Institutions such as Northwestern University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania are partnering with Sermo to conduct epidemiological investigations, study how new technologies can be used to gather and analyze information, and investigate the latest medical trends and events. By collaborating with Sermo, these partners have accessed a new research tool, opening the door to more efficient research, and increased opportunities for grant funding and research publications.

Our Current Strategic Partners

American Medical Association

The American Medical Association has partnered with Sermo to create a direct line of communication between US physicians and AMA leadership. As such, AMA leadership, including the President of the AMA, regularly interacts on Sermo to gain insight on grass-roots views pertaining to a wide range of policy, reform and practice issues. The partnership includes several initiatives around the AMA’s publications, including a ’Discuss on Sermo” link that allows physicians nationwide to immediately discuss, survey, and corroborate opinions about the latest health care news and research.

Nature Publishing Group

In this collaboration, NPG is adding ‘Discuss on Sermo’ links to the online versions of articles in 12 of its leading medical journals, including Nature Medicine, Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine and Leukemia. To best facilitate information sharing, NPG will make full text articles from a selection of its medical journals freely available to all registered users of Sermo. NPG’s partnership with Sermo is consistent with its aims to use the internet to improve research and communication, and its specific focus on improving medical research.

CrossRef

CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef's mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOIR link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. It operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher's platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher's platform, subject to the target publisher's access control practices. CrossRef's citation-linking network today covers millions of articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.

ReachMD

On Sermo, US physicians are able to discuss and debate ReachMD’s innovative broadcast medical news (XM Satellite Radio Channel 157). “It’s a natural fit. Both companies offer an innovative forum for physicians to engage one another and to be heard. By combining broadcast media and social networking, physicians can now listen to a segment on ReachMD, then immediately discuss the content with colleagues. This has not been possible until now,” said Dr. David Preskill, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of ReachMD.

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan’s School of Information Sciences is studying how social network theory can be used to get the highest-quality information from users in communities such as Sermo. This investigation is being lead by P.I. Dr. Paul Resnick, an expert on social network theory whose research includes ongoing analysis of ranking and rating systems on eBay and Slashdot. The results of Dr. Resnick's research will be used to refine Sermo and other online technologies in the near future.

Northwestern University

Sermo partner Northwestern University has created a state-of-the-art pharmacovigilance network that polls a network of physicians to monitor adverse events. P.I., Dr. Charles Bennett, is leading an investigation comparing the Sermo community to more traditional adverse event monitoring networks, most notably Northwestern’s RADAR program.

Interested in Partnering with Sermo?

If you are interested in possibilities to partners with Sermo, contact Pam Randhawa, Vice President Strategic Partnerships at prandhawa@sermo.com