Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
Executive Council
Rajendu Srivastava, MD, MPH, ChairChristopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, Past Chair
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Ron Keren, MD, MPH
Sanjay Mahant, MD, MSc
Samir Shah, MD, MSCE
Tamara Simon, MD, MSPH
Joel Tieder, MD, MPH
Karen Wilson, MD, MPH
Over the past several years, momentum to develop a PRIS network to collaboratively study key questions in inpatient pediatrics has steadily mounted. We now have over 200 hospitalists from 80 centers participating in the network, representing centers from the United States and Canada. In 2009, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Strategic Roundtable led to a series of discussion and outline for a plan how PRIS would achieve extramural funding to conduct studies that address clinically relevant questions germane to inpatient pediatrics. PRIS formed a new Executive Council of hospitalist-investigators from core PRIS sites (in addition to the existing centers) and worked through issues pertaining to mission, vision, values, governance, funding strategies and early discussion of particular questions that may be studied.
PRIS remains an independent entity founded through a collaborative effort of three organizations: the Society for Hospital Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association. Core network management support has been generously provided by the Academic Pediatric Association (APA). The APA has remained a key organization that has helped PRIS in the redesign and will continue to work with PRIS in the execution of the network goals. The mission of PRIS is to improve the health of and healthcare delivery to hospitalized children and their families. This will be done so by conducting larger, multi-institutional studies of inpatient pediatric care inadequately addressed to date through smaller studies and/or single site studies.
If you are interested in being a part of this network, please email Raj Srivastava
at raj.srivastava@hsc.utah.edu and Nui Dhepyasuwan at nui@academicpeds.org and also fill out the online
enrollment survey.
