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January Update from the Mongan Institute
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Reflections from the Director:Looking to the Future
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Over the past month I have had the pleasure of reviewing and finalizing our Mongan Institute 2021-2022 Impact Report summarizing the many accomplishments of our staff and faculty over the past two years. As we come to the end of January and look to the coming year, this is an appropriate time to look back to where we have been…….and look forward to our future. We will be releasing this final report in several weeks! As a brief preview of the final section of the report, we close with the following response to the timely question:
So what are our priorities as we look to the future of Mongan?
Enhance our cross-institute infrastructure to support high impact research.
A cross-institute research administration program will seek to leverage and spread best practices in research management in conjunction with peer learning and training opportunities for the Mongan Institute staff. In addition, a new data management program will enhance resources with the goal of providing curated access to electronic health record and claims datasets in conjunction with analytic consultation and support for early career investigators. This new initiative will complement the recently launched EPIdemiology COnsultation and bioREpository Program (EPICORE) within the Clinical Translational Epidemiology Unit at Mongan supporting epidemiological study design, data analysis, and biobanking services.
Grow our research training and academic program.
A major focus for our future will be to further develop and grow our research training program to complement our ongoing research activities. Along with enhancing coordination of our existing 20 seminars and research meetings, we will be launching new initiatives including research methods workshops, a first R01 grant review program, and a training program in healthcare delivery and population science. In addition, we will be supporting an initiative to reach out to affiliate programs and partner with Harvard training programs to establish new research training opportunities at the Mongan Institute for post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and students.
Further our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in our faculty and staff, and in our research.
Over the coming years we will continue to prioritize increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff through dedicated initiatives. In addition to our work focused on addressing health disparities associated with race and ethnicity, we will continue to grow our research efforts across the spectrum of health inequities that also include those associated with sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, age, mental health, community health, vulnerable populations, and policy.
Synergize our team science research capacity to rapidly identify, develop, test, and implement solutions to the most challenging problems in health care.
Across our 12 centers at the Mongan Institute, we are uniquely positioned to engage in accelerated, high-impact transdisciplinary team science. This begins with our capacity to engage in clinical translational epidemiology and data science to identify critical gaps in knowledge…. to delivery science developing, and testing solutions accelerated by simulation modeling of cost-effectiveness and decision support…. and finally, to scaling and spreading evidence-based interventions through implementation science and health policy reforms.
Complete the arc of translational research at MGH by providing a research home for population and health care delivery science.
In addition to enhancing synergies and translational research collaborations within the Mongan Institute, we will leverage opportunities in partnerships outside of the institute with researchers across departments at MGH and affiliate Harvard programs to rapidly bridge discoveries in basic and clinical research to applications in populations and in health care delivery. This work will advance new paradigms and methods in conducting collaborative accelerated translational research from bench to bedside to clinic and community, and to populations.
As we look to the future, it can seem overwhelming to consider the profound challenges to have a real impact on population health, health care delivery, and health equity. Yet in many instances, the solutions are only limited by our imagination, our ability to innovate and collaborate, and our capacity leverage the depth and breadth of expertise in our community of science. As we consider the Mongan Institute’s ambitious mission “dedicated to achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs through research and training in population and health care delivery team science”---Helen Keller’s wisdom comes to mind: "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”. It is in this spirit that the upcoming Mongan Institute Impact Report provides evidence of the power of community and sets the stage for our future. Stay tuned!
- Steve Bartels, MD, MS
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Erica Warner, ScD, MPH named inaugural Director of Epidemiology for the Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic
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| Dr. Erica Warner, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, will become the inaugural Director of Epidemiology for the Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic opening this month through the MGH Cancer Center. This new program will facilitate connections across MGB, allowing patients at an increased risk for cancer due to a variety of medical, familial, occupational and social causes to get faster and easier access to both standard and experimental cancer screening and expedited diagnosis and cancer care.
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2023 MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholars
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Giselle Perez-Lougee, PhD
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| Congratulations to Drs. Wenjie Ma (Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit) and Giselle Perez-Lougee (Health Policy Research Center/Health Promotion and Resiliency Intervention Research Program) on being named 2023 MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholars.
The History of Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards: Although women scientists are recruited to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) programs, their advancement to senior faculty positions is still far less frequent than that of their male counterparts. In 1993, The Women in Academic Medicine Committee, originally chaired by Mrs. Jane D. Claflin, Honorary Trustee, was established to facilitate the academic careers of women in science at MGH. Recognizing that a significant obstacle to career advancement is the difficulty of maintaining research productivity during the child-rearing years, this Committee, with the sponsorship of the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR), established the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards. It is intended that this funding will increase opportunities for women to advance to senior positions in academic medicine.
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2022 MGH Ally for Women Faculty Award
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| Congratulations to Dr. Ana-Maria Vranceanu (Center for Aging and Serious Illness) on being a 2022 Ally for Women Faculty Award recipient.
The History of the Ally for Women Faculty Award: Research demonstrates that societal biases and institutional patterns prevent women from attaining the same success in their careers as men. To encourage and sustain a culture of stronger sponsorship of women and one in which institutional biases are confronted and changed, the MGH Center for Faculty Development created the Ally for Women Faculty Award to recognize allies who support and empower women colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which women can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles.
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Massachusetts General Hospital COVID Corps Biomedical Research Internship Program
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| The application for the 2023 Cohort of the MGH COVID Corps Biomedical Research Internship Program is available now through Friday, February 24 at 5pm EST. The program is open to current undergraduate or graduate (including medical) students who will still be enrolled in Fall 2023.
At MGH, our goal is to help promising students explore early interest in the biomedical sciences by offering an opportunity to conduct original investigative research in many positions and roles suited to their scientific interests. With thought-leading experts in such areas as translational sciences, epidemiology, computational biology, and immunology, prospective COVID Corps scholars will have the unique opportunity to learn, grow, and expand their skills and professional network as official members of the nation’s top hospital-based research program at the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, consistently ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as the nation’s leading research medical school. Moreover, by allowing a motivated, diverse workforce to explore and act on early interests earnestly, we may be able to recruit individuals who might not otherwise have considered pursuing careers in the biomedical research sciences.
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| Examples from Mongan Science Minute
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The Mongan Science Minute is our newest social media initiative designed to better communicate the extraordinary research that is being published by Mongan Institute leaders, faculty and investigators.
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|  Characterizing Distress and Identifying Modifiable Intervention Targets for Family Caregivers of Patients with Malignant Gliomas. Forst DA, Kaslow-Zieve ER, Hansen A, Mesa M, Landay SL, Quain KM, Sereno I, El-Jawahri A, Greer JA, Temel JS, Jacobs JM. J Palliat Med. 2023 Jan;26(1):17-27. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0534. Epub 2022 Jun 16.PMID: 35708587
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Please visit our website to stay updated on all open positions at the Mongan Institute and our centers/programs. To apply, visit the MGH Careers website and search the job number listed.
- Senior Data Analyst - 3209899
The Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking a full time Senior Data Analyst to manage its Data Management and Analytic Program. Reporting to and working closely with the Institute Director and Administrative Director, the candidate will lead the development of a new Data Management and Analytics Program (DMAP) that will support the Institute’s 13 research centers and programs. Once established, the program will offer a range of data management and analysis services, including statistical and study design consultation, research protocol development, web-based survey development, data management plans, analysis and interpretation of data, and assistance in presenting and disseminating results.
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