Kim
Kimminau,
PhD, MA
Professor; Chief of Staff, Chief of Strategy, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
University of Missouri
Kim Kimminau, PhD, is a Biomedical Anthropologist, a research Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and is the Chief of Staff and Chief of Strategy in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, University of Missouri . She previously served as Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, The University of Kansas Medical Center and Associate Director, evaluator, and co-lead for team science for Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is a founding member of PIVOT, and has worked extensively with clinicians, health systems, public health organizations, advocates, and nonprofit organizations to bring patients, community and other stakeholder voices into all aspects of biomedical reesarch.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Basic scientists conducting biomedical research are generally not provided the skills or experiences needed to engage in meaningful patient engagement and effective community collaboration. The University of Kansas Cancer Center’s (KUCC) Community Outreach and Engagement program developed an innovative strengths-based training model, Patient and Investigator Voices Organizing Together (PIVOT) Across the Translational Research Continuum, pairing basic scientists with research-trained cancer survivors/co-survivors to bring the voices and experiences of patients and families into the research…