Current Participating Centers

Seattle Quality of Life Group

[SeaQoL]

School of Public Health

Department of Health Services

SeaQoL Group works to improve the health and quality of life of children, youth, and adults by advancing the development, acceptance, and use of self-reported measures of health and quality of life. An overall goal is to incorporate the patient voice in presenting results of effectiveness research to decision-makers and the public.

http://depts.washington.edu/yqol/

University Tower Building, 14th Floor SE corner

NAME: Evan Prenovitz
PHONE: 206-616-8562
EMAIL: preno@u.washington.edu

• Patient Centered Outcomes
• Health Disparities

Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

[HIPRC]

Medicine

HIPRC is one of 12 injury-control centers support by the CDC and the leading center for researching how people suffer injuries and what can be done to prevent them. HIPRC pursues research in prevalence and cause of injury, risk factors, methods for injury-prevention, injury treatment effectiveness, and educating health professionals, policy makers, and the public.

http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/

Harborview Medical Center

NAME: HIPRC
PHONE: 206-744-9430
EMAIL: hiprc@uw.edu

• Comparative Effectiveness
• Health System Evaluation
• Dissemination & Translation

Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program

[PORPP]

Pharmacy

PORPP conducts research and provides graduate and external training in health outcomes and policy research on health care technologies, with a focus on drugs, diagnostics, and devices. The overall goal of the program is to generate evidence that improves health care decisions for patients, clinicians, payers, industry and government organizations.

http://depts.washington.edu/porpp/index.html

UW Health Sciences, H-Wing

NAME: Penny L. Evans
PHONE:
EMAIL: pennye@u.washington.edu

• Comparative Effectiveness
• Health System Evaluation
• Technology Assessment
• Economic Evaluation

Surgical Outcomes Research Center

[SORCE]

Medicine

Surgery

SORCE encourages and supports the use of outcomes research to improve the quality of surgical care at the local, regional and national level. SORCE assesses the impact of surgical and interventional procedures on patients, society, and the healthcare system and improves the practice of surgery through education, training, and policy initiatives.

http://depts.washington.edu/sorce/

University District, 1107 NE 45th Street

NAME: SORCE
PHONE: 206-616-5440
EMAIL: SORCE@u.washington.edu

• Comparative Effectiveness
• Health Disparities
• Health System Evaluation
• Dissemination & Translation

Department of Health Services

[HSERV]

Public Health

Health Services

The Department of Health Services prepares future health practitioners, managers, and researchers to conduct the unfinished work of improving the well-being of communities in the United States and throughout the world.

http://depts.washington.edu/hserv/

Magnuson Health Sciences Center, Room H-664

NAME: HSERV
PHONE: 206-616-2935
EMAIL: hserv@u.washington.edu

• Comparative Effectiveness
• Health System Evaluation
• Dissemination & Translation

Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development

[VA HSR&D]

VA Puget Sound Health Care System

VA HSR&D researches the management of chronic disease in primary and specialty care, preservation of independence in older adult, evaluation of alternative delivery systems, and basic methodology in health services research. There are typically 100 active research projects ongoing at the Center.

http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/

VA Puget Sound

NAME: VA HSR&D
PHONE:
EMAIL: emily.hart2@va.gov

• Health Disparities
• Health System Evaluation

Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center

[CECORC]

Medicine; Public Health

The mission of CECORC is to discover the most cost-effective, evidence-based approaches to improving the health of patients and populations, with a primary emphasis is to evaluate medical devices, diagnostics and medical procedures.

http://depts.washington.edu/ccor/about.shtml

325 Ninth Ave. Seattle, WA 98104

NAME: CECORC
PHONE: 206-744-1800
EMAIL: ccor@u.washington.edu

• Comparative Effectiveness
• Technology Assessment
• Economic Evaluation

School of Nursing

[Nursing]

Nursing

The UW School of Nursing has a national and international reputation for excellence. An unusually fertile environment for nursing research guides and shapes its baccalaureate and graduate educational programs. It also builds practice that emphasizes leadership skills for the health care needs of a multicultural world.

http://nursing.uw.edu/

UW Health Sciences, Room T310

NAME:
PHONE: 206-543-8736
EMAIL:

• Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Community-based Research
• Patient Centered Outcomes