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The Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences & Center for Epidemiology & Population Health at Northwestern University invite you to attend an international hybrid workshop:

We are excited to announce a joint collaboration event, a Transdiagnostic Clinical Risk Calculator Hybrid Workshop on Future Directions on Monday, February 27th from 1-4:30pm followed by an in-person reception.  

Clinical risk calculators integrate key information on individual patients to predict risk of future disease and guide clinical care. Bridging risk calculator development and implementation across varied health domains, developmental periods, and at varied stages of progress is key to impact and application. This workshop aims to accelerate translation through sharing insights and innovations across three typically disparate health domains across the lifespan.  

In cardiovascular health, risk calculators’ routine use in guiding treatment has transformed the standard of care and provided a quantitative assessment upon which patients can be stratified by risk. Applications are nascent in the mental health sphere and have not yet achieved appreciable clinical impact. Clinical integration is emerging for severe mental health disorders such as psychosis. Application for early childhood emergent psychopathology is in the development stage.  

 
Risk calculators are an innovative and promising approach for advancing earlier life identification and prevention and provide robust quantitative and efficient tools that can address implementation barriers in real-world settings, reduce bias, and improve confidence in decision-making.  Talks will address key considerations, limitations, and future directions of risk calculator research and implementation. 

Whether virtually or in-person, we look forward to seeing you there!