2020 PROMIS International conference
Toward Patient-centered care: promis implementations and advances
Conference Abstracts have been published in the Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. Click to access
Conference gets high marks from attendees
"It was a burst of energy in this current situation. Great to be able to connect with people all over the world!"
"Missed seeing everyone in person, but the opportunities for interaction were better than any other virtual meeting I have attended this year."
"Excellent blend of high-quality applications for clinical research, methodological research, clinical care, and quality improvement."
"There are some nice advantages to virtual settings that can be leveraged for activities during the year. So my overall rating on a 0-100 VAS is 100!"
"I made meaningful connections with other researchers. There were excellent and actionable discussions occurring in the roundtable sessions."
"The invited speakers engaged with different perspectives on the same topic. The material was forward-thinking and timely."
Felix Fischer, PhD
Program Co-chair
Charité University
of Medicine
Berlin, Germany
Michelle Langer, PhD
Program Co-chair
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois USA
Plenary #1
Clinical Implementation of PROS
Moderator: Judy Baumhauer, MD, MPH
Presenters: Danielle Lavallee, PhD, PharmD; Elizabeth Austin, MPH; Betina Yanez, PhD; John Devin Peipert, PhD; Valentijn Zonjee, MD
Plenary #2
Methodological Innovations in PRO Measurement
Moderator: Jakob Bjørner, MD, PhD
Presenters: RJ Wirth, PhD; Barry Dewitt, PhD; Cheryl Coon, PhD
Plenary #3
PROMIS in Pediatrics: PEPR Results
Moderator: Richard Gershon, PhD
Presenters: Erica Brenner, MD; Chris Forrest, MD, PhD; Julia Schuchard, PhD; Jin-Shei Lai, PhD, OTR/L; Amy Paller, MD; Julie Panepinto, MD, MSPH, FAAP
Symposium
PROS in Value-Based Health Care
Moderators: Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH and Matthias Rose, MD, PhD
Presenters: Gregory Katz, PhD, PharmD, MBA; Jacob Lippa, MPH; Michelle Schreiber, MD
Leigh Andrews, MA is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Delaware. His current work is on a grant intended to develop symptom clusters using PROMIS and other PRO measures, and on another grant utilizing PROMIS depression and anxiety items to monitor symptoms during a self-management treatment for individuals with spinal cord injuries who suffer from anxiety and depression.
Erin Chew, MD is an internal medicine resident at Johns Hopkins and a future rheumatologist. Her current research focus is on patient-related outcomes scales in the calculation of minimal disease activity in psoriatic arthritis.
Brocha Stern, PhD, PTR, CHT completed her PhD at New York University and recently began a post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern. The PROMIS framework and measurers were an integral part of her dissertation, which explored recovery after orthopedic trauma from a behavioral perspective.
Dan Zhao is a MA student in the School of Nursing, Soochow University, in Suzhou, China. Her research focus is on the use of patient-reported outcome measures in chronic diseases, especially in inflammatory bowel disease. Her thesis is on the cross-cultural translation and psychometric properties validation on the PROMIS measures of self-efficacy for managing chronic conditions.