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. September 2026: Facilitators & Barriers Survey – video
  2. August 2026: Data Cleaning – video
  3. June 2026: REDCap Tools for Large Flight Tracker – video
  4. April 2026: Flight Connector – Build a Network
  5. March 2026: The Scholar Portal – video
  6. February 2026: Mass Emails – video
  7. January 2026: Dashboards – video
  8. December 2025: Cohorts – video
  9. November 2025: Maximizing REDCap with Flight Tracker
  10. October 2025: Kaplan-Meier Success Curves – video
  11. September 2025: Examples of Using Cohorts – video
  12. August 2025: Awarding Individual Excellence – video
  13. July 2025: Inconsistencies in Publication Wrangling – video
  14. June 2025: Handling “Special” Figures – video
  15. March 2025: Collaborations on Publications – video
  16. February 2025: All About MeSH Terms – video
  17. January 2025: REDCap Logic – video
  18. December 2024: Data Cleaning – video
  19. November 2024: Visualizing Publications – video
  20. October 2024: Creating a Self-Signup Flight Tracker – video
  21. September 2024: Pearls of Publication Wrangling – video
  22. August 2024: Unpacking Cohorts – video
  23. July 2024: The Scholar Portal
  24. June 2024: Sending Flight Tracker Surveys – video
  25. May 2024: Exporting Useful REDCap Reports – video
  26. March 2024: Maximizing Value on a New Project – video
  27. February 2024: Tricks of Publication Wrangling
  28. January 2024: Crowdsourcing Implementation – video
  29. December 2023: Slicing & Dicing with Cohorts
  30. November 2023: Profiling a Group of Scholars – video
  31. October 2023: Getting Ready to Send Surveys – video
  32. September 2023: Name Matching – The Tough Cases
  33. August 2023: Scholar Portal Coming Soon – video
  34. June 2023: Scholar Follow-Up After They Leave – video
  35. May 2023: Multiple Flight Trackers – video
  36. April 2023: Cohorts / Filters / Sub-Groups – video
  37. March 2023: NIH Training Tables – video
  38. February 2023: All About Grants & the *NEW* Grant Wrangler – video
  39. January 2023: The Metrics of Mentoring – video
  40. December 2022: REDCap Forms for Flight Tracker – video
  41. November 2022: Uploading CSVs – video
  42. October 2022: REDCap Reports – video
  43. September 2022: Profiling a Group of Scholars – video
  44. August 2022: NIH Training Tables – video
  45. July 2022: ERIC Publications & Getting Started – video
  46. June 2022: NSF/NASA Grants & Publication Wrangler – video
  47. May 2022: Miscellaneous Updates – video
  48. April 2022: Federal RePORTER & Feature Switches
  49. March 2022: Miscellaneous Updates, Financial ROI
  50. February 2022: Mentee-Mentor Agreements – video
  51. January 2022: National Mentoring Month – video
  52. November 2021: Public Access Compliance & an Example Report – video
  53. October 2021: Open Q & A – video
  54. September 2021: Publication Impact Scores, CTSA Common Metrics, and Hazard Plots – video
  55. July 2021: Mid-Year Review – video
  56. June 2021: CTSA Common Metrics and Kaplan-Meier Curves – video
  57. May 2021: Patents and Cohort Projects – video
  58. April 2021: NIH RePORTER Updates – video
  59. March 2021: Internal Data Sharing – video
  60. February 2021: What’s New & What’s Next? – video
  61. January 2021: Ten New Year’s Resolutions – video
  62. December 2020: What Makes Careers Advance? Turning Flight Tracker into Research – video
  63. November 2020: Visualizing and Simplifying Your Data – video
  64. October 2020: Custom Mentoring Agreements – video
  65. September 2020: Publications and Bibliometrics – video
  66. August 2020: Miscellaneous – video
  67. July 2020: Spreading the Word about Flight Tracker At Your Institution – video
  68. Mentoring, Resources, and Feedback – video
  69. Advanced Configurations – video
  70. Ongoing Use and External Data-Sharing
  71. Reporting and NIH Tables
  72. Publication Wrangling
  73. Interpretation of Individuals, Population, and Sub-Groups
  74. Emails, Surveys, and Internal Data-Sharing
  75. Handling Grants
  76. Getting Started
Questions
Email the Edge team at info@edgeforscholars.org
upcoming Consortium Meeting events [ view all events ]
Edge for Scholars Retreat
September 9, 2026 | 8:30 am (In-Person) Camp Widjiwagan, Percy Priest Lake
Faculty Life
Mentoring
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Mid career faculty
Senior faculty
Grant Pacing Workshop R: Session 1
September 15, 2026 | 11:00 am (In-Person) Dr. Eric Austin | 2525 West End, VICTR Suite 609 Boardroom
Grant Pacing Workshop
Grants & Funding
Early career faculty
Optimizing Your Grant for the New R01 Scoring Criteria
September 17, 2026 | 12:00 pm (In-Person) Panel Discussion | MCN C-2209
EFS Seminar
Grants & Funding
Early career faculty
Creating and Optimizing Your SciENcv Biosketch
September 24, 2026 | 12:00 pm (Virtual) Panel Discussion
EFS Seminar
Grants & Funding
Pre/Post Doc
Early career faculty
Grant Pacing Workshop R: Session 2
September 28, 2026 | 9:00 am (In-Person) Dr. Eric Austin | 2525 West End, VICTR Suite 609 Boardroom
Grant Pacing Workshop
Grants & Funding
Early career faculty
Grant Pacing Workshop K: Session 1
October 7, 2026 | 11:00 am (In-Person) Dr. Julie Bastarache | 2525 West End, VICTR Suite 609 Boardroom
Grant Pacing Workshop
Grants & Funding
Early career faculty
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
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
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. Colin Orr

Assistant Professor

Department
Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
Award Type
  • Academic Pediatric Association Research Award - Early Career
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
Dr. Matthew Stier

Assistant Professor

Department
Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Award Type
  • K08 Recipient
EFS Programs Used



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