The ITHS-funded Academic Community Partnerships award provides an opportunity for researchers to build relationships in the community, strengthening the translational impact of their project. We sat down for a conversation with Dr. Liliana Lengua, a UW Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for...
This month, the Research Connector spotlight is on building community connections and how preclinical investigators can start strengthening those relationships to better serve their populations. To that end, we're learning more about the Preclinical Engagement Project with Sonia Bishop, Research Scientist in UW HSPop, Health...
The NW PCI Network facilitates access to broader populations and shorten the time it takes for investigators to conduct research in the WWAMI region. Investigators receive five main benefits. ...
Prescription opioid use and misuse have reached a crisis level in the U.S., with roughly 58 opioid prescriptions for every 100 residents in 2017 and more than 46 people dying daily from overdoses involving prescription opioids. Although treatment plans are being developed, implementing these evidence-based...
Over $280,000 has been granted to Dr. Allison Cole to improve how the results of scientific research are disseminated and implemented into existing clinical and community settings. Only a small subset of scientific discoveries become actionable changes in the clinic. ...
One of the biggest challenges for the medical research community today is how to involve and engage patients as partners in research processes and clinical trial development. “It is a new skillset for researchers,” says Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD, and an expert in patient engagement....