How to (and How Not to) Set Up and Begin Clinical Research

Kathy Ellerbeck, MD, MPHAssistant Professor of PediatricsCenter for Child Health & DevelopmentSeptember 30, 2008

Objectives

• Getting the Grant: Discuss strategies for facing the “vast empty space” of the PHS 398 form

• DOING the Grant: Describe strategies for the pursuit of subjects for the grant

• Surviving the Grant: Review strategies for successful grant and life management

The long and winding road

• Preventive medicine residency (MPH)

• MCH fellowship DB Pediatrics – research project with the BWIS

• CMH faculty• KU faculty• Program project IHD• Cure Autism Now grant• New grants

Vildt begejstret = Fire in the belly

RULE #1:

Choose a question you really want to answer!

Collaboration

RULE #2:

Collaborate! You really don’t have to know it all!

•Jill Jacobson MD, Matt Reese PhD, Catherine Smith PhD – CAN grant

•KUCTT/Matt Reese, Ph.D. – Autism: Support to the Medical Home

•Chris Daley, PhD – Qualitative study of barriers to diagnosing ASD

Facing the PHS 398 Form

• Find a mentor

• Take a grant writing class

• Learn what you don’t know

• Look for institutional supports (e.g. K30) PHS 398 Form me

DOING the research

• Finding help

RULE #3

Compete for resources

• Finding subjects

RULE #4

Remember the KISS principle

Where did all my subjects go?

• Estimating your patient population

• Brochures

• Location, location, location

LESSONS LEARNED (the hard way!)

• CAN grant age group

• PediaMed Clinical trial

• The brochure brouhaha

• KU is way “downtown”

Juggling the Triple Threat

Clinical Care * Teaching * Research

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician

Fellowship Director, DB Pediatric Fellowship

LEND grant faculty

Rotation co-coordinator for pediatric residents

Co-Chair, KAAP Committee for CYSHCN

RULE# 5

Protect your research time(Own your own problems)