The Cerebral Palsy Research Network (CPRN) announced that its next webinar in its MyCP Webinar Series will feature Unni Narayanan, MD, MSc who is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at SickKids in Toronto, Canada on Monday, August 17, at 8 pm ET. The topic is “Can we make patient reported outcome measures useful to patients and parents?” Dr. Narayanan has developed several patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures to assess the effectiveness of surgical interventions in cerebral palsy (CP). Now his research is seeking to determine if those PROs can be used to facilitate a shared decision making between patients/caregivers and clinicians. Shared decision making is a process by which clinicians and patients or caregivers collaborate to understand the evidence base behind interventions and the tradeoffs between interventions or alternatives to surgeries and medications. Shared decision making is very important in CP because most surgeries are elective. Dr. Narayanan will present his recently funded research project being done in conjunction with CPRN and then take questions from attendees. The presentation will be approximately 20 minutes followed by an open ended Q&A.

Parents, caregivers and adults with CP can access the PROs developed by Dr. Narayanan by joining MyCP.org where they can be found in the CPRN Community Registry. After completing one of these measures, you can print out the results to share them with your CP physician and facilitate the shared decision making process now!

Interested participants need to register for the webinar to be sent instructions for joining.  Webinars will be recorded and posted for later viewing.  The MyCP Webinar series includes one presentation per month on different aspects of CPRN’s research studies.  Please join us!

Click here to see Priority based Patient Reported Outcome Measures to facilitate Shared Decision Making in Cerebral Palsy