Conference Program (PDF) - ISOQOL

Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration and Exhibits
West Wing Lobby
A continental breakfast will be served at 7:00 am. Please be sure to visit the exhibits!
7:45 – 8:00 am
President’s Address
Diane Fairclough, DrPH, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
Sandringham Suite
8:00 – 9:30 am
Plenary Session:
The Routine Use of Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Health Service Decision Making: Challenges
and Opportunities
sponsored by: Pfizer
Chair: Professor Richard Lilford, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Speakers: Nick Black, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Nancy Devlin,
PhD Director of Research, UK NHS Office for Health Economics, London, UK; Lewis E. Kazis, ScD, Director,
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston,
MA, USA
Sandringham Suite
PRO have come of age as sources of information for health care systems policy decisions. In this plenary session, three experts
will present insights on programs that have helped shape health care in the US and UK that are based on PRO data. will discuss
the routine use of PROMs to compare health service providers in the United States. Richard Lilford PhD, FRCP, FRCOG, FFPHM,
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Director of Birmingham Clinical Research Academy will moderate a discussion among health
policy researchers in the UK and US on the use of PROM for policy decisions, asking “What have we learned and where should
we go now?”
Invited speakers include:
• Professor Nick Black, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who will provide an overview of the UK’s National
PROMs Programme.
• Professor Nancy Devlin, PhD Director of Research, UK NHS Office for Health Economics who will present “Getting the most out
of PROMs: putting health outcomes at the heart of NHS decision-making”.
• Professor Lewis E. Kazis, Sc.D, Director, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public
Health who will present “The routine use of PROMs to compare health service providers in the United States. What have we
learned?”
8:00 am – 6:45 pm
Poster Session 2 on display
Viscount Suite and Foyer
Poster numbers 105 through 208 are on display today (see page 43 through 48)
9:30 – 9:45 am
Break
West Wing Lobby
9:45 – 11:15 am
Concurrent Oral Sessions
Instrument Development
Chair: Claire Gilbert, MsC
Sandringham Suite
1183/Development of the individualised Eye-Dependent Quality of Life Questionnaire: EyeDQoL
Leonie S. Brose, Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK, Jens Dawczynski, Eye Clinic, Friedrich-
Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, Geeta Menon, Eye Clinic, Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley,
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