Flight Connector – Shared Library

Flight Connector – Shared Library

A shared library of contents & methodsfor Flight Connector: Build a Network

Flight Connector: Build a Network requires content or concepts alongside methods or tools to be checked off by the attendees at a meeting. Below is a list of contents & methods that others have shared.

Do you want to share yours? Email EFSSoftware@vumc.org to add your contents & methods to the library.

VFRS – Vanderbilt Medical Center

Contents

AIDS/HIV
Aging/geriatrics
Allergy/immunology
Autoimmune disease
Autonomic regulation
Behavioral science/behavioral psychology
Biochemistry
Biomedical engineering/bioengineering
Biomedical ethics
Biomedical informatics
Biophysics
Bone biology
Cancer biology
Cancer care & therapeutics (includes immunotherapy)
Cancer epidemiology & prevention
Cancer survivorship & quality of life
Cardiovascular disease (e.g., MI, arrythmia, CHF)
Cardiovascular function/physiology
Cell biology
Cellular signaling
Chemistry
Child development/developmental disorders/learning disorders
Chronic disease management
CNS function/regulatory mechanisms
Complementary and alternative medicine
Critical Care
Dementia including Alzheimer's
Dermatology
Diabetes/metabolic syndrome
Emergency medical care
Endocrinology
Environmental sciences
Epidemiology
Exercise science/exercise physiology
Extracellular matrix
Gastroenterology/GI
Genetics/genomics/epigenetics
Global health
Health behavior/health education
Health disparities/health equity/minority health
Health literacy and communication
Health policy/healthcare economics
Healthcare delivery/healthcare organization
Hematology/hematopathology/clinical hematology
Hepatic function/disease
Human development
Hypertension
Immunization/vaccine development
Implementation science
Infectious disease
Inflammatory response/pathways/cytokines/eicosanoids
Kidney disease and physiology (e.g., AKI, CKD, dialysis, renal function)
Lymphedema and lymphatics
Metabolism/metabolomics/lipidomics/lipid metabolism
Microbiome
Molecular biology
Musculoskeletal research (e.g., skeletal muscle physiology, neuromuscular disorders, hard and soft tissue biomechanics)
Neonatology
Neurobiology/neuroscience/neurology
Neurodegenerative disease  (e.g. Parkinsons, Huntingtons, ALS, ubiquitin pathway)
Nuclear transcription & translation
Nursing
Nutrition
Obesity
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics/sports medicine
Pain/pain syndromes
Palliative care
Pathology
Pediatric care/child health
Personalized medicine
Pharmacology/pharmacokinetics
Pregnancy (including early pregnancy biology)
Preventive intervention
Protein chemistry
Proteomics
Psychiatry/psychology/mental health
Pulmonary medicine/pulmonary disease
Radiology/imaging
Regeneration/injury repair/stem cell biology
Reproductive physiology
Rheumatology
Sex & gender biology/differences
Sexuality
Sexually transmitted infections
Sleep science
Social science
Speech and language pathology
Stem cell biology
Structural biology
Substance use/abuse/addiction (all)
Surgery/trauma
Systems biology/computational biology
Tissue fibrosis
Toxicology
Transplantation biology
Urologic and pelvic floor disorders
Vascular biology
Viral disease/virology
Women's health & healthcare/gynecology

Methods

Actigraphy
Advanced statistical/quantitative methods
Animal imaging
Animal models: knockout/knockdown
Animal models: mouse
Animal models: other
Animal models: primate
Animal models: rabbit
Animal models: rat
Animal models: zebra fish
Behavioral methodology: animal
Behavioral methodology: human
Biomedical informatics/informatics (big data, EMR, administrative data, etc.)
Biomarkers/immunoassays
Biostatistics: basic science research
Biostatistics: clinical epidemiology/epidemiology
Biostatistics: cost effectiveness
Biostatistics: high dimensional data
Biostatistics: predictive models
Biostatistics: RCT
BioVU use
Body composition measures
Cell culture
Chemical biology
Clinical trials (all phases/types)
Cognitive assessment
Cohort study methods & analysis
Community engaged/community based research
Comparative effectiveness research
Computational biology/modeling
Cost effectiveness
Decision analysis
Device development/testing
Dietary measures/energy and nutrient intake/energy balance
Disease surveillance/public health surveillance
DREADD
Drug discovery/development
EEG/ERP
Electrophysiology/event potentials
ELISA
Endothelial progenitor cells
Enzyme/chemical analytic techniques (including Raman spectroscopy)
Epidemiologic models
Flow cytometry
Gene editing/gene delivery/gene therapy/CRISPR
Genetic epidemiology
Genetic methods: DNA arrays/sequencing analysis (Next Gen, GWAS, exome, B-DNA, Z-DNA, SNP detection, etc)
Genetic methods: Gene expression profiling/mRNA sequencing (mRNA, ChIP, DamID, imputation of function)
Genetic methods: Microbiome (microbiota arrays, comparative genomics, taxonomy, phylogeny)
Genetic methods: Genetic ancestry (ancestry informative markers, admixture mapping, genetic evolutionary biology)
Genetic methods: Other
Geospatial modeling/GIS
Glycemic/insulin clamp studies
Health services research
Imaging, clinical
Imaging, MRI/fMRI
Imaging, PET
Implementation science (design/methods/analysis)
in vitro cell culture assays
Longitudinal studies/data analysis/repeated measures
Machine learning/AI
Mass spectrometry
Meta-analysis/systematic review
Meta-analysis in genetic research
Metabolic cart
Metabolic flux/tracer molecules
Microscopy (electron, light, fluorescent, other)
Molecular biology methods
Molecular modeling (including x-ray crystallography)
Neurophysiology/neuropsychology
NMR
Outcomes research
Polysomnography/sleep studies
Protein chemistry
Psychometrics: instrument development
Psychometrics: survey methodology
Psychophysiology/eye tracking/pupillometry
Patient reported outcomes measures
Patient safety
Public health practice
Qualitative methods
Quality improvement
Quasi-experimental design
Recruitment methods
Risk prediction/predictive modeling
Robotics/medical robotics
Screening and diagnostic studies (including test development/eval)
Shared decision-making
Single cell technologies
Stem cell/IPS models
Structural biology
Systems biology
Systems development
Time-to-event modeling
Transplantation biology methods
Questions
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