Presenter Profile
Michael J. Mello, MD, MPH
Director, Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital - Hasbro Children's Hospital
The Rhode Island Hospital Injury Control COBRE
michael.mello@brownphysicians.org
Michael J. Mello, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, with additional appointments in Medical Science and in Health Services, Policy & Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. He directs the Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children’s and serves as principal investigator of the Rhode Island Hospital Injury Control Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). A past president of both the Injury Free Coalition for Kids and the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, Dr. Mello is nationally recognized for his leadership and research in injury prevention.
Presentations
A novel data warehouse for injury-related research
Mark R. Zonfrillo, MD, MSCE
Caroline T. Goodwin, BA
Michael J. Mello, MD, MPH
Lindsay M. Orchowski, PhD
The Injury Control Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) at Rhode Island Hospital is the first and only NIH-funded COBRE research center to focus solely on injury control, and supports the research activities of injury control researchers to ensure their transition to independently funded scientists. The Research to Practice and Policy (RPP) Core equips COBRE-affiliated investigators with tools to tailor their study methodologies and dissemination strategies for impact on clinical practice and policy. Our primary objective was to design a Data Warehouse with comprehensive archiving of training and seminars related to the Injury Control COBRE, as well as creation of a clearinghouse of publicly available data sources that can be used to study injury.
Identification of open-access datasets and other metadata for public use were identified through internet searches and snowball sampling of researchers in various injury networks. Once databases were identified and collated, PubMed and Google Scholar searches were conducted to identify publications and authors who had used each database. These authors were contacted and asked to contribute by completing slides based on a standardized template describing the database in depth. They were also asked to add a brief description of exemplar publications they co-authored using the same database. A brief (5-7 minute) video was created using the slides and narrated by the respective authors, who were compensated for their time from the COBRE grant.
To date, 51 databases have been identified and 24 supplemental videos have been created. They are publicly available on our Injury Control COBRE website. https://injurycontrolcobre.org/cores/research-to-practice-and-policy-core/research-to-practice-and-policy-database/
Creation of a novel Data Warehouse can be used by our Injury Control COBRE grant awardees (research project leads and pilot program researchers), and are publicly available as a centralized resource for a broad group of injury researchers.
1. How to access and utilize a curated warehouse of injury-related public datasets
2. Innovative methods for enhancing data usability and dissemination
3. Ways this resource bridges research to policy and practice