ABA – Multicenter Trials Group
Town Hall Meeting
ABA 43rd Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
March 30, 2011
Welcome and Call To Order (Jeffrey Saffle)
1. Summary of Grants
- Boxer 1 ($2,000,000) through 9/2012
- Transfusion Trigger ($2,300,000) through 9/2011 - 15 enrolled
- ACT ($2,100,000) through 8/2012 - 31 enrolled, 18 completed
- Combat Casualty ($7,999,000)
- RESCUE - 11 sites, ready to enroll
- PCR-based Staph Detection - enrollment begun
- Effects of community based exercise program - enrollment begun
- Glutamine
- Inhalation scoring system
- Evaluation of outcomes after burn injury ($4,000,000)
- Comparison of NBR with NTDB
- $1,000,000 investigator initiated burn trauma RFP coming soon
- Military burn trauma research program
- Propranolol safety and efficacy
- Would consider more sites
2. Future Funding Possibilities (Susan Browning and Dan Crane)
- 2011 funding of possible $8,000,000
- Will have short window of opportunity to put a proposal forth
- May not be a clinical trial
- Possible POM (program operations memorandum)
- 2 million in 2012
- Steady funding after that
3. ABA Central Office (Susan Browning)
- We have 22 million dollars in funding since 2008 (ABA + DCC + PI)
- ABA program management office
- Susan Browning, Kitty Vineyard, Mark Postilion and new financial person
- After the ABA receives grant money
- Contract negotiation begins
- Must have justification for all proposals which requires extensive source documentation
- Once enrollment begins
- Must ensure administrative and fiscal compliance
4. Data Coordinating Center (Mary Beth Lawless)
- Discussed DCC structure and function
- Demonstrated the DCC website
- Announced that DCC will submit all documents to HRPO
5. ABA Bylaws Changes
- The Steering Committee is now called the Burn Science Advisory Panel (BSAP)
- The 7th member of the committee is the ABA Research Committee Chair
6. Vote for New Member
- Took nominations from the floor
- Leopoldo C. Cancio, MD; Robert C. Cartotto, MD, FRCS; and David G. Greenhalgh, MD, FACS were nominated
- Bios and election information will be posted on the website, a notice will be sent to all ABA members wihtin the next few weeks. Voting will be via the website.
Respectfully submitted by Linda S. Edelman 5/26/11
Linda.edelman@nurs.utah.edu |
