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Upcoming Webinars:
September 24, 2024 1pm-2pm EST--Sensory Loss and Cognition presented by: Nick Reed, PhD & Josh Ehrlich, MDS
October 15, 2024 12pm-1pm EST--How to Win Over Editors and Reviewers: Pearls from a Journal Editor presented by: Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH
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2025-2026 Pilot LOI Applications due December 6, 2024
Two $40,000 pilot grants will be awarded for the 2025-2026 cyclePilot Info Session: November 6, 2024 12-1pm EST
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Boot Camp 2024: October 27-29
Applications Closed for 2024
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Recent Blog Posts
October 1, 2024 USDeN Webinar: N-of-1 Trials to Promote Deprescribing
Join the USDeN October 1, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT) for a special webinar: N-of-1 Trials to Promote Deprescribing. The featured presenter will be Dr. Parag Goyal of Weill Cornell Medicine. This webinar will outline the potential value of N-of-1 trials as an innovative strategy to promote deprescribing. More broadly, it will […]
Prevention of postoperative delirium using an overnight infusion of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A pragmatic, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial
Contributed by Olivier Huet, MD, PhD, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Background Postoperative delirium is acknowledged to have a significant negative impact on patient outcome after cardiac surgery including long-term cognitive decline. To date, there is no specific treatment for postoperative delirium 1. Prevention of postoperative delirium primarily relies on patient re-orientation, mobility and […]
Investigator of the Month (September 2024): Robert Sanders
Professor Robert Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, DABA, FRCA, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience and MBBS (medicine) followed by specialist training in Anaesthetics. During that time, he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding […]