# Methodologic Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $287,084

## Abstract

The Methodologic Core of the proposed Northwestern University (NU) Core Center for Clinical Research
(CCCR) will provide an environment that encourages collaboration among Core faculty and staff and CCCR
investigators and trainees on translational, clinical, epidemiologic, and health services rheumatic
disease/musculoskeletal research projects and enhances project quality and team productivity. Innovative
directions of the proposed Core include powerful new approaches in behavioral science, implementation
research, adaptive study designs, and extraction of complex electronic health record data from the
Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse for discovery work by the CCCR Research Community.
Through its active relationships – with the Department of Preventive Medicine, other NU Feinberg School of
Medicine departments, the NU Institute for Public Health and Medicine, and the NU Clinical and Translational
Sciences Institute (NU's CTSA) – this Core will draw on a rich and diverse community of experts. The
proposed Core will help solve the research challenges of projects pertaining to a variety of rheumatic diseases
(osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis) and will promote and
catalyze interdisciplinary team research. To advance all clinical research related to rheumatic and
musculoskeletal conditions by our expanding Research Community and to particularly drive work related to our
CCCR's theme – prevention strategy and intervention development to create lifestyle, behavioral, medical, and
rehabilitative solutions for these conditions and their consequences – we propose the following Methodologic
Core aims: 1) provide customized information technology, data extraction, and data management support to
ongoing and new clinical research; 2) provide methodologic expertise pertaining to study design, study
conduct, and data analysis of ongoing and new research; 3) enhance the methodologic training environment
within the CCCR, and thus the capabilities of both faculty and trainees, through provision of focused services
including formal educational opportunities and research mentoring, and collaboration on study planning,
proposal development, and study performance; 4) provide cutting-edge methodologic, consultative, and
collaborative capabilities to meet ongoing and emerging clinical research needs of the CCCR Research
Community regarding a) study design and data collection methods, b) statistical science and analysis, c)
epidemiology, d) behavioral science, e) nutritional science, f) implementation science/innovative study design,
g) economic evaluation/decision science, h) genomics/bioinformatics, i) clinical informatics, and j) data
management, by utilizing and supporting highly successful methodologic experts in the NU environment; and
5) facilitate and provide training on team science to investigators at all career stages, to enhance functioning
and productivity of interdisciplinary teams, and pro...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10236397
- **Project number:** 5P30AR072579-05
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** ROWLAND W CHANG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $287,084
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-19 → 2022-09-20

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10236397

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10236397, Methodologic Core (5P30AR072579-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10236397. Licensed CC0.

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