Faculty: Dr. Anne Beal, Chief Operating Officer, PCORI
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Course Level: 101 (Introductory) Faculty: Dr. Anne Beal, Chief Operating Officer, PCORI Format: On-demand, streaming presentation with voice-over and Q & A This free webinar provided insight into what PCORI hopes to learn and how it will bring the patient’s voice to the research supported through its initial round of primary research funding. |
Overview: The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was authorized by Congress in 2010 to fund research designed to give patients, caregivers and clinicians the information they need to make better-informed decisions about health and health care. In this free webinar, learn how PCORI is pursuing that ambitious challenge, and what they hope to learn from the research supported through the initial round of primary research funding.
Objectives:
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Describe PCORI's mission and details on its research agenda.
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Provide details on PCORI’s plan to better integrate patients and other stakeholders into the research process.
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List ways in which researchers can effectively include patients and other stakeholders in all phases of clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects.
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Review and discuss the methodology report, which provides guidance on conducting patient-centered outcomes research.
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Provide details on the PCORI funding cycles and timeline.
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Communicate expectations for PCORI's first round of research funding.
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Faculty Bio:
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Dr. Beal joins PCORI from the Aetna Foundation, the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna Inc. As president, she led the foundations work on improving health care in the U.S., particularly for vulnerable patient groups. Prior to her work at the Aetna Foundation, Dr. Beal was assistant vice president for the Program on Health Care Disparities at the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. Early in her career, Dr. Beal worked with a mobile medical unit project delivering health care services to children living in homeless shelters throughout New York City. She was also a health services researcher at the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, she was associate director of the Multicultural Affairs Office of Massachusetts General Hospital and attending pediatrician within the division of general pediatrics. Dr. Beal has also held faculty positions within both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to publishing in the peer-reviewed medical literature, Dr. Beal is also the author of The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years. Dr. Beal has been a pediatric commentator and medical correspondent for Essence magazine, The American Baby Show, ABC News, and NBC News. Dr. Beal holds a B.A. from Brown University, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University. She completed her internship, residency, and National Research Service Award fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. |
Anne Beal, M.D., M.P.H., is chief operating officer of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. A pediatrician and public health specialist, she has devoted her career to providing access to high-quality health care through the delivery of health care services, teaching, research, public health, and philanthropy. As PCORI’s first COO, Beal will be responsible for ensuring PCORI develops the structure and capacity needed to carry out its mission as the nation’s largest research institute focused on patient-centered outcomes research.