Participating in Practice-based Research

MetroNet

In 2001, the Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences started a practice-based research network in metropolitan Detroit called "MetroNet". Practice-based research networks are a consortium of primary care offices dedicated to answering questions about health and disease that can be investigated best, or only in ambulatory settings. The purpose is to answer the questions that are important to primary care physicians and ultimately provide better care for our patients.

Individual physicians within a practice or entire practices are welcome to participate.

The level of individual physician participation will range from recruiting patients to proposing study ideas to directing a study. The WSU Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences is committed to developing a network and has hired several research assistants and seasoned research faculty to create a functional network.

Great Lakes Research Into Practice Network (GRIN)

The Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences is also a founding member of the Great Lakes Research Into Practice Network along with the Family Medicine departments at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. GRIN is a statewide primary care research network that is intent on helping practitioners conduct research that is reflective of the complexities of primary care practice. The hope is to improve the integration of research outcomes into primary care medicine. Some Metro-Net members may choose to participate in GRIN studies, some may not. Participation in all research studies is entirely voluntary.

Contact:

Kendra Schwartz, M.D., M.S.P.H.
(313) 577-1421