PROH Network

Collaboration

The PROH Network is truly multidisciplinary in nature. Nearly 100 practitioners in over 20 communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington have expressed interest in becoming PROH investigators. It is designed to meet the needs of general practitioners as well as specialists and for those living in rural areas and metropolitan settings. The PROH Network will be practitioner-centric with the participating practitioners and investigators actively involved in generating project ideas, as well as conducting the studies.

Expertise is committed from the School of Dentistry and OHSU at large to make this project a success. All of the departments within the School of Dentistry can utilize the PROH network. An agreement is in place with our medical counterpart, the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN), to share some of their on-site research coordinators. Discussions have been initiated with ORPRN to investigate potential studies that may have both medical and dental components. The School of Medicine and Medical Informatics are involved as we design PROH's infrastructure, and data collection/data management systems for the Network. Joint projects are being discussed with the School of Nursing.

The Network will ultimately provide an infrastructure to conduct virtually any clinical research project.