# The National Dental PBRN Administrative and Resource Center

> **NIH NIH U19** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $495,298

## Abstract

This application continues funding for “The National Dental PBRN”, a national collaborative of practices and
organizations across the United States that engages practitioners in the excitement of discovery for the benefit
of everyday clinical practice and patients. The Specific Aims will be to: (1) maximize efficiencies to conduct
national oral health research studies in general and specialty dental practices on topics of importance to
practitioners and their patients; (2) provide evidence useful in daily patient care; (3) facilitate the translation of
research findings into clinical practice; (4) continue our work during previous funding periods to demonstrate
consistent growth and productivity by streamlining the implementation of clinical research across the network,
facilitating recruitment and retention, and developing public-private partnerships.
 The National Dental PBRN will accomplish these aims by building upon the many lessons learned from its
highly-productive current national network. We aim to build on our experiences from these past 15 years using
the same funding mechanism and administrative structure mandated in the FOA. The effectiveness of this
structure is evident from our network’s high level of productivity, as judged by number of publications and
completed studies, the size, scope, quality, and diversity of studies, and impact on health and daily clinical
practice. The network will comprise six regional nodes, one specialty node, a central administrative core based
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a central Coordinating Center. Other key elements of the
governing and administrative structure will include a Practitioner Executive Committee, Directors Committee,
Coordination Committee, Director of Communications & Dissemination, Director of Practitioner Recruitment &
Engagement, Practitioner Training Component, Practitioner & Patient Compensation System, Publications &
Presentations Committee, Central IRB, Data & Safety Monitoring Board, and NIDCR staff. Nodes will be based
at Health Partners Institute (Minneapolis, MN); Kaiser Permanente (Portland, OR); UAB (Birmingham, AL);
University of Florida (Gainesville, FL); University of Illinois (Chicago, IL); University of Rochester (Rochester,
NY); and the University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio, TX).
 The purpose of the administrative supplement would be to support X01 studies done in response to NOT-
DE-20-023 (Infrastructure Access for Research on COVID-19 Conducted in the National Dental PBRN).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10173374
- **Project number:** 3U19DE028717-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** GREGG H GILBERT
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $495,298
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-06-07 → 2026-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10173374

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10173374, The National Dental PBRN Administrative and Resource Center (3U19DE028717-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10173374. Licensed CC0.

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