NED 2023

Keynote Address: Equitable Access to Research

Learn how one Clinical Research Nurse’s inquiries and experiences led to the start of overcoming the obstacles of improving equitable access to research among the limited English proficient populations. Understand how addressing inequities concerning inclusion is imperative to the integrity of our work and how they must be addressed for us to continue to live out our mission statement. The objective is a practical solution driven approach in order to provide all patients the equitable opportunity to participate in research and to not be excluded due to their limited English proficiency.

About the Speaker

Allison Larimore, MSN, RN, CCRN is a Clinical Research Nurse with the Department of Surgery for the University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center. Her portfolio includes clinical research coordination, study start up, grant applications, and regulatory compliance for a wide variety of in-patient level 1 trauma research including abdominal aortic aneurysms, acute respiratory distress syndrome, trauma resuscitation cohorts, and nerve injury repair among many other studies. Her career started at Harborview Medical Center as a volunteer and progressed to bedside nursing for both acute care and intensive care units with the Adult and Pediatric Burns/Trauma departments before moving to clinical research in fall 2021.  In the Spring of 2021, she received the Daisy Award for her dedication to both patients and co-workers. Allison proudly graduated from the inaugural Leadership Development Program Fellowship in 2022 for Harborview Medical Center. Allison received her nursing degree from Lake Washington Institute of Technology, and her master’s degree in nursing leadership and management from Western Governors University.