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Clinician Overview
Pacific Ovarian Cancer Research Consortium (POCRC). In 2003, the POCRC submitted a competing renewal application to continue the program that was successfully funded with a new five-year, $11 million dollar grant that started on October 1, 2004. Led by Principal Investigator, Nicole Urban, ScD, the overall goal of the POCRC is to improve ovarian cancer outcomes, including morbidity and quality of life as well as survival, incidence and mortality.
The POCRC is a community-based, multidisciplinary, translational research program that involves clinicians, laboratory scientists and public health scientists from several research and medical institutions in the region. The broad based approach takes full advantage of the scientific expertise available locally and allows for the pooling of clinical resources, thus facilitating population-based studies despite the low incidence of ovarian cancer.
To achieve the goals of the Consortium through translational research, the POCRC recognizes that involvement from community physicians is essential. Accordingly, the POCRC has created the Physician Advisory Committee to 1) provide clinical and scientific guidance for research protocols ensuring they adequately address clinical issues, 2) facilitate implementation of recruitment protocols in community clinics and offices, 3) convey research findings back to the community, and 4) provide feasibility input on implementation of research findings into clinical practice.
Physician Advisory Committee
The Physician Advisory Committee (PAC) plays a key role in the POCRC by ensuring the Consortium conducts translational research is that can be carried back to the physician community and to patients. The PAC consists of 60 physicians representing multiple medical specialties including gynecological and medical oncology, internal medicine, primary care, and obstetrical gynecology that have expressed interest in the POCRC and have agreed to participate. Contact with members of the PAC is maintained via mailings and e-mail. Approximately 10-12 physicians attend the semi-annual meetings, the focus of which is to present the progress and goals of the research program and obtain feedback particularly with respect to recruitment strategies, participant materials, and feasibility.
Please click here for a copy of the minutes from the last PAC meeting.
If you would like to participate in the PAC, please contact the study office at 1-800-328-1124. To find out more about the research being conducted by the POCRC, please visit the researchers section of the site.