Editorial :: Cochrane in the United States of America - The Cochrane Collaboration (background/2010 Keystone, Colorado conference)

 Note: The Gynecologic Cancer Review Group section of the Cochrane is based out of the UK. Consumer reviewers may participate irrespective of geographic location as the Cochrane is primarily internet-based.


"On 18 October 2010, the first joint Colloquium between the Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations opens in Keystone, Colorado, USA. The USA last hosted the Cochrane Collaboration Colloquium and annual meeting in 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Colloquium's return to the USA comes on the heels of President Obama's signing of historic health care reform legislation. As reported, "the reforms, which will cost an estimated USD 940 billion over 10 years, will expand the provision of care to 32 million more people, predominantly the poorest, and will result in the country achieving 95% coverage" (MacAskill 2010). At the same time The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has provided USD 1.1 billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), and established the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). PCORI will make a major annual investment in CER, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

The US contribution to the development of The Cochrane Collaboration has been considerable. US-based researchers represented 7/84 (8.3%) of the pioneers attending the first Cochrane Colloquium in October 1993........."cont'd

Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance - Colorado

U.S. Cochrane Center - Colorado conference/advocates' forum

Message from Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network:

Please save the date (October 17, 2010) for an international Consumer Advocacy Summit, sponsored by Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (CUE), immediately preceding the Cochrane and Campbell Colloquium in Keystone, Colorado.  We will have more program details for you soon!  Your participation in the full day meeting will make it a success!!

Questions can be directed to Janie Gordon, CUE Coordinator at jlgordon@jhsph.edu , (410) 502-4640.

 Thank you!

 Janie Gordon, ScM.

Cochrane Outreach Coordinator

US Cochrane Center

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

615 North Wolfe Street, Mail Room W 5010

Baltimore, Maryland 21205 USA

Phone:410-502-4640

Email: jlgordon@jhsph.edu

Fax: 410-502- 4623

news: Colorado's Online News Leader - Making sure those with breast cancer get help (and ovarian cancer COCA)

"The BWRC Fund has also helped expand cancer education programs across the state. Survivors Teaching Students, a program sponsored by the Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance (COCA), brings ovarian cancer survivors into the lives of medical students with the goal of helping them become more sensitive to the symptoms of and risk factors for ovarian cancer.

"The majority of ovarian cancer cases are not diagnosed until the disease is advanced and women's survival is compromised, so the key to treatment is early diagnosis," said Lucy Trujillo, COCA executive director and ovarian cancer survivor."