Brenda Nieves Coauthor of REDCAP Presentation at AMIA

The REDCap Consortium Project: A Case Study in Collaborative Software Development for Clinical Research Informatics was accepted for presentation at the 2008 American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress. Ms. Brenda Nieves, Research Computing Systems Coordinator at the RCMI Center for Information Architecture in Research, is one of the co-authors.

Dr. Paul Harris and Brenda Nieves

Paul Harris, PhD, is the lead author and presenter. Dr. Harris is a Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He currently serves as Vanderbilt’s CTSA Director of Biomedical Informatics Operations, and leads the REDCap consortium. Other co-authors include Rob Taylor at Vanderbilt University; Rob Thielke at the Medical College of Wisconsin; Jessie Lee at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Ron Sanders at the University of New Mexico; Mitsuhiro Isozaki at Tokai University; Hannah Howard at the Oregon Health and Sciences University; Sheree Hemphill at Case Western Reserve University; Cathy McGraw at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Alex Peshansky at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Michael Lin at the Mayo Foundation, and Adrian Nida at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Vanderbilt University, with collaboration from other institutions, has developed REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a software toolset and workflow methodology to manage research data for clinical research studies. More information about the project is available at: http://www.iwg-online.org/projects/redcap/index.php