Show Notes
Description
Dr Kristy Townsend visits the studio as we shine a light on RAPTIC, the Research Accelerator Program to Translate, Innovate, and Commercialize at Ohio State. Discover how researchers can turn discoveries into impact through this innovative program. We hope you can join us!
Topics
RAPTIC
Research Innovation
Learning Objectives
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the goals and structure of the RAPTIC program at Ohio State.
- Explain how research, innovation, and commercialization benefit academic medicine.
- Identify the types of support available to faculty innovators through RAPTIC.
- Apply strategies to enhance innovation readiness within a research program.
Guest
Dr Kristy Townsend
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Associate Dean for Research Operations and Compliance
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Links
The Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement (FAME)
Research Accelerator Program to Translate, Innovate, and Commercialize (RAPTIC)
Episode Transcript
[Dr Mike Patrick]
This episode of FAMEcast is brought to you by the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring, and Engagement at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
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[Dr Mike Patrick]
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of FAMEcast. We are a faculty development podcast from The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of Ohio State. It’s episode 15. We’re calling this one turning ideas into impact, RAPTIC and research innovation.
We want to welcome all of you to the program. So happy to have you with us. You know, innovation does not stop at discovery.
Equally important is the process of translating those ideas into practice and into impact. And in this episode of FAMEcast, we are going to explore the RAPTIC program at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, which aims to do just that. It empowers faculty to move their research from the lab to practical use in the medical marketplace.
We’ll discuss how RAPTIC fosters a culture of innovation, supports investigators through training and mentorship, and helps accelerate the translation of ideas that improve health and patient care. Of course, in our usual FAMEcast fashion, we have a terrific guest joining us in the studio to discuss the topic. Dr. Kristy Townsend is a professor of neurosurgery and associate dean for research operations and compliance at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Before we get to her, I do want to remind you that we have additional resources from The Ohio State University College of Medicine that you can find on our website. Just head over to famecast.org and click on the resources tab that’s up at the top of the page. And we have two links there for faculty development modules on Scarlet Canvas.
One group is called advancing your clinical teaching and the other one is FD for me, which stands for faculty development for medical educators. There are scores of learning modules on Scarlet Canvas, so be sure to follow those links to find lots more useful information specifically targeting academic medical faculty. Also want to remind you the information presented in FAMEcast is for general educational purposes only.
Your use of this audio program is subject to the FAMEcast terms of use agreement, which you can find at famecast.org. So, let’s take a quick break. We’ll get Dr. Kristy Townsend settled into the studio and then we will be back to talk about research innovation. It’s coming up right after this.
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[Dr Mike Patrick]
Dr. Kristy Townsend is a professor of neurosurgery and associate dean for research operations and compliance at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She founded and leads the research accelerator program to translate, innovate, and commercialize, also known as RAPTIC.
She’s here to share more about RAPTIC, including goals of the program, eligible participants, the application process, and what those who are accepted can expect in terms of programming and support. We’ll also explore the concept of research innovation and why it is so important in academic medicine. But before we dive in, let’s offer a warm FAMEcast welcome to our guest, Dr. Kristy Townsend, thank you so much for stopping by the studio today.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Oh, thanks for having me.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah, we are really excited to talk about this program. Why don’t we start with just an explanation of what the RAPTIC program is and how did it get started?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah, great. So, when I was previously director of our women in medicine and science program or WIMS, which is now called widening impact in medicine and science, we wanted some initiatives to address inequities in research and just really enable everyone, all faculty to be successful with research. Because I’m active in the research innovation space, I knew that was one area where we could see more broadened participation and accessibility to information.
So, I started thinking about programs that have helped me get into this research space. And then I built RAPTIC out of that in 2022. So, we ran it in the college of medicine, a pilot in 2023, and then ran it again in 2024.
And that was the end of my term as director of WIMS. So, we decided to keep the program going because we had been hearing a lot of positive feedback and we felt like we were filling a lot of gaps on campus. We wanted to keep it going and open it up college wide. So, we focus on health, medical and biomedical fields, but college of medicine is not the only place where we have faculty doing work in those fields.
So now we’re open across campus. We have six colleges participating and we’re, yeah, relaunched.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah, that is, that is really fantastic. So, it’s a college of medicine. I would imagine things like public health, nursing, maybe.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah. Vet med, human, human ecology and biomedical engineering. A lot of engineering innovations are coming through RAPTIC now.
So yeah. Arts and sciences, pharmacy.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah, that is fantastic. And then what are the core goals of the RAPTIC program?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
So, this year we’re running across three phases, and the phases are meant to step up. So, faculty can come in wherever they are across these phases of innovation. So, phase one is, is early.
So, these are folks who want to just strengthen their translational and clinical research programs, learn about what it means to, you know, do the ideation to innovation process. What is intellectual property? Do they have anything in their research that could be protected and then potentially commercialized?
So that sort of builds the foundation. So, some people come in at that stage and then they can keep going. Some people are ready to move in phase two, which is early commercialization.
So, this is looking at, you know, your product market fit, doing some customer discovery, starting to think about funding the innovations, things like that. And then phase three is much more advanced commercialization. So, looking more at licensing, spin out formation, business plans.
But along the whole trajectory, people are really focused in hopefully on a single project or product and how they can, you know, de-risk that, develop that, hone that and get it ready to hopefully get out in the healthcare world and be utilized.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Because you know, we can innovate and have something new that we think of and we can show that it works in research, but actually getting it out there into the marketplace and having it used and making a difference in patients and families lives is a completely different set of skills than the initial development and research, right?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Exactly. And as scientists and researchers and clinicians, we’re not trained in this world of innovation and commercialization. It’s a whole different lingo.
So, we actually provide a glossary in our handbook of all the different terms that everyone’s learning. It’s different sources of funding. It’s just a different way of thinking about research when you’re, when you want a product to get out there in the hands of customers.
So, for, for not profit, it doesn’t really matter in that case to commercialize, but yeah, that’s a whole different skillset. So, we were trying to bring people together to learn from each other and to learn from experts and be connected to resources.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
You mentioned the colleges that have participated and there’s a lot of them here at Ohio State. Who exactly is eligible? So, if someone’s listening to this and they have a product or an idea that they’re working on, how do they know if they’re eligible to participate in the RAPTIC program?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yes. So, we are targeting faculty primarily. So, any faculty at Ohio State or Nationwide Children’s who have an innovative project can apply.
We do have six participating colleges that have dedicated seats. So, the participant seats that you can be fully involved in the program. If you’re outside those colleges right now, we have a couple of scholarship seats through our health science innovation office up in technology transfer.
So, anyone can apply. We accepted everybody this year, luckily who applied. And then the additional members of research teams can attend what we call our learning sessions.
So, no matter what phase you’re in of RAPTIC, we have two components of the program. One is a monthly learning session running from September to May. So those are opened up to other members of research teams.
So, you know, students, postdocs, fellows can join those learning sessions. And the other component is coaching. So, we’ve trained faculty in peer research coaching, which is a subset of executive coaching.
So, it’s not mentoring. People might get separate business mentors as part of RAPTIC. It’s coaching.
So, it’s helping people set goals, attain goals, you know, prioritize their project outcomes and things like that. So that is especially prominent in phase one, but in phase two, we also have entrepreneurs from campus who are also functioning as research coaches.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Is there a cost to participating in the program?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
So RAPTIC does cost us money to run. We pay the coaches, we pay for some of the presenters coming in, we pay for materials for the participants, and we have some seed funds available for people to, you know, maybe prototype a device or get some money for a seed project or, you know, help get, you know, an SBIR competitive, for example. But there’s no cost to the participants.
So, the colleges that have dedicated seats, they’re paying into the program right now. We also have financial support from Wexner Medical Center, and then we have personnel in-kind support coming from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Julie Johnson, and also Health Science Innovation through Paco Hurson. So, we have a lot of great partners and participating colleges to enable us to run the program.
And hopefully each year we can get, you know, more and more budget and include more and more people. Yeah.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
I wonder if that’s something that could be written into a grant proposal, which actually might make the proposal even, you know, stand out that, hey, we also have access to this program called RAPTIC that can help us commercialize this product. And then that would be a stream of income as well, I would imagine. I’m sure your gears are working and figuring out all sorts of things.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yes. So, some grants, like a T32 training grant, people have written RAPTIC into it as an opportunity for postdocs or grad students to get involved in the innovation space. That wouldn’t bring money into our program, but we did write RAPTIC into a couple of grants through the CTSI that are under review at NIH right now, program grants.
So, these would help us grow and expand RAPTIC and fund that.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah, that is terrific. What does the application process look like? Is it, is it cumbersome or streamlined?
Because you never know what you’re going to get with an application process.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Exactly. Well, we try and keep the bar pretty low because our goal is really, you know, to educate our community here at Ohio State and help people gain entry to this new world of innovation research. So, the, we hope the application is pretty simple.
We just want to figure out do people have a project that could turn into a technology and a product that they could be focused on during their RAPTIC year? So, the application really is just asking a couple of questions about what innovation work they’re doing and what they think they would gain by joining RAPTIC. And then part of the application is a commitment to attending.
So, we feel strongly that these learning sessions and coaching sessions work more effectively if they’re in person. So, there’s a scheduling commitment. And we do provide everyone with the calendars in advance so they can mark, especially for folks in the clinic and the OR.
We know how important it is to get calendars marked early. That’s it. That’s, it’s a simple application.
And then just, you know, showing that you’ve got the dedication and commitment to complete the program.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah. And I would imagine this looks good on a promotion dossier as well, like being involved in and learning how to do something that’s sort of outside of our, our wheelhouse to, to really improve health and wellbeing, you know, for patients and families everywhere across the country and even around the world.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
I certainly hope so. I think it’s a little tough with traditional promotion and tenure. This is not typically the type of stuff that gets counted.
Papers and grants and teaching and clinical service tend to be more heavily weighted, but I do think that culture is shifting. I do think people, do you see the value in learning this and in potentially diversify, diversifying your funding portfolio through these types of projects and bringing in licensing revenue to the university. But in general, you know, even beyond PNT, we see a lot of faculty just find so much personal satisfaction from this work.
They enjoy it. It’s like flexing a different muscle, you know, learning a different skill. And so, people really enjoy that part.
And it also gets them out of their academic silos, meeting people they wouldn’t have normally met that could become either collaborators or just a friend or someone who can give them some advice and some peer mentorship. So, a lot of the benefit is what we hope is more faculty retention.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of collaborating with other resources at Ohio state, there’s, it’s a very large university, lots and lots of resources.
What are some examples of a RAPTIC collaboration within the university at large?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah. And I think I’ll answer that from the frame of, of what, you know, resources exist here that people might not know about. So, we do something every year that we now call the RAPTIC parade of innovation resources.
So, for about an hour and a half to two hours, we bring in entities from around campus, but also regionally. So, Ohio Life Sciences and RevOne are two examples of external resources, but they all come in and give five-to-10-minute presentations about what they offer the innovation community. So, it could be the software innovation center, the M4 lab that can prototype and 3d print devices, pediatric device consortium that’s over at Nationwide Children’s.
We have a, you know, a cell therapy and drug discovery Institute. Like there’s all these things around campus that people don’t always hear about, but are great resources and make OSU really competitive, I think in the innovation space. So that’s a big way we’ve connected people and help them find internal collaborations through these cores.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
And I would imagine that then from there, there’s a lot of networking kind of opportunities and you may end up going in a direction that you never thought you would go in just because of the collaboration with people outside of your, your normal wheelhouse, right?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Exactly. And we’ve also seen, you know, clinicians and surgeons, physicians realize that they’ve made innovations in their clinical care workflows that they had no idea could become commercializable or could be protected by IP in some way. Maybe they’re at, you know, a digital healthcare solution or they’ve changed, you know, a clinical workflow or something like that.
And they didn’t realize that that’s an innovation that they can develop. So, we see a lot of those aha moments and also some examples where people come in with an idea and realize it’s not something that can be commercialized easily, but they have this other idea. And once they hear more about how patents work and how, you know, VC funding works and things like that, then they might move on to their second project that might have more of a likelihood to be successful.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. And that’s really another way that you support participants, just with a structured curriculum that looks at innovation, commercialization pathways, things that you probably aren’t already familiar with or certainly could use better, deeper understanding and mentorship and all of those things that really resources that folks need to succeed. I would imagine that other large medical centers, especially academic medical centers have innovation training programs or is this unique?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
So, some do. I don’t think any quite have the design we have. One of the things I like about our design, and I think is innovative in and of itself is that the learning sessions are coupled with coaching.
So, we’ll have experts come in. We had, you know, Paul Reeder in September come talk about the process of ideation. We have Carolyn Crisafulli coming in January to talk about customer discovery and how that process works.
So, they’re not just getting the content from an expert in the room, but then, you know, sort of the public, the other participants leave, the RAPTIC participants stay with the expert who’s been sharing their knowledge and then they get one-on-one feedback. So how does ideation relate to this specific idea that I have or how does customer discovery work for me if this is a product, I’m at this stage with? So, they’re not just getting the knowledge that could have become a webinar.
They’re getting personalized, individualized feedback. Everyone’s under non-disclosure agreements. They can talk freely in the room about their innovations, even if they haven’t been protected yet because everyone’s Ohio State.
So that’s not considered a public disclosure. So, I think that component of the program, the coaching in a group and then the individualized coaching makes it a little bit unique. But yes, a lot of academic med centers do focus on innovation to varying degrees, but I think there’s, you know, been some opportunity at Ohio State to do more in this space.
I think we’re really uniquely positioned to roll out a lot more technologies that our research teams have been working on but haven’t yet had the full support to get them out in the world. So, I think, yeah, we’re trying to fill the gaps.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah, absolutely. And I think for folks out there who may not be at Ohio State, because actually about half of our audience is not, if you are interested in a research innovation and commercialization of ideas and products, this will be a great place to come because we have this RAPTIC program that is pretty unique and very well developed. And research innovation is really important these days.
Explain why it’s so critical in academic medicine that we have this program.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah, I think for two main reasons. I think, you know, number one, all of us every day are creative and innovative people in our day jobs, whether we’re, you know, working with a patient or working in a laboratory or, you know, on and on. And a lot of what we do stays within our team and doesn’t get rolled out.
And I think once we can commercialize these innovations, it enables them to have longevity, to be used more broadly and implemented in the healthcare setting. But at the university fiscal level, I think this is a great opportunity to diversify incoming funding. So indirect cost rates on federal grants are likely to go down, but if we can increase license revenue, which might be a longer-term venture, that’s a great way to bring in additional resources to the research community.
But also, there’s a lot of grants tailored toward research innovations. So, NIH has device specific funding opportunities. NSF has a strong STTR program, which is a small business program that supports development of new technologies, et cetera, et cetera.
So if we can help faculty see how their work fits in the innovation space and what funding opportunities are available, then hopefully they get to the stage of a licensing opportunity that can not only enable the product to get out into the healthcare world, which is the ultimate goal, but also help revenue coming back to the university to support the research enterprise.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah. Now while researchers and clinicians are involved in innovation, what are some of the barriers that they face in success?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah. I think, you know, early on in folks’ careers, you do have to really focus on promotion and tenure. And these are not typically, you know, things that are counted toward promotion and tenure.
So, time and prioritization can be the early barriers. But I think once people are ready and typically it’s because they’re excited about doing this type of work, they want to see their ideas get out there in the world, then it becomes a barrier based on access to knowledge and resources. And so that’s how we’ve built RAPTIC is once people are ready, we want to be there to help connect them to the people, the entities that are already in place, the experts in and out of the university who can help them, you know, think about and work on their project in a way that will truly accelerate the project in this one year program.
Yeah.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Not to keep banging on this, but the promotion and tenure thing, it’s really about impact and national reputation. And I can’t think of a much bigger way to have a national reputation and achieve impact by creating a useful medical thing, whatever that is, that is helping with health outcomes.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
I fully agree. And I think, you know, for us at Ohio State, we have a narrative section of the promotion and tenure dossier, which is exactly where you can put this type of thing. And I think it would be well-received.
Some departments are counting an issued patent equivalent to like a high-impact publication. But, you know, as we know, patents take a long time to get issued, usually longer than a promotion and tenure process. So that can be challenging.
And there is, you know, sometimes the worry that if faculty are working in this space, they might be not as focused on their main research that leads to grants and papers, because with something that you’re about to patent, you know, you haven’t published that yet, by definition, if you, if you haven’t protected it yet, it can’t be publicly disclosed in talks or papers. So there, you know, can be a little bit of tension between the academic mission and this sort of innovation work, but I think they’re truly compatible. I fully agree.
This is impact. This is raising the visibility of Ohio State and also to our healthcare community, right? Like Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s, our innovations are out in those clinics.
So, I think, I think it definitely has impact and we should not shy away from it.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. The participants, as you mentioned that there’s all of these pressures in academic medicine, certainly, you know, clinical time, you know, your research lab, your teaching, then you’re trying to innovate.
How do you help participants balance all of that?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah. And I think it’s where you are in the trajectory. Cause I think early on a lot of time, the innovation work you’re doing is part of your daily research and clinical work, but it’s when you get further along, maybe you need to form a spin out company.
Then you really need to think about, am I wanting to work on this sort of nights and weekends? So, so I have a spin out company and that is not my day job. And so, this has to be done with my team nights and weekends.
And that’s something I decided to do for me. I was excited to do it, and I thought for our product, it was necessary. But for some faculty, that’s just not a model that can work and there are other options where things can hopefully get directly licensed out without forming a spin out.
And then there’s not as much of a time pressure. But I think early on it can merge pretty well with your existing research duties. You’ve just sort of got to take off your typical research hat, which is, how can I talk about this at a conference?
How can I write a grant proposal? How can I publish and wear a different hat of, you know, how can I figure out the best way to fit this product out into the market? Do I have a market?
How do I, what’s my go-to market plan for sales? You know, how can I talk to a VC about this effectively? Because even those things like giving a pitch for investment funding is completely different than the talks we give in science and medicine.
So, so it is, it is a different focus, but in a way, it can merge very well with your typical day job early on, I think.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
And you, RAPTIC is really there to support folks who want to innovate and are trying to do all of these things. Speaking of spinoff companies, for example, and there may not be one right answer to this, but if someone goes through the RAPTIC program, they’re getting, you know, support and help, and then they want to spin something off, does the university then sort of own a piece of that new thing or that’s something that’s all negotiated through the process or is there one standard way of doing it?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah, I think there’s a lot of variability, but we work in RAPTIC very closely with our tech transfer office and the license officers. And they’re really the ones who will work with the faculty on protecting their IP and then deciding on the best path forward that the faculty agree with. But that’s also the best for the, for the university and the product.
Ownership of the patent is all dictated by university policy. So that’s set in stone, you know, that’s not negotiable. But if a spinout company is formed there, that would be a negotiation with the university, how that would be run and how involved with the faculty member be, et cetera.
And, you know, there are some investment funds around that Ohio State’s involved with and that other entities that are connected to the university are involved with, and they might be, you know, partners early on to help get a company off the ground. But I think there are lots of different ways to do that, but that’s why with RAPTIC, we want to connect the newcomers to this space, to the folks on campus who have already done these things and be able to talk to, you know, mentors who have a spinout or had an exit, had a successful exit. We have a lot of examples around Columbus of that as well.
So, so yeah, I think learning from other people is useful, but each case is unique.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I would imagine that for the most part though, it really shortens the R&D time because if you’re just trying to figure things out on your own, I mean, that is just so time consuming and you don’t want to necessarily make the same mistakes that others have made when you can be coached and guided on getting things done successfully in a short of a period of time as possible.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Exactly. And so, so this year for RAPTIC, one of our goals for phase one is as they move through the learning sessions from September to May, they might not realize it at the time, but they’re sort of building a pitch deck. They’re building their business plan.
So, they’re learning about their product market fit when they do the ideation exercises, they’re learning about customer discovery during that session, et cetera. So, by the end in May, they should be ready to have a pitch deck put together that they could bring, you know, to a meeting with a potential licensee or working with their license officer on other plans for their funding of their work. So yes, we hope it accelerates because if you have, you know, accountability of your peers and these sessions you have to go to monthly and dedicated time already blocked in your calendar to do this work, I think it truly does accelerate.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. Yeah. So, what kind of outcomes has RAPTIC achieved so far?
What sort of impact have you had already?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah, great question. So, I think the two for me hearing from faculty that have gone through the program already or going through it right now, we’ve already received some great comments. Number one is just a raised awareness.
They know where to go to get questions answered. They know who the people are that they need to talk to about X, Y, Z, and they know what resources are here on campus and regionally that they can work with. So that awareness factor is, is huge.
But the other one we really hear is they love the coaching. They love having that dedicated time to talk about their research program and how they’re driving it forward and what their priorities and goals are and working with someone who’s been trained. So, we, we pay a service out of the UK code called Rototol.
We work with Dr. Katie Mahoney there, who’s an expert in, in research coaching, and she trains all of our coaches. So, they know how to have these relationships with our participants because coaching is unique. You’re not mentoring, you’re not giving advice, you’re not teaching.
These may not be experts in the innovation space, but their goal, they’re trained to help the faculty members drive their program forward to the goals that they really want to achieve.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
So, if we have listeners at Ohio state, regardless of where you are in terms of what, which college, what advice do you have to someone who is interested in applying to RAPTIC?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yes. So, we will open up applications again in the spring for our next cohort. So, I think learning about the program now, we have a website, you can just Google RAPTIC, Ohio state, and it should pop up one of the few websites that actually come up on Google easily.
But so, you can start learning about the program now and seeing if it’s a right fit for you and figuring out, would you want to come in at phase one, phase two or phase three, and then be on the lookout that applications will open up in the spring. So, if you’re on campus and you’re getting the CTSI emails, you’ll see it through there and hopefully see it through other college and university emails. And then from there, the next cohort will launch starting in late summer and we’ll run the same program again.
So, we’re running on a fiscal year now. So, the next one will be fiscal 27 and the learning sessions will run September to May. And another thing to keep an eye out for.
So, in August next year, so after this cohort is finished, we’re going to invite back all of our prior RAPTIC participants from the past three years to come do a showcase and a pitch competition. So that would be a great introduction for folks new to this area to just hear people sort of do a five-minute pitch of their innovations. We’re going to have prize money and we’re going to have potential investors in the room that will give you an idea of what these sorts of projects look like and how people present them to this sort of innovation audience.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Yeah. That sounds like a really great opportunity and actually just fun to listen to some other ideas that are out there. Do you have to sign a nondisclosure agreement to be at that meeting?
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
No, these would be public, public pitches, non-confidential pitches.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
Good question.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Yeah.
[Dr Mike Patrick]
All right. Well, this has definitely been an interesting conversation and before we scheduled this, I had not heard of RAPTIC before. And so, I’m really glad to increase awareness and let other folks know about this.
We are going to actually have a link to RAPTIC, which again stands for Research Accelerator Program to Translate, Innovate and Commercialize. And we’ll put a link to that in the show notes for this episode, which is episode 15 of FAMEcast. We’re at famecast.org.
So just look for the show notes there and you will find a link to RAPTIC. We’ll also have a link to the Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Engagement, also known as FAME at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. So once again, Dr. Kristy Townsend, Professor of Neurosurgery and Associate Dean for Research Operations and Compliance at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Thank you so much for stopping by today.
[Dr Kristy Townsend]
Thank you. I appreciate the time to talk about RAPTIC and happy to take any questions if anyone contacts me as well about the program.
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[Dr Mike Patrick]
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You’ll find our entire archive of past programs there, along with show notes for each of the episodes, our terms of use agreement, and that handy contact page if you would like to suggest a future topic for the program, or if you just want to say, I love hearing from listeners. Reviews are also helpful wherever you get your podcasts. We always appreciate when you share your thoughts about the show.
And again, we do have additional resources that you can find on our website. So, if you head over to Famecast.org, click on the resources tab, that’s up at the top of the page and you will find lots of learning modules on Scarlet Canvas. One group is called Advancing Your Clinical Teaching, and the other is FD4ME, which means Faculty Development for Medical Educators.
So that’s all at our website, again, Famecast.org. I also want to share a couple of other podcasts that I host. If you are a pediatric medical professional, we do have a podcast for you called PediaCast CME.
Of course that stands for Continuing Medical Education. We do offer category one CME credit for physicians, of course, but also nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, and dentists. And it’s because Nationwide Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by all of those organizations that we can offer the credits you need to fulfill your state’s continuing medical education requirements.
Shows and details are available at the landing site for that program, pediacastcme.org. You can also listen wherever podcasts are found. Simply search for PediaCast CME.
And then if you are not a pediatric medical professional, but you’re a parent, you know, if you’re not in pediatrics or family medicine, you may not be too familiar with pediatric medicine except for what you did in med school. PediaCast without the CME is an evidence-based podcast for moms and dads. Actually, lots of pediatricians and other medical providers also tune in.
We cover pediatric news. We answer listener questions, and we interview pediatric and parenting experts. Shows are available at the landing site for that program, pediacast.org also available wherever podcasts are found. Simply search for PediaCast. Thanks again for stopping by. And until next time, this is Dr. Mike saying, stay focused, stay balanced, and keep reaching for the stars. So long, everybody.
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