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		<title>ITHS Pilot Profile: Supporting Families After Incarceration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aurora Fonseca-Lloyd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ITHS-funded Academic Community Partnerships award provides an opportunity for researchers to build relationships in the community, strengthening the translational impact of their project. We sat down for a conversation with Dr. Liliana Lengua, a UW Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Connecting with Community Partners: Learning more about the Preclinical Engagement Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Stromme]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month, the Research Connector spotlight is on building community connections and how preclinical investigators can start strengthening those relationships to better serve their populations. To that end, we&#8217;re learning more about the Preclinical Engagement Project with Sonia Bishop, Research Scientist in UW HSPop, Health...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Northwest Participant &#038; Clinical Interactions: Committed to Benefiting Investigators</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ingrid Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The NW PCI Network facilitates access to broader populations and shorten the time it takes for investigators to conduct research in the WWAMI region. Investigators receive five main benefits.
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		<title>Six Building Blocks for opioid management in chronic pain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marissa Konstadt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prescription opioid use and misuse have reached a crisis level in the U.S., with roughly 58 opioid prescriptions for every 100 residents in 2017 and more than 46 people dying daily from overdoses involving prescription opioids. Although treatment plans are being developed, implementing these evidence-based strategies in primary care settings can be challenging.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ITHS granted $280K in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health</title>
		<link>https://wwwdev.iths.org/news/about-iths/community-engagement/iths-granted-280k-in-supplemental-funding-from-the-national-institutes-of-health/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marissa Konstadt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over $280,000 has been granted to Dr. Allison Cole to improve how the results of scientific research are disseminated and implemented into existing clinical and community settings. Only a small subset of scientific discoveries become actionable changes in the clinic. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Improving Partnerships Between Patients and Researchers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marissa Konstadt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges for the medical research community today is how to involve and engage patients as partners in research processes and clinical trial development. “It is a new skillset for researchers,” says Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD, and an expert in patient engagement. “It is really about involving people who haven’t traditionally been part of the team.” Part of the difficulty is the novelty for both patients and researchers. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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