PBRN Conference Plenary Speaker – Joe Selby, MD, MPH

We are thrilled to host Joe Selby, MD, MPH, as one of our plenary speaker at the PBRN conference. He is the first Executive Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent organization created to help people make informed health care decisions and improve health care delivery. PCORI commissions research that is guided by patients, caregivers and the broader health care community and produces high integrity, evidence-based information.

Dr. Selby will discuss primary care quality improvement via collaborative partnerships; conducting research that not only informs service delivery but also facilitates sustainable quality improvement at the practice and systems level.

A press release on Dr. Selby describes him well: “Dr. Selby is a rare combination of innovative research leader and tireless patient advocate, who is passionate about PCORI’s work to ensure that the patient perspective is incorporated throughout the health research and dissemination process,” said Dr. Eugene Washington, M.D., M.Sc., chair of the PCORI Board of Governors and vice chancellor of Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Selby is a family physician, clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher. He joined PCORI from Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, where he was director of the Division of Research for 13 years and oversaw a department of more than 50 investigators and 500 research staff working on more than 250 ongoing studies. An accomplished researcher, he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and continues to conduct research, primarily in the areas of diabetes outcomes and quality improvement.

Dr. Selby’s plenary will be on Thursday of the conference (June 21) and is sure to impress.

For more about PCORI go to www.pcori.org.

PBRN Conference June 20-21

You may have seen or heard that due to a grant from AHRQ, we are excited to be hosting the 8^th annual Practice Based Research Network Conference.

We’re busy putting together two days of sessions that not only address the science of research and operation of PBRNs, but also provide for the presentation of studies focusing on practice improvement, behavioral health, diagnosis and treatment issues encountered in primary care practice, and the efficacy of interventions and prevention modalities.

Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Executive Director will be the first plenary speaker. He’ll discuss primary care quality improvement via collaborative partnerships and conducting research that not only informs service delivery but also facilitates sustainable quality improvement at the practice and systems level.

We have also put together an exciting plenary panel featuring Larry Green, MD, Jon Kerner, PhD, Jack Westfall, MD, MPH, and James W. Mold, MD, MPH. The panelists will give a brief overview of the IOM Report on the intersection between Public Health and Primary Care with each panelist presenting examples on how to make the interface.

We hope you’ll join us. Registration is open at www.napcrg.org.

A big thank you to our Steering Committee:

Chair: James W. Mold, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of the Research Division in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geriatrics.

Rowena Dolor, MD, MHS, Director, Primary Care Research Consortium, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University

Ardis Olson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Clinicians Enhancing Child Health Network

Jack Westfall, MD, MPH, Associate Dean of Rural Health, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and Director of the High Plains Research Network

Donna Manca, MD, MCLSC, Assistant Professor and Director of Research, University of Alberta Department of Family Medicine; Clinical Director, Alberta Practice Research Network

R. "Mort" Wasserman, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont, Director, Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS), American Academy of Pediatrics

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It takes a village to put on the annual meeting!

Meet our team of experts that make the annual meeting run smoothly.

Dianna Azbill
Dianna is in the details! She’s our registrar extraordinaire and assists Priscilla Noland in putting together almost 800 badges, envelopes and programs for all attendees.

Angela Broderick
Fearless leader and Executive Director Angela can be seen facilitating Board activities around discussion of key issues, acting as the conference manager at the meeting among many, many other things. While not working on the annual meeting, Angela represents NAPCRG at primary care meetings and oversees NAPCRG’s budget.

Jill Haught
"Jill of all trades" as we like to call her can be found behind the registration desk, in committee meetings and working with hotel staff. She provides administrative support to Board, masterminds the "Napcrg University" including planning all the promotions, designs meeting postcards and signs. She also has the yummy job of creating the wine tasting "Menu."

Joan Hedgecock
Joan has worked with the committee chairs of Membership, Communications and CASFM to arrange their committee meetings while in Banff, coordinate activities and develop their reports for the Board. Joan is now writing grants for NAPCRG and managing grant projects.

Laura Nichols
As the newest member of the NAPCRG team, Laura will spend her time helping to manage and facilitate the committees and special projects. Laura spends 75% of her day job as a Senior Research Assistant for the National Research Network at the AAFP. Be kind to Laura, as this is her first NAPCRG adventure!

Priscilla Noland
Priscilla has all of the answers! She answers each and every email and phone call from our 750+ attendees, explains how to get a shuttle, how to ship a poster, what to pack for Banff, etc., etc., etc. She helps with hotel arrangements, meeting planning and staffs the Program committee. She also organizes the submission and review system and recruits volunteers to review and moderate sessions.

Larry Peery
Larry spends his time on all things technology. He is responsible for the setup and management of online call for papers, the online conference registration and all on site audio visual needs for the meeting.

Kristin Robinson
Kristin is the communications guru and provides content and copy for the annual meeting section of the NAPCRG web site, manages the production of and writes content for the NAPCRG newsletter (which include coverage of the annual meeting), and does public relations outreach to the media to promote the meeting and the research being presented.

Award Recipents at the NAPCRG Meeting

Congratulations to all of our award recipients!

2010 Maurice Wood Award

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH

2010 President's Award Recipients

Maukje (Bo) Miedema, PhD

Dale McMurchy

Jack Westfall, MD