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{"title":"Improving access to services in neuro-developmental disability: proceedings of a national meeting to advance community capacity.","authors":"David B Nicholas, Lucyna M Lach, Samantha B Sutherland, Joanne Maxwell, Stephanie McFarland, Anton R Miller, Angela Clancy, Julie Scorah","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00311-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00311-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of a participatory project to advance navigational service delivery systems for children with neurodevelopmental disability (NDD) and their families, this paper addresses proceedings from a capacity-building conference in Vancouver, Canada. A total of 29 invited key stakeholders attended the meeting with the following aims: knowledge sharing amongst provincial/territorial regions advancing NDD navigation capacity; sustainable action-oriented knowledge exchange; and operationalizing next steps to build navigation resources across Canadian regions. Regional representation included multiple and inter-sectoral partners (e.g., not-for-profit organizations, government, education, health, researchers, etc.) strategically invited to address mutually-agreed upon regional challenges, where ideas for envisioning, planning and success could be developed for ultimate operationalization in three Canadian provinces and one territory based on need for building navigational service delivery systems in NDD.Advancements in navigational service delivery were shared by site leads in the four represented regions of the initiative: Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, and Yukon. Each regional lead conveyed targeted accomplishments, priorities and issues in moving navigation forward. Identified successes comprised the development of trusting partnerships across agencies and sectors, innovation and connection among service/navigation organizations and leaders, and training advances. Struggles included insufficient regional clarity on guiding principles for navigation services, a lack of resources relative to family need for services, and insufficient infrastructural supports in regions. Based on key learnings within and across regional groups, plans for regional development were strategized and shared.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"19 Suppl 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11748236/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142999819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing conflict styles to accelerate leadership effectiveness.","authors":"Greg Pennington","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00313-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00313-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When describing leadership effectiveness as influencing and impacting the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of others, it can be seen as a critical skill in the overall effectiveness of leaders in general, including those in higher education. Understanding what leadership skills contribute to differentiating between average leaders and more effective leaders, provides insights into where transitions from individual academic roles to leadership ones can be accelerated. In this article we share thoughts and an approach to identifying the importance of conflict management as a key leadership skill to increasing overall leadership effectiveness. We describe a workshop facilitated as a component of the Accomplishing Career Transitions (ACT) Program of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The workshop, A Leadership Primer uses the Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI), individual reflection, peer coaching and goal setting to provide insight into the origin and impact of individual conflict management styles. While there is evidence indicating that the use of a Collaborative style provides more opportunities for effective leadership, the participants in the ACT were like other academic leader samples that showed more use of a Compromising style. The workshop and follow up sessions provided coaching support to identify origins of conflict styles and options for increasing flexibility to apply a range of conflict styles.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 1","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11622453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142783936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"World Health Organization African Region national heads of units of diagnostics and laboratory services meetings proceedings.","authors":"Sheick Oumar Coulibaly, Michelle Amri, Christine Vuguziga, Aminata Binetou-Wahebine Seydi, Lorna Maria Aine, Bertha Kembabazi, Sokona Sy, Lindiwe Elizabeth Makubalo","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00305-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00305-1","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;In the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region, many cases of serious and preventable diseases remain unmanaged because appropriate and good quality diagnostic support is not available at all levels within countries' health systems. Diagnostic and laboratory services influence the efficiency and effectiveness of both clinical and public health functions, including diagnosis, treatment, health promotion, disease prevention, surveillance and response, and research. Essential to global health security, these services are vital to decision-making processes by clinicians, epidemiologists, public health specialists, and health policymakers. To update, promote, and reinforce diagnostic and laboratory services, it was deemed necessary to organize consultation meetings. These consultation meetings hosted: national diagnostic and laboratory directors or heads of units within ministries of health; officers in charge of laboratories from WHO country offices; representatives of the WHO African Regional Office (AFRO) clusters, units, and Headquarters; experts; and strategic partners. This article details the consultation meetings hosted in Lomé, Togo from 14 to 17 June 2022 and in Kigali, Rwanda from 5 to 7 July 2022.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;Although the two meetings were made distinct due to their different operating languages-French and English, respectively-each consultative meeting sought to engage participants in the same thematic areas of discussion, thus containing the same presentations and areas of discussion. This article compiles the presentations of both meetings, where a total of 85 individuals attended, reflecting 30 countries in the African Region.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;Summaries of technical presentations at both meetings are provided, which have the following titles: (1) \"AFRO: new vision for the laboratory sector;\" (2) \"WHO strategies for strengthening laboratories;\" (3) \"Collaborative registration process for in vitro diagnostic products: introduction and implementation;\" (4) \"Status of diagnostics and laboratory regulations in the African Region;\" (5) \"Health technology management;\" (6) \"The Global Laboratory Leadership Programme;\" (7) \"Model list of essential in vitro diagnostic devices;\" (8) \"Primary health care & laboratory and diagnostic services;\" (9) \"Antimicrobial resistance control and laboratory systems;\" and (10) \"Integrated laboratory systems' contributions to disease control programmes.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion: &lt;/strong&gt;Following the technical presentations, thematic exchanges were planned around six key areas, with one country presenting their experiences per theme, both at the meeting held in French and for the meeting held in English. Therefore, two countries' experiences are detailed around each of the six thematic areas, which are: laboratory governance (Guinea and Sierra Leone), laboratory policy and planning (Togo and Zimbabwe), regulation and legislation (Senegal","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 17","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11603677/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142738346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to construct and deliver an elevator pitch: a formula for the research scientist.","authors":"Leslie A Caromile, Ankita Jha, Jaye C Gardiner, Ozlem Dilek, Ryoma Ohi, Lee Ligon","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00312-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00312-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11590272/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142725982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meeting report of the seventh annual Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium Symposium.","authors":"Zachary S Liechty, Richard T Agans, Robyn A Barbato, Sophie M Colston, Monica R Christian, Rasha Hammamieh, Melissa R Kardish, J Philip Karl, Dagmar H Leary, Camilla A Mauzy, Ida Pantoja-Feliciano de Goodfellow, Kenneth Racicot, Jason W Soares, Blake W Stamps, Charles R Sweet, Sara M Tuck, Jordan A Whitman, Michael S Goodson","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00307-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00307-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium (TSMC) was founded to enhance collaboration, coordination, and communication of microbiome research among DoD organizations and to facilitate resource, material and information sharing among consortium members, which includes collaborators in academia and industry. The 2023 annual symposium was a hybrid meeting held in Washington DC on 26-27 September 2023 concurrent with the virtual attendance, with oral and poster presentations and discussions centered on microbiome-related topics within five broad thematic areas: 1) Environmental Microbiome Characterization; 2) Microbiome Analysis; 3) Human Microbiome Characterization; 4) Microbiome Engineering; and 5) In Vitro and In Vivo Microbiome Models. Collectively, the symposium provided an update on the scope of current DoD and DoD-affiliated microbiome research efforts and fostered collaborative opportunities. This report summarizes the presentations and outcomes of the 7th annual TSMC symposium.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 20","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11542233/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142589987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intergenerational impact of drought and famine on health systems in developing countries - symposium proceedings.","authors":"Edson T Marambire, Abdifatah Abdulahi, Awoke Wondie, Addisu Gize, Afework T Mekonnen, Khim Khadka, Ivan Manhica, Nicole Quinn, Nidhi Saiwal, Tiza Mufune, Vahuka Q Valiyakath, Guenter Froeschl","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00310-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00310-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 2024 edition of the One Health symposium explored the intergenerational health impacts of drought and famine in developing countries, with a focus on innovative strategies for resilience-building in healthcare infrastructures. Organized by students of the CIH^LMU Center for International Health at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, the event convened experts and participants from diverse backgrounds to address the urgent challenges posed by climate change-induced crises. Through presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative exchanges, the symposium underscored the profound health and socioeconomic implications of climate-related disasters, emphasizing the need for cross-sectoral cooperation and transformative action. Key recommendations emerged, including integrating climate change considerations into health systems, fostering multidisciplinary collaboration, and empowering communities to withstand future challenges. Despite the severity of the current situation, the symposium instilled optimism and determination among participants, inspiring a collective commitment to building a brighter and more resilient future for generations to come.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 23","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11536704/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research priorities for the study of atrial fibrillation during acute and critical illness: recommendations from the Symposium on Atrial Fibrillation in Acute and Critical Care.","authors":"Stephanie Sibley, Clare Atzema, Martin Balik, Jonathan Bedford, David Conen, Tessa Garside, Brian Johnston, Salmaan Kanji, Camron Landry, William McIntyre, David M Maslove, John Muscedere, Marlies Ostermann, Frank Scheuemeyer, Andrew Seeley, Marco Sivilotti, Jennifer Tsang, Michael K Wang, Ingeborg Welters, Allan Walkey, Brian Cuthbertson","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00309-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-024-00309-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia encountered in acute and critical illness and is associated with poor short and long-term outcomes. Given the consequences of developing AF, research into prevention, prediction and treatment of this arrhythmia in the critically ill are of great potential benefit, however, study of AF in critically ill patients faces unique challenges, leading to a sparse evidence base to guide management in this population. Major obstacles to the study of AF in acute and critical illness include absence of a common definition, challenges in designing studies that capture complex etiology and assess causality, lack of a clear outcome set, difficulites in recruitment in acute environments with respect to timing, consent, and workflow, and failure to embed studies into clinical care platforms and capitalize on emerging technologies. Collaborative effort by researchers, clinicians, and stakeholders should be undertaken to address these challenges, both through interdisciplinary cooperation for the optimization of research efficiency and advocacy to advance the understanding of this common and complex arrhythmia, resulting in improved patient care and outcomes. The Symposium on Atrial Fibrillation in Acute and Critical Care was convened to address some of these challenges and propose potential solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 22","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11536622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk stratification in breast screening workshop.","authors":"Andrew Anderson, Cristina Visintin, Antonis Antoniou, Nora Pashayan, Fiona J Gilbert, Allan Hackshaw, Rikesh Bhatt, Harry Hill, Stuart Wright, Katherine Payne, Gabriel Rogers, Bethany Shinkins, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Rosalind Given-Wilson","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00306-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-024-00306-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Population screening for breast cancer (BC) is currently offered in the UK for women aged 50 to 71 with the aim of reducing mortality. There is additional screening within the national programme for women identified as having a very high risk of BC. There is growing interest in further risk stratification in breast screening, which would require a whole population risk assessment and the subsequent offer of screening tailored to the individual's risk. Some women would be offered more intensive screening than others or no screening. This might provide a better balance of screening benefits and harms for each individual than the current population age-based programme alone. The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is considering using decision-analytic and other models to evaluate different risk stratification screening strategies and identify remaining gaps in evidence. This paper reports the proceedings of a UK NSC workshop where experts in the field discussed both risk prediction models, as well as decision-analytic models providing a benefit-harm analysis/economic evaluation of risk-stratified screening programmes (see Table 1). The aim of the meeting was to present and discuss the current work of experts, including some data which had not been published at the time of the meeting, to inform the UK NSC. The workshop was not intended to present a balanced evaluation of how to deliver screening in future. Areas for further work identified included methods for comparing models to assess accuracy, the optimum risk assessment tools, the digital screening infrastructure, acceptability of stratification, choice of screening test and reducing inequalities. A move to risk stratification of the whole programme would require a careful phased introduction with continuing assessment of real-world evidence during deployment.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 19","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500431/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142494828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meeting Abstracts from the 9th Annual Atlantic Corridor Medical Student Research Conference : Clinical Science Institute, School of Medicine University of Galway 10^th November, 2023.","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00304-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-024-00304-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 18","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11475532/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142457670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical use of big data for healthy communities and a strong nation: unique challenges for the Military Health System.","authors":"Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Jessica Korona-Bailey, Jared Elzey, Brandeis Marshall, Lea A Shanley","doi":"10.1186/s12919-024-00308-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-024-00308-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) created powerful tools for research, particularly for extracting meaningful insights from extremely large data sets. These developments increase research benefits of big data and risks posed to individual privacy, forcing a re-examination of ethics in research which is of particular importance to the Military Health System. To advance discussion of research ethics in this context, the Forum on Health and National Security: Ethical Use of Big Data for Healthy Communities and a Strong Nation was held in December 2018. The workshop was designed to identify ethical questions relevant to population and health research studies using difficult to access, health-related data in the Department of Defense (DoD). Discussions explored researchers' ethical obligations to research subjects, particularly in the areas of privacy, trust, and consent, as well as potential methods to improve researchers' ability to collect, access, and share data while protecting privacy and potential risks to national security. These include creating risk management frameworks and data governance policies, improving education and workplace training, and increasing community involvement in research design and practice. While the workshop was conducted in 2018, the discussion of data ethics is still relevant today. The research agenda of the nation is best served by building ethics into the research ecosystem. There are substantial challenges to fully realizing this goal including commitments of time and funding to address the ethical complexities, train others to understand them, and create appropriate ethical frameworks before research begins.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"18 Suppl 21","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11475531/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142457671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}