Stanford University’s School of Medicine Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR), hosted its 2nd school-wide Colloquium, on January 29, 2024.

The recording of the event is availble online. 

The Colloquium focused on efforts of US medical schools and Stanford to improve and support research rigor and reproducibility, the foundation for “future-proofed” research.

SPORR also handed out two RaRe Researcher Awards to Jan Niklas Hansen and Kif Liakath-Ali who have demonstrated high standards and creative approaches to Rigor and Reproducibility in research.

SPORR is part of Spectrum, Stanford’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education, directed by Dr. Ruth O’Hara, Senior Associate Dean of Research, and supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR003142. 

Program:

8:30 - 9:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - Welcome: Drs. Ruth O'Hara and Steven Goodman   

9:15 AM - Keynote 1: Dr. Geeta K. Swamy: Protecting & Promoting ​Quality & Integrity ​in Research​

9:35 AM - Keynote 2: Dr. Alexa T. McCray: The rigor, reproducibility and responsibility effort at Harvard Medical School 

9:55 AM - Q&A and Discussion  

10:30 AM - Coffee Break 

10:45 AM - Faculty Panel and Discussion with Jennifer S. Brown - Clinical Research Quality; Manisha Desai - Quantitiative Sciences Unit; Ryan Leib - Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, David Magnus -  Center for Biomedical Ethics; Angela Rogers - Pulmonary and Critical Care, Thomas C. Südhof - Nobel laureate, Molecular and Cellular Physiology; Avnesh Thakor - Pediatric Radiology.   

12:00 PM - SPORR: Steven Goodman  

12:15 PM - Rigor and Reproducibility Awards Ceremony (Awardees lightning talks)

12:30 PM - Individual Conversations Among Speakers and Attendees

1:00 PM - Close

Media Coverage of the Event:

Stanford Medicine News

Award Coverage in The Mercury News

Coordination, Communication, and Operations Support (CCOS) Center CTSA News

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.

SPORR is part of Spectrum, Stanford’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education, directed by Dr. Ruth O’Hara, Senior Associate Dean of Research, and supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR003142. 

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