Mission: To serve as a resource for patients and stakeholders participating in the review of PCORI research funding applications through personalized, experiential support.
Vision: To advance PCORI’s engagement imperatives through meaningful involvement of patient and stakeholder communities in the conduct of research-reviewing processes.
Mentors are a subset of our merit reviewers. They are veteran reviewers who have substantial experience serving on merit review panels. Mentors represent a range of patient and stakeholder communities including patients, caregivers, family members, patient advocates, clinicians, researchers, purchasers, payers, industry, hospital and health systems, policy makers, and training institutions.
In this pair of videos, Sharon Cross shares why she chose to serve as a PCORI merit review mentor and how she works with first-time reviewers.
In this pair of videos, Ladd Colston describes the role of mentors and how they support the mission to improve clinical outcomes.
In this pair of videos, Lisa Nelson speaks about the merit review mentorship program and her role as a PCORI merit review mentor.
Reviewers asked to join the mentor program demonstrate successful participation in each Merit Review cycle served. These experienced reviewers are recommended to serve as Mentors by meeting some of the following criteria.
For more information on our merit reviewer community, please visit our Reviewer FAQs page or contact [email protected].
Posted: October 10, 2018; Updated: August 26, 2019
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