Cores
Our Cores work together to deliver interdisciplinary consultative services to accelerate clinical research to prevent or control rheumatic/musculoskeletal diseases and conditions and the poor outcomes associated with them.
Our Symphony Meeting serves as an entry point to FIRST-DailyLife, attended by your team and representatives from each of our Cores, for integrated recommendations, not given from methodologic silos.
Investigators at all stages of work are welcome.
Administrative Core
- Identifies high-impact projects and teams working in areas of our mission, applies FIRST-DailyLife to help them to develop while maintaining high rigor.
- Optimizes communication, cooperation, collaboration.
- Brings together investigators from different disciplines.
- Fosters training and development of researchers, and supports their development of clinical research applications for independent funding.
- Disseminates our advancements.
- Evaluates FIRST-DailyLife on an ongoing basis.
Methodologic Core
- Enhances methodologic training environment.
- Provides methodologic, consultative, and collaborative capabilities regarding:
- a) Study design and data collection methods
- b) Statistical science and analysis
- c) Epidemiology
- d) Behavioral science
- e) Nutritional science
- f) Implementation science/innovative study design
- g) Economic evaluation/decision science
- h) Genomics/bioinformatics
- i) Clinical informatics
- j) Data management
- Provides access to research databases.
Resource Core
- Creates and sustains interaction between stakeholders and research teams throughout project stages.
- Provides consultation to support design of research that better integrates individual and community perspectives.
- Facilitates operationalization of research and creation of dissemination plans for the scientific community and stakeholders.