Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research

HSLS and the Department of Biomedical Informatics are sponsoring a one-day symposium, Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research, on Thursday, September 22, 2016, from 10 a.m.–2p.m., in BST S100A (note room change). The symposium features a keynote speaker, Victoria Stodden, PhD, who will discuss “Rethinking the Scholarly Record: Facilitating Reproducibility of Computational Results.” A panel discussion follows the talk.

The featured panelists are:

  • Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Distinguished Service Professor of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
  • Charles Horn, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine & Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh
  • Janette Lamb, PhD, Assistant Director, Genomics Research Core, University of Pittsburgh
  • Jeremy P. Somers, PhD, Scientific Director, Office of Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

A box lunch will be provided to those who register. A spotlight on resources that will help researchers to bring rigor and reproducibility to their own research concludes the day.

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This project has been supported in part or in full with federal funds through the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012342 with the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System.

~Nancy Tannery