PCORI Annual Meeting

Partnering to Help People with Obesity Better Understand Their Surgical Options

Nationwide, 93 million adults and one in five adolescents have obesity. But the concerns they face go well beyond excess weight. They are at greater risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer, among other health problems. People with obesity have numerous options to consider when looking...
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Choosing My Care on My Terms

Published: 
October 25, 2018
Author(s): 
Amy Berman, RN
Blog Topics: 
Guest Blogs
PCORI Annual Meeting
Research
Just one year after celebrating my 50th birthday, I was walking down a New York City street with my mother on a misty, gray November day when my phone rang. My life was wonderful up to that point, but looking back, I can see that the weather was an appropriate backdrop for the news I was about to...
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Our Latest Annual Meeting Is Days Away

Published: 
October 23, 2018
Author(s): 
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Executive Director's Blog
PCORI Annual Meeting
When we held PCORI’s first Annual Meeting in 2015, it was largely an opportunity to convene our stakeholders to meet each other, discuss their goals and our plans for a still-new research organization, and to report on progress being made by some of our earliest-funded studies. Now, just days away...
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