Seattle Children’s Practice-Based Research Network
Mission
The mission of Seattle Children's Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) is to improve child health and eliminate child health disparities by accelerating innovative and collaborative community-based research.
To achieve this mission, the PBRN seeks to serve as a hub for the Pacific Northwest region to connect researchers, clinicians, community members and patients/families to identify and collaborate on important new areas of research.
What Is a PBRN?
A practice-based research network is a group of pediatric practices (specialty and primary care) that collaborate with researchers to ask and answer questions on clinical practice, quality targets and population health.
Scope and Reach
The PBRN is a core component of the research infrastructure and core services available to Seattle Children's Research Institute investigators.
The PBRN initially includes the member sites of Seattle Children’s Care Network (SCCN), a group of primary care pediatric practices clinically integrated with Children’s University Medical Group and Seattle Children’s Hospital.
- 15 practices
- 22 sites
- >130 providers
- ~135,000 active patients
- 8 Puget Sound counties
Meet the Team
- For general inquiries or questions, email [email protected].
- Doug Opel, MD, MPH, PBRN medical director
- Heather Spielvogle, research manager
- Daksha Ranade, MPH, MBA, director of Research Informatics and BEAR
- Anna Marie Jolley, director, Data Coordinating Center
- Alison Cole, MD, MPH, associate director for WWAMI PBRN
- Sheryl Morelli, MD, MS, chief medical officer, Seattle Children’s Care Network
- Brian Saelens, PhD, research director, Center for Diversity and Health Equity
- Vanessa Shorte, associate vice president of Quality and Safety