Discovery Core

Personnel

James W Dearing, PhD, KPCO, Chair
Alanna Rahm, PhD, MS, KPCO, Core Coordinator
Michelle Henton, MA, KPCO, Core Sr. Research Assistant
Sarah Greene, MPH, Group Health Cooperative
Carmit McMullen, PhD, KP Northwest
Borsika A Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD, KPCO
Douglas Roblin, PhD, KP Georgia
Leif I. Solberg, MD, Health Partners
Andrew Williams, PhD, KP Hawaii

Purpose

The purpose of the Discovery Core is to identify, document and assess organizational efforts, big and small, for improving communication related to cancer care. We:

• identify and classify innovations from within the 14 CRN institutions related to cancer communication for the sharing of lession with healthcare systems generally.
  
  
• assess patient and provider perceptions of cancer communication innocations in terms of compatibility, effectiveness, cost, trailability, and obersvability.

• measure unit-level climate and organizational-level culture for determining readiness for change, capacity for changes, and barriers to change;

• measure informal influence structures via social network ananlysis as a means to create sociometic baseline data-sets so that network position can be used as a formative indicator of where to find and recruit opinion leaders for affecting the rate and reach of cancer communication innocations.

• help with the design of demonstrations as a means of sharing the processes and results of innovations in cancer communication.

To find out more about the Discovery Core, or to join the group, please email us!