VA HSR&D Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Deirdre Quinn, PhD, MSc, with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion in Pittsburgh, PA, talks about her work supporting family planning for women Veterans receiving VA care through the expansion of access to a 12-month supply of contraceptives.
Ryan Sterling, PhD, research scientist with the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation, discusses the impact that VA’s electronic health record modernization rollout has had on burnout among VA physicians.
Omonyele Adjognon, DrPH (candidate) of the HSR Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research idiscusses her work with Drs. Christopher Miller and Kate Iverson on screening for intimate partner violence in Veterans in VA primary care.
Maren Scheuner MD, MPH, investigator and provider at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, talks with Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) editor Diane Hanks at the 2023 HSR&D national meeting, about her research on integrating genetic testing in front-line healthcare practices.
Denise Hynes and Matt Maciejewski, HSR Investigators, discuss their research studying COVID-19’s effects on Veterans, with the COVID-19 Observational Research Collaboratory (CORC), and the ongoing need to study the disease in this population with CIDER writer Diane Hanks. They refer to several papers that have since been published and can be found on the CORC publications page.<!--
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Jennifer Funderburk and colleagues from the VA Center for Integrated Healthcare speak with Diane Hanks about their workshop to help researchers keep diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in mind.
Eric Apaydin, PhD, MPP, MS, talks with Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER) writer Karen Jamrog at the 2023 HSR&D national meeting, about his research on burnout, employee engagement, and changing organizational contexts in VA primary care during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Steven Dobscha, MD, Director of the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) discusses his research investigating primary care patient perspectives on VA's population-based suicide risk screening program (Risk ID), and other related items of interest with Diane Hanks of the Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources (CIDER).
Cindie Slightam, MPH, Senior Project Manager at the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses her project creating a paid internship for Community College students from historically excluded groups. The program sought to introduce research as a career option, and present VA as a place for that career, to students who might normally not be exposed to it.
Drs. Goldsmith and Danan discuss the workshop on why and how to address sex and gender in VA research that they designed and subsequently led at the 2023 HSR&D National Meeting.
Megan Shepherd-Banigan, PhD, MPH, of the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) discusses her CDA project seeking to induce family-involved initiation and completion of psychotherapy for Veterans living with PTSD.
Director Amy Kilbourne discusses the origin, milestones, current events, and future directions of the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) program.
Guneet Jasuja, PhD, MPH, of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) discusses her work researching social stressors and health issues among older transgender and gender diverse Veterans.
Craig Rosen, PhD, of the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses his work researching burnout among VA clinicians, previous research that his most recent study was built on, and related topics of interest.
Dr. Black discusses her experience in the CONDUIT QUERI Eval, and working with Veterans in VA. CONDUIT’s objective was to unite 6 inter-related Partnered Implementation projects to improve access to medications for Opioid Use Disorder.
Jacqueline Ferguson, PhD, MS, of the VA Palo Alto Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) discusses her research into variations in patterns, by chronic conditions, for Veterans receiving primary care via telehealth as well as in-person.
Lynn Garvin, PhD, MBA, of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) discusses her peer-led intervention to provide VA Video Connect (VVC) telehealth to Veterans experiencing Homelessness and Substance Use Disorder.
VA telehealth programming had focused largely on rural populations where disparities in health care access and telehealth use existed, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced an expansion to offer telehealth more broadly. Lucinda Leung, MD, PhD, MPH, discusses rural-urban differences in VA telehealth use nationally before and after pandemic onset.
Joel Boggan, MD, MPH, of the Durham VA Medical Center talks about his experience with the Evidence Synthesis Program at VA, working with Veteran populations, and how quality improvement methodologies can be used to improve health services in Primary Care settings.
David Chan, MD, PhD, of the HSR&D Center of Innovation to Implementation in Palo Alto, CA, discusses his work understanding how ambulance visits to VA hospitals act as an indicator of care quality.
Sam Edwards, MD, MPH, of the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) in Portland OR, talks about his research studying care fragmentation among Veterans receiving home based primary care (HBPC). Care fragmentation - the dispersion of a patient’s care across clinicians and healthcare settings - is associated with increased Emergency Department visits and hospital admissions among medically complex patients.
Hildi Hagedorn, PhD, investigator with the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research CCDOR in Minneapolis, MN, talks about her research focused on implementation of best-practice recommendations for the identification and treatment of substance use disorders (SUD). Dr. Hagedorn was the recipient of the 2020 HSR&D Health System Impact Award for her career-long body of work focused on increasing system-wide implementation of evidence-based treatments for Veterans with SUD.
Seppo Rinne, MD, PhD, BS of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) talks about his work with the EMPIRIC QUERI partnered evaluation. The mission of EMPIRIC QUERI is to improve VA’s electronic health record modernization (EHRM) by ensuring that it is informed by frontline clinician and staff experiences. EMPIRIC is identifying challenges and best practices to support clinicians and inform the nationwide Cerner rollout.
Heather Gilmartin, PhD, NP, investigator and nurse scientist at the Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation in Denver, Colorado discusses her HSR&D Career Development Award program work, which is focused on building supportive learning environments VA’s cardiac catheter labs.
Dr. Kristin Mattocks conducts a wide-ranging interview with her friend and HSR&D colleague, Dr. Rani Elwy. Dr. Elwy shares insights into her long-running VA HSR&D research career, discusses turning failure into success, and looks at the two-way relationship between mentors and mentees.
Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, is an investigator and Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Director of the HSR&D-funded Community Care Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Center, and the Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Rani Elwy, PhD, MS, is an investigator with the HSR&D-funded Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, and Director of the Implementation Science Core at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) dissemination coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Dr. Joe Geraci, investigator and clinical psychologist at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Geraci is the co-Director of the Transitioning Servicemember/Veteran Suicide and Prevention Center, which is a joint effort between VISN 2 and VISN 17. Recently, Dr. Geraci partnered with QUERI to evaluate the effectiveness of the Transitioning Servicemember/Veteran Sponsorship initiative.
Dr. Geraci is a retired U.S. Army Infantry Lieutenant Colonel, having served for 20 years and been deployed as a combat leader with elite Special Operations/Ranger, Airborne, and Infantry units to Afghanistan four times since September 11, 2001.
Bryann DeBeer, PhD, of the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, talks about her work using social network analysis to understand the impact that COVID-19 enforced social distancing has had on Veterans’ mental health and suicide risk.
HSR&D investigator and director of the North Florida/South Georgia Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center Ron Shorr, MD, MS, and healthcare architect Gary Fischer with VA’s Construction and Facilities Unit, discuss the value of partnered research within the context of Dr. Shorr’s HSR&D-funded project, Nursing Unit Design and Hospital Falls.
In this episode, Dr. Christopher Rentsch, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Yale University, talks about a large-scale evaluation of the effectiveness of prophylactic anticoagulant therapy for the treatment of COVID-19.
Since the recording of this podcast, the largest trial to date, ACTIV-4, has found that initiating therapeutic anticoagulation compared to prophylactic anticoagulation provided additional benefit among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Both Dr. Rentsch’s study and the ACTIV-4 study found benefit in noncritically ill patients yet not in critically ill patients.
In part one of a two-part conversation, VA geriatrician Jim Rudolph, MD, talks about his work to develop new COVID-19 safety and screening standards based on temperature readings among residents of VA Community Living Centers. In addition to his work as a VA clinician, Dr. Rudolph is the director of the HSR&D Center of Innovation for Long-term Services and Supports, in Providence, RI
In part two of a two-part conversation, VA geriatrician Jim Rudolph, MD, talks about his work to assess VA’s response to distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in VA Community Living Centers. In addition to his work as a VA clinician, Dr. Rudolph is the director of the HSR&D Center of Innovation for Long-term Services and Supports in Providence, RI.
HSR&D research content editor Maria Hecht talks with Veteran Mark Flower, co-founder of the Veteran peer support organization DryHootch America. They are discussing his involvement in VA research as part of a Veteran engagement forum.
In part two of this two-part interview, Joe Francis, MD, Chief Improvement and Analytics Officer for VHA, talks about the necessity of taking research questions to those on the front-lines of managing clinics and healthcare networks in order to continuously improve care for Veterans.
Laurel Copeland, PhD, discusses her work on looking at the proportion of new women Veterans who access VA care vs. community care.
Polly Noel, PhD, talks about her work on understanding and assessing Veterans' experiences of healthcare system hassles with both VA care and community-based care.
Christopher J. Miller, PhD, talks about his work assessing Veterans' and providers' experiences of care coordination between community providers and VA providers.
Fernanda S. Rossi, PhD, shares insights gained from her work understanding women Veterans' experiences of seeking mental health treatment in VA.
In part one of this two-part interview, Joe Francis, MD, Chief Improvement and Analytics Officer for VHA, talks about how best to leverage healthcare data and quality measures to improve care for Veterans.
Ivette (Maggie) Freytes, PhD, talks about her work developing a community-based resource guide to refer Veterans at risk for suicide to VA care.
Kevin Payne, research assistant with the VA New England Healthcare System and a former Navy Veteran, shares his experiences as Veteran who both uses VA care and works in VA research.
Audrey Jones, PhD, shares findings from her work assessing the influence of negative media coverage on Veterans' perceptions of VA care.
Lisa McAndrew, PhD, Director of the Behavioral Health Research Lab at VA's War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, discusses two HSR&D-funded projects that focus on different aspects of mental health treatment and Gulf War Illness.
Shannon Kehle-Forbes, PhD, shares her research as to why some Veterans complete trauma-focused PTSD therapy and yet others do not.
Bo Kim, PhD, and Keith McInnes, ScD, MS, discuss their pilot study, which looks at improving post-incarceration support for Veterans with mental health challenges and substance use disorders.
Hildi Hagedorn, PhD, talks about her recent study looking at why Veterans with opioid use disorders may or may not receive medication-assisted treatment.
Karen Seal, MD, MPH, shares insights from a recent randomized-controlled trial comparing the impact of peer coaching versus usual care to increase mental health treatment among rural-dwelling Veterans.
Allyson Varley, PhD, MPH, and Stefan Kertesz, MD, talk about their work surveying and understanding the clinical experiences of vulnerable Veterans.
Investigator and clinical psychologist Daniel Blonigen, PhD, discusses his work with treating justice-involved Veterans at risk for criminal recidivism.
Career Air Force Veteran Becca Keller shares her perspective on what it's like to be a Veteran who receives care from VA and also participates in VA research.
Amy Linsky, MD, MSc, discusses her research in the area of medication safety and effective excess medication management strategies.
Ann E. Montgomery, PhD, MSW and John Blosnich, PhD, MPH, talk about their work on assessing LGBTQ Veterans' risk for homelessness.
Alicia Cohen, MD, MSc, talks about her research assessing clinical reminders to assess the risk factors for food insecurity among Veterans.
Investigator Alicia Bergman, PhD, and primary care physician Evelyn Chang, MD, MSHS, with the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, talk about their work participating in and evaluating VA's Primary Care Intensive Management initiative.
Gala True, PhD and Sarah Ono, PhD, with the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care and investigator Traci Abraham, PhD, with the Center for Mental Health Outcomes Research, discuss the PhotoVoice Project for Veterans and their caregivers.
Alan Teo, MD, MS, investigator with the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, talks about his work in the area of suicide prevention through caregiver training and support.
Veterans Otis Kerr and Jim Goodwin share their experiences with VA care, and also share what it means to be involved with VA research from the Veterans' point of view.
Vietnam Veteran Oliver Patrick shares his experiences with VA care, and also talks about how he became involved with VA research.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Alison Hamilton, PhD, MPH; Lindsey Martin, PhD, Megan McCullough, PhD; and Erin Finley, PhD, MPH, about the role that cultural and medical anthropologists play in improving care for Veterans.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Lisa Callegari, MD, core investigator with the Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care about her work evaluating family planning tools for women Veterans using VA care.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Allison Lewinski, PhD, MPH, RN, a post-doctoral fellow with the HSR&D Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation about a recent systematic review of the evidence support self-management of epilepsy and other chronic diseases.
Portia Y. Cornell, PhD, is an investigator with the HSR&D Center for Long-term Services and Supports. In this episode, she talks with QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks about her research into the impact that rural social workers in PACT teams can have on Veterans’ health outcomes.
Kristen Wing, MA, is a Communications Specialist at the Veterans Rural Health Resource Center in Iowa City, IA, which is affiliated with the VA Office of Rural Health. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, "Community Clergy Training Program to Improve Rural Veterans' Mental Health."
Sherry L. Ball, PhD, is an HSR&D Research Health Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, in Cleveland, OH. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, “Expanding Access to Pain Care: Promoting Specialist and Primary Care Provider Networks with SCAN-ECHO (Specialty Care Access Network Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes).”
Jennifer Henry, LSW, is a Research Project Manager with the VA HSR&D Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, “Integrating the Life-Sustaining Treatment Template into Current Processes in Community Living Centers.”
Amanda M. Midboe, PhD, is an Investigator with the HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation in Palo Alto, CA. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, “Use and Adaptation of Implementation Facilitation to Improve Engagement and Retention in Care of Vulnerable US Veterans.”
Kyrstal Stryczek, MA, is a Research Health Scientist with the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, “Painful Conversations: Pain Management SCAN-ECHO (Specialty Care Access Network Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Improves Provider Conversations with Patients about Pain Care.”
Implementing eScreening Technology in Four Clinics in the Veterans Health Administration: A mixed-method study James Pittman, PhD, LCSW, is the Associate Director of the VA Center of Excellence Stress and Mental Health Clinical Research Unit at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. In this podcast, he discusses his poster, “Implementing eScreening Technology in Four Clinics in the Veterans Health Administration: A mixed-method study.”
Kelty B. Fehling, BS, MPH is anAffiliate Investigator with the HSR&D Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care in Denver, CO. In this podcast, she discusses her poster, "Challenges and Opportunities of Shifting Mandates and Culture Associated with the VA's Implementation of Veteran Access Initiatives."
George Sayre, PsyD, is a Qualitative Research Specialist with the HSR&D Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care in Seattle, WA. In this podcast, he discusses his poster, “Participatory Action Dissemination.”
Dr. Heather Gilmartin, investigator and nurse scientist at the Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation in Denver, Colorado, talks with her colleague Dr. Cathy Battaglia, Director of the Denver Research and Education Mentor Program about the Denver HSR&D Post-doctoral Fellowship program and the role of mentorship in developing the next generation of HSR&D investigators.
QUERI dissemination coordinator Diane Hanks talks with QUERI director Amy Kilbourne, PhD, and QUERI program leaders Drs. Allen Gifford, JoAnn Kirchner, Anne Sales, and George Jackson about QUERI’s 20 year history and its future potential. Dr. Gifford is co-director of the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research. Dr. Kirchner is a core investigator with the Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research. Dr. Sales is a core investigator with the Center for Clinical Management Research. Dr. Jackson is director of the Implementation and Dissemination Lab at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Courtney Van Houtven, PhD, about her research evaluating the VA CARES caregiver support program. Dr. Van Houtven is a research scientist with the HSR&D Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Danielle Rose, PhD, and Lisa Rubenstein, MD about the long-running project to implement evidence-based quality improvement in VA primary care. Dr. Rose is a core investigator at the HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy (CSHIIP), and Dr. Rubenstein is the founder and former director of CSHIIP.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks Alex Young, MD, about his recent work helping Veterans with serious mental illness better manage their weight by using web-based interventions and peer coaching. Dr. Young is a psychiatrist and Associate Director of the HSR&D Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Risha Gidwani-Marszowski, DrPH, about her work in evaluating the quality of end of life care for Veterans with cancer. Dr. Gidwani-Marszowski is a health economist with the HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation, at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Lisa Callegari, MD, MPH, about her work in the area of care quality and family planning for women Veterans. Dr. Callegari is an obstetrician/gynecologist and health services researcher at the HSR&D Denver-Seattle Center for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Megan Vanneman, PhD, MPH, about her research evaluating Veterans’ experiences with community care before and after the advent of the Veterans Choice Program. Dr. Vanneman is a core investigator with the HSR&D Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center at the VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System.
QUERI Dissemination Coordinator Diane Hanks talks with Andrea Finlay, PhD, about her work with connecting Veterans involved in the criminal justice system with VA healthcare. Dr. Finlay is a core investigator with the HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation, at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.
Dr. Heather Gilmartin, nurse scientist at the Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation in Denver, Colorado, talks with her colleague, Dr. Joe Frank, primary care physician at the Denver VA and health services researcher at the Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation, about his work in the area of pain management and opioid safety.
Dr. Heather Gilmartin talks with Dr. Bob Burke and Lynette Kelley, FNP, from the HSR&D Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care in Denver, CO, and Seattle, WA. They will be sharing their insights on the Rural Transition Nurse Program.
Saul Weiner, MD, is the Deputy Director of the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Health Care, In this episode, Dr. Weiner talks about his work in the area of contextual errors and improving primary care encounters for homeless Veterans.
Sylvia J. Hysong, PhD, is an investigator in the Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. In this episode, Dr. Hysong discusses her work applying audit and feedback in order to improve clinical care coordination among VA's patient-aligned care teams.
Lindsey Martin, PhD, is an investigator in the Methodology & Statistics Core of the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Ashley Gendrett, MPH, is the Houston Veterans Community Engagement Coordinator. In this episode, both discuss their work developing and implementing the Veteran Community Engagement Committee and the impact that group has on IQUEST's research.
Jane Anderson, PhD, RN, is a Research Investigator with the HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety and Associate Director of Nursing Research at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. In this episode, Dr. Anderson discusses her research into the delivery of telehealth in VA and best practices around the VA's electronic medical record.
Natalie Hundt, PhD, is an investigator with the HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. In this episode, Dr. Hundt talks about her research focusing on improving the treatment of PTSD in Veterans. To learn more about Dr. Hundt’s work, watch this video on the VHA YouTube channel.
Catherine Chanfreau-Coffinier, PhD, a Post Doctoral Fellow at HSR&D's Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles, discusses findings from the Women's Health Experience Survey that relate to drivers of care quality ratings both within and outside of VA.
Eric Hawkins, PhD, investigator with HSR&D's Center for Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, co-located in Seattle, WA and Denver, CO, talks about whether opioid and benzodiazepine co-prescribing among patients with PTSD contribute to mortality among Veterans.
Denise Hynes, PhD, MPH, Director of the VA Information Resource Center in Hines, IL; C. Leo Greenstone, MD, Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care with the VHA Office of Community Care; Michelle Mengeling, PhD, Affiliate Investigator with HSR&D's Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation in Iowa City, IA; Amy Rosen, PhD, Research Career Scientist with HSR&D's Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research in Boston, MA; Megan Vanneman, PhD, MPH, of HSR&D's IDEAS 2.0 Center of Innovation in Salt Lake City, UT; and Todd Wagner, PhD, Director of HSR&D's Health Economics Resource Center in Menlo Park, CA share a conversation about how operations and research are working together to better understand how Veterans use VA community care.
Melissa Dichter, PhD, MSW, and Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, PhD, MPA, MSW, both with HSR&D's Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion in Pittsburgh, PA, discuss the relationship between housing instability women Veterans experiences with intimate partner violence.
Lisa Brenner, PhD, Director of the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers for Veterans Integrated Service Network 19, discusses two evidence-based interventions that may help prevent suicide among Veterans with traumatic brain injury.
Sonya Gabrielian, MD, MPH, and Alex Young, MD, both of HSR&D's Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles; Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc, Affiliate Investigator with HSR&D's Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research; and Tom O'Toole, MD, Director of the VA National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans address the Housing First initiative's impact on ending Veteran homelessness.
Jenny Tighe, MSPH, Project Coordinator with the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, talks about the process of supporting implementation of clinical dashboard elements necessary to improve chronic pain care.
Andrea Nevedal, PhD, an investigator with HSR&D's Center for Innovation to Implementation, in Palo Alto, CA, discusses her work on using third party contractors in the implementation of the Veterans Choice Program.
Alejandro Interian, PhD, HSR&D affiliate investigator and a staff psychologist with the VA New Jersey Health Care System, talks about neurocognitive risk factors and how they may be used to help prevent Veteran suicide.
Paula Schnurr, PhD, Director of the VA National Center for PTSD, discusses perspectives on implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD.
Mark Bauer, MD; Christopher Miller, PhD; Bo Kim, PhD; Jeffrey Smith, PhDc; and Mona Ritchie, PhD participated in an AcademyHealth "Innovation Station" session, which had a heavy focus audience engagement
Anju Sahay, PhD, with the MedSafe QUERI, participated in another Innovation Station, and discusses Communities of Practice by engaging multidisciplinary and multi-level providers to implement evidence-based practices to improve the quality of healthcare.
Megan Vanneman, PhD, with HSR&D's IDEAS 2.0 Center of Innovation talks about the Veterans Choice Act, including how the Choice Act affects Veterans enrolled in VA healthcare, and whether the evidence base indicates success in implementation.
Melissa Garrido, PhD, an HSR&D Career Development Awardee and an investigator from HSR&D QUERI's Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource (PEPReC) discusses VA as a Learning Healthcare System, including what that means, and how partnerships between researchers and stakeholders facilitate a learning healthcare system.
Courtney Van Houtven, PhD, with HSR&D's Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care discusses her presentation, which focused on a long-running study looking at family caregiver skills training.
Donna Washington, MD, MPH, Core Investigator with the HSR&D Center for Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, discusses her work about measuring the quality of care for women Veterans.