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Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, Chairperson of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors, today announced the appointment of Josephine P. Briggs, MD, as PCORI’s Interim Executive Director, effective Nov. 1, 2019. She will lead the organization during the Board’s search for a replacement for Joe Selby, MD, MPH, who earlier announced plans to retire as Executive Director by year’s end.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today announced the appointment of Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, as the next Chairperson of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors, and the appointment of Sharon Levine, MD, as the next Vice Chairperson.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began accepting applications for funds to support studies designed to improve care for people with a range of health conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the selection of 23 people representing sectors from across the healthcare community to serve on PCORI’s five multi-stakeholder advisory panels.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $29.3 million to fund 11 studies comparing the best ways to prevent or treat a range of health conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $2.3 million to fund two projects designed to advance the spread and use of PCORI-funded research findings in real-world practice. Both awards were made through PCORI’s Dissemination and Implementation initiative.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $44.6 million to fund 12 studies comparing the best ways to treat a range of health conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Executive Director Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, has informed PCORI’s Board of Governors that he plans to retire at the end of 2019.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $3.8 million to fund two projects designed to use shared decision making to disseminate and implement PCORI research findings and to simultaneously study ways of building shared decision making into clinical care. The Board also approved nominations for a new Chair and Co-Chair for PCORI’s Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $2.8 million to fund two projects designed to speed the use of results of PCORI-funded studies into practice. The Board also approved a PCORnet funding announcement and adopted new methodology standards.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $20 million to fund two new studies comparing how well different treatments work in improving care for conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $54 million to fund 12 new studies comparing how well different treatments work in improving care for a range of conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today announced $40 million in awards over five years to 11 institutions to support the training of researchers to conduct patient-centered outcomes research within learning health systems.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office today announced the appointment of seven stakeholders from across the healthcare community to fill open seats on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved a new policy calling for the researchers PCORI funds to share their data sets and documentation for reanalysis and reuse. The new policy is among the most far-reaching adopted by publicly supported funders of health research.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved the selection or reappointment of 33 people to serve on PCORI’s five multi-stakeholder advisory panels. This includes 28 new panel members—chosen from more than 500 candidates who either nominated themselves or were nominated by third parties—along with five reappointed panelists.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $85 million to fund 16 new studies comparing two or more approaches to improve care and outcomes for a range of conditions and problems that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system, including unsafe opioid use, cancer, depression and stroke.

A new research center will produce and test decision aids to help people with atrial fibrillation (AFib) more readily make choices with their doctors about their treatment options, thanks to a $5 million funding award. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and American Heart Association (AHA) announced the selection of the research team and home for the center today.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $74 million to fund nine new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. The funds will support research on a range of conditions that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the healthcare system.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $10 million to fund two new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies on medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for pregnant women with opioid use disorders.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved more than $20 million for studies that will use PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, to test ways to improve care for people with arthritis, blood pressure, depression and irritable bowel disease.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Chief Science Officer Evelyn P. Whitlock, MD, MPH, who has led a number of important new initiatives during her tenure, has announced her intention to resign from PCORI effective June 8.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a call for nominations to fill seats on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors that will…

PCORI is very pleased by the just-released US Government Accountability Office (GAO) review, and the comments it cites from our stakeholders, of how we are using the funds available to us through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors approved a new PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) that makes up to $40 million available for comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) on treatment options for pediatric anxiety disorders.