National Cancer Institute: Healthcare Delivery Research Program Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Webinar: Intervening with Cancer Caregivers to Improve Patient Health Outcomes and Optimize Health Care Utilization When: August 17, 2017 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET Where: via WebEx ( Register Here) Presenters: Dr. Erin Kent and Dr. Michelle Mollica Summary: This webinar will provide an overview of the R01/R21 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Intervening with Cancer Caregivers to Improve Patient Health Outcomes and Optimize Health Care Utilization: Funding Opportunity ( PAR-16-317/ PAR
Be sure to look into the new funding opportunity from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), entitled, “Symptom Management for Patients with Advanced Illness”. This announcement can be found on the PCORI website. Email sciencequestions@pcori.org with any questions related to this funding announcement.
The Science of Caregiving: Bringing Voices Together August 7-8, 2017 Ruth Kirschstein Auditorium, Natcher Building (Building 45) NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD Register now and add this event to your calendar. The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and partners will host a summit that will provide perspectives across the spectrum of caregiving, including the importance of caregiving across the lifespan as well as current and future directions for research to improve the health of patients and caregivers. The keynote speaker is Judy Woodruff of PBS NewsHour. In addition, the Directors of
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) believes there is an ethical obligation to responsibly share data generated by interventional clinical trials because trial participants have put themselves at risk. As such, ICMJE has announced new requirements as conditions of consideration for publication of a clinical trial report in ICMJE member journals: http://annals.org/aim/article/2630766/data-sharing-statements-clinical-trials-requirement-international-committee-medical-journal
The PCRC is pleased to announce two sets of awards. Congratulations to the award winners of the PCRC grants to support the secondary analysis of existing data in the PCRC Data Repository. The award winners are: Kathleen M. Akgün, MD, MS, Yale School of Medicine, “Polypharmacy, statin use and 6-month dyspnea trajectories among older adults with serious, life-limiting diseases” Angela Ghesquiere, PhD, MSW, Hunter College, City University of New York, “Exploring Psychological Symptoms as Moderators of Treatment Outcomes in the REST Study” Yael Schenker, MD, MAS, University of Pittsburgh
Abstracts for the 2017 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium are now being accepted! All abstracts are due by July 11, 2017. For more information, visit: http://ow.ly/2IAe30bKV6u
We are happy to share that the PCRC Executive Committee recently published a paper in collaboration with Karen Kehl and Jeri Miller from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). The Journal of Palliative Medicine (JPM) publication, titled, “Better together: The making and maturation of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group,” explores the important steps that the PCRC has taken in order to advance the quality and impact of palliative care research. The publication is now available on JPM’s website: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2017.0138
A new, upcoming funding opportunity from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), entitled, “Symptom Management for Patients with Advanced Illness” will be announced on June 23, 2017. This advanced notice, which can also be found on the PCORI website, is being provided to allow potential applicants additional time to identify collaborators, obtain stakeholder input on the research question, and develop responsive, high-quality proposals. Please email sciencequestions@pcori.org with any questions related to this funding announcement and please see below for further details
The RFA for the 2018 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76) has just been announced: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-18-006.html. Be sure to take a look!
