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CNTR is Hiring a Senior Research Nurse
Job Title: Senior Research Nurse Reports To: Executive Director FLSA Status: Exempt Job Summary Responsible for coordinating and managing complex, multi-site clinical trials and studies, providing expertise and oversight for data collecting, monitoring, and regulatory...
Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Legislation to Restore CDMRP Funding
Representatives Andre Carson (D-IN) and Mike Levin (D-CA) are seeking co-sponsors on their bill to restore and increase funding for medical research that supports the health and care of our nation’s service members. The Medical Research for Our Troops Act aims to...
CNTR is Hiring a Part-time Controller
Job Title: Part-Time Controller Reports To: Executive Director FLSA Status: Exempt Job Summary Responsible for directing accounting functions, negotiating and managing financial agreements, and working with auditing and funding entities on periodic reviews. Â General...
CNTR’s May 2025 E-Newsletter Features Call to Action, New Grants and More!
Read CNTR's May 2025 e-newsletter: HERE
Anesthesiologists Propose Re-engagement in Trauma Anesthesia Research
In the May 2025 issue of the ASA Monitor, a publication of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, a CNTR member organization, Tomas Drabek, MD, PhD, FASA, Justin Richard, MD, and Monica Vavilala, MD, argue that patients can benefit from more trauma anesthesia...
May is National Trauma Month–Remind Congress That Trauma Research Saves Lives!
To send a message directly to your senators and representative: Visit democracy.io and enter your address. Copy and paste the message below into the platform, or write your own (if you can add specifics related to your own research, all the better). May is National...
Registry-based Randomized Controlled Trials Can Do More With Less
In a recent article published in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (TSACO), CNTR Board Chair Ben Zarzaur, MD noted that in an environment of diminishing federal investment in research, conducting high quality clinical trials is increasingly difficult to accomplish....
Read CNTR’s April 2025 E-Newsletter
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University of Utah Researcher Seeks Surgeon and Physician Input for Rural Trauma Project.
Survivors of traumatic injury who live in rural America face many challenges to recovery due to limited access to specialized services, geographic barriers, and socioeconomic factors including lower baseline income levels and higher rates of uninsurance. While nearly...
EAST Introduces New Funding Mechanism for a Registry-Based Randomized Controlled Trial
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma is collaborating with CNTR to create a novel funding mechanism aimed at the goal of zero preventable deaths from trauma. This award will support a Registry-based Randomized Controlled Trial (RRCT). The intent of the...
Read CNTR’s March 2025 E-Newsletter
Read this month's CNTR e-newsletter: HERE
KeriCure Medical and CNTR Begin First Clinical Trial on Cutting Edge Spray-on Wound Dressing for Burns
KeriCure Medical, a leader in advanced biotechnology solutions, launched its first clinical trial at two study sites, enrolling both military and civilian patients. The trial, a head-to-head comparison of KeriCure Medical’s Field Shield Wound Dressing versus a...
Trauma Research Community Coalesces Around Model for Clinical Guidance
This second year of the Design for Implementation: The Future of Trauma Research and Clinical Guidance Conference Series built on last year’s work to arrive at a shared understanding of shortcomings in the ways that guidance is developed, disseminated and implemented....
Call For Peer Reviewers – 2024 MHSRS Supplement to Military Medicine
Patricia A. Reilly, Col (RET), USAF, PhD, Guest Editor of the 2024 MHSRS Supplement to Military Medicine, has issued a second call for peer reviewers who can assist in reviewing submitted manuscripts. The expertise they are soliciting includes: Behavioral health...
Year 2 of Design for Implementation Conference Assembles Stakeholders in Clinical Guidance and Experts on AI
In her introductory remarks to the Design for Implementation: The Future of Trauma Research and Clinical Guidance Conference, Eileen Bulger, MD, ACS Medical Director of Trauma Programs, reminded attendees of the vast scope of the problem they were there to address....