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

COPRH Con 2025 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, June 4, 2025


Time*Session
Speaker(s)
8:00-9:00 AM

Check-in & Registration

Networking, Poster set up

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9:00-9:15 AM

Conference Center

Welcome Address^

Welcome to the Colorado Pragmatic Research in Health Conference

Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA

Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE

9:15-10:15 AM

Conference Center

Opening Keynote Address^

Team Science for Pragmatic Research
What Are We Trying to Achieve & How Do We Get There

 

Kara L. Hall, PhD

National Cancer Institute

10:15-11:15 AM

Conference Center

Plenary Address^

Engaging Patients and Partners in Patient-Centered CER Teams

Karen Martin, MIA

PCORI


10 minute break
11:25-12:15 PM

Conference Talks: Perspectives for Team Science

Teams Learning Together: Leveraging Multilevel Partners to Advance the Impact of Learning Health Systems

Breakout Room A (P12-2002)

 

 

 


Team Science for Maternal and Child Health

  • Perinatal Workforce Development: Diversifying the Perinatal Care Team to Meet the Needs of Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals
  • Collaborative Team Science to Improve Perinatal Care: Bridging Community, Clinician, and Researcher Expertise
  • Cross-Sector Collaboration – a Strategy to Enhance Equity and Accelerate Improvements in Family & Early Childhood Outcomes

Breakout Room B (P12-2004)


Engaging Community Members in Pragmatic Science
  • Characterizing structures, processes, and outcomes of engagement methods: A Delphi consensus approach 
  • The Youth-to-Youth Empowerment project to support health equity for urban American Indian and Alaska Native, Black, and Latino adolescents in Denver Metro, CO: a mixed methods youth-centered etiological study
  • Developing a Resource Guide for Building Capacity for Refugee Research Partners

Breakout Room C (P12-2007)


  • Alyssa Gatto, PhD
  • Katy Trinkley, PharmD, PhD
  • Michael Mattiucci, MD
  • Stephanie De Jesus Ayala, MS
  • Kaitlyn Tollefson

  • Brie Thumm, PhD, CNM, MBA, FACNM
  • Denise Smith, PhD
  • Venice Ng Williams, PhD, MPH

 

 

 

 


  • Heather Smyth, PhD
  • Nicole Tuitt, DrPH, Alexander Weiden, Clessie Mugisha
  • Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA

12:15-1:00 PM

Conference Center

Networking Lunch--

1:00-1:45 PM

Foyer

Poster Session

Various
 15 minute break 
2:00-2:50 PM

Conference Talks: The Hows of Team Science

Advancing Diversity in Pragmatic Sciences: Transdisciplinary Mentorship & Training

 

Breakout Room A (P12-2002)


Improving Health for Underserved or High Need Communities with Transdisciplinary Teams

  • Leveraging Multisectoral Data to Achieve Health Equity
  • Harnessing Health Systems to Address Health Related Social Needs: Insights from Denver’s Housing to Health Program  
  • Cultivating multidisciplinary teams that promote advocacy and healthcare policy change

Breakout Room B (P12-2004)


Project Management: Using tools to manage transdisciplinary teams

  • Rapid Design in Research: Lessons Learned from the R2P2 Process 
  • Aligning Perspectives: Strategies for Managing Research Projects with Multidisciplinary Teams 
  • Project Management Tools for Transdisciplinary Teams in Action - The Family Matters Case Study

Breakout Room C (P12-2007)

 

  • Chris Knoepke, PhD, MSW
  • Anne Libby, PhD
  • Jacinda Nicklas, MD, MPH

  • Josh Barocas, MD
  • Sarah Stella, MD
  • Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSCS

 

 

 


  • Bryan Wallace, MPH
  • Caylyn Rich, MS
  • Elizabeth Ruzicka, PhD, LP

 

 10 minute break 

3:00-3:50 PM

Conference Center

Panel^

Methodological Perspectives on Transdisciplinary Impacts

 

  • Kathryn Colborn, PhD
  • Liza Creel, PhD, MPH
  • Brooke Dorsey Holliman, PhD
  • Amy Huebschmann, MD, MSC
  • Donald Nease, MD
  • Russ Glasgow, PhD

3:50-4:00 PM

Conference Center

Day 1 Wrap-Up^Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA
4:00-6:00 PMACCORDS Reception, by RSVP  

*all times listed in local Mountain Time

^available on virtual streaming through Zoom

Thursday, June 5, 2025
 
TimeSessionSpeakers(s)
8:00-9:00 AM

Check-in

Networking

N/A

9:00-10:00 AM

Conference Center

Plenary^

Bridging Evidence to Action: Implementation Science as a Catalyst for Effective Health Policy

Gloria Coronado, PhD

University of Arizona

 10 minute break 
10:10-11:00 AM

Conference Talks:

Innovations and Impact in Pragmatic Team Science

COPRH Con highlighted oral abstract presentations

  • Reflections from an Autistic Youth Advisory Board: Motivations, Engagement Strategies, and Impact
  • Building Sustainable Innovative Models of Care: The Importance of an Interprofessional Team at the Helm
  • Enhancing Patient-Centered Care Through a Pragmatic Approach to Rapid Design, Implementation, Testing, and Sustainment: Overview of the R2P2 Center

Breakout Room A (P12-2002)


 

Data and Technology for Pragmatic Science

  • Leveraging the Electronic Health Record (EHR) for Pragmatic Research: Opportunities and Challenges in the Conduct of Pragmatic EHR-Embedded Trials   
  • Electronic Health Record Integration in PragMet

Breakout Room B (P12-2004)


Informing Practice and Policy Change Through Pragmatic, On the Ground Research

 

Breakout Room D (P12-2007)

 

 

 

  • Ainsley Losh, PhD
  • Cristy Geno Rasmussen, PhD
  • Bryan Ford, MPH

 

 

 

 


 

  • Bethany Kwan, PhD, MSPH
  • Cecilia Low Wang, PhD

 

 

 

 


  • Liza Creel, PhD, MPH
  • Stephanie Kirchner, MSPH, RD
  • Jennifer Halfacre, BS
     

 

 10 minute break 
11:10-12:00 PM

Conference Talks

Innovations and Future Directions in Pragmatic Health Science

COPRH Con highlighted oral abstract presentations

  • Tailored approaches for building a multidisciplinary team to support language inclusivity in qualitative research
  • Enhanced Acceptability and Effectiveness of Executive Functioning Support Videos for Spanish-Speaking Parents
  • Missing Data Imputation Methods in EHR Data Pre-processing

Breakout Room A (P12-2002)


Key Issues in Study Designs and Analysis for Pragmatic Team Science
  • Joint modeling of quality of life and survival using a Bayesian approach in a retrospective time scale
  • Bayesian Approaches for Efficient Pragmatic Research
  • Missing Data in Clinical Studies

Breakout Room B (P12-2004)


30 Years of Pragmatic Research: Reflections, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions

 

Breakout Room D (P12-2007)

     

     

     

    • Julia Reedy, MA
    • Jonathan Safer-Lichtenstein, PhD
    • Fahad Mostafa, PhD

     

     

     

     


    • Yizhou Fei, MS
    • Alex Kaizer, PhD
    • Jun Ying, PhD

     

     

     


    • Russ Glasgow, PhD

     

    12:00-1:00 PM

    Conference Center

    Networking Lunch

    Hosted by ACCORDS Investigators

    1:00-1:50 PM

    Conference Center

    Panel^

    Team Science for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Health Services Research  

     

    • Anna Maw, MD, MS
    • James Mitchell, PhD
    • Katy Trinkley, PharmD, PhD

    1:50-2:50

    Conference Center

    Closing Keynote Address^

    There’s No Place Like Team Science: The Power (and Joy) of Collaboration

    Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH

    UCHealth & University of Colorado

    2:50-3:00 PM

    Conference Center

    Closing Address^
    Looking to COPRH Con 2026

    Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA

    *all times listed in local Mountain Time

    **updated 6/3/25

    ^available on virtual streaming through Zoom

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