WHAT IS EPOR? The Essentials of Patient-Oriented Research (EPOR) is a crash course in how to conduct clinical research. Obtaining an EPOR certificate of completion will fulfill the Illinois Tech RCR requirement along with CITI RCR.

Winter EPOR registration is now open! Classes will occur via Zoom and will run from January 3 through March 7 for a total of 10 weeks, Tuesday evenings 5:15-6:15 p.m. After you register, you will receive Zoom instructions via email. Registration is due no later than January 16, the last date attendees can still be eligible for a certificate of completion. You’re eligible to receive a certificate of completion if you attend eight of the 10 sessions.

Here’s the registration link: https://redcap.uchicago.edu/surveys/?s=AXKECHJ9AC3E3KW8

EPOR WINTER 2023 SPEAKER LIST
Jan. 3: Elaine Worcester — Academic Fraud/Research Misconduct
Jan. 10: Micah Prochaska — Conflict of Interest
Jan. 17: Eric Ginsberg — Intellectual Property; Patents and Tech Transfer
Jan. 24: Steve White — Grantsmanship and Writing Your K Awards (Sex as a Biological Variable and Reproducibility)
Jan. 31: Doriane Miller — Health Equity & Community Engagement in Research
Feb. 7: Rochelle Naylor — Responsible Authorship and Reviewing
Feb. 14: Walter Stadler — Responsibilities of a Principal Investigator
Feb. 21: James Lynch — Institutional Review Board & Informed Consent: Ethics, History and Human Subjects Protection
Feb. 28: Elaine Worcester — Responsible Data Management and Reproducibility
Mar. 7: Jessica Felgenhauer — Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research and Sex as a Biological Variable