Agenda

ACCORDS Education is back with it's annual Colorado Pragmatic Research in Health Conference (COPRH Con)!

COPRH Con 2026 will be a primarily in-person conference. Virtual attendees will have access to a limited number of sessions including keynote, plenary, and panel presentations; virtual attendance may not include all networking sessions, breakouts and workshops, or poster presentations.

Attendees will hear from national experts in pragmatic research for two days of keynote and plenary addresses, networking, and break into concurrent sessions for more interactive participation.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 -- Pre-Conference Workshops
All pre-conference sessions require advanced registration
Time (MT)	Sessions	Speaker(s)
8:30-12 PM	Pre-conference workshops block 1: Pragmatic Research Planning Workshop* Planning for a Competitive Career Development Award: A Roadmap for Health Services Researchers Mixed Methods Design & Integration Training for Health Services Research Design for Innovation – Practical use of User-Centered Design	Various
12:00-1:00 PM	Lunch	For pre-conference participants
1:00-4:30 PM	Pre-conference workshops block 2: Pragmatic Research Planning Workshop* Elevating Research Project Management Practice AI Essentials for Health Services Researchers: Balancing Increased Productivity with Responsible Use Dissemination in the Age of AI: Communication and Design Tools at Your Fingertips	Various

All pre-conference workshops on May 20, 2026 will be in-person at CU Anschutz. No virtual option is available.

Thursday, May 21, 2026 -- Main Conference Sessions

Time (MT)	Session	Speakers(s)
7:30-8:30 AM	ACCORDS Breakfast Reception and Conference Check-in	N/A
8:30-8:45 AM Conference Center	Conference Welcome and Overview	Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE
8:45-9:45 AM Conference Center	Opening Keynote^	Katharine Rendle, PhD, MPH University of Pennsylvania
9:45-10:45 AM Conference Center	Plenary^	Anna Maw, MD, MS
	15-minute break
11:00-12:00 PM	Conference Talks: Novel Community Engagement Methods Lisa DeCamp, MD Meredith Fort, PhD Monica Perez Jolles, PhD, MA Qualitative Research Methods Elena Broaddus, PhD Jodi Summers Holtrop, PhD, MCHES Talia Thompson, PhD Pragmatic Research Debates and Tradeoffs Dan Matlock, MD, MPH Heather Smyth, PhD Katy Trinkley, PharmD, PhD
12:00-12:45 PM Conference Center	Networking Lunch
12:45-1:45 PM	Poster Session
1:45-2:45 PM	Conference Talks: Pediatric Pragmatic EHR-Embedded Trials: Where we are and how to do more? Yangun Gao, PhD Suchitra Rao, MBS, MSCS Sarah Schmidt, MD, MSHI Halden Scott, MD, MSCS Quantitative Methods Jiayuan Shi, MS Nannan Wang Yonghua Zhuang Patient-Reported Outcomes Tyler Buckner, MD, MSc Allison L'Hotta, PhD, OTD Ajay Major, MD
	15-minute break
3:00-3:45 PM	Panel^ Pragmatic Research (Web)Tools Expo
3:45-4:45 PM Conference Center	Closing Keynote ^ Decision-Focused Evidence Production and Benchmarking: a Proposed Unifying Framework for Advancing Individual, Community, and Population Health	Eric Hekler, PhD University of California, San Diego
4:45-5:00 PM Conference Center	Conference Wrap Up^ Looking to COPRH Con 2027	Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE

*updated 1/6/26

^available on virtual streaming through Zoom

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