WABR - Education Materials

Sharing the Importance of Research

A Workshop for Researchers and Clinical Trial Participants/Patients

Speaker Susanna Cunningham discusses how to address difficult audience questions
(Small group breakout session at the 2002 NWABR Speaker Workshop)

Workshop Materials:

Speaker Workshop Manual:
Sharing the Importance of Research (42pg, pdf)

Issues in Clinical Trials Handout :
Challenges and Solutions: Publicity, Recruitment, Retention, Debriefing (2pg, pdf)

What participants said about the 2004 workshop:

Excellent workshop regarding challenges, about publicity and recruitment relating to clinical research.

This program will equip researchers to more effectively engage the public with the goals, benefits/risks, and process of their research in a holistic way.

This program was extremely informative in many specific areas. I came away with a lot of great ideas to share with my peers.

Outstanding and very relevant. Usually, when I go to these type of things, I take home stuff that I can use to either help me understand the reserach process, or do my job better. This program gave me ways to make the process better for research subjects!

This half-day workshop, held November 5th 2004 at the UW Faculty club, focused on providing researchers and clinical trial participants with ideas and strategies for communicating with potential research subjects and the media.

Workshop attendees learned how to talk about scientific research and how to engage the community in a dialogue about the barriers that prevent people from enrolling in clinical trials.

Presenters Included:

Tom Paulson (Reporter, Seattle PI)
Bonnie Southcott (Radio host, Director of Donor Relations for Gilda's Club, and ovarian cancer survivor)
Helen McGough (Director, UW Human Subjects Division)
Sharon Smith Elsayed (Education and Training Coordinator, UW Human Subjects Division)
Pam Sowers (UW Media Relations Coordinator)

For questions about the Speaker Workshop, please contact

Jeanne Ting Chowning, Education Manager, NWABR 206.956.3647

This program was made possible through

Collaborating to Enhance Human Research Protections
Human Subjects Research Enhancement Program
NIH Grant 2 S07 RR018268-02.

NWABR is a 501(c)3 organization. All contributions are tax deductible.
The NWABR web site was made possible by funding from the National Center for Research
Resources and the National Institutes of Health through a Science Education Partnership Award.