2017 Boston Retreat

The 2017 Boston Retreat (November 26-29, 2017) was a 3-day retreat for training and project development for RAMS Scholars and Mentors that included didactic sessions, one-on-one mentoring with National Advisory Committee (NAC) mentors to discuss their project, and tutorials from a research methodologist to develop an analytic plan. It began the mentoring relationship between the RAMS scholars and NAC mentor, facilitated the development of the scholar’s research project, provided training on research methodology and engaged institutional mentors in the development of the RAMS scholar’s research project.

2017 Boston Retreat Plenary Leads:

• Carly Bridden, MA, MPH, Clinical Research Director in the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at Boston Medical Center
• Casy Calver, PhD, Managing Editor, Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence and Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
• E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Yale University
• Peter D. Friedmann, MD, MPH, FASAM, FACP, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
• Karen Lasser, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
• Patrick O’Connor, MD, MPH, FACP, Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine and Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Yale University.
• Mary-Tara Roth, RN, MSN, MPH, Director of the Clinical Research Resources Office (CRRO) and Assistant Director of the Human Research Protection Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Medical Campus.
• Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, John Noble MD Professor in General Internal Medicine & Professor of Public Health Boston University Schools of Medicine & Public Health
• Michael Stein, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management at the Boston University School of Public Health
• Judith Tsui, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Washington and is on staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Harborview Medical Center
• Michael Winter, MPH, Associate Director of Statistical Programming at the Boston University School of Public Health