October
22
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Matthew McCoy, PhD
12:00pm - 1:00pm • 1402 Blockley Hall
2019-10-22 12:00:00 2019-10-22 13:00:00 America/New_York Penn Bioethics Seminar | Matthew McCoy, PhD Articulating and Measuring the Value of Patient Engagement in Research Research funding bodies in Europe and North America increasingly encourage or require grantees to engage patients not simply as research participants but as partners in all phases of research from topic generation to the dissemination of study results. Patient engagement has been said to improve the relevance, quality, and impact of research, but evidence of these benefits remains limited. I’ll discuss shortcomings of previous attempts to evaluate patient engagement and propose principles for more effective evaluation. Matthew McCoy, PhD Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Perelman School of Medicine 1402 Blockley Hall Penn Medical EthicsArticulating and Measuring the Value of Patient Engagement in Research
Research funding bodies in Europe and North America increasingly encourage or require grantees to engage patients not simply as research participants but as partners in all phases of research from topic generation to the dissemination of study results. Patient engagement has been said to improve the relevance, quality, and impact of research, but evidence of these benefits remains limited. I’ll discuss shortcomings of previous attempts to evaluate patient engagement and propose principles for more effective evaluation.
Matthew McCoy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Perelman School of Medicine