Archived PROMs Summer School Sessions

PROMs in Clinical Research: A Project Showcase!

Join us for an insightful and inspiring session where early career investigators lead the way in demonstrating the transformative power of PROMs in clinical care and research.

Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH

Obstetrician-Gynecologist, The Dimock Center

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Lawrence Director, Professionalism, Humanism, and Health Equity in Medicine

Danny Young-Afat, MD, PhD, MHSc

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Amsterdam University Medical Center

Co-Founder, Utrecht cohort for Multiple BREast cancer intervention studies and Long-term evaLuAtion (UMBRELLA)

John Barbieri, MD, MBA

Director, Advanced Acne Therapeutics Clinic, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Co-chair, American Academy of Dermatology Acne Guidelines Work Group

Associate Editor, JAMA Dermatology

Isaac Chua, MD, MPH

Palliative Care Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Raising the Bar: PROMs & Healthcare Quality

Dr. Friedberg will discuss the payer’s perspective on patient-reported outcome measures for quality and performance improvement. Dr. Liu will present an overview of the steps that the American College of Surgeons has taken to incorporate patient-reported outcomes into the national surgical quality improvement paradigm.

Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP

Senior Vice President of Performance Measurement & Improvement,

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Jason Liu, MD, MS

Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Lead Faculty for Research and Innovation, PROVE Center

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Using AI to Unlock the Power of PROMs for Prediction and Decision Making

In this talk, Dr. Chris Gibbons will discuss how the future of PRO assessment could be guided by recent advances in computational language modelling and generative AI. He will give a critical overview of the state-of-the-art for assessing PROs, and other health-related latent constructs, using natural language processing techniques. Dr. Roberts will discuss how incorporating PROMs into machine learning-based predictive models can improve model performance.

Chris Gibbons, PhD

Associate Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Symptom Research

Director, MD Anderson Center for INSPiRED Cancer Care (Integrated Systems for Patient-Reported Data)

Chief, Section of Patient-Centered Analytics

Thomas Roberts, MD, MBA

Head and Neck Oncologist and

Associate Director of Quality and Safety, MGH Cancer Center

Clinical Director, Oncology Services Mass General Brigham

The Evolving Landscape of PROMs in Healthcare

In this first session, Dr. Pusic will kick off our PROMs Summer School Series with a brief overview of the weeks to come and provide an introduction to the science of PROMs. Then, Dr. Mou will share the creation and successful implementation of a bariatric surgery PROMs program that has high response rates and generates clinically meaningful data that enhances patient-centered care.

Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS

Director, PROVE Center, BWH

Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BWH

Professor, Harvard Medical School

Medical Director, MGB PROMs

Danny Mou, MD, MPH-

Bariatric Surgeon, Washington University

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) Fellowship, Emory University

Past Fellow, PROVE Center