The 8th Annual PROMIS International Conference
Building on Our Foundations, Embracing Our Future
PROMIS as a catalyst for improved patient outcomes and population health
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Join Us in Prague
Join us in beautiful Prague for top-level plenaries, oral paper sessions, posters, roundtables, poster walk, welcome reception, mentoring, and connecting once again in person. A virtual registration option is not available.
Prague, often called the "City of a Hundred Spires." is a vibrant city and one of the most visited capitals in Europe. It is the political and cultural capital of the Czech Republic and is known for its well-preserved Gothic and Renaissance architecture.
Congratulations to the Scholarship Winners!
Look for them at the conference and learn more about their research.
Come together with the PHO's collaborative international community of researchers, clinicians, and healthcare administrators.
Venue - The 8th Annual PROMIS International Conference will be held at:
Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
Freyova 33, 190 00
Praha 9 – Vysocany
Czech Republic
See tab below for Hotel and Travel Information with link for hotel reservations.
Plenary Sessions
Plenary 1
Sunday, 23 October
9:45-10:45 am
Building on Our Foundations, Embracing Our Future
Dave Cella, PhD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois USA
Plenary 2
Monday, 24 October
8:00 - 9:00 am
A Consensus-based National Core Set of Generic PROs and PROMs based on PROMIS
Caroline Terwee, PhD
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Plenary 3
Monday, 24 October
1:20 - 2:20 pm
When the Rubber meets the Road - Methodological Challenges Ahead to Integrate PROMs into Medicine
Matthias Rose, MD, PhD
Charité –Universittsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany
We look forward to connecting with you in Prague.
Join Us!
- 3 Plenary Sessions
- 8 Oral Paper Sessions
- 13 Roundtables
- Poster Hall
- Welcome Reception
- Poster Walk
- One-to-One Mentoring
- Networking Opportunities
PHO President
Judy Baumhauer, MD, MPH
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York USA
Program Co-Chair
Rachel Sisodia, MD
Mass General Brigham
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Program Co-Chair
Carole Tucker, PT, PhD
University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas USA
Attendees will become familiar with:
- The critical importance of patient-centered care and the demand for high-quality data from patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
- How PROMIS measures are being used to address practical measurement problems in health-related research and clinical practice.
- How PROMIS measures are increasingly being used to inform individual patient care, quality, and value in health systems and regulatory/payor requirements.
- The steps needed to move from PROMIS basics to implementation in clinical practice
- How PROMIS is improving patient-reported outcomes and population health
- How patient-reported outcomes measures are being used to reflect diversity, equity and inclusion
- How aggregate PROMs can be used to better understand disease and interventions
Rachel Sisodia, MD, Co-Chair, Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Carole Tucker, PT, PhD, Co-Chair, University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas USA
Jordi Alonso, MD, PhD, IMIM-Institut Hospital Mar d'Investigacions MedMèdiques, Barcelona, Spain
Dagmar Amtmann, PhD, University of Washington USA
Judith Baumhauer, MD, MPH, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York USA
David Cella, PhD, Northwetern University, Chicago, Illinois USA
Amylou Dueck, PhD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Maria Orlando Edelen, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Richard Gershon, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois USA
Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Jane Johnson, MA, A.T. Still Research Institute, Kirksville, Missouri USA
Irene Katzan, MD, MS, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio USA
Jin-Shei Lai, PhD, PTR/L, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois USA
Michiel Luijten, MSc, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eric Makhni, MD, MBA, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan USA
Istvan Musci, MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Mark Nyman, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota USA
Alexander Obbarius, MD, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Maria-Sophie Rothmund, BA, Bsc, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Vandana Sookdeo, MD, University of Miami, Miami, Florida USA
Caroline Terwee, PhD, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manisha Verma, MD, MPH, Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelpha, Pennsylvania USA
Changrong Yuan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Judith Baumhauer, MD, MPH, President
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Dave Cella, PhD, President-Elect
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois USA
Susan Bartlett, PhD, Secretary
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
Sara Ahmed, PT, PhD, Treasurer
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
Caroline Terwee, PhD, Past President
Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Chaplin, PhD
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Richard Gershon, PhD
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois USA
Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Lisa Shulman, MD
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland USA
Ashley Wilder Smith, PhD, MPH (ex-officio)
Federal Liaison / National Institutes of Health / National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland USA
James Witter, MD, PhD (ex-officio)
Retired
Welcome Reception and Poster Walk
Sunday, 23 October
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Visit the Poster Hall and enjoy a drink and hors d'oeuvres while talking with poster authors.
Register to join a Poster Walk. It's a small group of attendees and a facilitator who will visit selected posters and talk with authors about their research.
The Board of Directors is pleased to introduce the recipients of the 2022 PHO Scholarship Awards Program. Now in its fourth year, this competitive program has grown and is awarding 10 trainee scholarships this year to trainees to participate in the Annual PROMIS International Conference. Applications were received from eight countries outside of the United States and four US states. The Scholarship Awards Program is funded by generous donations from members and others.
Betul Bay, MSc is a PhD student in nursing at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The focus of her dissertation project is development of a digital pain management application for use in the home setting of children with cancer. PROMIS will be important in defining a minimum pain intervention set that can be applied and guide pain management for children with cancer being cared for in the home setting.
David Bernstein, MD, MBA, MEI is a resident in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA USA. His current research is focused on using PROMIS in clinical practice to predict outcomes, as part of value-based health care initiatives, and to help address issues related to social determinants of health (SDoH) and better understand health disparities. One of the core features of his most recent work is assessing differences in access to care and whether certain patient populations initially present with worse symptom severity.
Laurien Brauner, MSc is a PhD student at the Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Applied Sciences, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. As a speech and language therapist working with children, adolescents and adults, patient-reported outcome measures are used in addition to performance-based tests in determining optimal and valuable therapy goals and intervention methods. She is part of a research group working on development and implementation of a measure tailored to the experience of people with communication disorders.
Wajiha Ghazi, MSc is a graduate student working in clinical research at Toronto General Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She is involved in methodological and empirical projects related to validating PROMIS in patients with chronic kidney disease and integrating physical function assessments at clinical settings. Due to her background and expertise in kinesiology, she was drawn to the physical function domain of PROMIS.
Gregory Gooding, BA is completing his MSc in experimental medicine with a concentration in digital health innovation at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec Canada. Current projects include harmonizing a core set of patient-valued Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) domains with stakeholders (patients, clinicians, researchers, administrators).
Thymen Houwen, MD is a PhD student at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is currently working at the Elisbeth-Tweesteden Ziekenhuis in Tilburg, The Netherlands. His work has focused on implementing PROMIS CAT measures into the practice of the trauma surgery department with the aim of showing the high potential and relevance of PROMIS to both trauma patients and trauma professionals.
Renee Jones, MPH is a PhD student at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne in Australia. Her specialty area is paediatric PROMs and her research has focused on evaluating the psychometric performance of the PROMIS-25 paediatric profile and other commonly used instruments. She will explore how generic paediatric HRQoL instruments can be used in routine clinical care as patient-reported outcome measures.
Heena Manglani, PhD is a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA USA. She is leveraging PROMIS measures to identify individual risk factors for physical, psychological, and cognitive decline in people with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Manglani aims to facilitate the timely delivery of clinical interventions, including psychotherapy, cognitive rehabilitation, and sleep medicine, to promote patient-centered whole health care.
Lynn Tanner, MPT is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in Minneapolis, MN USA. She will measure HRQOL in survivors of pediatric cancer using PROMIS measures and examine differences between survivors who did and did not receive physical therapy services during their cancer experience. She will also analyze associations between HRQOL and clinical physical performance measures such as balance and walking capacity.
Iraís Yañez-Alvarez, PhD is a fellow at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico in Morelos, Mexico. As a researcher in quality evaluation and quality improvement with a focus on maternal and neonatal care, she has experience in measurement of quality health outcomes through direct contact with women from vulnerable settings who seek healthcare in the Mexican public healthcare system. Her aim is to gain understanding of diseases from the patients’ perspective and give voice to Mexican women on their experience with the health system.
Register to be a Mentor or Mentee
Mentoring sessions before or during the conference are an opportunity for new attendees, trainees, junior faculty, and others to meet and get advice from established PHO members in an informal setting.
Mentees will be matched prior to the conference with mentors based on common research and/or clinical interests. Career development issues, pathways to success in using PROMIS, advice and insight about professional development, or how to become more active in the PHO may be topics mentors and mentees wish to discuss.
Please indicate your interest in being a Mentor or Mentee on your registration form and enter your area of research or clinical interest.
Sunday, 23 October: 11:05 am - 12:05 pm
Oral Paper Session 1-A
Theme: PROMs in clinical care: Standardizing approaches and best practices
Moderator: Vinicius Antao, MD, MSc, PhD
Sunday, 23 October: 11:05 am - 12:05 pm
Oral Paper Session 1-B
Theme: Expanding PROMs reach: Cross-walks, social determinants of health and inclusivity
Moderator: Maria Orlando Edelen, PhD
Sunday, 23 October: 1:20 - 2:20 pm
Oral Paper Session 1-C
Theme: Understanding PROMIS to better understand mental health
Moderator: Alexander Obbarius, MD
Sunday, 23 October: 1:20 - 2:20 pm
Oral Paper Session 1-D
theme: Methodologies and measurement in mental health and neurologic functioning
Moderator: Richard Gershon, PhD
Monday, 24 October - 10:50 am - 11:50 am
Oral Paper Session 2-A
Theme: Using PROMIS to better understand, treat and surveil patients with malignancy
Moderator: Mark Vrahas, MD, MHCDS
Monday, 24 October: 10:50 - 11:50 am
Oral Paper Session 2-B
Theme: Methodologies and considerations in children
Moderator: Dagmar Amtmann, PhD
Monday, 24 October: 2:20 - 3:20 pm
Oral Paper Session 2-C
Theme: PROMIS: Improving clinical efficiency and accurate patient assessments
Moderator: Jeff Houck, PhD
Monday, 24 October: 2:20 - 3:20 pm
Oral Paper Session 2-D
Methods: Tailoring our tools to specific patient populations
Moderator: Michiel Luijten, MSc
Three Roundtable Sessions
Roundtables are one-hour facilitated small group discussions for networking and sharing experiences around a common topic. No additional fee. Since spaces are limited, pre-registration is necessary!
Register for your choice of Roundtables on your registration form.
Sunday, 23 October
2:40 - 3:40 pm
- PHO global: PROMIS National Centers around the world
- Clinical implementation: Using PROMIS for quality measurement
- PROMIS resources at HealthMeasures.net
- Validating in diverse populations
Monday, 24 October
9:50 - 10:50 am
- Barriers and facilitators to clinical implementation
- PROMIS domain selection: Choosing the right tool for the right patient
- Meet up for PHO Scholarship Recipients
- Harnessing PROMIS to improve diversity, equity and inclusion
- Using PROMIS in clinical trials
Monday, 24 October
11:50 - 1:20 pm with Luncheon
- Extending the global reach of PROMIS
- How to interpret scores in PROMIS: What matters and what doesn't
- How to approach and understand important differences
- Using PROMIS for shared decision-making
Registration applies to the onsite in-person program. A virtual option is not available.
Early bird discount registration fee will be reflected on your final screen when registering.
Registration includes:
- Scientific program on Sunday and Monday, including Plenary Sessions, Oral Paper Sessions, Roundtables, and Poster Hall
- Sunday Welcome Reception and Poster Walk
- Morning coffee service on Sunday and Monday
- Afternoon refreshment break on Sunday
- Luncheon on Sunday and Monday
- Post-conference On-Demand recordings of plenaries and oral poster sessions
- 2023 Membership dues
| Conference Registration Fees | Through 31 August | After 31 August |
| PHO Member | $459 USD | $499 USD |
| PHO Student Member * | $359 USD | $399 USD |
| Non-Member | $569 USD | $599 USD |
| Non-Member Student * | $419 USD | $449 USD |
| Group of 5 Persons (same institution) | $2265 USD | $2445 USD |
| Group of 5 Students | $1795 USD | $1995 USD |
| Pre-conference Workshop (choose one) | $39 USD | $39 USD |
- Student registration fees are available to Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, PhD Students with documentation of student status.
PHO member registration includes prorated 2022 membership and 2023 membership with access to full member benefits.
Non-member registration includes prorated 2022 membership and 2023 membership with access to full member benefits.
If you prefer to opt-out of 2023 membership, please let us know, however, the registration fees remain as shown.
Registration Payment
Registration fees must be paid in US dollars. PHO accepts MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express credit cards. For payment by check or electronic bank transfer, please email info@promishealth.org for instructions.
If you are registering for another person, you will need to use the email address associated with that person’s PHO account, but you will not need the password to their PHO account.
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Recording Policy
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Cancellation Policy and Fees
All conference registration cancellations by participants should be made via email to info@promishealth.org. A cancellation fee will be incurred based on the cancellation date and your registration payment as follows:
- Cancellations made by 31 August 2022: 10% of total registration costs.
- Cancellations made between 1 September and 19 September 2022: 50% of total registration costs.
- Cancellations made after 19 September 2022: No refund.
Requests for cancellation of ticketed pre-conference workshops received by 19 September will be granted a full refund. Cancellations for ticketed workshops received after 19 September will not be eligible for a refund.
PHO reserves the right to cancel any event due to lack of enrollment or other factors. If PHO cancels an event, registered persons will be notified by email and will have the option to receive a credit for a future PHO event or receive a full refund.
PHO will not be liable for reimbursing the cost of travel or accommodation arrangements made by individual persons.
Attendees agree to waive any and all claims for damages or compensation resulting from or relating to the cancellation, postponement, renaming, relocation or rescheduling of the event. PHO may (at its sole discretion) change the format (including, without limitation, from a physical in-person event to a virtual event), speakers, participants, content, venue location and program or any other aspect of the event at any time and for any reason, whether or not due to a Force Majeure Event (any event or circumstance arising that is beyond the reasonable control of PHO), in each case without liability.
Letters of Invitation
PHO will send letters of invitation upon request. In order to receive a letter of invitation, the participant must be the presenting author on an accepted abstract at the PHO Conference. PHO cannot issue letters for family members or other individuals without an abstract.
It should be understood that a letter of invitation is only to help participants raise travel funds or obtain a visa, and is not a commitment on the part of PHO to provide financial support.
To find out if a visa is required to enter the Czech Republic, or how long an application will take to process, please check with your local embassy. It is advised that you request a letter of invitation from PHO at your earliest convenience.
To request a letter of invitation, email PHO at info@promishealth.org with the following information: Full name, postal and email address of each individual requesting a letter of invitation, and the Embassy or consulate to which the letter should be addressed.
Letters of invitation will be emailed to the requesting individual, NOT to the embassy or consulate. Please allow up to five (5) business days for processing your request.
Certificates of Attendance
Certificates of attendance will be distributed electronically following the conference to those who request receipt on their registration form.
Hotel Reservations
The Clarion Congress Hotel Prague is the venue for the 8th Annual PROMIS International Conference.
Clarion Congress Hotel Prague
Freyova 33, 190 00
Praha 9 – Vysocany
Czech Republic
Extend Your Stay - Plan to arrive up to three days early or extend your stay up to three days after the conference. Based on availability, the PHO group rate will apply.
The PHO group room rate includes buffet breakfast, in-room internet connection, and access to the fitness center.
PHO Room Rates
Standard Single 1 person 120 EUR (approximately $125 USD)
Standard Double 2 persons 130 EUR (approximately $136 USD)
Executive Single 1 person 150 EUR (approximately $157 USD)
Executive Double 2 persons 160 EUR (approximately $167 USD)
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Check in: After 2:00 pm / Check -out: by 12:00 pm
Buffet breakfast is included in the room rate and available 7 - 10 am in the hotel’s Veduta Restaurant.
Reservation terms and conditions appear on the hotel booking site. Please review carefully.
Note: The PHO room rate is available through 21 September 2022 or until the group room block is filled. Room availability after this date is not guaranteed.
Click here to book your room reservation.
Travel Information
Effective 9 April 2022, the Czech Republic has suspended all COVID-19 related entry restrictions for travelers. Travelers to the Czech Republic are no longer required to complete a Passenger Locator Form, provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or prior infection.
Source: US Embassy in the Czech Republic
From the Airport
Travel time by taxi from Vaclav Havel Airport to the Clarion Congress Hotel is about 30-45 minutes (19.5 km). Transportation via taxi can be arranged by the Clarion Congress. Approximate cost from airport to hotel is CZK 1,250 (approximately $53 USD). Approximate cost from hotel to airport is CZK 1,150 (approximately $49 USD). Contact the Clarion concierge to reserve a transfer (concierge.cchp@clarion-hotels.cz, +420 211 131 137). Book transfers at least 24 hours in advance.
From the Train Station
Travel time by taxi from Central Train Station or Florenc Bus Station to the Clarion Congress Hotel is about 15 minutes. Transportation via taxi can be arranged by the Clarion Congress. Contact the Clarion concierge to reserve a transfer (concierge.cchp@clarion-hotels.cz, +420 211 131 137). Book transfers at least 24 hours in advance.