Annual Winter Institute for Scoping Reviews

Participants will gain hands-on instruction and practice in using the JBI specialized software program called SUMARI (the System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information), which is designed to assist researchers and practitioners in conducting 10 different types of systematic reviews, including reviews of effectiveness, qualitative research, economic evaluations, prevalence/incidence, aetiology/risk, mixed methods, umbrella/overview reviews, text/opinion, diagnostic test accuracy, and scoping reviews. More information on this comprehensive tool is available here.

The session is held via videoconferencing (Zoom).

Faculty

With extensive expertise in evidence-based medicine, Dr. Yuri Jadotte serves as Co-Director of the JBI Population Health Evidence Consortium (JBI-PHEC) and Professor at Rutgers School of Nursing.

Dr. Jadotte earned his bachelor’s degree in molecular biology with a minor in chemistry in 2006 from Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, where he received the highest honors for outstanding academic, research, and leadership accomplishments in his major, his department, and the university as a whole. He earned his doctorate in medicine in 2010 with honors at Rutgers (formerly UMDNJ) New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ, where he also completed his internal medicine internship in 2011. In 2018, he completed residency training in preventive medicine and earned his Master of Public Health degree with a concentration on health policy and management at the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY.

Motivated by a drive to help the less fortunate and having experienced the devastating effects of the 2010 earthquake on families and communities in Haiti, Dr. Jadotte pursued and completed a PhD in Urban Systems, a joint program at Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology. His PhD on the relationship of the social and physical environment with health and wellness complements his interest in preventive medicine and lifestyle medicine. His research interests include: improving health outcomes and preventive services for urban socioeconomically disadvantaged populations; studying the relationship between urbanization, urbanism, and chronic diseases; and quantifying the effects of urban life on health care and population health outcomes. Dr. Jadotte also devotes a significant amount of his scholarly time to research interprofessional collaborative practice, evidence-based medicine, systematic review and meta-analysis methodology, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, the impact of social determinants on health outcomes, and the social construction of health.

He is the founding and current editor-in-chief of the journal AJPM Focus, the official fully open access journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and a member of the New York Academy of Medicine and National Academies of Practice. He is board certified in both Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.

In addition to his teaching and research role as a professor in the Division of Nursing Science at Rutgers School of Nursing, Dr. Jadotte holds the position of Associate Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at Stony Brook University and is an attending physician at Stony Brook University Employee Health and Wellness and Occupational Medicine, as part of an interprofessional team of clinicians providing preventive care to over 10,000 employees annually. His long-term professional goal is to advance population health through academic teaching, research, and clinical practice.

1. Perform a search of the scientific literature using multiple search databases.
2. Develop a scoping review protocol suitable for publication.
3. Create a gap map of the evidence base to inform future research, practice, or policy.

Advanced registration and payment is required.

Registration deadline for all participants: December 21, 2026.

• Rutgers SON Faculty and Staff - $50 

• Rutgers Students, and non-SON Rutgers Faculty & Staff - $125

• Non-Rutgers Participants - $225

In support of improving patient care, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Method of Participation

In order to meet the learning objectives and receive continuing education credit participants are required to attend/complete 100% of the program and complete the online evaluation form at the conclusion of the activity. A letter certifying attendance and credit certification will be available for download to participants upon completion of the online evaluation survey.

Planners and speakers have no conflicts of interest to disclose regarding this educational activity.

There is no commercial support or sponsorship for this activity.

Questions?

For more information please contact Ginny Allread at [email protected] or (973) 972-8644.

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