PI: Melinda Davis, Ph.D.

Topic: Develop 5 OCHIN community health clinics as sites for future clinical trials related to COVID-19 topics.

Term: 2022-2026

ORPRN Contact: Claire Longadin

Email: londagin@ohsu.edu

PI: Melinda Davis, Ph.D.

Topic: A qualitative and quantitative examination of the impact of Congress’ VA MISSION Act (June 2019) on rural veterans’ access to and experience of care in rural Western states.

Term: 2019-2025

ORPRN Contact: Mary Patzel

Email: caravan@ohsu.edu

PI: Eric Simpson, M.D., M.C.R.; Nancy Elder, M.D., M.S.P.H. (site PI)

Topic: Pragmatic, community-based randomized trial to determine the effect of skin care education on the development of atopic dermatitis.

Term: 2018-2024

Email: cascadestudy@ohsu.edu

ORPRN Executive Sponsor: Anne King, M.B.A

Topic: The Oregon Health Authority’s Oregon Immunization Program is contracting with ORPRN to conduct COVID-19 vaccine quality assurance visits across Oregon. The purpose of these visits is to support and improve COVID-19 vaccine programs throughout the state. Each visit follows a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-devised format and will cover COVID-19 vaccine storage and handling, recordkeeping, and preparation best practices. Site visitors will also observe administration of the vaccine.  

Term: June 2021-June 2023

ORPRN Contact: Isabel Stock, B.S.

Email: stocki@ohsu.edu

Topic: In partnership with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (NARA) to deliver technical assistance to primary care clinics to improve colorectal cancer screening and prevention.

PI: Melinda Davis, Ph.D.

ORPRN Contact: Brittany Badicke, M.P.H.

Email: badicke@ohsu.edu

Topic: In partnership with Oregon Office of Disability Health,  recruit 50 providers to take a 35 min webinar training for free CME. The webinar will provide providers with tools to better treat and community with patients who have physical and/or mental disabilities.

PI: Willi Horner-Johnson, Ph.D.

Term: 2022-2023

ORPRN Contact: Anne King, M.B.A.

Email: kinga@ohsu.edu

Topic: This is part of a larger study with Dr. Brian Frank (OHSU Family Medicine); Support working with and interviewing key community partners to define the context, processes, and outcomes for a pilot in which an employer provides CHW services to a representative sample of employees at risk for type 2 diabetes.

PI: Brian Frank, M.D.

Term: 2022-2024

ORPRN Contact: Sara Wild, M.P.H.

Email: wilsa@ohsu.edu

Topic: Administer telephone social determinant of health and REAL-D screening to EOCCO and Summit health member and refer members with identified SDOH to resources in local communities.

PI: Anne King, M.B.A.

Term: 2021-2023

ORPRN Contact: Martha Snow, M.P.H.

Email: snowm@ohsu.edu

Topic: ORPRN administers the TCBIRP, which provides funding and technical assistance to health systems, clinics, public health, social service agencies and community advisory councils aimed at improving health care and population health in Eastern Oregon.

PI: Anne King, M.B.A.

Term: 2022-2024

ORPRN Contact: Martha Snow, M.P.H.

Email: snowm@ohsu.edu

PI: Jonathan Betlinski, M.D.

Topic: HEAL-OR is a five-year project focusing efforts in six rural counties in Oregon. Primary activities include: creating a rural advisory panel; utilizing the Project ECHO learning community model to improve health equity, access and quality in rural Oregon; partnering with Coordinated Care Organizations to guide ECHO programs; and creating a best-practice toolkit.

Term: 2021-2026

ORPRN Contact: Maggie McLain McDonnell, M.P.H.

Email: healor@ohsu.edu

Topic: Provide technical assistance to CCOs to implement Medicaid flexibilities to address social determinants of health and equity.

PI: Anne King, M.B.A.

Term: 2021-2025

ORPRN Contact: Bethany Lowe

Email: lowbe@ohsu.edu

Topic: A text message based randomized control trial to improve math literacy in 3-4 year olds

PI: Jaime Peterson, MD

Term: 2022-2025

ORPRN Contact: Kendall Dunlop-Korsness

Email: dunlopko@ohsu.edu

Topic: A cluster-randomized trial comparing team-based versus primary care clinician-focused advance care planning in practice-based research networks.

PI: Annette Totten, Ph.D. (U.S. PI); France Légaré, M.D., Ph.D. (Canada PI)

Term: 2017-2023

ORPRN Contact: Matthew Howard

Website: www.PrimaryCareACP.org

Email: howamat@ohsu.edu

Topic: The project is to evaluate Oregon's non-medical exemption process by surveying parents who opt out of vaccines for their children for a non-medical reason. We will be conducting interviews with parents to better understand why parents choose to not vaccinate their children (i.e. access or beliefs).

PI: N/A

Term: 2024-2025

ORPRN Contact: Isabel Stock

Email: stocki@ohsu.edu

Topic: Oregon, specifically the tri-county area, is struggling to meet the needs of adults and youth in acute mental health crisis. This complex system is lacking capacity in many different areas making it difficult for policy makers to strategically invest in and expand the system to meet the needs of our community members. Our project aims to build a simulation model of the current system to help policy makers invest in our acute mental health system. The end product is that we will having an interactive simulation model that we can share back with policy makers to help guide and support their decisions for how they invest and expand Oregon’s acute mental health system.

PI:  Erin Kenzie, Kristen Hassmiller-Lich, Alex Nielsen

Term: 2023-2025

ORPRN Contact: Isabel Stock

Email: stocki@ohsu.edu

Topic: A tele-mentoring education model designed to build the capacity of primary care clinicians and educate clinical teams on a variety of topics.

Term: Ongoing

ORPRN Contact: Maggie McLain McDonnell, M.P.H.

Website: www.oregonechonetwork.org

Email: mclaima@ohsu.edu

Topic: Testing how well an early test detects many types of cancer via simple blood draw.

PI: Dr. Tomasz Beer

Term: 2022-2023

ORPRN Contact: Laura Ferrara M.A. CCRP

Email: ferraral@ohsu.edu

Topic: A study of how to provide high quality, comprehensive, longitudinal, person-centered care for persons living with, or at risk for, multiple chronic conditions (MCC): Develop a roadmap with best practices for person-centered care planning across diverse health systems and settings. Engage experts, stakeholders, practitioners, frontline implementers, researchers, and persons, families, and caregivers to provide foundational knowledge of how to promote person-centered care planning as standard practice for persons with MCC.

PI: Deb Cohen, PhD

Term: 2024-2025

ORPRN Contact: Jen Coury

Email: coury@ohsu.edu

Topic: Test novel interventions in rural primary care practices and rural community-based organizations intended to increase HPV vaccination completion in both males and females aged 11-17 years.

PI: LJ Fagnan, M.D.; Patricia Carney, Ph.D.

Term: 2018-2024

ORPRN Contact: Caitlin Dickinson, M.P.H.

Email: summerca@ohsu.edu

Topic: A safety training randomized control trial for critical access hospital staff to reduce patient falls and worker injuries.

PI: David Hurtado, ScD

Term: 2023-2028

ORPRN Contact: Kendall Dunlop-Korsness

Email: dunlopko@ohsu.edu

Topic: To improve CRC screening rates, follow-up colonoscopy, and referral to care in rural Medicaid patients by implementing a direct mail fecal testing program with targeted outreach and patient navigation for follow-up colonoscopy.

PI: Melinda Davis, Ph.D.

Term: 2019-2024

ORPRN Contact: Jen Coury, M.S.

Email: coury@ohsu.edu

Topic: Provide CCOs with technical assistance to implement the newly passed SDOH Social Needs and Referral measure.

PI: Anne King, M.B.A.

Term: 2022-2024

ORPRN Contact: Sara Wild

Email: wilsa@ohsu.edu

Topic: Current challenges with Oregon's vaccine finance and delivery model are creating barriers to immunization access statewide. The Vaccine Finance Summit is intended to identify a solution that centers equitable access to immunizations for all in Oregon. The in-person event will include presentations and panel discussions to support the modernization and restructuring of Oregon's vaccine finance and delivery model. We will organizing a steering committee to draft legislation for the 2025 session.

PI: N/A

Term: 2023-2024

ORPRN Contact: Isabel Stock, MPH

Email: stocki@ohsu.edu