Bob Miller Member of the Goodman CARDS since 2010 What is one thing you really like about being a member of the CARDS at Goodman? I like it when we hear feedback that something we did really helped someone – when it made something as or more successful as someone was expecting. It’s what we …
Provider-patient communication in managing chronic childhood conditions Lead Researcher: Gwen Costa Jacobsohn, PhD, Primary Care Research Fellow; UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health What is the focus of your research? My research looks at the role of provider-patient communication in management of chronic childhood conditions; more broadly, relationship between socioeconomic determinants of health and …
ICTR-CAP Funding Opportunities Released On November 1st, ICTR-CAP released their 2018 Request for Applications. WINRS has worked with several research teams who have received these grants and would love to work with your team! We help researchers develop strong recruitment and stakeholder engagement sections for grant proposals and partner with research teams to implement these …
Dawn Lynch Member of the Pitt Patient and Family Advisory Board since 2016 What is one thing you really like about being a member of a patient advisory committee? When something totally unexpected happens to you, like what happened to me, it’s not like you say “poor me”, but ultimately, you want a way to …
Great resource for researchers from PCORI PCORnet® is an innovative, national patient-centered research network funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). This is a collaborative group of networks, including clinical data research networks and patient-powered research networks. One of its major goals is to increase quality and efficiency in research, uniting data from patients, …
Spreading awareness and preventing healthcare-associated infections Lead Researcher: Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD; UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health What is the focus of your research? Our team’s research agenda focuses on healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention and treatment with a specific interest in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. To better inform our work, we applied for and …
Charly Jordan Member of the Lussier CARDS® since 2010 What is one thing you really like about being a member of the CARDS at Lussier? I like being able to contribute to the community. It gives us a voice. It gives us insight into what studies are [about], and the opportunity to help with a …
WINRS co-directors present at community engaged research conference in DC WINRS co-Directors, Gay Thomas and Betty Kaiser, shared a package of “tips and tools” during a 90-minute “Learning Lab” at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research conference in Washington, DC, September 24-15. The WINRS team drew on their experience consulting on 9 …
Comparing treatment strategies for patients taking long-term opioid pain medications Lead Researcher: Erin Krebs, MD, MPH at Minneapolis VA Co-Principal Investigators: Karen Seal MD MPH at San Francisco VA, William Becker MD at West Haven VA What is the focus of your research? We will be comparing two treatment strategies for patients with pain who …
Using teleophthalmology to increase diabetic eye screening rates Lead Researcher: Yao Liu MD; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Studies What is the focus of your research? Our goal is to increase diabetic eye screening rates and reduce blindness throughout Wisconsin using teleophthalmology. Teleophthalmology is the use of special cameras to take pictures of the back …