Maureen Maurer

Maureen Maurer has more than 20 years of experience with a portfolio of work that involves communicating about medical evidence to lay and professional audiences and engaging patients, families, and community in health research, health care delivery, and health policy.

Maurer directs a project for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), called the PCOR Translation Center. This Center creates plain language summaries of research findings for the public within a legislatively mandated 90-day time frame and supports PCORI’s commitment to ensuring that research findings are comprehensible and useful to patients, clinicians, and others in making health care decisions. In this role, she oversees a team of more than 30 people; summaries for more than 500 studies have been posted to PCORI’s website.

In her work to conceptualize and implement patient and family engagement practices, Maurer was a co-author on a framework and roadmap for patient and family engagement, led the content development for PCORI’s Foundational Expectations for Partnerships in Research, led an environmental scan that catalogued engagement interventions in health care delivery, and has developed strategies and materials to engage patient and families in hospital quality and safety. She has extensive experience in designing convenings and facilitating meetings and public deliberations. For six years, she facilitated a member advisory group for a large insurer in North Carolina. Recently, she was an advisor on a project that developed stakeholder-driven principles of shared measurement, which is using a common set of measurable goals that reflect shared priorities across communities and systems, such as health care, public health, and human and social services. 

Her research skills including leading and designing qualitative research studies, including large-scale qualitative studies exploring the influence of patient and other stakeholder engagement in research and getting public input into policy decisions about the use of medical evidence in health care. She has also led qualitative case studies, including one study exploring how PCORI research projects manage different viewpoints and balance priorities and another study examining the relationship between engagement in research and uses of study findings that may indicate uptake into clinical practice. 

Maurer has held leadership positions on projects for organizations such as PCORI, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF). Prior to joining AIR, Ms. Maurer was a Peace Corp volunteer in Mali, West Africa.