Consortium Meeting

Consortium Meeting

Monthly Partner Meetings withWhat's New, What's Next & a Deep Dive
We gather on the first Wednesday of every month, except holidays, from 1-2pm Central Time.

Meeting Schedule: 1st Wednesday of Each Month at 1pm Central Time

  • What’s New?
  • Deep Dive
  • What’s Next?

Email Scott Pearson to request an invitation. It’s an open meeting!

Newbie Call

Slides from Prior Meetings

  1. October 2026: Advanced Publication Wrangling – video
  2. September 2026: Facilitators & Barriers Survey – video
  3. August 2026: Data Cleaning – video
  4. June 2026: REDCap Tools for Large Flight Tracker – video
  5. April 2026: Flight Connector – Build a Network
  6. March 2026: The Scholar Portal – video
  7. February 2026: Mass Emails – video
  8. January 2026: Dashboards – video
  9. December 2025: Cohorts – video
  10. November 2025: Maximizing REDCap with Flight Tracker
  11. October 2025: Kaplan-Meier Success Curves – video
  12. September 2025: Examples of Using Cohorts – video
  13. August 2025: Awarding Individual Excellence – video
  14. July 2025: Inconsistencies in Publication Wrangling – video
  15. June 2025: Handling “Special” Figures – video
  16. March 2025: Collaborations on Publications – video
  17. February 2025: All About MeSH Terms – video
  18. January 2025: REDCap Logic – video
  19. December 2024: Data Cleaning – video
  20. November 2024: Visualizing Publications – video
  21. October 2024: Creating a Self-Signup Flight Tracker – video
  22. September 2024: Pearls of Publication Wrangling – video
  23. August 2024: Unpacking Cohorts – video
  24. July 2024: The Scholar Portal
  25. June 2024: Sending Flight Tracker Surveys – video
  26. May 2024: Exporting Useful REDCap Reports – video
  27. March 2024: Maximizing Value on a New Project – video
  28. February 2024: Tricks of Publication Wrangling
  29. January 2024: Crowdsourcing Implementation – video
  30. December 2023: Slicing & Dicing with Cohorts
  31. November 2023: Profiling a Group of Scholars – video
  32. October 2023: Getting Ready to Send Surveys – video
  33. September 2023: Name Matching – The Tough Cases
  34. August 2023: Scholar Portal Coming Soon – video
  35. June 2023: Scholar Follow-Up After They Leave – video
  36. May 2023: Multiple Flight Trackers – video
  37. April 2023: Cohorts / Filters / Sub-Groups – video
  38. March 2023: NIH Training Tables – video
  39. February 2023: All About Grants & the *NEW* Grant Wrangler – video
  40. January 2023: The Metrics of Mentoring – video
  41. December 2022: REDCap Forms for Flight Tracker – video
  42. November 2022: Uploading CSVs – video
  43. October 2022: REDCap Reports – video
  44. September 2022: Profiling a Group of Scholars – video
  45. August 2022: NIH Training Tables – video
  46. July 2022: ERIC Publications & Getting Started – video
  47. June 2022: NSF/NASA Grants & Publication Wrangler – video
  48. May 2022: Miscellaneous Updates – video
  49. April 2022: Federal RePORTER & Feature Switches
  50. March 2022: Miscellaneous Updates, Financial ROI
  51. February 2022: Mentee-Mentor Agreements – video
  52. January 2022: National Mentoring Month – video
  53. November 2021: Public Access Compliance & an Example Report – video
  54. October 2021: Open Q & A – video
  55. September 2021: Publication Impact Scores, CTSA Common Metrics, and Hazard Plots – video
  56. July 2021: Mid-Year Review – video
  57. June 2021: CTSA Common Metrics and Kaplan-Meier Curves – video
  58. May 2021: Patents and Cohort Projects – video
  59. April 2021: NIH RePORTER Updates – video
  60. March 2021: Internal Data Sharing – video
  61. February 2021: What’s New & What’s Next? – video
  62. January 2021: Ten New Year’s Resolutions – video
  63. December 2020: What Makes Careers Advance? Turning Flight Tracker into Research – video
  64. November 2020: Visualizing and Simplifying Your Data – video
  65. October 2020: Custom Mentoring Agreements – video
  66. September 2020: Publications and Bibliometrics – video
  67. August 2020: Miscellaneous – video
  68. July 2020: Spreading the Word about Flight Tracker At Your Institution – video
  69. Mentoring, Resources, and Feedback – video
  70. Advanced Configurations – video
  71. Ongoing Use and External Data-Sharing
  72. Reporting and NIH Tables
  73. Publication Wrangling
  74. Interpretation of Individuals, Population, and Sub-Groups
  75. Emails, Surveys, and Internal Data-Sharing
  76. Handling Grants
  77. Getting Started
Questions
Email the Edge team at info@edgeforscholars.org
upcoming Consortium Meeting events [ view all events ]
Managing a Data Safety Monitoring Board
October 8, 2026 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Dr. Todd Rice
EFS Seminar
Doing Research
Management & Leadership
Early career faculty
Grant Pacing Workshop K: Session 2
October 14, 2026 | 1:00 pm (In-Person) Dr. Julie Bastarache | 2525 West End, VICTR Suite 609 Boardroom
Grant Pacing Workshop
Grants & Funding
Early career faculty
AI: A Nuts & Bolts Workshop
October 19, 2026 | 1:00 pm (In-Person) 202 Light Hall
Workshop
Doing Research
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Mid career faculty
Senior faculty
Edge Book Club: The Power of the Other
October 23, 2026 | 2:00 pm (In-Person) Dr. Julie Bastarache | 2525 West End, VICTR 6th Floor Lounge
Communication
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Mid career faculty
Senior faculty
Designing Your Career
November 5, 2026 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Dr. Mark de Caestecker
EFS Seminar
Grants & Funding
Faculty Life
Writing & Publishing
Job Search
Pre/Post Doc
Vanderbilt Libraries’ Open Access Resources
November 12, 2026 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Tara Helmer & Kayce Gill
EFS Seminar
Writing & Publishing
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
What You Really Need from Mentors
January 14, 2027 | 12:00 pm (In-Person) Panel Discussion | Location TBA
EFS Seminar
Mentoring
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Productivity and Time Management
January 28, 2027 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Dr. Stephany Duda and Dr. Alvin Jeffery
EFS Seminar
Productivity
Life Hacks
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
EFS Translational Science & Research Forum 2027
January 29, 2027 | 9:00 am (In-Person) Student Life Center
Forum
Doing Research
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Mid career faculty
Senior faculty
Responding to Reviewer Comments
February 4, 2027 | 12:00 pm (In-Person) Panel Discussion | Location TBA
EFS Seminar
Grants & Funding
Writing & Publishing
Wellbeing & Legacy Mapping
February 18, 2027 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Dr. Alvin Jeffery
EFS Seminar
Faculty Life
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Lessons Learned While Building a Career
February 25, 2027 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Dr. Evan Brittain
EFS Seminar
Faculty Life
Early career faculty
Testimonials
Success
Dr. Eric Mukherjee

Instructor

Department
Dermatology
Award Type
  • K08
EFS Programs Used
Dr. Myrick Shinall
Associate Professor
Department
Surgery and Medicine
Award Type
  • R01
EFS Programs Used
Dr. Siri Liu
Assistant Professor
Department
Biomedical Informatics; Computer Science
Award Type
  • R01
EFS Programs Used
Dr. Alex Sundermann

Assistant Professor

Department
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Quantitative & Division of General Obstetrics
Award Type
  • K01 Recipient
EFS Programs Used



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