POR Alliance

Welcome to the POR Alliance!

The Patient-Oriented Research (POR) Alliance provides learning and collaboration opportunities for all members of patient-oriented research teams: researchers, Patient Partners, clinicians, decision makers, researchers, staff, and anyone else interested in POR!

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The PORTAL: Your Gateway to All Things POR

The PORTAL is a quarterly newsletter that keeps the POR Alliance up-to-date with what’s going on in patient-oriented research! Features include:

  • Pointers in POR - This Ask the Expert features will allow POR Alliance members to pose questions that will be answered by other POR Alliance members with expertise in that specific area in a subsequent issue of the PORTAL. 

  • Knowledge Translation - have something from your POR project you wish to share? Submit to the PORTAL for a chance to be featured in our newsletter to the POR Alliance and beyond!

  • Upcoming Events

  • Training Opportunities

Knowledge Translation

The POR Alliance members conduct diverse patient-oriented research and translate knowledge in creative and effective ways! As a POR Alliance member, we’re excited to promote your knowledge translation products through various channels, including the PORTAL quarterly newsletter, the SCPOR website and SCPOR’s various social media channels. Take a look below at some of the stellar work being done right here in Saskatchewan!


Generating Synthetic Contrast Enhanced CT Angiography Images from Non-Contrast Images Using a Slice-Consistent Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model

Dr. Neel P Mistry presented on his patient-oriented research with Mrs. Michelle Walsh at REACH Resident Research Day. Click on the video to watch or click here.


“Tales of Hope: Therapy Dogs Changing Lives in Prison” PAWSitive Colouring Book

The coloring book is being released by our patient-oriented research group, led by the University of Saskatchewan and in collaboration with Correctional Service Canada. The story is based on the longstanding visitation of therapy dogs Ruby, E-Jay, Researcher, Reina, and Molly at the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Saskatoon, SK. Patients at RPC chose the words to tell the story, based on their experiences, understanding, and research findings.

This work was financially supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Patient-Oriented Research Training Grant – Health System Stream. It was secured by Waypoint Centre in Ontario in partnership with USask. Copies are available at this time to our RPC partners, and will be more broadly available as further funding is secured.


Learning to work together: experiences of researchers and family partners in a patient-oriented research team

Mariana D. S. Ribeiro, Roslyn M. Compton, Katherine M. Ottley, Marilyn Barlow, Alison Craswell, Shawn Emard, Jane McPhee and Marlene Moorman


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