UC San Diego

Workshop on Practice-Based Research (PBR) and Pragmatic Studies

Saturday December 5, 2015 7:30am-4:15pm

7:30-8:15am / Breakfast and Registration
8:15-8:30am / Rusty Kallenberg, MD, UC San Diego
Welcome, Introductions, and Orientation to the Day
8:30-9:15am / Keynote: Wilson Pace, MD, University of Colorado, Denver
Practical issues in implementing PBR
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the practical issues of conducting PBR, including the benefits and the challenges encountered and how to overcome them
9:15-10:00am / Keynote: Jeffery A. Dusek, PhD, Integrative Health Research Center, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
Integrative Medicine PBR; BRAVENET and PRIMIER
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the advances of Integrative Medicine research and how it is influencing the direction of allopathic practice
10:00-10:15am / Break
10:15-10:45am / Rusty Kallenberg, MD, & William Sieber, PhD, UC San Diego
Overview of PBR Efforts at UCSD
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the PBR efforts at UCSD in order to learn about possibilities, and how to move their practices forward for PBR
10:45-12:15pm / Presentations on Logistics of PBR - I
  • Paul J. Mills, PhD, UC San Diego
Overview of Presentations
  • Shahrokh Golshan, PhD, UC San Diego
Research designs appropriate for PBR
OBJECTIVE: Will present and discuss different design and statistical issues involved in common and practical PBR trial designs and how to collaborate with a statistician
  • Samantha Hurst, PhD, UC San Diego
Qualitative Assessments
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees about the use of qualitative data in developing contextualized evaluation/research efforts in their practices, including bridging qualitative data with quantitative data in mixed methods designs
  • Rusty Kallenberg, MD, UC San Diego
Identifying practical and proper endpoints; PROMIS
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the NIH PROMIS questionnaire system and how to use it for their PBR
12:15-1:15pm / Round Table Lunches: Bring your PBR Project Planning Questions
1:15-2:45pm / Presentations on Logistics of PBR - II
  • Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH, UC San Diego and National College of Natural Medicine
PRECIS Guidelines and Pragmatic Clinical Trials
  • OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the many issues surrounding conducting pragmatic research trials within the clinic setting; the benefits of these trials to obtaining effectiveness data for their practice
  • Laura Redwine, PhD, UC San Diego
Building PBR Collaborations
OBJECTIVE: Inform attendees how to build successful collaborations amongst other clinicians and researchers to advance their PRB efforts
  • William Sieber, PhD, UC San Diego
Patient Engagement,Subject recruitment and Data Collection
  • OBJECTIVE: Patient engagement in PBR is fundamental. This presentation will inform attendees of various ways to get patients participating in research, as well as important issues related to data collection.

2:45-3:15pm / Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH, UC San Diego
Successful Implementation of IM PBR
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of the nuts and bolts of how to successfully design and implement integrative PBR
3:15-3:30pm / Break
3:30-3:45pm / Paul J. Mills, PhD, UC San Diego
Resources and Pilot Funding Programs Available
OBJECTIVE: Will inform attendees of resources available at UCSD and opportunities to apply for pilot funding to support and conduct PBR
3:45-4:15pm / Panel Discussion With Speakers Call To Action
OBJECTIVE: This panel will enable further discussion and interaction on the workshop topics