Stanford University’s School of Medicine Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR), will be hosting its 2nd school-wide Colloquium, on January 29, 2024, in Paul & Mildred Berg Hall, from 8 am to 2 pm. 

Organized in collaboration with Stanford’s Quantitative Sciences Unit, the event will feature a plenary talk from Geeta K. Swamy (Associate Vice President for Research, and Vice Dean for Scientific Integrity at Duke University). Additional speakers and the full program will be available soon. 

SPORR will announce up to three monetary awards to SoM individuals, research teams, or labs who have demonstrated high standards or creative approaches to R&R in research or education. Nominations for the prizes can be submitted till January 8th 2024. Previous applications and winners can be seen at the award page.  

The Colloquium is free for all Stanford faculty and staff, and breakfast and lunch will be served. Please fill out the following registration form to secure your place at the Colloquium. 

Stanford University’s School of Medicine Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR), hosted its first school-wide Colloquium and Help-a-thon, on January 23rd, 2023. 

Organised in collaboration with Stanford’s Quantitative Sciences Unit, the event featured a plenary talk from Dr. Harvey Fineberg (President, Moore Foundation, former president of the National Academy of Medicine) in which he covered his experiences in drafting the NSF report Reproducibility and Replicability in Science; a talk from John Borghi, head of Stanford-s Lane Library, on the new Data Management and Sharing Policy that became active on January 25th. It also featured a talk from SPORR director, Steven Goodman, Associate Dean and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine on SPORR activities, and a round panel with faculty and postdocs on Stanford's Medicine approaches to Rigor and Reproducibility. Additionally, SPORR gave out 4 Rigor & Reproducibility awards and 2 honorary mentions.

The event recording can be seen here.

Program:

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00 Welcome: Dean Lloyd Minor  (10 mins) 

9:10 New Data Sharing and Open Access Policies: John Borghi (15  mins)

9:30 Keynote: Harvey Fineberg (20 min+ 10 min Q&A)

10:00 SPORR: Steve Goodman (15  mins) 

10:15 Coffee Break (15 min)

10:30 Panel discussion: What should the school-wide or SPORR approaches be to help SoM get ready for the new policies -  moderated by Ruth O’Hara (60 mins)

11:30 Rigor and Reproducibility Awards Ceremony (Awardees do lightning talks to present their work - each 5 minutes) (25 mins)

12:00 Closing - Help-a-thons / Lunch / (60 min)

• Rigor and Reproducibility consultation
• T32 proposal consultation
• Data Sharing and Data management plans consultation

Media coverage of the event:

SPECTRUM Newsletter and StanfordMed Today.