Maarten de Wit and Denis O’Sullivan are PPI contributors involved in the international HIPPOCRATES project. HIPPOCRATES is led by Prof Oliver Fitzgerald (UCD School of Medicine). HIPPOCRATES goal is to promote the early identification and improve outcomes for patients with psoriatic arthritis. Patient representatives from three organisations have joined the consortium to ensure the patients’ perspective is preserved and prioritised in all research activities to maximise the project’s impact. Maarten and Denis are two of these patient representatives. Maarten de Wit is from the Netherlands and has more than twenty years experience as a PPI contributor. Denis O’Sullivan is from Ireland and has been involved in PPI for psoriatic arthritis since 2010.
Here, Maarten and Denis speak to Dr. Emma Dorris, programme manager for the PPI Ignite Network @ UCD, about their involvement in this large international consortium and how PPI has changed over the years.
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