PEP Talks
Welcome to PEP Talks, the Patient Engagement Podcast brought to you by the Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research SUPPORT UNIT (AbSPORU) Patient Engagement Team.
Join us for insightful conversations featuring a diverse array of voices, including patient, family, and community research partners, academic researchers, healthcare providers, policy-makers, and other key collaborators on the topic of partnerships in patient-oriented research and patient engagement in health research and health care! Together, we explore innovative ideas, share experiences, and highlight the importance of collaboration in advancing the science and practice of patient engagement in health research.
PEP Talks
Alberta's Patient & Family Advisors and PaCERs with Colin Penman (EP 23)
In episode 23 of PEP Talks, Colin Penman talks about how people with lived experiences can engage with healthcare and health research. Penman is a graduate of the Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER) program at the University of Calgary. He shares his learning as a patient partner in research, as well as a patient and family advisor with the Alberta Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs). Colin Penman describes the positive as well as the negative experiences he has had as a patient partner, and what can be done to mitigate those negative experiences. Meaningful communication is a balance that both the patient partners and the researchers have to make an effort to sustain.