Debra Barksdale

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute operates as a non-profit organization. It funds research that helps patients and care takers to make better decisions about their healthcare choices. The firm focuses on Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER), CER methods & infrastructure and related research studies. It funds to various private and public sectors including non-profit research organizations and profit research organizations, universities & colleges, hospitals and healthcare systems, laboratories & manufacturers, units of state, local and federal government. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

American Academy of Nursing operates as a professional organization. It generates, synthesizes, and disseminates nursing knowledge to contribute to health policy and practice for the benefit of the public and the nursing profession. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.