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SUMMARY:Elissa Z Faro\, PhD: Participant Experience in Longitudinal Research
DESCRIPTION:Participant Experience in Longitudinal Research \nKey Takeaways: \nDuring this presentation\, Dr. Faro will provide an overview of the current research on participant experience in longitudinal research. She will also present the analysis and results of the “Characterizing Participant Experience in Longitudinal Research: How and Why Engagement Matters in the ECHO Program” research. Positive experiences in research are multidimensional. Respectful\, family-centered interpersonal relationships with staff\, as well as practical aspects such as efficient scheduling\, manageable survey lengths\, and clear communication\, are equally crucial for maintaining engagement and satisfaction. Finally\, Dr. Faro will reflect on how the current participant engagement work in ECHO Cycle 2 reflects and attends to these principles. \n \nElissa Z Faro\, PhD\nManager\, Associate Member \nCenter for Discovery & Innovation @ Hackensack Meridian Health\nAssociate Professor | Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine \nBiography: \nDr. Elissa Zoe Faro is a medical anthropologist and implementation scientist at the Center for Discovery and Innovation\, where her research focuses on improving healthcare delivery and outcomes for underserved populations in the U.S. and globally. She applies ethnographic and mixed‑methods research to understand contextual factors influencing real‑world practice and to bridge the gap between evidence‑based interventions and their implementation in clinical\, public health\, and community settings. Her work spans diverse areas\, including pediatric emergency care\, maternal and child health\, sexual and reproductive health implementation\, and health equity. In addition to her Participant Engagement and Evaluation work on ECHO\, Dr. Faro currently serves as the contact Principal Investigator for an NIMH‑funded R01 three-variable hybrid implementation-effectiveness-context trial and as a Senior Implementation Scientist for the NIH IMPROVE initiative\, both focused on improving maternal health outcomes. She has held academic appointments at institutions including the University of Iowa\, Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, Dartmouth College\, and Brown University. \nDownload the slide presentation \n \n 
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/elissa-z-faro-phd-participant-experience-in-longitudinal-research/
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SUMMARY:Linda Adair\, PhD: ECHO OIF Accomplishments
DESCRIPTION:ECHO OIF Update \nKey Takeaways: \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Adair will provide an overview of the ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund (OIF) and the accomplishments of OIF awardees through 7 cycles of funding. The session will include brief presentations by former OIF recipients that highlight their contributions to ECHO and provide insights into how the OIF has benefitted their career development. \n \nLinda Adair\, PhD \nCC MPI \nCarla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition \nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \nBiography: \nDr. Adair is a biological anthropologist and nutrition epidemiologist with a research focus child nutrition and growth\, and the developmental origins of adult disease. She leads a birth cohort study in the Philippines that has followed children and their mothers for nearly 40 years. She has been a member of the faculty in Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC for the past 37 years. As MPI of the ECHO Coordinating Center\, she has played key roles in the OIF grant solicitations\, reviews\, and implementation since it began on in ECHO Cycle 1. \nDownload the slide presentation
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/linda-adair-phd-echo-oif-accomplishments/
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SUMMARY:Lyndsey Shorey-Kendrick\, PhD: Prenatal Substance Exposure and DNA Methylation in Children
DESCRIPTION:Prenatal Substance Exposure and DNA Methylation in Children \nKey Takeaways:  \nThis presentation will focus on the current landscape of maternal substance use during pregnancy and some of the known effects on offspring\, including changes to DNA methylation. DNA methylation is a chemical modification that controls how genes are expressed\, and these alterations may lead to changes in normal development. DNA methylation patterns can serve as a molecular record or biomarker of prenatal substance exposure and can be used to understand potential biological pathways or mechanisms linked to future health outcomes. This presentation will specifically focus on how we can fill gaps in knowledge related to the effects of prenatal tobacco and cannabis exposure\, by highlighting previous work in ECHO and describing opportunities for future studies. \n \nLyndsey Shorey-Kendrick\, PhD \nComputational Biologist \nOregon National Primate Research Center \nDivision of Neuroscience \nBiography: \nDr. Shorey-Kendrick is a Computational Biologist in the Department of Neuroscience at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Her research focuses on how in utero exposures (e.g. cigarette smoke\, cannabis\, alcohol\, and diet) can interact with the epigenome to alter fetal development and future health outcomes. Her work has linked prenatal vitamin C supplementation to improved lung function in childhood via DNA methylation signatures\, identified placental DNA methylation as a mediator of dysregulated transcriptional signaling and placental function in pregnant smokers\, and led to the development of a novel placental DNAm biomarker of maternal smoking in ECHO. \nMeeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/297350639989589?p=tScRrHqwVwfDa7DlRC
URL:https://echochildren.org/event/lyndsey-shorey-kendrick-phd-prenatal-substance-exposure-and-dna-methylation-in-children/
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