# The National Dental PBRN Administrative and Resource Center

> **NIH NIH U19** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $106,094

## Abstract

“The project summary [for the Overall Component] is a succinct and accurate description of the proposed
work… This section is limited to 30 lines of text…
 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. Consistent with specifications in the FOA itself, 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 the
2005-2019 funding period to demonstrate consistent growth and productivity by streamlining the
implementation of clinical research across the network, facilitating practitioner and patient recruitment and
retention, and developing public-private partnerships (to develop projects of interest to specific dental groups
and specialties, practice types, special populations, and patient advocacy groups).
 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 13 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 (UAB), and a central Coordinating Center. Other key elements of
the governing and administrative structure will include an Executive Committee, Node Directors Committee,
Steering Committee, Node Coordinators 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).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10242367
- **Project number:** 3U19DE028717-02S3
- **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:** $106,094
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-06-07 → 2026-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10242367

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10242367, The National Dental PBRN Administrative and Resource Center (3U19DE028717-02S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10242367. Licensed CC0.

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