Does the PI of the original PCORI-funded research study have to be the PI of the implementation project?

If the applicant is implementing an SDM strategy that was formally tested and demonstrated to be effective in the context of a PCORI-funded research award, then they must be the PI of the original PCORI-funded research study (or a member of the original PCORI-funded research study team). If the applicant is proposing an implementation project that will incorporate new PCORI-funded comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) evidence into an existing and tested SDM strategy, and then implement the updated strategy in a practice setting, then they do not have to be the original PCORI-funded research study PI (or member of the study team).