ANA Highlights

Micro- or Bite Size Learning is the craze in online education. The ANA Education Innovation Committee launched the ANA Bite Size Learning program in 2020. ANA members are offered the opportunity to claim AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM for eligible modules.  

ANA Highlights Program Lead: Michelle Johansen, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

ANA Highlights producers & planners are members of the Education Innovation Committee.

Have an idea for a module? For our Bite Size Learning program, the ANA will schedule time to virtually record 10-15 minute presentations with guest lecturers. If you have an idea for a presentation, maybe an important update about your work, a call to action for others to join you in working on a particular initiative, or another hot topic in the world of academic research, please submit your ideas here.

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ANA Highlights Gene Therapy

Advances in research have yielded different mechanisms for modifying genes that cause disease. This course includes four videos, the first three outline the following mechanisms and the course closes with a moderated panel discussion about the..
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The ANA Highlights Gene Therapy program is chaired by 2024 ANA President, Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross, Nathan Cummings Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Development, Director, Center for Neurogenetics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Dr. Bryan Traynor, Senior Investigator at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), where he leads the RNA Therapeutics Laboratory. This course is brought to you by the ANA Education Innovation Committee, currently chaired by Dr. Michelle C. Johansen, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Cerebrovascular Division at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The ANA received a grant from Sanofi in support of this activity.

Advances in research have yielded different mechanisms for modifying genes that cause disease. This course includes four videos, the first three outline the following mechanisms and the course closes with a moderated panel discussion about the applications and current state of the research in this field.

  • Adeno-Associated Virus with Stephen G. Kaler, MD, Center for Gene Therapy, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
  • Anti-Sense Oligonucleotides with Harry T. Orr, PhD, Director of Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota (orrxx002@umn.edu)
  • CRISPR with Claire Clelland, PhD, MD, MPhil, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences & UCSF Memory & Aging Center (claire.clelland@ucsf.edu)
Featuring
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Bryan Traynor
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross

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ANA Highlights The Placebo Effect

What does the word Placebo mean to you? Randomized, placebo controlled clinical trials have been the mainstay of clinical science for decades. Physicians, and medical researchers may assume that they understand the underlying...
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What does the word Placebo mean to you? Randomized, placebo controlled clinical trials have been the mainstay of clinical science for decades. Physicians, and medical researchers may assume that they understand the underlying concepts of a placebo controlled trial, but automatically assuming that rigorous research equates to placebo controlled trials is inaccurate. In this ANA Highlights, we will talk about placebos, what we can learn from them, as well as situations where alternative study designs should be considered. Watch this 20-minute video to learn more.

Featuring
  • Guest: Dr. Erin Longbrake, Yale University
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Rohini Samudralwar, University of Pennsylvania

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ANA Highlights Neurogenetics

A bite-size learning module series designed to close the knowledge gap about the current state of neurogenetics and the applications of genetic testing.
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The ANA Highlights Neurogenetics program is chaired by Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross, Nathan Cummings Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Development, Director, Center for Neurogenetics at Weill Cornell Medicine. The ANA Highlights bite-size learning program is chaired by Michelle C. Johansen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Cerebrovascular Division at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

The ANA received a grant from Illumina in support of this activity.

This program is comprised of four chapters in the following topics and includes short (~15 minutes), pre-recorded videos. Following this activity, the ANA expects learners to be more confident in their ability to:

  • Understand the different types of neurogenetic testing available today, and prospects for future developments
  • Advise patients knowledgeably about the utility and advisability of genetic testing
  • Communicate and collaborate more effectively with genetic counselors
  • Recognize the legal and ethical issues involved with neurogenetic testing
  • Improve patient care through the above-listed capabilities
Featuring
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Michelle Johansen
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Andrea Gropman
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy
  • Interviewer/Producer: Dr. Peter Todd

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ANA Highlights Statistical Snapshots

Next-level foundational principles in statistics for the Neurological Researcher.
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  • Are you looking for a digestible way to learn next-level statistical concepts? 
  • Have you forgotten critical Epidemiology terms from Medical School?
  • Are you an academic neuroscientist who is trying to understand the best techniques to apply to your research?

The ANA Highlight's Statistical Snapshots series is an excellent way to meet your goals. In this series of seven modules, ranging from 10-22 minutes, you will find a high-yield overview of critical statistical concepts that go beyond interpretation of p-values to provide a foundation by which to conduct research, regardless of level or training.

Did you enjoy this series? Is there an area in which you would like to dig deeper? Email the ANA at jhurley@myana.org and let us know what you thought!

This program is comprised of the following bite-size videos. 

  • Sensitivity & Specificity (~12 minutes)
  • Essential Study Design and Statistical Concepts for the Clinician Scientist (~22 minutes)
  • Adaptive Designs (~18 minutes)
  • Biases, Confounders, and Mediators (~17 minutes)
  • Linear Regression (~10 minutes)
  • The Odds Ratio (~18 minutes)
  • Clinical Trial Design: The Statistician's Perspective (~20 minutes) 
Featuring
  • Interviewer/Producer: Rohit Das, MD, MPH, UT Southwestern
  • Interviewer/Producer: Michelle C. Johansen, MD, PhD , Johns Hopkins University

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