Welcome to Penn State Ambulatory Research Network

The Penn State Ambulatory Research Network (PSARN) was established in 2001 through a grant to the Center for Primary Care, Penn State College of Medicine. The Center for Primary Care is a cooperative effort by the Division of General Internal Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The main purpose of PSARN is to develop the infrastructure to conduct primary care research. The laboratory for primary care research is the office-based practice. PSARN currently includes all of the primary care practice sites of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the Penn State Good Samaritan Hospital Family Practice Residency Program and three federally funded community health centers located in south central Pennsylvania. There are over 125 participating clinicians seeing almost 400,000 outpatient visits per year to PSARN participating practices. Within the next year, we are looking to add three to five practices affiliated with the Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center (AHEC). The primary focus of PSARN is in the central PA region. The network's newest member is the Reading Hospital Family Practice Residency Program.