Kristin L. Carman, Ph.D., is the Director of Public and Patient Engagement at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). In this position, she is responsible for leading and directing PCORI’s overall efforts to see that patients and other health care stakeholders are fully involved in and guide all aspects of PCORI’s work and developing the science of engagement. In her role, she leads a team that helps ensure that PCORI’s unique, patient-centered and stakeholder approach to health care research shapes the research we fund and the culture of research more broadly. She also leads the science of engagement, including the launch of a new PCORI initiative to fund research on engagement. Dr. Carman previously was at the American Institutes for Research, where she served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Patient and Consumer Engagement, and Director of the Health Policy and Research Group, a team of more than 100 health services research professionals. In that role, she helped conduct research on issues of public importance in health care quality, access, and financing; comparative effectiveness; patient and family engagement; health systems improvement; public deliberation; and health-related communications. She led groundbreaking engagement projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and numerous foundations including the California HealthCare Foundation, Moore Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson. Dr. Carman has spearheaded engagement research projects including a randomized clinical trial on deliberative methods, development of an influential framework on engagement in health care, and the development and translation of complex scientific information and concepts for the public and patients. She has published extensively and has worked closely with many health care stakeholders throughout her career. She also previously served as an inaugural member of PCORI’s Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement.