24EL-436 On-Demand eCast: The Journey from Observations to Publications -- Key Considerations and Experts’ Tips and Tricks

Live Program Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Program Number: 24EL-436

Educational Track: Technical/Clinical
Topics: Blood Donation & Collection, Patient Transfusion
Intended Audience: Directors, Hospital Blood Banks, Hospitals, Laboratory Staff, Managers/Supervisors, Medical Directors, Nurses, Other (others required to draft academic English texts), Perfusionists, Physicians, Research Scientists, Scientists, Students (MD, MT, SBB), Technologists, Transfusion Safety Officers
Teaching Level: Advanced, Intermediate

Faculty
(titles and affiliations at the time of the live program)
Director/Moderator: Huy P. Pham, MD, MPH, Medical Director; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP); Medical College of Wisconsin, Seattle, WA
Speakers: John R. Hess, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAAS, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine; Medical Director of Transfusion Service, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA; Aaron Hess, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Transplant Anesthesiology and Transfusion Medicine, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; Lance A. Williams, III, MD, Medical Director, Therapeutic Apheresis, Consultant Physician, Mayo Clinic–Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; Lynn G. Stansbury, MD, MPH, MFA, FACP, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Program Description
The path to peer-reviewed academic publication is long, complex, and often frustrating. Many early-career professionals may not be familiar with the process and may feel overwhelmed by it. In this program, the faculty will summarize the publication process and provide tips and frameworks to successfully conceptualize, draft, revise, and submit academic papers for peer-reviewed publication. They will start with identification of research questions and approaches to study designs, including design and interpretation of statistical analyses and pitfalls in these processes. Specific aspects of drafting abstracts, posters, digital slide, and virtual presentation will be addressed. Finally, the program will cover key aspects of drafting, formatting, and revising manuscripts for academic journal submission, including drafting the formal “response to reviewers”.

Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• List different types of publications and how to identify publishable hypotheses.
• Discuss different study designs and statistical techniques to aid in support (or refute) a hypothesis.
• Highlight common pitfalls in statistical interpretation.
• Review how to draft an abstract for submission and key aspects of an impactful scientific presentation.
• Discuss the process of writing a manuscript for publication and how to answer reviewers’ comments

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