Blog

Tough Choices: Changing Lives with Shared Decision Making

Published: 
August 2, 2019
Author(s): 
Melinda Kane, MS-HCM,
Ginny Meadows, MSHI, RN-BC, FHIMSS
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
Wendy Keller was a beloved sister, friend, mother, and grandma. At eight years old, she and her family emigrated to the United States from England. Wendy built a wonderful life – graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, becoming a physical therapist, marrying, and raising a family. She was a...
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Partnerships in Women's Health -- NPWH and PCORI

Published: 
July 25, 2019
Author(s): 
Beth Kelsey, EdD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FAANP,
Susan Rawlins, MS, APRN, WHNP-BC
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
Research
As a professional membership organization for women’s health nurse practitioners (WHNPs), the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH) is a leading voice for courageous conversations about women's health. NPWH champions state-of-the-science health care that holistically...
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Booth Captures Powerful Stories from Patients, Caregivers

Published: 
July 16, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
PCORI Annual Meeting
Research
A woman with scoliosis, a man living with HIV, and a wife threading the line between spouse and caregiver. These individuals and hundreds like them have shared their experiences in the MyPaTH Story Booth, and so can you at the 2019 PCORI Annual Meeting . The Story Booth is like a traveling studio...
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Fighting to Stamp Out Tobacco Use among Underserved Populations

Published: 
June 28, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
The United States has made great progress against the smoking epidemic over the past half-century, reducing the number of people who smoke from more than 40 percent of the population in the mid-1960s to around 14 percent today. But that still leaves more than 34 million Americans using tobacco. And...
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Join Us for PCORI's 2019 Annual Meeting

Published: 
June 24, 2019
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Executive Director's Blog
PCORI Annual Meeting
I know many members of the PCORI community look forward to our Annual Meetings as much as we do. Those who attend regularly tell us how valuable the experience is. But I still get pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic responses we get as soon as we open registration for the next meeting. That...
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Teens and Families Trained to Engage with Researchers in PCORI-Funded Project

Published: 
May 23, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
Youth are not often engaged as partners in traditional research, and even in the kind of patient-centered outcomes research to which PCORI is committed, youth are less likely than adults to contribute.
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Say Hello to PCORI at AcademyHealth's 2019 Annual Research Meeting

Published: 
May 21, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
More than 3,000 medical researchers, policy experts, healthcare professionals, and students in health research will gather June 2-4 in Washington, DC, for AcademyHealth’s 2019 Annual Research Meeting (ARM). PCORI staff and awardees will be among them. PCORI is a long-standing ARM supporter and, as...
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PCORI-Funded Research Appears in Kaiser Health News and in Nature

Published: 
May 3, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
PCORI-funded research continues to make news, surfacing in recent feature stories in Kaiser Health News and in the journal Nature . The Kaiser Health News piece profiles the Bureau of Sages , a group of vulnerable seniors who, with Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award funding, have formed an...
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March 2019 Media Mentions

Published: 
April 24, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
We regularly share highlights from news coverage of our work, including the growing collection of results from our funded studies. Here are some recent examples:
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The Tennessean Opinion Piece Spotlights the PCORI-Funded CEASAR Trial

Published: 
April 23, 2019
Blog Topics: 
Research
Ralph Conwill—a prostate cancer survivor and a patient partner on a PCORI-funded study —wrote about his involvement in the research process for a perspective piece published by Nashville’s The Tennessean . In it, he notes that he serves as “an equal partner ... alongside the scientists in what is a...
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