The overall goal of the PBRN Core is to support generating and applying new knowledge to improve health care and health in the community practice settings in which most people get most of their care most of the time.
The goals of the PBRN Shared Resource include:
- Building capacity through:
- Network development: growing new PBRNs to meet emerging opportunities, and renewing existing PBRNs by developing network leaders, steering committees and membership
- Supporting communication among network members, community groups, and investigators
- Developing new PBRN methods to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing environment
- Training the next generation of PBRN investigators
- Fostering integration through:
- CTSC shared resources: shared staffing and consultation with other CTSC Cores
- Health care system collaboration and infrastructure development
- Partnership with other centers of transdisciplinary research and development
- Catalyzing research and application through:
- Research consultation that links investigators in community and academic settings
- Research interest groups
- Working at the interfaces between research, development and quality improvement
- Pilot study initiatives
- Collaborating on specific research project
Leadership
PBRN Director, Assistant Professor
Case Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative
Case Western Reserve University
11000 Cedar Ave, Suite 402
Cleveland, OH 44106
Office: 216-368-2996
Fax: 216-368-4348
E-mail: james.werner@case.edu
Co-Director, PBRN Shared Resource
Editor, Annals of Family Medicine www.AnnFamMed.org
American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor
Professor of Family Medicine & community Health,
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Oncology and Sociology
Promoting Health Across Boundaries www.PHAB.us
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7136
Office: 216-368-6297
Fax: 216-368-4348
E-mail: kurt.stange@case.edu
Administration
Administrative Director
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University
11000 Cedar Ave, Suite 402
Cleveland, OH 44106
Office: 216-368-4622
Fax: 216-368-4348
E-mail: amanda.ross@case.edu