Forging Strong Partnerships with Patient Advisors Enhances the Impact of Pain Research
Including people who live with pain helps make pain research clearer, more helpful, and closer to what patients really need. In the video above, Dr. Bob Kerns, Director of the Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC) Coordinating Center, talks about how strong partnerships with patients improve research and its outcomes.
To learn more about the PMC Patient Resource Group, click here.
This video was created through a partnership between the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain and the U.S. Pain Foundation.
PMC's Patient Resource Group
The Patient Resource Group (PRG) was developed to support and advise patients, investigators, and study leadership regarding the development, implementation, and execution of strategies, engagement, recruitment, and the dissemination of results. The PRG is comprised of veterans and military service members and their dependents and/or family members. All members of the PRG have received education in research principles and practices of clinical research. The PRG offers consultancy services on-demand throughout the research lifecycle.