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Creating and Sharing Plain Language Summaries: One Team’s Experience
Webinar
October 17, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
To celebrate Health Literacy Month this October, the MRCT Center invites you to participate in three engaging and informative webinars. These sessions will provide practical tools and foster robust discussions, benefiting anyone interested in incorporating health literacy and accessibility best practices into communicating participant-facing clinical research information.
We encourage you to join all three sessions: October 10: Impactful Informed Consent Processes that Empower Participants; October 17: Creating and Sharing Plain Language Summaries: One Team’s Experience; and October 22: PowerPoint Presentations to Support Health Literacy and Accessibility. Even if you’re unable to attend live, registering ensures you’ll receive the recording link and any shared materials.
Session 2: Creating and Sharing Plain Language Summaries: One Team’s Experience
Thursday, October 17, 12 – 1 PM ET
Description: Join the MRCT Center for this webinar that will feature experts from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute who will share their experience in developing a patient advocacy-driven return of results process for making Plain Language Summaries available to participants in breast cancer-related studies.
The moderator, Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, will join the panelists, Paula Steeves, Lead Patient Advocate, Breast Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Timothy Erick, Science Writer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Please join us as we discuss:
- The core elements of creating and disseminating Plain Language Summaries.
- What results to return, who to involve in the creation process, and how to approach dissemination.
- How to start returning results with your study participants. Share your experiences and get answers to your questions in a moderated discussion and Q&A session.