
FAU - Fleming, Erik S
AU  - Fleming ES
AD  - Research Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Research Network, Charles 
      R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California 90062, USA. 
      erikfleming@cdrewu.edu
FAU - Perkins, James
AU  - Perkins J
FAU - Easa, David
AU  - Easa D
FAU - Conde, Jose G
AU  - Conde JG
FAU - Baker, Richard S
AU  - Baker RS
FAU - Southerland, William M
AU  - Southerland WM
FAU - Dottin, Robert
AU  - Dottin R
FAU - Benabe, Julio E
AU  - Benabe JE
FAU - Ofili, Elizabeth O
AU  - Ofili EO
FAU - Bond, Vincent C
AU  - Bond VC
FAU - McClure, Shelia A
AU  - McClure SA
FAU - Sayre, Michael H
AU  - Sayre MH
FAU - Beanan, Maureen J
AU  - Beanan MJ
FAU - Norris, Keith C
AU  - Norris KC
LA  - eng
GR  - P20RR011126/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003034/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011104/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR14616/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003051/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 MD000148/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003037-190005/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003037/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20RR11104/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR022762/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003026/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR014616/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR019234/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011104-07/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR019234-02/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011126/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003051-226706/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR022762/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR03037/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR11145/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR019234/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - RR03026/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011145/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 MD000148-05/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011145-11S10014/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - UL1 TR000454/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12RR03051/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR014616-078080/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 RR022762-026884/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - G12 RR003026-110004/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P20 RR011126-12/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Ethn Dis
JT  - Ethnicity & disease
JID - 9109034
SB  - IM
MH  - Biomedical Research/*organization & administration
MH  - *Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Health Services Research
MH  - *Healthcare Disparities
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interinstitutional Relations
MH  - United States
PMC - PMC2705198
MID - NIHMS97224
EDAT- 2008/07/23 09:00
MHDA- 2008/09/24 09:00
PMCR- 2009/07/02
CRDT- 2008/07/23 09:00
PHST- 2008/07/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/09/24 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/07/23 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/07/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ethn Dis. 2008 Spring;18(2 Suppl 2):S2-161-7.